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chair grab a beer let's talk some true crime [Music] in 2009 on the University of Virginia
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campus we have a young woman Morgan Harrington who goes missing unfortunately her body is found four
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months later and then we continued our story yesterday telling you about another
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disappearance of a very similar situation with another young woman Hannah Graham who disappears on the same
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college campus five years later now we have police who compiled surveillance footage of all the
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businesses that they could find on campus that showed footage of Hannah Graham walking around on campus late
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that night intoxicated attempting to go back to her apartment they release segments of this
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surveillance footage to the public hoping for tips within days police learned after
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verifying a receipt that we discussed yesterday from an establishment called Tempo a bar called Tempo that a man
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Jesse Matthews who was spotted in the company of hanagram at Tempo they learned from him using his credit card
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this is the man that is seen with Hannah Graham who is now missing in the surveillance footage of her walking
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around on campus and going into that bar what they get is when they reach out to
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the public the information that they get is this man is identified as Jesse Matthew Jr
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and we have a male witness who comes forward and says you know after the time that those two were spotted together
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using his credit card at Tempo I saw a guy that looks exactly like that same dude and her
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he's trying to get her into his vehicle which was described as a 1998 orange Chrysler Sebring yeah or orange piece of
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[ __ ] well this is interesting because when police run a background check on this Jesse Matthew Jr of course he owns
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an orange Sebring so that matches up got him now they have his name they want to
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go and talk to him so after about a week of Hannah Graham missing they now have identified the man
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who's seen with her in the surveillance footage detectives go and knock on Old Jesse Matthew's door on his apartment
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door he had he initially refused to let the detectives inside and said he's stepping
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outside to talk to them they start they they start in right away we don't we don't have any time to lose
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here so they say hey do you know anything about Hannah Graham she's missing he admits that he had heard about a
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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
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disappearance right he said he was really drunk that night and he didn't remember talking to Hannah Graham he
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didn't really remember talking to anybody he said he remembered being downtown but did not remember talking to
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her when they said Hannah had been missing for seven days and they believed he had some information he said he was
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going to go get some socks so he goes inside shuts the door I guess he's going to go get his
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interrogation socks on and then after a few minutes he comes back he comes back out and he does allow
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the detectives to do a cursory walk through of his apartment this he's just simply showing them like
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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
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so they do a quick look around now this is where this is the moment where they turn this
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dude upside down right detectives tell Jesse Matthew that you know what we've already got a search
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warrant for your vehicle so we need to know a couple things here man we know you were with her that night
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that's how we got this search warrant for your vehicle right so did you leave with her did she leave
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with you and was she in your car that night or at any time Jesse Matthew's response was
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um he's trying to come up with an answer and then the detectives cut in real quick and say look
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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
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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
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enforcement is do you know who this individual is if they deny it and you have proof that they do know this
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individual and that's a sign of guilt so but they but law enforcement plays this so smart because
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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
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then you go well we have eyewitness that puts her in your car so was she ever in your car
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and if he answers no you know he's lying right a good interrogator will ask questions that they already know the
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answers to right this is to size you up to gauge your how Cooperative you are going to be in the investigation also to
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gauge if you're honest or a dishonest person and if they should believe anything else that you're going to be
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telling them so he wants to know Matthew wants to know if he's under arrest and the
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detectives say no that he was not and so the the detectives are waiting there they're going to have the vehicle
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impounded and so they're waiting for the the toe to show up to impound this vehicle so
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they can do a thorough search for forensic evidence and such on this vehicle and during this
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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
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you know he does remind them look I have no information about a missing young woman he is refusing to provide his cell
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phone number to Detectives but then before the vehicle can be taken away he says hey my passport's in the
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glove box can I get this passport before the vehicle is towed away that's weird well
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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
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they tell him no and then things get uh get a little a little different here right his vehicle was
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towed away to be processed by the police and his roommate drove him to his mom's
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house on the ride Jesse Matthew watched the video released to the public by the police this is of the surveillance
