The Back to School Killer /// Part 1 /// 694 | Forensic Files

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I don't know [Music] October 2009 Charlottesville Virginia a group of successful young women
made their way to see a concert but at some point in the evening the group lost one of their own
twenty-year-old college student Morgan Harrington was last seen near the University of Virginia campus sometime
after 9 pm then she was gone September 2014. five years later on the same college campus
18 year old Hannah Graham was last seen just after midnight two female college students
both successful young women with their whole lives ahead of them go missing and startling similar
circumstances both are alone on the streets of Charlottesville Virginia at night both
vanish triggering massive searches Terror for women on campus an insurmountable heartbreak for their
families there is no known connection between these two other than the circumstances
of their disappearances little did anyone know but the University of Virginia College
campus and a monster prowling its streets this is true crime garage this is a True Crime Story
of the back to school killer [Music] [Music] let's go back to October of 2009. Morgan
Harrington is a 20 year old student at Virginia Tech studying to be a teacher even though Morgan was at college she
was still close with her parents Dan and Jill and her brother Alex Harrington Morgan was an avid music fan and if I
can say so myself Morgan had great taste in music this is going to take us to the late
afternoon early evening hours of Saturday October 17 2009. I would imagine that Morgan was
rather excited about this night because she along with some friends were going to go and see one of Morgan's favorite
bands live in concert the heavy metal group Metallica was playing at the John Paul Jones Arena on the University of
Virginia Campus located in Charlottesville Virginia Charlottesville is located in the North
near middle part of Virginia this is from what I have seen this is from what I have seen online
it's a beautiful campus and a very pretty independent city as well it's hard to believe that such horrible
things are going to happen there Morgan and some of her friends bought tickets for the Metallica show taking
place on October 17th now as said Morgan is attending Virginia Tech so Morgan and
her friends are going to make the drive from Virginia Tech to UVA that night in Morgan's car
but Morgan wasn't driving the vehicle Morgan was playing it cool she was planning on drinking that night and in
fact was drinking a little leading up to the concert as well so one of her friends signed up for the job of the DD
designated driver they drove the 147 miles between the two schools and about two hours and 15
minutes Morgan's friend the DD kept the car keys as the group proceeded into the arena
so now they are inside the arena and of course the place is packed it's Metallica on a Saturday night on a
college campus around 8 30 PM ish Morgan tells her friends she's going to go off to the
restroom she left to go find the bathroom but when she wasn't back at her seat after about 15 minutes
her friends start to get worried now we know from phone records that at 8 48 PM her friend called Morgan's cell phone to
ask where she was and when she would be back at her seat right Morgan answered the phone and says that she was outside
of the arena and could not get back inside now the details of this are a little tricky here we don't know how or why she
got outside of the Arena maybe she went outside the doors to smoke and didn't realize that she would not be able to
re-enter the venue but according to some witnesses she was told that she would not be
allowed back in that they were not allowing re-entry into the venue Morgan had been drinking for a couple of
hours by this point this according to a statement of the facts Witnesses said she appeared to be intoxicated at this
point in our timeline in fact she had a cut on her chin from a fall she had taken on the arena
Concourse in front of several people furthermore Morgan had no cash on her at this time she's locked outside of the
venue no cash in hand right she had given her money to one of her friends to buy a concert T-shirt or some Memento
from the concert and her friends remember had her car key since her friend had the car keys and her other
friend had the money I wondered if maybe her ticket stub was given to one of her
friends as well could be she could have still had the ticket stub and as we've seen a lot of times in these venues when
you have thousands and thousands of people right you get let in uh if you choose to leave you're Outdoors now and
again According to some witnesses that's what the statement was that she was told by security that if you go
outside we can't let you back in and like you said she took a fall so it's kind of hard to tell how intoxicated she
actually was exactly right and so now she's outside of the concert can't get back in I guess
we have a couple of options here Captain if if we're Morgan do you wait right outside the doors you can't even get
back into your car if your vehicle is locked at this point it's really unfortunate because this is going to put
her in a bit of a desperate situation maybe had she had some money she could have walked to a nearby bar and just try
to wait it out she's not of drinking age but we do know she is drinking that night yeah and as you pointed out with
that fall and her level of being intoxicated and evidence of such with that fall it
doesn't seem to me that Morgan may not have been thinking straight by this point right because one of the things if
she had her keys is she could have just went out to her car and slap it off yeah and we we are not
