00:00In the fall of 2012, 19-year-old Faith Hedgepeth was living her dream.
00:05An honors student and a proud member of the Haliwasaponi Native American tribe,
00:10she was attending the University of North Carolina on a prestigious scholarship.
00:15She hoped to become a pediatrician.
00:18But on the morning of September 7th,
00:20that bright future was brutally extinguished inside her off-campus apartment.
00:25What followed was a decade-long mystery filled with a cryptic note
00:29an eerie voicemail and a mountain of DNA that matched absolutely no one on the police's radar.
00:35The timeline of Faith's final hours is a chilling progression into a nightmare.
00:40On Thursday evening, September 6th,
00:43Faith and her roommate, Karina Rosario, went to the university library to study.
00:48Around midnight, they headed to a local nightclub called The Thrill.
00:53Security footage captures them leaving the club at 2.06 a.m.
00:57It is the last visual record of Faith alive.
01:01By 3 a.m., they were back home.
01:04Minutes later, a downstairs neighbor heard three heavy thumps,
01:07like furniture being overturned.
01:10Then came the texts.
01:11At 3.40 a.m., a strange text left Faith's phone to an acquaintance named Brandon,
01:17reading,
01:17Hey, Bea, can you come over here, please?
01:20Rosario needs you more, huh?
01:22You know, please let her know you care.
01:25Three minutes later, a one-word correction was sent.
01:28Then, Brandon replied, asking who was texting him.
01:32He never got an answer.
01:34At 4.25 a.m.,
01:36Rosario left the apartment to get a ride from a friend.
01:39Believing Faith was fast asleep,
01:42she left the front door unlocked.
01:44At 11 a.m., Rosario returned.
01:47When she entered the bedroom, she found a horrific scene.
01:51Faith's body was wrapped in a quilt, covered in blood.
01:54An autopsy revealed she had been beaten to death with an empty rum bottle.
01:59But the killer left a bizarre calling card.
02:01Next to her body was a note written on a torn paper bag.
02:05It read,
02:06I'm not stupid.
02:07Bitch.
02:08Jealous.
02:08Handwriting experts noted the paper was completely clean of blood,
02:13meaning it was written away from the struggle.
02:15Was it a message of pure rage or a calculated red herring?
02:19Naturally, investigators looked at Faith's immediate circle.
02:23Attention turned to Rosario's violent ex-boyfriend.
02:26Faith had recently helped Rosario get a protective order against him,
02:31and he had allegedly threatened to kill Faith.
02:34Even more damning, the night before the murder,
02:36he posted online,
02:38Forgive me for what I am about to do.
02:40He was the perfect suspect.
02:42Except for one massive hurdle.
02:44Police recovered male DNA from the crime scene.
02:48They tested him.
02:49It wasn't a match.
02:50They tested Brandon.
02:52Not a match.
02:53They tested over 750 men.
02:56Nothing.
02:57Years passed, and the case grew cold.
03:00But then, an eerie piece of evidence leaked.
03:02A pocket dial voicemail recorded by Faith's phone that night.
03:07Audio experts who enhanced the recording claimed they heard Faith crying for help.
03:11A female voice saying,
03:13I think she's dying.
03:14And a male voice responding,
03:16Do it anyhow.
03:17Experts believed it was the actual audio of the murder.
03:21Police, however, insisted it was just loud background noise from the club.
03:25For nearly a decade, the trail seemed frozen.
03:28Until September 2021.
03:30Nine years after the murder, police made a stunning announcement.
03:34They arrested 28-year-old Miguel Salguero Olivares.
03:39He was never a suspect.
03:40He wasn't an ex, a friend, or even on the original list of 2,000 interviewees.
03:46He was caught entirely by chance after a routine drunken driving arrest.
03:51His DNA was entered into the system, and it was a perfect match to the crime scene.
03:56His palm print was also found on the murder weapon.
03:59In late 2024, prosecutors amended his indictment to include charges of first-degree burglary,
04:06rape, and sexual offense.
04:08As the legal process moves forward, a decade's worth of questions still linger.
04:14How did a stranger end up in that unlocked apartment on a random Friday morning?
04:18The full story is finally unfolding in a courtroom,
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