Faith Hedgepeth was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). She was found murdered in her apartment on September 7, 2012. Investigators collected extensive forensic evidence from the crime scene, including semen and male DNA. Nine years later, in September 2021, the perpetrator was identified as Enrique Salguero-Olivares using investigative genetic genealogy. He was not previously considered as a suspect in the case.