telling people to smoke cigarettes yes we are it's bad for your health there's no mystery about that but if you're
going to do it do it old school and go into the bathroom don't don't leave the venue try to get away with it in the
bathroom so she's not thinking straight this this is interesting because we do have some witnesses that will come
forward later saying that oh we saw somebody matching her description and she appeared to be acting erratic at
some point and it may not have even been acting as one would expect when seen leaving
the arena we have a statement here in fact the quote that says after 9 pm Witnesses
observed Morgan in the University Hall west parking lot this is the Lanigan track parking lot and then she was also
seen on the Copley Bridge just north of Ivy Road sometime after 9 20 p.m that night
at the time that she was on the Copley Bridge Witnesses advised that she was alone
spotted alone and appeared to be hitchhiking with her thumb out not a good sign now Morgan's friends tried and
tried to call her several times to no avail keep in mind though they are at a concert it's loud so we don't know how
many times they attempted to call her but their statements are we try to call her time and time again
and at some point we can't get a hold of her so she's outside of this Arena she's
intoxicated so it's she's already in a dangerous risky situation but now you're trying to
hitchhike you're putting yourself in even a later when her friends discovered that Morgan
had not made it back to the dorm they decide well we need to file a missing person's Report with the
University of Virginia police according to that missing persons report when they
last saw her they stated that Morgan was wearing a black mini skirt knee-high black boots black leggings
Swarovski brand chain necklace I hope I said that correctly and a black custom made Pantera t-shirt that was designed
for her by a friend on the morning after Morgan's disappearance so now we're at October
18th this is around 9 00 A.M we get a University of Virginia lacrosse player who is off going about their day finds a
purse lying along a fence line at the Lanigan track parking lot remember we have witnesses saying that they saw
Morgan at this track parking lot inside the purse this purse is turned into police inside the purse police
recovered Morgan's student ID driver's license and her debit card of course this is a very
very bad sign also inside the purse was a small empty flask this is according to Morgan's
friends was the source of the alcohol that she had been drinking on the way to the concert leading up to the concert
now that Lanigan track lot that parking lot that we were talking about where Morgan's purse had been found was used
by several local taxi companies as a staging area during events at the arena so you have basically a Bank Of Vehicles
taxi cabs are going to pull up parked there probably engines still on and they're
hoping to catch fares of people coming out of the Arena so very common stuff here
but that is a space where she was seen and then later her purse is found so this would point to the obvious that
maybe Morgan had been trying to get a cab but we do know that she's without cash
maybe she was intending to use her debit card but regardless if she was trying to
get a cab or not now we have to be concerned is why is she missing why is she without her purse and why is her
purse found abandoned on the ground with with with several pieces of documentation that she would
need to be getting around and navigating hopefully back to her dorm let me be Captain Obvious
for a second we have to remember that she's over two hours away from her dorm from her school from her friends when
she goes missing so Morgan goes missing late at night last scene just before 9 30 p.m
apparently trying to hitchhike but later the next day her purse is found in this
parking garage parking lot area then Captain things go from Grim to very dark very quickly
this is when the following day police find Morgan's cell phone so this is actually
taking place over the course of two separate days of searching for Morgan or any clues of her whereabouts
on October 19th and 20th police located Morgan's cell phone and the cell phone cover from various areas in the
University Hall west parking lot the phone's battery the cell phone's battery was missing when this phone was found
and this is very troubling especially with what we know today about how investigators are finding people and
solving crimes right was this something that was done intentional by someone that may have
taken this young woman or was this just happenstance that she dropped the phone in her State and lost the phone and and
went on about her night trying to find a way home it's it's a little difficult to
say but I think that details like this will become very much clearer as we continue to go through this week's case
story and timeline well I agree with you because I think finding her purse that makes sense in in the sense of
she was intoxicated she was wandering around is it possible that she just dropped it and didn't notice but when
you saw but when you find her cell phone and the battery is taken from that phone
that's a big red flag the the other thing that's confusing here about these details of this timeline is that none of
this really makes a whole lot of sense when you try to play it out right so what we have here is
the phone and the purse especially the purse are found in a location where she's seen earlier prior
to being seen out on the bridge trying to hitchhike a road a ride so why would she
go to this area loser purse and then she's seen in a different location further away at a different time trying
