Morgan Absher

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27,762 appearances 78 recordings 9 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 2d ago

Morgan Absher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Clues with Kaelyn Moore · Who Wrote the Note? The Case of Faith Hedgepeth · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

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And so people in real life did, you know, maybe think they knew this person, while others really questioned how accurate a sketch based purely off DNA could really be. voice-verified

Unfortunately, the sketch didn't crack the case either. voice-verified

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So in 2018, police are using this genetic technology, sorting through thousands of different family members. voice-verified

Over the next three years, detectives and genetic genealogists slowly work to find and exclude the killer's distant relatives, many of whom actually did voluntarily sit for interviews. voice-verified

By late summer 2021, they had a name, someone who could potentially match the crime scene DNA based on all of these relatives. voice-verified

And soon they got a chance to collect a sample. voice-verified

On September 14th, 2021, a suspect was pulled over in Raleigh, North Carolina for driving while impaired. voice-verified

Which brings us to our ninth and final clue: a surprise arrest. voice-verified

Through that, police obtained this person's DNA. voice-verified

And two days later, on September 16th, nine years and nine days after Faith's murder, the Chapel Hill Police Department made an announcement. voice-verified

They had arrested 28-year-old Miguel Enrique Salguero Oliveira for the murder of 19-year-old Faith Hedgepath. voice-verified

He would have been nineteen at the time of the murder. voice-verified

According to search warrants, Miguel's DNA was a probable match to the crime scene DNA found on Faith's body, the bag, the wine bottle, and the pen. voice-verified

Plus, his left palm print matched the palm print on the wine bottle found at the scene. voice-verified

Investigators seized six cell phones and a laptop from his apartment, and from there, prosecutors began preparing their case. voice-verified

Faith's loved ones expressed their gratitude at a press conference. voice-verified

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