Oct 10, 2026 · 51 min · 9 segments
Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares is on trial for the 2012 murder of Faith Hedgepeth in North Carolina. Today, we discuss in-depth the third day of trial. Order our book on Delphi here…
She mentioned a pen, blue and gray underwear, blue wine bottle, a panty liner, a used tampon.
These pieces of items and stuff that would just be potentially trash or detritus in any other situation becomes meaningful when they happen to be there when someone is brutally murdered because those things might have some evidence on them.
But one thing you and I have learned talking with crime scene investigators is You know, sometimes our perceptions on what they should do maybe don't really align with best practices.
Like, we're not going to take every single thing because, like, we have to basically identify what is most likely to be fruitful in terms of giving us evidence.
if the crime scene is outdoors, we're not going to like pluck every single blade of grass in the, you know, in the whole field, we're going to be going to the spots that it seemed like something happened.
So I think keep that in mind, but also keep in mind that mistakes when they're committed, especially in crime scene technicians land in that vast kingdom, can signal to a jury that, oh, this was sloppy or, oh, something went wrong.
So we're going to hear some back and forth ultimately with the defense over this, over mistakes, errors, and we as people at home, but certainly the jury is going to have to weigh what is a notable mistake that maybe speaks to the investigation and does it matter for this case? We often talk about...
Appeals and trials and Kevin, Kevin, I'm going to ask you something we've talked about on the show many times.
The thing to remember, as I've said often before, is that any endeavor that is done by human beings is bound to be in some way imperfect because human beings are imperfect.
Even when we have the absolute best of intentions, we're going to make mistakes.
She mentioned a pen, blue and gray underwear, blue wine bottle, a panty liner, a used tampon.
These pieces of items and stuff that would just be potentially trash or detritus in any other situation becomes meaningful when they happen to be there when someone is brutally murdered because those things might have some evidence on them.
But one thing you and I have learned talking with crime scene investigators is You know, sometimes our perceptions on what they should do maybe don't really align with best practices.
Like, we're not going to take every single thing because, like, we have to basically identify what is most likely to be fruitful in terms of giving us evidence.
if the crime scene is outdoors, we're not going to like pluck every single blade of grass in the, you know, in the whole field, we're going to be going to the spots that it seemed like something happened.
So I think keep that in mind, but also keep in mind that mistakes when they're committed, especially in crime scene technicians land in that vast kingdom, can signal to a jury that, oh, this was sloppy or, oh, something went wrong.
So we're going to hear some back and forth ultimately with the defense over this, over mistakes, errors, and we as people at home, but certainly the jury is going to have to weigh what is a notable mistake that maybe speaks to the investigation and does it matter for this case? We often talk about...
Appeals and trials and Kevin, Kevin, I'm going to ask you something we've talked about on the show many times.
The thing to remember, as I've said often before, is that any endeavor that is done by human beings is bound to be in some way imperfect because human beings are imperfect.
Even when we have the absolute best of intentions, we're going to make mistakes.
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