to hitchhike home well some of the actions of her friends I I don't agree with one your friend calls you and says
I'm outside the arena somebody can go meet me at this door maybe you can talk to security she's with us can you let
her in at some point you go well she's really intoxicated we saw her fall and hurt herself maybe we need to leave
this show and then once you get out of the concert you can't find her you have her vehicle
don't leave town we don't know that none of that didn't happen right we don't know that they didn't offer that up and
and she said no I'll be fine enjoy the concert I'll see you afterwards right um but what we do know is yes they
returned back to their campus and then when they find that she's not there they're reporting her missing right away
this will lead obviously to so many unanswered questions with no sign of this young woman of Morgan despite
what turns into massive searches of the entire area we remember the the purse was found the following day the cell
phone the next day and then the cell phone cover is found the following day after that so we're searching for over
three days now at some point a 150 000 reward is offered for information this is
including fifty thousand dollars chipped in by the band Metallica now the band's lead singer and guitarist
James Hatfield put out a video asking for anyone with information to please contact the police
saying something to the effect of you know we've lost one of our own somebody that was there to have a good time that
night has disappeared and we need to find this young woman now we're going to go all the way out to
November 11th this is when there's another devastating find so this is roughly about six days shy of
Morgan missing for a month now at this point police respond to a call of a parcel of
private property on 15th Street Northwest near the intersection of Grady Avenue there they're called out there because
what was found was a black panthera T-shirt discovered lying spread out atop some
bushes well like you said wasn't it a custom made shirt it was and on top of that what we're
going to get is some forensic science here to tell us that it was in fact Morgan's shirt the very
Pantera shirt that she was wearing when she went missing right so they they recover some uh hairs that are going to
later be identified as very likely having to been belonged to Morgan now some further interesting details about
this t-shirt and the way that it's found all the reports say that it appeared to
have been put on display as if someone wanted it to be found now we don't know if the person that took
her would have gone to this area and placed it there for it to be found or if it's something as simple as we've
we've all seen this right you the the winter glove that somebody puts on display near the front door or the exit
door of a grocery store because they found it in the parking lot it could be as simple as somebody that
was walking found this shirt and thought you know what I'm going to put it in the
most obvious spot so if whoever lost this comes back to retrace their steps they
will they should see it and be able to collect their item yeah that makes sense now the tricky thing here though is
we're talking almost a month after this poor girl has been missing as you pointed out Captain it's a unique
shirt so they're suspicious that it is hers and as I was getting to they determined
that the the hairs that they found on this shirt contained mitochondrial DNA a profile
consistent with Morgan's mothers DNA So based on that DNA obtained from the that information and from the shirt this
meant that the hairs came from someone related to Morgan's mother and of course Morgan's missing so
obviously they're going this is very likely Morgan's which is not good now there was a lot of other evidence on
this shirt as well there was a blood stain that was found on the t-shirt which proved to contain genetic
information a DNA profile from an unknown person who was already in CODIS CODIS is the FBI's DNA database which
contains the Str DNA profiles of millions of convicted violent offenders arrestees and others whose DNA is
entered into a database pursuant to the laws of the state in which they have police contact
some of them are unidentified offenders whose DNA was collected at a crime scene
but whose identity police do not know that was the case here DNA from an unidentified person already in CODIS
matched the DNA from Morgan's case what this meant was that police now knew that
the perpetrator whose blood was on Morgan's t-shirt was the same person unknown to police who had committed a
crime in Fairfax Virginia four years prior back in 2005. so if that suspect's blood matches the
blood in this case and they have a composite sketch of that individual that essentially means you have a you have a
composite sketch in both cases yes that's exactly right that what police will learn once they find out
that the DNA on Morgan Harrington's shirt matches unknown unidentified DNA that is
encoded from that prior crime that when they go back to review the details of that prior crime they find
that there was a composite sketch of a potential suspect that existed but when they investigated that crime no
suspect had been located so you have this weird scenario of yes this is a great lead but that composite sketch
never led to a suspect in the previous crime four years prior so it dries up rather quickly in the
Morgan Harrington case [Music] [Music] all right we are back cheers mates if you haven't
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let's get back to the case cheers mates cheers captain now this we're going to go out four months after Morgan
disappeared to the next big line item on our timeline here this is January 26 2010.
