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Miguel Salguero-Olivares Convicted, Sentenced Life Without Parole

By Drooid · Oct 31, 2026 · How we work

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The 2018 arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer, was the first U.S. use of forensic genetic genealogy, when investigators uploaded his DNA to GEDmatch and screened over 1.2 million profiles, costing about $2 million. That breakthrough led to the October 2026 Durham jury sentencing Miguel Salguero-Olivares to life after SNP genealogy linked his DNA to Faith Hedgepeth’s 2021 murder.

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The 2018 arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer, was the first U.S. use of forensic genetic genealogy, when investigators uploaded his DNA to GEDmatch and screened over 1.2 million profiles, costing about $2 million. That breakthrough led to the October 2026 Durham jury sentencing Miguel Salguero-Olivares to life after SNP genealogy linked his DNA to Faith Hedgepeth’s 2021 murder.

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