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Closing arguments underway in trial of man accused of killing UNC student in 2012

Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 5:22 PM · 1 min read
Closing arguments underway in trial of man accused of killing UNC student in 2012 — WPLG Local 10, Coral Gables Technology news
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Prosecutors urged jurors to rely on evidence “screaming the truth” instead of noisy defense team distractions as closing arguments got underway Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing a North Carolina college student 14 years ago.Faith Hedgepeth was a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she was beaten to death in her off-campus apartment in September 2012. Miguel Salguero Olivares was arrested nine years later after being pulled over for driving while intoxicated and providing a DNA sample that prosecutors say matched evidence from the crime scene.“For parents to lose a child and not know what happened or who did it is unbearable. Now we know," prosecutor Angela Garcia-Lamarca said in her closing argument. “The forensic evidence in this case is screaming the truth. We know who did it. The forensic evidence is screaming his name: Miguel Salguero Olivares. What we don’t know, and maybe will never know, and what can be the incurable agon

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