Terminal locks up trying to delete folder

I deleted a folder. Since it entered the trash, whenever I try to empty the trash, it stops responding, won't cancel, and I have to restart Finder (and it doesn't delete the directory). I've tried restarting, repairing permissions, secure delete, forced emptying of the trash, they're not locked, I have permission to write/erase, etc.
In terminal, when I try to delete the folder, I get the same thing - it just hangs with no output - basically no CPU utilization (2-3%).
So I deleted all the contents until I got to these remaining 3 directories & 2 files. They delete in terminal successfully, but still show up in Finder as being in the Trash. Similarly, all the other contents in the Trash delete fine in Terminal, but continue to persist in the Trash in Finder. But directory is empty in Terminal with the exception of this one, evil folder.
Any ideas?

nm, figured it out - had to boot into the backup disc and perform a formal disk repair, fixed everything.

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