Man charged with murder of UNC student due in court today

DURHAM WHERE THE MAN CHARGED

WITH HER MURDER WILL SOON MAKE

A FIRST COURT APPEARANCE.

>> Reporter: INVESTIGATORS ARE

CALLING THIS AN ARREST 10 YEARS

IN THE MAKING FOR THE FIRST

TIME TODAY WE WILL SEE MIGUEL

SALGUERO-OLIVARES IN COURT.

HE WILL MAKE THIS FIRST COURT

APPEARANCE VIRTUALLY.

HE IS IN JAIL BEING HELD WITHOUT

BOND, DISAPPEARANCES LATER THIS

MORNING.

INVESTIGATORS CREDITING DNA

WITH THIS CASE SAYING DNA

SUBMITTED TO THE STATE CRIME

LAB MATCHED DNA AT THE SCENE

WHICH LED TO AN ARREST.

CHAPEL HILL POLICE SAYS MIGUEL

SALGUERO-OLIVARES WAS NOT A

PERSON OF INTEREST EARLY IN

THE INVESTIGATION.

FAITH HEDGEPETH WAS 19-YEAR-OLD

AND A UNC SOPHOMORE.

SHE WAS KILLED IN HER APARTMENT.

AN AUTOPSY SHOWS SHE WAS BEATEN

TO DEATH.

THIS MAP SHOWS HER APARTMENT IS

NOT FAR FORM WHERE THE POLICE

SAY THE SUSPECT WAS UP A TIME.

WRAL SPOKE TO THE SUSPECT'S

MOTHER WHO SAID HE DIDN'T KNOW

FAITH HEDGEPETH.

FAITH'S PARENTS WERE AT THE

ANNOUNCEMENT THEY SAID THEY

PRAYED FOR THIS DAY.

FOR THE LAST NINE YEARS.

>> MY MIND WENT RIGHT BACK TO

SEPTEMBER 12th 2012. THE CASE

IS NOT SOLVED THIS IS JUST THE

BEGINNING.

>> I BELIEVE MY SON I BELIEVE

HIM.

>> Reporter: THERE IS A LOT OF

INFORMATION THAT WILL COME OUT

IN THIS CASE.

WRAL ASKED INVESTIGATORS ABOUT

SOME OF THE RELATIONSHIPS

BETWEEN FAITH HEDGEPETH AND THE

SOME SPEC SUSPECT.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TOLD WRAL

HE COULD NOT ELABORATE ON THE

DNA EVIDENCE FOUND AT THE

SCENE.

WE ARE WORKING TO GET ANSWERS

ON THAT.

WE ARE FOLLOWING THIS CASE FOR

THE LAST NINE YEARS.