and by this point of course everybody is expecting the worst and and have been for four months now but this is
confirmation well especially when you find the shirt with blood evidence yeah unfortunately this is confirmation of
what they were really worried about this is when Morgan's body was found at Anchorage Farm in southern Albemarle
County Virginia by land owner Dave bass so he owns this piece of land he he actually owns several Acres out there
and I I didn't have it in my notes how large his property is but from my understanding Captain it was several
hundreds of Acres wow and so he has portions of his land that he very likely does not go to on a regular basis now
he's out on his tractor and he initially thought that he found a deer carcass and then upon further
examination realizes that there's a human skull there so we've got to call this in right and so he calls it in and
now based on the state of the remains that are recovered there at that property it was estimated that the body had been
there and been outside and deceased for most if not all of the period that Morgan Harrington was missing now some
pieces of clothing and jewelry were recovered with the remains but Morgan's boots leggings and necklace were never
found The Remains were sent to the office of the chief medical examiner in Richmond
where Dr Kevin Whaley performed in autopsy she was positively id'd using dental records so now we do know that it is the
missing Morgan Harrington the cause of death was homicidal violence of an undetermined origin this because of the
d-comp that had taken place the manner of death of course was homicide but it wasn't clear exactly what had killed
Morgan but they did know based off of the scientific evidence that she suffered violence near simultaneously
with her death she had a spiral fracture of her upper left arm and two rib fractures which
according to the medical examiner occurred at or near the time of her death a review of the case by Dr Donna Boyd a
forensic anthropologist at Radford University confirmed Dr Whaley's conclusions but also located
an in-sized fracture in Morgan's skull that had also occurred at or near the time of death all of this is to say that
Morgan suffered a violent end at the hands of someone else we now are taking our missing persons case
and making it officially a homicide investigation all right Colonel it's time to jump in
the DeLorean and jump five years ahead yeah we're gonna move forward five years later in
our timeline unfortunately this is because in September of 2014 well everything that we pretty much just
discussed it's going to happen again this time we have 18 year old University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Elizabeth
Graham she's the only daughter of John and Sue Graham she's a student athlete at University of Virginia she's on the
ski team an honors student born in England but raised in Fairfax Virginia she's described as smart outgoing
sociable fun and a very positive outgoing person on the night of September 12 Hannah met up with some of her friends
in fellow ski team members to pregame a little bit before they went out to party for the night yeah right
study hard work hard Party hard and you have the opportunity so meeting up with friends and fellow
ski team members the group went out for the night they began drinking around 7 pm at 9 33 PM they left their apartment
and went to a place called fig a restaurant in downtown Charlottesville this is across the street from the
University again this is this is not a a large area right so we have to be specific here that Charlottesville is a
university town it's not a big city at all it's 43 000 people it's the size of most
suburbs the air quotes downtown mall as it is called is this a Street area bordering
the gates to the university it's it's it's not in all inclusive interior inside mall that's sprawling
this is more of an open uh walk from business to business kind of setting right so this area the downtown mall area
features bustling bars restaurants ice cream shops and college apparel shops as well it's and this is considered to be a
very safe environment a very safe neighborhood Hannah and her friends spent several
hours at the Fig restaurant leaving around 11 pm so then they go to a college party at an apartment in
Charlottesville once there Hannah decides that she's not going to be staying very long and she
actually leaves with a friend to go to another party however they're going to continue to
drink and eventually Hannah becomes pretty intoxicated so around 11 50 p.m that's 11 5 0 p.m
she told her friends that she wasn't feeling very well and she would like to go home one of her friends walked her
outside of the party they go out to the sidewalk area this is located at the Camden Plaza
Apartment on 14th Street the friend is offering to walk Hannah home Hannah says no she's going to be
fine you go back and enjoy the party I'm gonna make my way home so she started walking on her own in the
direction of her apartment as she walked she continued to text her friends but then her texts were increasingly
