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chair grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] in 2009 on the University of Virginia
campus we have a young woman Morgan Harrington who goes missing unfortunately her body is found four
months later and then we continued our story yesterday telling you about another
disappearance of a very similar situation with another young woman Hannah Graham who disappears on the same
college campus five years later now we have police who compiled surveillance footage of all the
businesses that they could find on campus that showed footage of Hannah Graham walking around on campus late
that night intoxicated attempting to go back to her apartment they release segments of this
surveillance footage to the public hoping for tips within days police learned after
verifying a receipt that we discussed yesterday from an establishment called Tempo a bar called Tempo that a man
Jesse Matthews who was spotted in the company of hanagram at Tempo they learned from him using his credit card
this is the man that is seen with Hannah Graham who is now missing in the surveillance footage of her walking
around on campus and going into that bar what they get is when they reach out to
the public the information that they get is this man is identified as Jesse Matthew Jr
and we have a male witness who comes forward and says you know after the time that those two were spotted together
using his credit card at Tempo I saw a guy that looks exactly like that same dude and her
he's trying to get her into his vehicle which was described as a 1998 orange Chrysler Sebring yeah or orange piece of
[ __ ] well this is interesting because when police run a background check on this Jesse Matthew Jr of course he owns
an orange Sebring so that matches up got him now they have his name they want to
go and talk to him so after about a week of Hannah Graham missing they now have identified the man
who's seen with her in the surveillance footage detectives go and knock on Old Jesse Matthew's door on his apartment
door he had he initially refused to let the detectives inside and said he's stepping
outside to talk to them they start they they start in right away we don't we don't have any time to lose
here so they say hey do you know anything about Hannah Graham she's missing he admits that he had heard about a
missing woman on the news then they asked him had he talked to Hannah at Tempo at the downtown mall on the night of her
disappearance right he said he was really drunk that night and he didn't remember talking to Hannah Graham he
didn't really remember talking to anybody he said he remembered being downtown but did not remember talking to
her when they said Hannah had been missing for seven days and they believed he had some information he said he was
going to go get some socks so he goes inside shuts the door I guess he's going to go get his
interrogation socks on and then after a few minutes he comes back he comes back out and he does allow
the detectives to do a cursory walk through of his apartment this he's just simply showing them like
look the person you're asking me about I don't remember talking to her and you can come inside because she's not here
so they do a quick look around now this is where this is the moment where they turn this
dude upside down right detectives tell Jesse Matthew that you know what we've already got a search
warrant for your vehicle so we need to know a couple things here man we know you were with her that night
that's how we got this search warrant for your vehicle right so did you leave with her did she leave
with you and was she in your car that night or at any time Jesse Matthew's response was
um he's trying to come up with an answer and then the detectives cut in real quick and say look
we need to know if she was in your vehicle because we're going to find that out we have the search warrant we'd
rather hear it from you we're giving you a chance for you to tell us what you know well the first question if your law
enforcement is do you know who this individual is if they deny it and you have proof that they do know this
individual and that's a sign of guilt so but they but law enforcement plays this so smart because
if he's able to get through the first question well I was so drunk I don't I don't know if I talk to her or not
then you go well we have eyewitness that puts her in your car so was she ever in your car
and if he answers no you know he's lying right a good interrogator will ask questions that they already know the
answers to right this is to size you up to gauge your how Cooperative you are going to be in the investigation also to
gauge if you're honest or a dishonest person and if they should believe anything else that you're going to be
telling them so he wants to know Matthew wants to know if he's under arrest and the
detectives say no that he was not and so the the detectives are waiting there they're going to have the vehicle
impounded and so they're waiting for the the toe to show up to impound this vehicle so
they can do a thorough search for forensic evidence and such on this vehicle and during this
time he's kind of going in and out of the apartment kind of keeping an eye on what they're doing at some point
you know he does remind them look I have no information about a missing young woman he is refusing to provide his cell
phone number to Detectives but then before the vehicle can be taken away he says hey my passport's in the
glove box can I get this passport before the vehicle is towed away that's weird well
yeah you don't want to give that passport to a guy who is now your prime suspect in a missing person's case so
they tell him no and then things get uh get a little a little different here right his vehicle was
towed away to be processed by the police and his roommate drove him to his mom's
house on the ride Jesse Matthew watched the video released to the public by the police this is of the surveillance