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footage from Sal's showing him with Hannah Graham later that day he withdrew all of his money from his bank account
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all kinds of signs that this dude wants to run on Saturday September 20th Jesse Matthew
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called a detective at the Charlottesville Police Department he agreed to come in and talk to the
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detective and he showed up at the station around three close to 4 P.M that day or said that he would be there
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when he does show up Captain he pretty much refuses to talk right uh so yeah I'll go in and talk to
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you guys but then he gets there and has nothing to say he leaves the police station and of
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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
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to run they're aware that he has answers that he's not providing to them about this situation and their missing person
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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
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that you want to make it obvious to this dude we're watching you that way if he were to slip away briefly
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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
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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
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Jesse Matthew they've obviously observed him driving recklessly while tailing him
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meanwhile he decided to borrow or ask to borrow his sister's car and at some point he slips they slip up
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because he's able to flee using this other vehicle well let's just go back to him not
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telling the truth I mean and keeping your mouth shut if you know that you're going to be not telling the truth
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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
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and once he goes on the lamb and they can't find him this is when they get permission to arrest him and
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file charges against him so now we have what's going to turn into a nationwide manhunt for Jesse Matthew Jr and APB is
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issued and he is officially charged on September 23rd with abduction with the intent to defile
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Heather Graham who had still not yet been found this is because of the results of the
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crime scene text processing Matthew's vehicle here's what happened a bloodhound used by the police detected
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Hannah's scent got him on the car's interior passenger door an Evidence swab recovered from the interior passenger
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side door frame of Matthew's car near the door latch was examined at the Virginia Commonwealth of Virginia
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Department of forensic science a DNA profile was obtained from this swab Hannah could not be eliminated as a
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contributor to that DNA profile they could not 100 percent confirm that it was her DNA
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but what we have here Captain is quote the probability of someone other than Hannah being a contributor to this DNA
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profile is one and greater than 7.2 billion Jesus which I don't know why they can't just
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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
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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
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billion one and greater than 7.2 billion there's not even that many people on the
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planet so unless there's a a few billion people that are hiding somewhere uh that
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has to be Hannah Graham's DNA so meanwhile what we will later find out is that Jesse Matthew headed for the
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Border there are indications that he was heading to Mexico Taco Bell now he checked into the Village Creek State
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Park using a false name of John Carr and an address in Maryland a road atlas was found in his sister's
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vehicle marking several locations showing his travel trajectory for Gulf Coast Towns close to the Mexican border
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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
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Channel 6 CBS out of Richmond go for it Bill Nye thank you on September 24th Karen monk took her dog
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Hurley for a walk on the beach in Galveston this is a beautiful area uh Texas beaches and she is a regular this
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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
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at the beach and mind you there's an APB out for Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr Nationwide
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his picture and description and what they suspect them of is on the news just about everywhere we already described
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his height and weight he's six foot two 270 pounds approximately 32 year old black male
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and he's distinctive right he's he's got some distinguishing characteristics one
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his size and two he's got uh dreadlocks in in a short beard so he's going to stand out from just
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another face in the crowd and while she's there she's feels somebody looking at her
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and when she looks over she's like my God I think that's the the person that they said they're looking for
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on the news and so she she does second guess herself did it freak you out but she says there
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was something terrifying about the way he was looking at her that he briefly left he was in a vehicle
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he briefly leaves and then he comes back and then that's when she made up made it
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up in her mind for certain this I'm pretty sure this is the guy that they're looking for
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I'm not gonna get into a whole lot of uh of this messy stuff here because this is
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pretty upsetting they're looking for this guy nationwide manhunt and don't don't anybody make any jokes
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out there any dumb jokes her name is Karen she calls this into Crime Stoppers Crime Stoppers they don't believe her
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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
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for so her you see something say something well she's saying something and it's fallen
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on deaf ears yeah I love when when people just want to be lazy with their job she calls this into Crime Stoppers
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and from my understanding she called Crime Stoppers more than once [Music] and finally she's like I'm getting
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nowhere with this so she calls the Galveston County Sheriff's Office she's like look I really believe this is
