A 28-year-old North Carolina man was arrested and charged with first-degree murder Thursday, nine years after the cold case killing of a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student. UNC sophomore Faith Hedgepeth, 19, was found fatally beaten and possibly raped in her off-campus apartment in September 2012. She was naked from the waist down and propped up against her bed in a pool of blood, according to FOX 8 in High Point, North Carolina. "When I cried, it was tears of joy, tears of relief knowing that someone had been arrested in the case." Salguero-Olivares’ DNA matched some collected through semen found at the crime scene and a composite description made entirely through the DNA, FOX 8 reported.

Source: Fox News September 17, 2021 08:07 UTC