Killing of Faith Hedgepeth

After nine days of testimony, the prosecution has rested its case in the UNC student murder trial.

Miguel Salguero Olivares is on trial for the murder of Faith Hedgepeth.

She was found dead in her apartment in 2012, and he was arrested in 2021.

WRAL's Monica Casey has been following along with this every step of the way.

What has the prosecution's case been focused on, Monica?

Well, the prosecution here has worked to make their case chronologically.

The first witness they called was Faith Hedgepeth's niece, who was actually just a year younger than her to talk about who Hedgepeth was before she got to UNC.

We heard from some of Hedgepeth's friends about her time at UNC and we of course heard from her roommate Karina Rosario about the last night that they had together before Hedgepets death.

Let's go back to why we're all here.

Let's go back to September 7th, 2012, when 19-year-old UNC Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth was discovered brutally murdered in an apartment on the border of Chapel Hill and Durham County, North Carolina.

This young woman had her whole life ahead of her, was a very special, nice young lady who who really, I think, made other people feel seen and connected and was very much all about community and her family and seemed like a bright presence in life.

But unfortunately, she was just brutally murdered and her life was snuffed out.

Now, we didn't get to hear from him testifying right away, though, because the defense kind of went into a whole thing with the judge where they were asking for a lot of his testimony to be stricken and they needed to go back and forth over that.

Basically, this testimony where he was giving his opinion.

They were asking for a curative instruction and objecting to his specific statements about how Karina Rosario, Faith Hedgepeth's roommate, about how her statements were remarkably consistent.

That was something he testified to in terms of like, why did you find her credible? Well, her statements, the big picture, very consistent.

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Obviously, the prosecution rested their case a little bit earlier than any of us expected.

To help us break that down is going to be Deana Harley from Law and Crime Reporter with CBS 17 in North Carolina.

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Well, the state has rested its case in the murder trial of a UNC Chapel Hill student, Faith Hedgepeth.

Jores will have the day off before the defense begins presenting its case tomorrow.

We begin today in Durham, where the prosecution has arrested in the trial of Miguel Salguero Olivares for the 2012 murder of UNC student Faith Hedgepeth.

The jury now has today off before the defense begins presenting its case tomorrow.

With the full story on what's transpired so far, here's 97.9 The Hills, Brighton McConnell.

That's the showing for the state.

Thank you.

The Durham County attorneys prosecuting the case laid out in their opening argument DNA evidence as the key to suspect Miguel Seguero Olivares' guilt, and that evidence proved to likely be the most critical piece tying him to the scene of the crime in 2012. with investigators and friends of the 19-year-old Faith Hedgepeth saying they could not find any sign that the pair knew each other.

First, latent print analyst Summer Maffet with the State Crime Lab testified that in 2014, she found a partial left palm print and thumbprint left on the blue Riesling wine bottle found in the bedroom where Hedgepeth was likely killed.

The prints did not match anyone in the state's database of fingerprints initially, but when asked to review them again in 2021, After Salguero Olivares was arrested and fingerprinted following a drunk driving incident, Maffitt made a positive identification.

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Right now at 4, the prosecution rests

its case in the Faith Hedgepeth murder trial.

New details on the evidence presented by the state as they push for a murder conviction 14 years later.

What happens next for the defense? A

All right, Cruz, see you soon.

Thank you.

And right now here at four, the prosecution has now rested its case against Miguel Salguero Olivares, the man charged with killing UNC student Faith Hedgepeth in 2012.

The state clearly has enough evidence to move forward on a felony murder conviction.

Traffic is being rerouted around this area.

Well, new at noon, the Faith Hedgepeth trial now in its fourth week of testimony.

Miguel Salguero-Olivares is charged with killing the UNC Chapel Hill student in her Chapel Hill apartment in 2012.

Back on the witness stand today, an SBI agent who detailed the years-long investigation.