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the guy that they're looking for could you at least send somebody out here to interview me or to interview him if
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he's if he's even still going to be here when you get here because I've been trying to call people
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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
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Matthew and the look the Galveston County Sheriff's Office they did their job much better than the people over
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Crime Stoppers on that day because they send out some police officers and they questioned the man that that she says
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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
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but very quickly they realize this is the guy this this woman thank God she called thank God she went to the extra
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effort when she was turned away the first second third time well that's a Karen for you because this guy is this
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guy is a menace to society yeah he's the number one suspect in Hannah Graham's disappearance
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and he's on the Run and so he's taken into custody he spends about 41 hours in a holding cell and
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then he shipped off to Virginia to where he's going to have to talk to the detectives there the ones that know this
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case and they're sitting there at the station going got him got him well while this is all going down the detectives
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back in Virginia they are able to obtain a second search warrant for Matthew's apartment and his uh room where he went
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and stayed at his mother's house from time to time investigators found a box of Hospital gloves and hospital grade
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antiseptic wipes in his room at his mother's house now it's possible that maybe he's just
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freaky crazy clean about his taxi cab we should also mention though he did work for a period of time as an orderly
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so this could these could be items from that job but these also could be evidence and items that one would use to
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cover up a crime well you're telling me something earlier that was really fascinating is not only did the scent
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dogs pick a percent in his vehicle but they also uh picked up her scent in his apartment yeah this they found uh
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according to the The Bloodhounds in the handlers the they detected Hannah sent on the threshold of his apartment
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uh in the foyer area of the apartment and the entry door now what's interesting here too and kind of paints
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a very dark picture is that the Handler is telling law enforcement I'm guessing here based off of what the
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dog is trying to tell me and the way that the dog is hitting on on these on these markers
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that while she was here and did enter this apartment she likely was not walking she was very
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likely carried into the apartment how they know that you'd have to ask the dog but that's not
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the only evidence that they're going to find in the apartment correct so when they do a search of the
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apartment they find some shorts and from my understanding that they're going to attempt to pull some DNA evidence from
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this pair of shorts that's found in Matthew's bedroom and on the shorts they find a mixture
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profile of DNA so two DNA profiles mixed further testing is going to tell us one
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Jesse Matthew could not be eliminated as the major contributor to the DNA mixture
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and two Hannah Graham could not be eliminated as a minor contributor to the DNA mixture
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and again we're going to see similar numbers here the same numbers Captain the probability of someone other than
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Hannah being a minor contributor to the mixture profile was one in greater than 7.2 billion um
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in other words that's her DNA on this pair of shorts found in his bedroom and he's claiming
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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
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to her well none of that's adding up based off of the evidence that we are finding
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let's compile this with some other interesting more circumstantial but interesting evidence
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that many of the people that knew Jesse Matthew told police and investigators that they thought he was behaving
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strangely the day after Hannah disappeared and that he had some injuries that he had
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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
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and did not respond to calls or texts over the next day or so and this guy regularly goes out he's
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usually out and about he's kind of shutting down for a couple of days after she goes missing now one problem though
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the investigators are going to have in this case we talk so much about the evidence against this guy is that they
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don't have any cell phone evidence connecting the suspect Jesse Matthew 2 Hannah Graham
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and the problem being is that police are saying that we don't know if if her phone
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was off from 12 30 a.m and on uh or an airplane mode or if this was just some kind of strange
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coincidence technological glitch but they they couldn't put what what they often try to do today is
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put the two cell phones together the suspect in the victim phones together being in the same locations at
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the same time they could not seem to do that here now what we're going to have here is they
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arrest as said Jesse Matthew he's sitting in jail and he's charged with the Abduction of
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hanogram but Hannah Graham at this time is still missing but shortly after this Captain
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things will start to move very fast [Music] [Music] good [Music] welcome back cheers mates cheers to you
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and maybe you'll get flipped off by somebody driving a van um this is where things are going to
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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
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and they're continuing to try to find Hannah Graham trying to get more evidence against Jesse Matthew in The
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hanogram Disappearance now they're going to confront him with a whole new storm and that storm is going to be guess what
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we now suspect you in the abduction and murder of Morgan Harrington that took place in 2009.
