{"id":103101,"date":"2026-10-08T11:49:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/suspect-in-unc-student-faith-hedgepeths-murder-left-dna-on-rum-bottle-covered-in-blood-prosecutors-say\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:49:41","slug":"suspect-in-unc-student-faith-hedgepeths-murder-left-dna-on-rum-bottle-covered-in-blood-prosecutors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/suspect-in-unc-student-faith-hedgepeths-murder-left-dna-on-rum-bottle-covered-in-blood-prosecutors-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in UNC student Faith Hedgepeth&#8217;s murder left DNA on rum bottle covered in blood, prosecutors say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The trial of a man accused of killing a North Carolina college student 14 years ago began Wednesday with the prosecution alleging she was killed in a fit of rage by a stranger who left his DNA all over the crime scene. The defense said the evidence doesn&#8217;t add up.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/faith-hedgepeth-murder-case-arrest-miguel-oliveras\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miguel Salguero Olivares<\/a><\/span> is charged with first-degree murder, rape and burglary in the death of Faith Hedgepeth. She was a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/faith-hedgepeth-unc-student-found-dead-in-her-apartment\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">found beaten to death<\/a><\/span> in her off-campus apartment in September 2012.<\/p>\n<p> In her opening statement, Assistant District Attorney Angela Garcia-Lamarca said the defendant left his <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/faith-hedgepeth-update-discovery-of-dna-prompts-profile-of-unc-students-killer\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">DNA<\/a><\/span> on the murder weapon \u2013 a bottle of rum found covered in blood \u2013 inside Hedgepeth&#8217;s body and on a note written on a fast-food bag found at the scene.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The evidence in this case is louder than the noise around it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p> She described Hedgepeth as a caring friend who was beloved by everyone who knew her and was on track to become the first person in her family to graduate from college.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2012\/09\/11\/3f2f980a-a645-11e2-a3f0-029118418759\/thumbnail\/620x465g2\/0f3b7919464e2e44fea6e97b8906a90b\/1347316249-hedgepeth2-400x300.jpg#\" alt=\"Faith Hedgepeth \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2012\/09\/11\/3f2f980a-a645-11e2-a3f0-029118418759\/thumbnail\/620x465g2\/0f3b7919464e2e44fea6e97b8906a90b\/1347316249-hedgepeth2-400x300.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2012\/09\/11\/3f2f980a-a645-11e2-a3f0-029118418759\/thumbnail\/1240x930g2\/bb8295cd6cf525faa7160a04b744986e\/1347316249-hedgepeth2-400x300.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Faith Hedgepeth<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                WBTV<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;You will see from the evidence in this case that the defendant committed these acts against Faith in a fit of rage, not because he knew her,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t do this to her because of who she was, he did it because of who he is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Garcia-Lamarca said Hedgepeth and her roommate had been at a popular club that night, and that Hedgepeth, the designated driver, drove them home around 2 a.m. The roommate was drunk and sick, she said, but later called a friend to come pick her up around 4 a.m. She returned hours later and found Hedgepeth dead.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This case is not complicated. It&#8217;s devastating, it&#8217;s horrifying, it&#8217;s a family&#8217;s worst nightmare. &#8230; but it&#8217;s also simple,&#8221; the prosecutor said. &#8220;The evidence is loud and clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> In his opening statement, defense attorney James Rainsford said prosecutors left out key details and urged jurors to ask themselves, &#8220;Where&#8217;s the rest of the evidence?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The friend who picked up Hedgepeth&#8217;s roommate told police he saw what looked like blood on her hands. A downstairs neighbor reported hearing loud thumps between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. And police later lost evidence related to what appeared to be blood in the apartment&#8217;s bathroom.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Is this just noise or are you starting to hear things that don&#8217;t add up?&#8221; he said. &#8220;Maybe that&#8217;s noise to some people; that sounds like forensic evidence to others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Salguero Olivares was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/faith-hedgepeth-murder-case-arrest-miguel-oliveras\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">arrested<\/a><\/span> in 2021, more than nine years after the killing. His arrest came after a DNA sample submitted to the state crime lab by the State Bureau of Investigation and the Chapel Hill Police Department matched a profile found at the original crime scene, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Finding something doesn&#8217;t mean a crime occurred. You have to connect them,&#8221; Rainsford said of the DNA evidence. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t mean what you think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The prosecutor said the message on the fast-food bag &#8212; &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Stupid (expletive) Jealous&#8221; &#8212; called to mind an old adage.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Men, some men, are terrified women will laugh at them,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Women are terrified of being killed or raped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/10\/08\/14f9141f-21d9-4325-99a1-9e2cff8b7793\/thumbnail\/620x349\/b0dc58e2a115506956529b600ac7e8fd\/ap26280554879210.jpg#\" alt=\"Miguel Salguero-Olivares \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/10\/08\/14f9141f-21d9-4325-99a1-9e2cff8b7793\/thumbnail\/620x349\/b0dc58e2a115506956529b600ac7e8fd\/ap26280554879210.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/10\/08\/14f9141f-21d9-4325-99a1-9e2cff8b7793\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/e9d9353f61b67d457d63335d9fab960e\/ap26280554879210.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">In this frame grab from video, Miguel Salguero Olivares, who is on trial for the murder and rape of University of North Carolina student Faith Hedgepeth, listens to the prosecution&#8217;s opening argument at a courthouse in Durham, N.C., on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Network Pool\/via AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> As one of their first witnesses, prosecutors called Karena Rosario, who found her roommate&#8217;s lifeless, battered body. <\/p>\n<p>Rosario said she found Hedgepeth&#8217;s body off the bed with her shirt pulled all the way up and nothing on her body from the waist down, CBS affiliate WNCN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs17.com\/news\/faith-hedgepeth-murder-trial\/live-updates-faith-hedgepeth-murder-trial-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Rosario sobbed as she described the 911 dispatcher asking her to touch Hedgepeth to see if she was warm.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;And I told them that she felt cold,&#8221; she said through tears. As she waited for an ambulance to arrive, Rosario said &#8220;it felt like a thousand hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor asked Rosario how it felt to not know what happened to her roommate and friend, WNCN reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It felt like I was going crazy. It felt like I was living in a nightmare,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It felt like one day, I was just like a normal college student, and the next it felt like my whole life was flipped upside down, and the one person that I wanted to be there with me was not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     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