New charges against a 31-year-old man accused of killing UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth 12 years ago allege he broke into her apartment and raped her.
Police initially charged Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares with murder on Sept. 16, 2021, nine years after 19-year-old Hedgepeth was killed in a Chapel Hill apartment complex that is also in Durham County.
After doing thousands of interviews and testing hundreds of DNA samples, police identified Salguero-Olivares through ancestor technology, according to court documents. Police linked his DNA to a rape kit collected after Hedgepeth was found partially clothed beside a blood-stained bed in September 2012. The coroner ruled she died from blunt-force trauma to her head.
A recent indictment is yet another clue as to what investigators think happened in the killing covered by national media and various television crime series.
The Oct. 21 amended indictment against Salguero-Olivares added first-degree burglary, rape and sexual assault charges. It alleges he broke in and entered Hedgepeth’s apartment and raped her.