University of North Carolina

Jury selection is set to begin in the murder trial of Miguel Salguero Olivares, the man charged in the 2012 killing of Faith Hedgepeth, a University of North Carolina student found dead in her Chapel Hill apartment. The case went unsolved for years before his arrest, and the trial marks a major step toward a verdict that the Hedgepeth family and the UNC community have awaited for over a decade.

The murder trial in the 2012 killing of Faith Hedgepeth, a University of North Carolina student, is set to begin more than a decade after her death. The case drew years of attention in the Chapel Hill area before an arrest was finally made, and the start of jury proceedings now marks a major step toward a long-awaited resolution.