The motion follows filings in June that claimed a roommate may have been present when UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth ...

Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares (center), charged in the 2021 murder of UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth, makes his first appearance in a Durham, N.C. court via video Friday, Sept. 17, 2021.

The defense for Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares is asking for all swabs and other samples collected from blood stains to be released and independently tested for DNA.

Six years later Faith's killer is still unknown. RELATED: Autopsy shows brutality of Faith Hedgepeth murder Faith Hedgepeth warrants, 911 call released "I tell her I miss her a lot," Rolanda said.

Faith Hedgepeth Murder Faith Hedgepeth was a UNC sophomore when she was killed on Sept. 7, 2012. Her murder was unsolved until Sept. 16, 2021, when Chapel Hill police made an arrest in her case.

Newly filed documents in the case of Faith Hedgepeth request independent testing of evidence collected from the crime scene ...

Roland Hedgepeth, father of Faith Hedgepeth, top left, along with Cheyna Smith, a friend of FaithÕs, watches the first appearance of Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares, (top center), at the Durham ...

Faith Hedgepeth Murder Faith Hedgepeth was a UNC sophomore when she was killed on Sept. 7, 2012. Her murder was unsolved until Sept. 16, 2021, when Chapel Hill police made an arrest in her case.

Faith Hedgepeth Murder Faith Hedgepeth was a UNC sophomore when she was killed on Sept. 7, 2012. Her murder was unsolved until Sept. 16, 2021, when Chapel Hill police made an arrest in her case.

Faith Hedgepeth's boyfriend Alex Demery and her niece Alexis Evans gather with hundreds to remember Haliwa-Saponi tribe member and UNC student, Faith Hedgepeth, during a vigil, September 10, 2012 ...

Faith Hedgepeth was a UNC sophomore when she was killed on Sept. 7, 2012. Her murder was unsolved until Sept. 16, 2021, when Chapel Hill police made an arrest in her case.

Faith Hedgepeth Murder Faith Hedgepeth was a UNC sophomore when she was killed on Sept. 7, 2012. Her murder was unsolved until Sept. 16, 2021, when Chapel Hill police made an arrest in her case.