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and how do they come to this conclusion they're putting together evidence because
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one we have very similar situations that took place similar victims yes they're five years apart but this
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all goes down in the same area investigated by the same detectives the same jurisdiction
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and so it wasn't that great of a leap they start looking for ways to try to connect Morgan Harrington to Jesse
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Matthew or Jesse Matthew to Morgan Harrington and what they figure out is that Matthew
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drove for Access Taxi at the time of Morgan Harrington's Disappearance in 2009 well and they're going to get a search
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warrant for Jesse Matthew's cell phone that he was using at that time yeah he had a Nextel device back in 2009 they
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get the search warrant records are showing who he was talking to the night of Morgan Harrington's disappearance and
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guess what they tracked down they were able to identify four people who say that yeah I took a cab that
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night I took a cab to the Metallica concert the same night that Morgan went to the
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Metallica concert and then disappeared and they are telling the officers and detectives that the the man that drove
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me this is his description yeah let's just remind the listeners where did we find her her purse
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and the parking lot of where the taxi cabs would gather furthermore the records of his phone
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show that Matthew was in Charlottesville that night as those Witnesses had said and suggested and pretty much he was
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consistently and constantly on his phone that night of October 17 2009 but around
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9 30 pm there is approximately 90 minutes of complete inactivity remember this is matching up
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with the last sighting around the same time that this young woman Morgan Harrington was last seen
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he's on his phone constantly up to this point and now almost no activity complete inactivity
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for 90 minutes and again Morgan she made a custom Pantera shirt to go to the Metallica
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concert they were able to find that shirt there was some blood evidence on it so now they're going to test that
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blood evidence against Jesse's blood yeah remember we have that DNA that that we go okay well this matches up with
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somebody in CODIS who committed another crime four years prior to The Disappearance of Morgan Harrington but
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that crime was not solved the suspect in that case was not identified and therefore we have this database that is
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telling us that these two crimes were committed by the same person that his DNA is telling us that he very likely killed
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Morgan Harrington but we don't know who that person is so now we have this guy locked up
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in our custody Who We Believe should be the suspect in Morgan Harrington's case because we have evidence to suggest that
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and we suspect him in The Disappearance of Hannah Graham so they test his DNA and find out that boom it does match
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from the 2009 disappearance of Morgan Harrington and the crime the which was a sexual assault attack that took place
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four years prior to that well basically this uh chicken is cooked right I mean they they
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have evidence and Hannah's case against them they got evidence in Morgan's case against him so at this point he needs to
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get a lawyer yeah he gets a defense attorney and the attorney is going to I mean very correctly try to get ahead
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out ahead of these charges so we're offering and asking for a plea deal in these cases and what the attorney
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wants on Matthew's behalf is that Jesse Matthew will admit to murdering Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham and tell
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the police where they can find Hannah's remains and exchange what they want is it Jesse Matthew aged 32 will get 25
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years in prison with the possibility of parole meaning he won't spend the rest of his life in prison and
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at 32 if he ends up getting parole before the 25 years is up he's not going to be an extremely old
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man by that time and what we have here is the families get together with the prosecutor with the district attorney
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and they are discussing do we take this plea deal because he does have something to offer
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he does have and I hate to call it this leverage he has some Leverage foreign 's family wants to find their
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daughter of course and so he very likely and as indicated by his defense can provide them with that location and
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that answer now the families did something very smart here and they decide that you
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know what we're gonna sleep on it we don't have to make any decisions right now this dude
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is locked up he he's waiting he's going to be charged with Morgan Harrington's murder if he doesn't plea
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we don't have to make a decision right here now we're not going to let him steer this ship
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and so they decide to sit on it and in the coming days what's going to happen here Captain is