filled with misspellings and indecipherable messages and this is because she's impaired yeah not good
then Hannah started sending messages indicating that she was lost at some point I was gonna say yeah maybe one the
text messages are not clear because she's born intoxicated but but two sometimes when you're walking and you're
trying to find your way you're not really fully paying attention to the text that you're sending
well this is unfortunate too because if if her friends were to go out and try to
look for her on foot they're not going to have a whole lot to go off of if her text to them are filled
with misspellings she doesn't know where she is and indecipherable messages which
this is all a little confusing to me because this campus isn't that big of a area no but it's understandable to me
that that this young woman got lost and here's where I go with this it's it's dark out it's incredibly late right we
do know by all reports and we'll have further information of this later that Hannah is intoxicated and the other
thing that I wonder too this is her sophomore year the this is the very beginning we've just gone back to school
this is September of 2014 it's very likely that she may have moved and and now is living in a new apartment
or new dorm right so she she might have a hard time finding it even if she were not impaired just with it being dark and
living in a new place and coming from a location that she may not be familiar with regardless of that situation though
Captain what we have here is we do know that she does send several texts to her friends unfortunately the last text that
will be sent comes in at approximately 1am and the text is very short and just says
I got stuck down though remember we're saying that the texts aren't completely making sense right
guessing here and others have speculated on this and it seems correct that she's
probably trying to say I got stuck downtown right uh and then it turns into down though
when Hannah didn't show up for her scheduled early event on Saturday morning this is the 13th
her friends were alarmed and tried to reach her several times so they're getting no luck so what they do is they
take it a step further and they contact Hannah's family her parents and say look
this is a situation she was walking home by herself late last night after we were all out
partying we had a scheduled event early the next morning we're all here she's not here right we can't get a hold of
her but that is somewhat reasonable because she left the party because she was feeling sick correct and we've all
slept one off right uh at least the colonel has a couple of times but I'm sleeping one off right now Mom and Dad
and all the friends and classmates schoolmates are in agreeance that this is totally unlike Hannah to one not be
responsive to the communications but also two to fail to show up for a commitment
now once she hadn't turned up by Saturday afternoon parents and Friends banding together called the police
Charlottesville police became heavily involved right away they were assisted by the state police
they were able to locate witnesses that saw Hannah and found surveillance footage that showed Hannah walking on
the night of September 12th into the early morning hours of September 13th now here's what they found
around 12 45 a.m Hannah was spotted walking past McGrady's Pub this is at the intersection of Grady and Preston
Avenues there they talked to a bouncer a bouncer noticed Hannah walking by she then turned around and walked by
again but going in the opposite direction he made the observation that she was probably intoxicated
he asked her if she's okay do you need some help to which the young lady which we will later know is Hannah
replied that she was okay and did not need any help at all so then she walks away heading East on Preston Avenue
right Hannah turned up shortly thereafter again on surveillance footage this from the Preston Avenue Shell
Station at 12 55 am she had walked East down Preston from McGrady's the Shell station footage
showed Hannah walking East on Preston and then making her way toward the downtown mall
she was then seen on surveillance footage from Reed's supermarket and The Crossings apartment complex and again
she's continuing East on Preston at this time now we're going to go to 101 a.m when
she is seen on surveillance footage from Fellini's restaurant she's walking East on the south side of
Market Street she turned right and walked South down 2nd Street Northwest again toward the ball so you can tell by
some of these movements even if you're not familiar with these these streets and you're trying to picture this in
your mind what you what you envision here is a young lady that's walking the streets but constantly kind
of turning around and and going in a very roundabout way indicating that she's either quite intoxicated and
doesn't know where she is or she's lost and doesn't know where she is or what is
very likely a combination of both at different points in this timeline yeah not a safe place to be now police do
find witnesses who said that they saw someone matching Hannah's description she's at a bar