footage from Sal's showing him with Hannah Graham later that day he withdrew all of his money from his bank account
all kinds of signs that this dude wants to run on Saturday September 20th Jesse Matthew
called a detective at the Charlottesville Police Department he agreed to come in and talk to the
detective and he showed up at the station around three close to 4 P.M that day or said that he would be there
when he does show up Captain he pretty much refuses to talk right uh so yeah I'll go in and talk to
you guys but then he gets there and has nothing to say he leaves the police station and of
course now he's tailed by the FBI this guy he's a real dickweed because they are they're aware that he may want
to run they're aware that he has answers that he's not providing to them about this situation and their missing person
and then on top of that the FBI is making it obvious to him and I think this is I think this is a maneuver
that you want to make it obvious to this dude we're watching you that way if he were to slip away briefly
or whatever that he that maybe he goes I can't run they're watching me so they make it obvious that they're following
him well he can't run too far because at 9 10 that night because he's 270. two reckless driving warrants are issued for
Jesse Matthew they've obviously observed him driving recklessly while tailing him
meanwhile he decided to borrow or ask to borrow his sister's car and at some point he slips they slip up
because he's able to flee using this other vehicle well let's just go back to him not
telling the truth I mean and keeping your mouth shut if you know that you're going to be not telling the truth
then you're gonna have to whatever lies you tell you're gonna have to keep keep up with those lies that's exactly right
and once he goes on the lamb and they can't find him this is when they get permission to arrest him and
file charges against him so now we have what's going to turn into a nationwide manhunt for Jesse Matthew Jr and APB is
issued and he is officially charged on September 23rd with abduction with the intent to defile
Heather Graham who had still not yet been found this is because of the results of the
crime scene text processing Matthew's vehicle here's what happened a bloodhound used by the police detected
Hannah's scent got him on the car's interior passenger door an Evidence swab recovered from the interior passenger
side door frame of Matthew's car near the door latch was examined at the Virginia Commonwealth of Virginia
Department of forensic science a DNA profile was obtained from this swab Hannah could not be eliminated as a
contributor to that DNA profile they could not 100 percent confirm that it was her DNA
but what we have here Captain is quote the probability of someone other than Hannah being a contributor to this DNA
profile is one and greater than 7.2 billion Jesus which I don't know why they can't just
say that's Hannah's DNA I I'm guessing that there has to be a certain number of markers I don't want to get too much
into the science of it right because I'm not Bill Nye the Science Guy um but but here's my calculation Steve huh 7.2
billion one and greater than 7.2 billion there's not even that many people on the
planet so unless there's a a few billion people that are hiding somewhere uh that
has to be Hannah Graham's DNA so meanwhile what we will later find out is that Jesse Matthew headed for the
Border there are indications that he was heading to Mexico Taco Bell now he checked into the Village Creek State
Park using a false name of John Carr and an address in Maryland a road atlas was found in his sister's
vehicle marking several locations showing his travel trajectory for Gulf Coast Towns close to the Mexican border
eventually he's nabbed in Galveston Texas a lot of pretty women there so I I have to go to this story that came from
Channel 6 CBS out of Richmond go for it Bill Nye thank you on September 24th Karen monk took her dog
Hurley for a walk on the beach in Galveston this is a beautiful area uh Texas beaches and she is a regular this
is part of her regular routine to take her dog for a walk watch the ocean take in the fresh air so she's chilling out
at the beach and mind you there's an APB out for Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr Nationwide
his picture and description and what they suspect them of is on the news just about everywhere we already described
his height and weight he's six foot two 270 pounds approximately 32 year old black male
and he's distinctive right he's he's got some distinguishing characteristics one
his size and two he's got uh dreadlocks in in a short beard so he's going to stand out from just
another face in the crowd and while she's there she's feels somebody looking at her
and when she looks over she's like my God I think that's the the person that they said they're looking for
on the news and so she she does second guess herself did it freak you out but she says there
was something terrifying about the way he was looking at her that he briefly left he was in a vehicle
he briefly leaves and then he comes back and then that's when she made up made it
up in her mind for certain this I'm pretty sure this is the guy that they're looking for
I'm not gonna get into a whole lot of uh of this messy stuff here because this is
pretty upsetting they're looking for this guy nationwide manhunt and don't don't anybody make any jokes
out there any dumb jokes her name is Karen she calls this into Crime Stoppers Crime Stoppers they don't believe her
they're like yeah we don't know if we got enough to go on here that this is the guy that they're actually looking
for so her you see something say something well she's saying something and it's fallen
on deaf ears yeah I love when when people just want to be lazy with their job she calls this into Crime Stoppers
and from my understanding she called Crime Stoppers more than once [Music] and finally she's like I'm getting
