News Roundup

Published for NC Criminal Law on September 17, 2021.

Chapel Hill police announced yesterday afternoon that Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares was arrested on Thursday morning and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Faith Hedgepeth, a UNC student who was killed in September 2012 in her off-campus apartment.  Keep reading for more on this story and other news. Hedgepeth.  Faith Hedgepeth’s murder has been among the most notable unsolved crimes in the Triangle for the past decade and developments in the case, though scarce at times, have been noted in this blog for years.  While few details surrounding the arrest of Salguero-Olivares were available at the time of writing, officials at the news conference announcing his arrest indicated that DNA technology contributed to the probable cause necessary for the arrest, with Attorney General Josh Stein commending the work of analysts at the State Crime Lab. Patterson.  WRAL reports that the FBI continues to investigate the disappearance of Abby Patterson from Lumberton, who was last seen in September of 2017 getting into a brown Buick near her home on East Ninth Street.  Contact details for investigators is available for anyone with information about the case at the WRAL link. Gymnastic Testimony.  There was searing testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week where elite gymnasts sharply criticized the FBI, USA Gymnastics, and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee for failures related to sexual abuse perpetrated by team doctor Larry Nassar. Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney, and Maggie Nichols recounted abuse by Nassar and said that they knew of people who [...]