No established connection between MESO and Faith has been made public thus far, and indeed there may be none.
I am curious where you got this picture and if you have others? All i had ever seen was his mugshot. I am also wondering if anyone heard if LE ever released his height and weight? Looks like a big guy from mugshot picture but not so much from this other shotFaith’s autopsy shows blunt force trauma to the right side of her skull - which indicates that the perp swinging the murder weapon (wine bottle) was holding the bottle in their left hand. Per my last post, ABC News 11 reported that the murder weapon, a wine bottle, matches a palm print from Miguel’s left hand.
As a rule of thumb, most people wear a watch on their non-dominant hand. So a left-handed person typically wears a watch on their right hand... However, Miguel wears a watch on his left hand (image below), which suggests that he is right-handed.
Could Miguel have used his non-dominant hand to kill Faith? Of course. Anything is possible. But how likely is it?
As someone who is left-handed, I know I was told many times as a child that people wear watches on their left hand. That's also what I would see others doing. So that's what I thought was the correct way, until I learned that actually, people wear them on their non-dominant hand and everyone who'd mentioned that to me had just assumed I was right-handed. Granted I was a lot younger than MESO is in this picture when I figured that out, but I'm thinking the kind of guy who randomly breaks into an apartment to kill and assault an innocent girl is maybe not the brightest crayon in the box. He may have never realized to wear his watch on the non-dominant hand.Faith’s autopsy shows blunt force trauma to the right side of her skull - which indicates that the perp swinging the murder weapon (wine bottle) was holding the bottle in their left hand. Per my last post, ABC News 11 reported that the murder weapon, a wine bottle, matches a palm print from Miguel’s left hand.
As a rule of thumb, most people wear a watch on their non-dominant hand. So a left-handed person typically wears a watch on their right hand... However, Miguel wears a watch on his left hand (image below), which suggests that he is right-handed.
Could Miguel have used his non-dominant hand to kill Faith? Of course. Anything is possible. But how likely is it?
That photo is from Miguel's Facebook profile. He uploaded it on 11/19/2020.
For more context, the photo I posted of Miguel was uploaded to his Facebook account on 11/19/2020. So he would’ve been almost 28-years-old when that was uploaded. I believe it’s fairly common knowledge for adults who frequently wear watches that you typically wear them on your non-dominant hand. But you’re totally right, maybe Miguel had no idea, or maybe he just liked wearing his watch on his left wrist despite which hand was dominant... Since CHPD allegedly found the perp’s DNA on the pen used to write the note, hopefully they found prints as well and they’ll be able to determine which hand the perp wrote with. In my opinion, the perp most likely used their dominant hand to write the note. So if Miguel is left-handed, I would expect prints from his left hand on the pen.
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I thought the same thing when I read he spoke little to no English. "Jealous" is a hard word for even some native English speakers to spell correctly. Maybe the note was there and was related to something else, and he saw it and put it there for some reason, but given that the charges are taking so long to come, I am suspicious that he wasn't alone in this and they are working through those details and other charges. (Edit: Contractions, like "I'm" are also tricky for people learning English.)
People are still trying to pin this on a woman. Sad!
I don't even know why the judge is buying this bs. I've never heard or seen anything like it.Well finally an “update” (and I use that word loosely) on the case:
Here’s why it’s taking lawyers so long to prosecute the suspect in 2012 of UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth
Prosecutor tries lamely to explain why it is taking almost 2 years to even reach the point of another court date, trial date, or even plea date in this wretched case.
Stiiiiiiill trying, trying, trying to match MESO’s fingerprints to those on wine bottle (not rum bottle), where supposedly, perhaps, so they claim, to have a palm print that matches MESO (maybe, perhaps).
Stiiiiiiiill working on all the forensics; as if the previous 9 years of police forensics hasn't helped much…. yeah, I’m peeved.
And of course not a single word about motive, opportunity, or ruling in or out other potential suspects... In short, nothing of note except CYA excuses. Another court update due in July.... of what year I have no idea!
I imagine that it refers to a call or voicemail recording that they have that is in Spanish.
How hard is it to translate Spanish? Literally just take the call to the closest university which offers Spanish as a major and ask someone in that department to translate the call. Tons of people in North Carolina speak Spanish, its not some arcane ancient language.
Are translations made by a person chosen in such a fashion admissible in criminal court? What is the volume of Spanish recordings that need to be translated, if any? My only experience with having to have documents translated is in patent prosecution, and they have to be done by specifically qualified people and it is expensive and time-consuming.
Taking the confusion about the murder weapon - rum bottle vs wine bottle - into consideration, I wonder if that is related to the delay. When investigators matched a palm print on the wine bottle to MESO, did they abruptly shift course to get an arrest? For nearly 10 years, the rum bottle was thought to the murder weapon and had tissue fragments and DNA... Suddenly police think it was the wine bottle and have spent nearly 2 years trying to retest and match MESO's fingerprints?Well finally an “update” (and I use that word loosely) on the case:
Here’s why it’s taking lawyers so long to prosecute the suspect in 2012 of UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth
Prosecutor tries lamely to explain why it is taking almost 2 years to even reach the point of another court date, trial date, or even plea date in this wretched case.
Stiiiiiiill trying, trying, trying to match MESO’s fingerprints to those on wine bottle (not rum bottle), where supposedly, perhaps, so they claim, to have a palm print that matches MESO (maybe, perhaps).
Stiiiiiiiill working on all the forensics; as if the previous 9 years of police forensics hasn't helped much…. yeah, I’m peeved.
And of course not a single word about motive, opportunity, or ruling in or out other potential suspects... In short, nothing of note except CYA excuses. Another court update due in July.... of what year I have no idea!