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we now have Hannah Graham who's been missing for about a month and her Remains the location of her remains are
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being used as a bargaining chip by Jesse Matthew but on October 18 2014 according to a statement of the facts
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quote a search and rescue team located Hannah's remains near 3193 Old Lynchburg Road in a densely
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wooded Ravine behind a vacant home almost all of Hannah's skeleton was recovered in that area so she is
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found I mean if we already know these cases are connected but let's say you didn't
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have any evidence against him in the Morgan Harrington right case uh but we can all agree that the The
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Disappearance the circumstances of The Disappearance are so similar they're almost identical
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the victimology very very similar almost identical well Hannah Graham's remains are found within five
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and a half miles of where Morgan Harrington's remains were located years prior so evidence against Jesse Matthews
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connects them to the to Morgan's disappearance and murder into Hannah's disappearance and murder
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and the way that they were murdered is very similar as well yeah so we have a pathologist who's going to conduct the
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autopsy on Hannah and determined that this was the same as in Morgan Harrington's case the same
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doctor Dr Kevin Whaley at the office of the chief medical examiner in Richmond now Dr Whaley's
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conclusion was that Hannah's cause of death was homicidal violence of undetermined nature and again the manner
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of death was homicide the forensic anthropologist Dr Elaine Pope studied Hannah skull and determined
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that her left nasal bone had been broken additional study of The Remains by two forensic anthropologists at Radford
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University concluded that Hannah had two nasal fractures that were consistent the
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pre-mortem fractures occurring at or near the time of death this led the doctor to believe that the most likely cause of
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death was Suffocation now remember they could not figure out the or narrowed down the exact cause of death in Morgan
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Harrington's case but think of the similarities there we're talking about broken bones
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that the breaking of those bones taking place at or near the time of death right
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after finding the remains of course now the families who did not have to make a decision
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earlier they're saying you know what boom We reject your plea deal right we're we're not on
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board with this anymore and what's going to happen is that he's going to be charged with both of these murders uh
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the charges will be upgraded to capital murder and he's indicted for both murder
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and kidnapping of both of these victims so we know Jesse is responsible for Hannah's murder we know he's responsible
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for Morgan's murder and we know that there was a prior crime it was a sexual assault that
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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
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but he's definitely he's definitely a serial killer not only that you go back to the the
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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
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things didn't go his way that she would have survived because we know that what what happened in that situation is
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that a passerby saw what was going on and interrupted the attack and that may be the only reason why she
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survived the scary thing here to me Captain is we got this the sexual assault that I
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believe would have resulted in Murder had someone not stepped in had she not been able to get away right
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we have the murder the kidnapping and attack that takes place in 2009 and then in 2014 again and the sexual assault
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that takes place before the murder in 2009 is four years prior to that 2005. so we got nine years
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of this kind of very violent behavior of where this guy is abducting women off of
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the streets and think about that too he's also working as a taxi cab driver putting
00:37:02
himself in a position to take advantage of vulnerable women and that was probably by Design exactly
00:37:09
that's what makes me wonder about the shirt that was found on displayed the pan the custom Pantera shirt that
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was found displayed on the bushes you have to wonder was this some kind of psychological move maybe he had that
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shirt in his possession maybe he was following the news of missing Morgan Harrington and the News starts to die
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down and he wants to see his crime back in the news again and so he goes and puts this evidence out there
00:37:42
and puts it on display where it would be found putting that whole case in that whole crime back in the news again
00:37:49
without her still being found at that time which is what's crazy here too and and
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this is you know goodbye the families um this would be very very difficult thing for anyone to do but we know that
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he's now being charged with four counts two of murder two of kidnapping in the Harrington and Graham cases
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and the families get together and they say look he was looking for a plea deal earlier
00:38:19
