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Closing arguments set in trial of man accused of killing UNC student in 2012
Closing arguments are expected Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing a North Carolina college student 14 years ago
Closing arguments are scheduled for Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing a North Carolina college student 14 years ago.
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arguments → set → student
Faith Hedgepeth was a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she was beaten to death in her off-campus apartment in September 2012.
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she → beat → September
Miguel Salguero Olivares was arrested nine years later after being pulled over for driving while intoxicated and providing a DNA sample that prosecutors say matched evidence from the crime scene.
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prosecutors → arrest → scene
He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, rape and burglary charges.
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He → plead → murder
Testimony began Oct. 7 following eight days of jury selection.
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Testimony → begin → selection
Salguero Olivares did not testify and his attorneys rested their case Wednesday without calling any witnesses.
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attorneys → testify → witnesses
Nearly two dozen witnesses testified for the prosecution, including Hedgepeth’s roommate and other friends, crime scene technicians, state and local law enforcement and a DNA expert.
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witnesses → testify → roommate
Early testimony focused on Hedgepeth’s life and her last night alive, when she and her roommate returned home from a club around 2 a.m. Karena Rosario testified that she was drunk and sick when Hedgepeth drove them home but later called a friend to pick her up and she went out again, leaving Hedepeth in the apartment alone.
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she → focus → apartment
She returned hours later that Sept. 7 to find Hedgepeth’s body.
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She → return → body
An autopsy showed Hedgepeth suffered extensive skull fractures and cuts to her face and head, and she was also badly beaten on her arms and legs.
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she → show → arms
Prosecutors allege that Salguero Olivares, now 33, was a stranger who killed Hedgepeth in a fit of rage.
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who → allege → rage
They said his DNA was found on a rum bottle covered in blood that investigators identified as the weapon in the killing, in Hedgepeth's body and on a note written on a fast-food bag found at the scene.
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investigators → say → scene
Erin Ermish, a forensic scientist with the state crime lab, testified that she could never say with 100% certainty that a DNA sample came from a particular person.
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sample → testify → person
But she said DNA swabbed from Hedgepeth’s body was 170 septillion times more likely to be a mixture of DNA from Hedgepeth and Salguero Olivares than from Hedgepeth and an unknown individual.
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DNA → say → Hedgepeth
One septillion is a 1 followed by 24 zeros.
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septillion → follow → zeros
Ermish also said the mixture of DNA from the top of the rum bottle was 48.6 tredecillion times more likely to be from Hedgepeth and Salguero Olivares than two unknown, unrelated individuals.
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48.6 → say → individuals
One tredecillion is a 1 followed by 42 zeros.
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tredecillion → follow → zeros
In cross-examining witnesses, defense attorneys questioned Rosario’s account of that night, the processing of the crime scene and the reliability of some DNA evidence.
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attorneys → cros → evidence
They pointed out that police failed to search some areas of the apartment and later lost some possible blood evidence.
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police → point → evidence
Several jurors cried after viewing autopsy photos of Hedgepeth, according to local media accounts.
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jurors → cry → accounts
Salguero Olivares, meanwhile, cried when prosecutors played video of a jailhouse call between him and a friend who has since died.
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who → cry → him
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Ramer reported from Concord, New Hampshire.
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Ramer → report → Concord
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