UNC Student Death
In this image from video, Miguel Salguero Olivares, foreground second left, who is on trial for the murder and rape of University of North Carolina student Faith Hedgepeth, looks as a photo of Hedgepeth is shown on a courtroom screen in Durham, N.C., Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026.
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Jurors have begun deliberations in the trial of a North Carolina college student 14 years ago. Faith Hedgepeth was a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she was fatally beaten in her off-campus apartment in 2012. Miguel Salguero Olivares was arrested nine years later. He has pleaded not guilty to murder, rape and burglary charges. Prosecutors say Salguero Olivares was a stranger who killed Hedgepeth in a fit of rage and left his DNA behind. The defense said that DNA could have come from a consensual encounter days earlier.