nowhere with this so she calls the Galveston County Sheriff's Office she's like look I really believe this is
the guy that they're looking for could you at least send somebody out here to interview me or to interview him if
he's if he's even still going to be here when you get here because I've been trying to call people
so he's on the Run yes yeah meaning we don't think he'll stay in the same place for very long if it is in fact Jesse
Matthew and the look the Galveston County Sheriff's Office they did their job much better than the people over
Crime Stoppers on that day because they send out some police officers and they questioned the man that that she says
look I think that's the guy that they're looking for of course he lies about where he's from and gives a false name
but very quickly they realize this is the guy this this woman thank God she called thank God she went to the extra
effort when she was turned away the first second third time well that's a Karen for you because this guy is this
guy is a menace to society yeah he's the number one suspect in Hannah Graham's disappearance
and he's on the Run and so he's taken into custody he spends about 41 hours in a holding cell and
then he shipped off to Virginia to where he's going to have to talk to the detectives there the ones that know this
case and they're sitting there at the station going got him got him well while this is all going down the detectives
back in Virginia they are able to obtain a second search warrant for Matthew's apartment and his uh room where he went
and stayed at his mother's house from time to time investigators found a box of Hospital gloves and hospital grade
antiseptic wipes in his room at his mother's house now it's possible that maybe he's just
freaky crazy clean about his taxi cab we should also mention though he did work for a period of time as an orderly
so this could these could be items from that job but these also could be evidence and items that one would use to
cover up a crime well you're telling me something earlier that was really fascinating is not only did the scent
dogs pick a percent in his vehicle but they also uh picked up her scent in his apartment yeah this they found uh
according to the The Bloodhounds in the handlers the they detected Hannah sent on the threshold of his apartment
uh in the foyer area of the apartment and the entry door now what's interesting here too and kind of paints
a very dark picture is that the Handler is telling law enforcement I'm guessing here based off of what the
dog is trying to tell me and the way that the dog is hitting on on these on these markers
that while she was here and did enter this apartment she likely was not walking she was very
likely carried into the apartment how they know that you'd have to ask the dog but that's not
the only evidence that they're going to find in the apartment correct so when they do a search of the
apartment they find some shorts and from my understanding that they're going to attempt to pull some DNA evidence from
this pair of shorts that's found in Matthew's bedroom and on the shorts they find a mixture
profile of DNA so two DNA profiles mixed further testing is going to tell us one
Jesse Matthew could not be eliminated as the major contributor to the DNA mixture
and two Hannah Graham could not be eliminated as a minor contributor to the DNA mixture
and again we're going to see similar numbers here the same numbers Captain the probability of someone other than
Hannah being a minor contributor to the mixture profile was one in greater than 7.2 billion um
in other words that's her DNA on this pair of shorts found in his bedroom and he's claiming
he didn't go anywhere with her he didn't he didn't give her a ride she didn't leave with him I don't remember talking
to her well none of that's adding up based off of the evidence that we are finding
let's compile this with some other interesting more circumstantial but interesting evidence
that many of the people that knew Jesse Matthew told police and investigators that they thought he was behaving
strangely the day after Hannah disappeared and that he had some injuries that he had
like a swollen jaw uh he he it appeared that he was in some kind of fight and that he didn't leave his apartment
and did not respond to calls or texts over the next day or so and this guy regularly goes out he's
usually out and about he's kind of shutting down for a couple of days after she goes missing now one problem though
the investigators are going to have in this case we talk so much about the evidence against this guy is that they
don't have any cell phone evidence connecting the suspect Jesse Matthew 2 Hannah Graham
and the problem being is that police are saying that we don't know if if her phone
was off from 12 30 a.m and on uh or an airplane mode or if this was just some kind of strange
coincidence technological glitch but they they couldn't put what what they often try to do today is
put the two cell phones together the suspect in the victim phones together being in the same locations at
the same time they could not seem to do that here now what we're going to have here is they
arrest as said Jesse Matthew he's sitting in jail and he's charged with the Abduction of
hanogram but Hannah Graham at this time is still missing but shortly after this Captain
things will start to move very fast [Music] [Music] good [Music] welcome back cheers mates cheers to you
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move very quickly here captain and things are going to start to flip for our suspect because while he's locked up
and they're continuing to try to find Hannah Graham trying to get more evidence against Jesse Matthew in The
hanogram Disappearance now they're going to confront him with a whole new storm and that storm is going to be guess what
we now suspect you in the abduction and murder of Morgan Harrington that took place in 2009.