according to the statement with a man and then Witnesses also seeing her on the street
in the company of this same man now after that she's not seen again well I'm guessing
from those eyewitnesses is how we get the composite sketch this is crazy Captain because I can I can remember
you're crazy man being out somewhere and watching TV at a restaurant or something
and they they're showing on the TV the actual they they piece together and taped together these different
pieces of surveillance footage right and they were showing them to the public they're like okay here here's she's seen
walking by herself oh and then here at some point she's seen walking with a man and we're being
told by witnesses that she was spotted in the company of this man not only on the street but in a bar what they're
telling the public with this with this surveillance footage that they splice together
that hey we're looking for two things here John Q public we need help finding this
young lady she's not been seen number one and number two we need some help identifying who this man is because he
should know where she is or or or should be able to offer us some kind of information as to what they were talking
about that night or where she may have gone where he last saw her right so the public is being asked to help with
several different items in this investigation and kudos to the police for crowdsourcing this because I think
it really moved and furthered their investigation rather quickly rather than to hold on to
this information and due to that effort they were actually able to identify the mail that was with her
yeah they're going to get some help from the public here captain and we're going to identify this individual
as James Leroy Matthew Jr he is a 32 year old taxi driver or one-time taxi driver
he is six foot two inches tall 270 pounds so he's a big boy I think part of the quickness to identify this
individual is his size and stature now we have some timeline info for this guy uh for the night in question
so September 12th to the 13th 2014 here's what we had earlier in the evening on the 12th
Jesse Matthew coached a football game at the Covenant School then afterwards he goes out bar hopping
and during his bar hopping Adventures he begins a pattern of physically invasive
and inappropriate behavior toward women that he encounters that night yeah it sounds like a real douche canoe without
you know without dragging this out longer than it needs to be basically what he's doing Captain he's going up to
different women he's engaging them in short conversation at the bars and then he's grabbing their
legs their butts um won't leave them alone he's making sexually suggestive comments to them and
and not just making them uncomfortable making them extremely uncomfortable because they are very obviously
not excited about his advances right they're telling hey leave us alone don't touch us you know what are you doing and
a couple of the girls or young women that he met that night he's even you know picking them up maybe
he thinks he's trying to show some form of affection but people don't like to be
just picked up especially by a large individual six foot two 270 pounds so this is a strong guy
now responses from these women to leave them alone they're saying you know I got
a boyfriend I'm not interested why don't you get lost that he's unfazed by all of
this and he sober said persistent and Relentless with his physical contact that several women they end up leaving
the bars to avoid this guy further interaction with this dude so then he starts traveling bar to bar
places called the lazy parrot and a place called Rapture and then a place called Blue
Light he ended up at a establishment called Tempo where he grabbed a woman's butt she
hit him she then hid from him but he found her and continued to harass her until somebody came along and told him
hey buddy get lost so he closes out his tab at 103 A.M 103 A.M remember I've said it before victims
sometimes just get unlucky we know that her last text was sent around 1am that she was lost down town down though
stuck down though and it's assumed that he closes out his tab at 103 walks out of the establishment
and walks right into Hannah Graham's path so we were talking earlier because there's something very haunting when
when you see this surveillance footage and so you see this footage of Hannah walking
and she passes Jesse yes and Jesse almost sees the state that she's in and turns back around to follow her
I mean it's very haunting that we we can't say for certain if that was the moment that he made a lot of
decisions but we can guess that he did make at least one decision there so what what we have is just as the captain
described we have Hannah who is staggering eastbound near a location called an establishment
called Sal's Cafe this is at 221 East Main Street from there the police are going to get surveillance
video footage that will show her walking Eastbound past Sal's at 106 A.M now on the same footage what they see is
Jesse Matthew who walks past Hannah picture this they're going in opposite directions
