CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) — In court documents filed this week, defense attorneys for Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares, accused of beating and killing UNC-Chapel Hill sophomore Faith Hedgepeth in 2012, want to question her roommate at the time.
Defense attorneys filed a motion to bring Karena Rosario forward as an out-of-state witness in the case. They say Rosario and Hedgepeth lived together at the time of Hedgepeth’s murder in 2012, and Rosario has given inconsistent or untrue statements since the killing.
Attorneys for Salguero-Olivares say in the very early morning hours of September 7th, 2012, Rosario and Hedgepeth went to a Chapel Hill bar together. They say Rosario got drunk and Hedgepeth did not, so she drove them home. Once home, court documents say Rosario told police she sat in the bathroom of their apartment from 3:05 a.m. until around 4:25 in the morning, when she asked someone named Jordan McCrary to come pick her up. Rosario told police only she and Hedgepeth were home at the time, and there were no disturbances.
This timing is crucial, attorneys argue, because it shows Rosario told police she was the only other person in the apartment around the time Hedgepeth was killed. They also point to a text message she sent to McCrary saying, “I’ve been hit.” When McCrary picked her up, both Rosario and McCrary say Rosario had blood on her finger, but couldn’t explain why…