and how do they come to this conclusion they're putting together evidence because
one we have very similar situations that took place similar victims yes they're five years apart but this
all goes down in the same area investigated by the same detectives the same jurisdiction
and so it wasn't that great of a leap they start looking for ways to try to connect Morgan Harrington to Jesse
Matthew or Jesse Matthew to Morgan Harrington and what they figure out is that Matthew
drove for Access Taxi at the time of Morgan Harrington's Disappearance in 2009 well and they're going to get a search
warrant for Jesse Matthew's cell phone that he was using at that time yeah he had a Nextel device back in 2009 they
get the search warrant records are showing who he was talking to the night of Morgan Harrington's disappearance and
guess what they tracked down they were able to identify four people who say that yeah I took a cab that
night I took a cab to the Metallica concert the same night that Morgan went to the
Metallica concert and then disappeared and they are telling the officers and detectives that the the man that drove
me this is his description yeah let's just remind the listeners where did we find her her purse
and the parking lot of where the taxi cabs would gather furthermore the records of his phone
show that Matthew was in Charlottesville that night as those Witnesses had said and suggested and pretty much he was
consistently and constantly on his phone that night of October 17 2009 but around
9 30 pm there is approximately 90 minutes of complete inactivity remember this is matching up
with the last sighting around the same time that this young woman Morgan Harrington was last seen
he's on his phone constantly up to this point and now almost no activity complete inactivity
for 90 minutes and again Morgan she made a custom Pantera shirt to go to the Metallica
concert they were able to find that shirt there was some blood evidence on it so now they're going to test that
blood evidence against Jesse's blood yeah remember we have that DNA that that we go okay well this matches up with
somebody in CODIS who committed another crime four years prior to The Disappearance of Morgan Harrington but
that crime was not solved the suspect in that case was not identified and therefore we have this database that is
telling us that these two crimes were committed by the same person that his DNA is telling us that he very likely killed
Morgan Harrington but we don't know who that person is so now we have this guy locked up
in our custody Who We Believe should be the suspect in Morgan Harrington's case because we have evidence to suggest that
and we suspect him in The Disappearance of Hannah Graham so they test his DNA and find out that boom it does match
from the 2009 disappearance of Morgan Harrington and the crime the which was a sexual assault attack that took place
four years prior to that well basically this uh chicken is cooked right I mean they they
have evidence and Hannah's case against them they got evidence in Morgan's case against him so at this point he needs to
get a lawyer yeah he gets a defense attorney and the attorney is going to I mean very correctly try to get ahead
out ahead of these charges so we're offering and asking for a plea deal in these cases and what the attorney
wants on Matthew's behalf is that Jesse Matthew will admit to murdering Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham and tell
the police where they can find Hannah's remains and exchange what they want is it Jesse Matthew aged 32 will get 25
years in prison with the possibility of parole meaning he won't spend the rest of his life in prison and
at 32 if he ends up getting parole before the 25 years is up he's not going to be an extremely old
man by that time and what we have here is the families get together with the prosecutor with the district attorney
and they are discussing do we take this plea deal because he does have something to offer
he does have and I hate to call it this leverage he has some Leverage foreign 's family wants to find their
daughter of course and so he very likely and as indicated by his defense can provide them with that location and
that answer now the families did something very smart here and they decide that you
know what we're gonna sleep on it we don't have to make any decisions right now this dude
is locked up he he's waiting he's going to be charged with Morgan Harrington's murder if he doesn't plea
we don't have to make a decision right here now we're not going to let him steer this ship
and so they decide to sit on it and in the coming days what's going to happen here Captain is
we now have Hannah Graham who's been missing for about a month and her Remains the location of her remains are
being used as a bargaining chip by Jesse Matthew but on October 18 2014 according to a statement of the facts
quote a search and rescue team located Hannah's remains near 3193 Old Lynchburg Road in a densely
wooded Ravine behind a vacant home almost all of Hannah's skeleton was recovered in that area so she is
found I mean if we already know these cases are connected but let's say you didn't
have any evidence against him in the Morgan Harrington right case uh but we can all agree that the The
Disappearance the circumstances of The Disappearance are so similar they're almost identical
the victimology very very similar almost identical well Hannah Graham's remains are found within five
and a half miles of where Morgan Harrington's remains were located years prior so evidence against Jesse Matthews
connects them to the to Morgan's disappearance and murder into Hannah's disappearance and murder
