RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — 19-year-old Faith Hedgepeth, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was found dead in her apartment on September 7, 2012.
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Investigators found Hedgepeth’s body leaning against the bed and would later learn she was beaten with a Bacardi rum bottle.
Before she was killed, police said Hedgepeth and her roommate Karena Rosario visited Davis Library on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus about 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 6, 2012, and returned to the apartment on the border of Durham and Orange counties around 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 7, 2012.
Around 1 a.m. Sept. 7, 2012 according to police, Hedgepeth and Rosario returned to downtown Chapel Hill. They went to the Thrill bar on East Rosemary and then left there together at about 2:38 a.m.
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Investigators think the two returned home together, and then around 4:30 a.m., Rosario left the apartment. At 11 a.m., Rosario reported finding Hedgepeth cold and unresponsive inside the apartment.
Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares was arrested on September 16, 2021. He was 28 at the time and was charged with first-degree murder.
There is one more evidentiary hearing scheduled for September 21, 2026.
That hearing is one week before the currently scheduled trial date of September 28, 2026.
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