as the captain said he probably made an observation as to her State at the time and then made the decision I'm going to
whoop turn around and go the same way follow her and approach her so on the on that footage it was released that I
remember seeing that they asked the people to help with you can see him walk past her turn
around and then he starts to follow Hannah Graham and eventually Catch catches up with her
and he doesn't snatch and grab her what he does he approaches her in what may even appear to be some kind of friendly
manner with the gesture of putting his arm around her now what we would end up with
we get a female witness that will come forward who says look not only did I too have an encounter with Jesse Matthew
that same night fended him off if you will at one of the bars but I also saw that same guy
with his arm wrapped around Hannah Graham later that night and telling police at that time Hannah
was visibly drunk the witness protested to uh actually approached the two of them
and protested to Jesse Matthew saying look dude you know you were being a jerk earlier
and this girl you're walking with you don't know her you don't even know her and you got your arm around her right he
tells her to shush and then the witness and her friend they decide to follow Jesse Matthew with the young woman
Hannah Graham who would later be identified as Hannah Graham they followed the two of them out of a
concern into that business called Tempo the The Establishment called Tempo where
he sits down and he sits Hannah Graham down in a booth with him he buys her a drink he
buys himself a drink he pays for these drinks uh that really helps us later know his
movements because he's paying via credit card soon thereafter the witness tells her friend and this is another one
of those haunting situations they're commenting about what they see or what they expect
could happen and probably maybe even suspecting the worst but what was said to from one witness to the
other is quote he's going to [ __ ] her up and right after this before they know it
the two were gone Jesse Matthew and Hannah Graham had left the bar well again this individual's
intimidating he's intimidating I mean his size is is a little over six two I believe he weighs about 270
this is a this is a big boy what we end up seeing from surveillance footage here
Captain is the two of them walking arm and arm proceeding north bound up Fourth Street
and then we have footage from the red pump at 4th and Main Streets that captures them again this is this is at
uh 1 18 A.M the next we have a male witness who sees Hannah walking ahead of Jesse Matthew on
4th Street Matthew followed her she crossed East Market Street at the crosswalk and as she did again we got
Matthew following her and he catches up to her again putting his arm around her they walked to a parked vehicle and
stopped this was Jesse Matthews vehicle it's a 1998 orange Sebring the male witness continued to observe as
the male who we now know is Jesse Matthew unlocked the passenger door and gestured to Hannah to get in who said to
him very loudly I'm not getting in that car with you what is it stolen to the witness Hannah sounded scared he
proceeded toward his own parked vehicle and heard nothing else when he drove by that spot just
seconds later the vehicle's gone and also are the two people the male who is identified as Jesse
Matthew and then Hannah Graham [Music] join us back here in the garage same bat Time same bat Channel
and until then be good be kind and don't litter [Music] thank you foreign [Music]

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Charlottesville, Virginia - Two successful young women, both college students go missing under very similar circumstances on the same college campus. Were these two incidents connected? The victimology and circumstances would suggests yes but the events were five years apart. This week join the guys in the Garage as they discuss two cases from the University of Virginia.

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the disappearances of Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham, highlighting the investigations and similarities in their cases.

Key points

The Disappearance of Morgan Harrington. Morgan Harrington, a 20-year-old student, goes missing after a concert in Charlottesville.
The Discovery of Morgan's Purse. Morgan's purse is found in a parking lot, raising alarms about her safety.
The Troubling Find of Morgan's Cell Phone. Police locate Morgan's cell phone, but the battery is missing, raising concerns.
The Disturbing Find of Morgan's T-Shirt. A black Pantera T-shirt belonging to Morgan is discovered, indicating foul play.
DNA Evidence Links to Previous Crime. DNA from Morgan's shirt matches an unidentified suspect from a prior crime.
Morgan Harrington's Body Found. Morgan's remains were discovered, confirming fears of foul play. "This is confirmation of what they were really worried about."

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

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