and the way that they were murdered is very similar as well yeah so we have a pathologist who's going to conduct the
autopsy on Hannah and determined that this was the same as in Morgan Harrington's case the same
doctor Dr Kevin Whaley at the office of the chief medical examiner in Richmond now Dr Whaley's
conclusion was that Hannah's cause of death was homicidal violence of undetermined nature and again the manner
of death was homicide the forensic anthropologist Dr Elaine Pope studied Hannah skull and determined
that her left nasal bone had been broken additional study of The Remains by two forensic anthropologists at Radford
University concluded that Hannah had two nasal fractures that were consistent the
pre-mortem fractures occurring at or near the time of death this led the doctor to believe that the most likely cause of
death was Suffocation now remember they could not figure out the or narrowed down the exact cause of death in Morgan
Harrington's case but think of the similarities there we're talking about broken bones
that the breaking of those bones taking place at or near the time of death right
after finding the remains of course now the families who did not have to make a decision
earlier they're saying you know what boom We reject your plea deal right we're we're not on
board with this anymore and what's going to happen is that he's going to be charged with both of these murders uh
the charges will be upgraded to capital murder and he's indicted for both murder
and kidnapping of both of these victims so we know Jesse is responsible for Hannah's murder we know he's responsible
for Morgan's murder and we know that there was a prior crime it was a sexual assault that
that victim is still alive she can easily identify him I don't know if we see the totality of of all of his crimes
but he's definitely he's definitely a serial killer not only that you go back to the the
earliest of the crimes where you have the Survivor right who's to say that he didn't intend to kill her right or if
things didn't go his way that she would have survived because we know that what what happened in that situation is
that a passerby saw what was going on and interrupted the attack and that may be the only reason why she
survived the scary thing here to me Captain is we got this the sexual assault that I
believe would have resulted in Murder had someone not stepped in had she not been able to get away right
we have the murder the kidnapping and attack that takes place in 2009 and then in 2014 again and the sexual assault
that takes place before the murder in 2009 is four years prior to that 2005. so we got nine years
of this kind of very violent behavior of where this guy is abducting women off of
the streets and think about that too he's also working as a taxi cab driver putting
himself in a position to take advantage of vulnerable women and that was probably by Design exactly
that's what makes me wonder about the shirt that was found on displayed the pan the custom Pantera shirt that
was found displayed on the bushes you have to wonder was this some kind of psychological move maybe he had that
shirt in his possession maybe he was following the news of missing Morgan Harrington and the News starts to die
down and he wants to see his crime back in the news again and so he goes and puts this evidence out there
and puts it on display where it would be found putting that whole case in that whole crime back in the news again
without her still being found at that time which is what's crazy here too and and
this is you know goodbye the families um this would be very very difficult thing for anyone to do but we know that
he's now being charged with four counts two of murder two of kidnapping in the Harrington and Graham cases
and the families get together and they say look he was looking for a plea deal earlier
and now we have the leverage on this guy but we don't want to go through a whole
death penalty trial even though we got this guy dead to rights and so they agree that look if if he's
willing to plead guilty will cut a deal with him that will spare him the death penalty however
they've put they put language in that deal that will guarantee he will be locked up for life
he cannot get out he cannot be paroled he cannot get geriatric parole even when he's very old and elderly even sickly
um so they put language in there that hey if you agree to this he's going to be locked up forever
and this is one of those kind of guys that look how dangerous he is if this guy is
breathing he is dangerous yeah piece of [ __ ] he he is there he I believe he was
out there regularly looking for victims and one thing that haunts me a little bit too is the Karen lady that turned
him in that says out in Galveston Texas spots him calls it into Crime Stoppers and eventually the Galveston Sheriff
come out there they arrest Jesse Matthew she said that she spotted him he left and then returned in his car and was
staring at her we know he was trying to flee and it very likely trying to get across the
border into Mexico to flee the police was he looking for one last victim before he he crossed over
had he gone into Mexico how many women would he have attempted to kidnap violate one of the good things for law
enforcement and good thing for the victims families is they have his DNA so they're able to then test that against
other crimes where they have DNA but they just don't have they just don't have a suspect but it
makes you wonder how much law enforcement went back and started looking at this guy's known whereabouts where he is
working is there other missing females in this area that he might be responsible for
