Faith Hedgepeth Trial, Day 8: Text messages, barbecue host testifies, jail calls and defendant’s words revealed
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It’s Day 8 of the murder trial of Miguel Salguero-Olivares, the man accused of killing 19-year-old Faith Hedgepeth in 2012.
On Friday, jurors heard new revelations, read emotional text messages, and got a glimpse into what investigators spent nearly a decade trying to uncover.
DNA expert testimony linked Miguel Salguero-Olivares to semen found in Faith’s body, but witnesses who testified about a late-night barbecue near her apartment could not confirm he was there.
Investigators also walked jurors through Hedgepeth’s final text messages, the yearslong search for her killer, and a recorded exchange in which Salguero-Olivares questions how his DNA could be connected to a woman he said he had never met.
Tonight on “Courtroom Insider,” Grace Wong joins Nate Eaton to talk about the latest developments and more.
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