yeah and Jesse Matthew agrees to this this plea agreement it was agreed to and sentencing was pronounced
uh it was determined that Matthew will serve four consecutive life sentences he relinquishes All rights to appeal
so he cannot appeal this uh is not eligible for parole of any kind at all as we already talked about
or any type of conditional release and the added caveat that the state could reinstate the capital murder
charge if Matthew violates this plea agreement meaning they could put the death penalty back
on the table if anything goes awry now at sentencing Hannah's Father John Graham spoke and
this is from the post he described his daughter as an optimistic person who loved studying at the University of
Virginia and was making plans for the future when her life was mercilessly cut short by Matthew
quote his evil depraved the world of a great talent but Hannah's enduring gift to us all is that she enabled this
wicked man to be apprehended and convicted she did change the world he said but at
a terrible price Sue Graham also spoke she credited her daughter for her heroism she enabled
police to apprehend a serial rapist who had been hiding in plain sight in Charlottesville for years Jesse Matthews
showed no emotion during the sentencing at his trial yeah and here's the situation too like like I pointed out
you have to wonder if there's other victims here we do know that at one point that before Jesse Matthew was
apprehended before he was connected to the the murders of these two young women that there was suspicion because of
disappearances of other young women in and around this area between 2003 and afterward that there was
suspicion that there was a serial killer possible serial killer in the area and we do know that that came to be true
right because we have Jesse Matthew who killed two of the victims during that time period
oddly enough there was another man who was maybe equally as nasty as Jesse Matthew his name is Randy Taylor he was
charged with the murder of a 19 year old around the same time and is a strong suspect in one of the other open and
unsolved cases of a missing young woman it's a very strange situation here Captain because this may indicate that
we have two active serial killers operating in the same area greater area at about the same time which is not
completely unheard of but it's very it's very unlikely it's very rare um the weird thing too with with Matthew
is he he had opportunities in his life we talked about his size this guy was a star athlete in high school and even
received a scholarship to play football at Liberty and it was we don't know when all of his
crimes started or all of his bad behavior started but he sent off to prison to serve what
is ultimately going to be a life sentence for consecutive life sentences No Doubt
so at the age of 32 in his early 30s you would think that he's going to be there
long for a long period of time that he sent off to prison and that he will die there yeah but the thing is he
may die there sooner than any of us would have expected this is because into 2019 it was
announced that Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr have been transferred from the super max Red Onion prison to Sussex I State
Prison and Waverly Virginia it was later revealed in December of 2020 that Jesse
was no longer being held at that prison either but had become in and inpatient at Richmond hospital he was suffering
from stage four colon cancer now there have been very little updates as to his situation his
his ailment uh last I could find the there's no there's no mention or announcement of
his death and last I could find was that he was continuing treatment for cancer in 2001
late in 2001 since the sentencing and sending this monster off to life in prison
the monster that killed their daughter the harringtons Morgan's parents have become advocates
for the protection of women from predators Like Jesse Matthew they funded a scholarship at Virginia Tech in
Morgan's name and named a school in Africa after her they also funded and operate a non-profit safety advocacy
program called help save the next girl at the University of Virginia Hannah Graham's friends and family have endowed
scholarships and a memorial softball tournament named after her but of course in the end it's
not enough but I guess that that's all they have [Music] want to thank you guys for being the
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The Back to School Killer /// Part 2 /// 695

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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

Jesse Matthew Jr. is linked to the murders of Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham through DNA evidence and eyewitness accounts.

Key points

The Disappearance of Hannah Graham. In 2009, Morgan Harrington goes missing from the University of Virginia, leading to a chilling investigation.
Identifying Jesse Matthew Jr.. Police identify Jesse Matthew Jr. as a key figure in Hannah Graham's disappearance after surveillance footage.
A Nationwide Manhunt Begins. After fleeing, Jesse Matthew Jr. becomes the subject of a nationwide manhunt, raising the stakes.
Jesse Matthew's Plea Deal. Jesse Matthew offers a plea deal to admit to two murders in exchange for a reduced sentence.
Discovery of Hannah's Remains. Hannah Graham's remains are found, confirming the connection to Jesse Matthew.
Matthew's Sentencing. Jesse Matthew is sentenced to four consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

His evil depraved the world of a great talent.

Hannah's father reflects on her loss and its impact.

41:47WatchAug 30, 2023

Tension

85/ 100High tension

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