and now we have the leverage on this guy but we don't want to go through a whole
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death penalty trial even though we got this guy dead to rights and so they agree that look if if he's
00:38:39
willing to plead guilty will cut a deal with him that will spare him the death penalty however
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they've put they put language in that deal that will guarantee he will be locked up for life
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he cannot get out he cannot be paroled he cannot get geriatric parole even when he's very old and elderly even sickly
00:39:04
um so they put language in there that hey if you agree to this he's going to be locked up forever
00:39:11
and this is one of those kind of guys that look how dangerous he is if this guy is
00:39:19
breathing he is dangerous yeah piece of [ __ ] he he is there he I believe he was
00:39:26
out there regularly looking for victims and one thing that haunts me a little bit too is the Karen lady that turned
00:39:33
him in that says out in Galveston Texas spots him calls it into Crime Stoppers and eventually the Galveston Sheriff
00:39:41
come out there they arrest Jesse Matthew she said that she spotted him he left and then returned in his car and was
00:39:50
staring at her we know he was trying to flee and it very likely trying to get across the
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border into Mexico to flee the police was he looking for one last victim before he he crossed over
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had he gone into Mexico how many women would he have attempted to kidnap violate one of the good things for law
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enforcement and good thing for the victims families is they have his DNA so they're able to then test that against
00:40:19
other crimes where they have DNA but they just don't have they just don't have a suspect but it
00:40:26
makes you wonder how much law enforcement went back and started looking at this guy's known whereabouts where he is
00:40:33
working is there other missing females in this area that he might be responsible for
00:40:40
yeah and Jesse Matthew agrees to this this plea agreement it was agreed to and sentencing was pronounced
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uh it was determined that Matthew will serve four consecutive life sentences he relinquishes All rights to appeal
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so he cannot appeal this uh is not eligible for parole of any kind at all as we already talked about
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or any type of conditional release and the added caveat that the state could reinstate the capital murder
00:41:16
charge if Matthew violates this plea agreement meaning they could put the death penalty back
00:41:23
on the table if anything goes awry now at sentencing Hannah's Father John Graham spoke and
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this is from the post he described his daughter as an optimistic person who loved studying at the University of
00:41:39
Virginia and was making plans for the future when her life was mercilessly cut short by Matthew
00:41:47
quote his evil depraved the world of a great talent but Hannah's enduring gift to us all is that she enabled this
00:41:57
wicked man to be apprehended and convicted she did change the world he said but at
00:42:06
a terrible price Sue Graham also spoke she credited her daughter for her heroism she enabled
00:42:13
police to apprehend a serial rapist who had been hiding in plain sight in Charlottesville for years Jesse Matthews
00:42:22
showed no emotion during the sentencing at his trial yeah and here's the situation too like like I pointed out
00:42:30
you have to wonder if there's other victims here we do know that at one point that before Jesse Matthew was
00:42:38
apprehended before he was connected to the the murders of these two young women that there was suspicion because of
00:42:46
disappearances of other young women in and around this area between 2003 and afterward that there was
00:42:57
suspicion that there was a serial killer possible serial killer in the area and we do know that that came to be true
00:43:03
right because we have Jesse Matthew who killed two of the victims during that time period
00:43:12
oddly enough there was another man who was maybe equally as nasty as Jesse Matthew his name is Randy Taylor he was
00:43:22
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
00:43:31
unsolved cases of a missing young woman it's a very strange situation here Captain because this may indicate that
00:43:40
we have two active serial killers operating in the same area greater area at about the same time which is not
00:43:49
completely unheard of but it's very it's very unlikely it's very rare um the weird thing too with with Matthew
00:44:01
is he he had opportunities in his life we talked about his size this guy was a star athlete in high school and even
00:44:10
received a scholarship to play football at Liberty and it was we don't know when all of his
00:44:18
crimes started or all of his bad behavior started but he sent off to prison to serve what
00:44:26
is ultimately going to be a life sentence for consecutive life sentences No Doubt
00:44:33
so at the age of 32 in his early 30s you would think that he's going to be there
00:44:39
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
00:44:47
may die there sooner than any of us would have expected this is because into 2019 it was
00:44:53
announced that Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr have been transferred from the super max Red Onion prison to Sussex I State
00:45:03
Prison and Waverly Virginia it was later revealed in December of 2020 that Jesse
00:45:11
was no longer being held at that prison either but had become in and inpatient at Richmond hospital he was suffering
00:45:21
from stage four colon cancer now there have been very little updates as to his situation his
00:45:34
his ailment uh last I could find the there's no there's no mention or announcement of
00:45:41
his death and last I could find was that he was continuing treatment for cancer in 2001
00:45:50
late in 2001 since the sentencing and sending this monster off to life in prison
00:46:00
the monster that killed their daughter the harringtons Morgan's parents have become advocates
00:46:08
for the protection of women from predators Like Jesse Matthew they funded a scholarship at Virginia Tech in
00:46:14
Morgan's name and named a school in Africa after her they also funded and operate a non-profit safety advocacy
00:46:23
program called help save the next girl at the University of Virginia Hannah Graham's friends and family have endowed
00:46:32
scholarships and a memorial softball tournament named after her but of course in the end it's
00:46:40
not enough but I guess that that's all they have [Music] want to thank you guys for being the
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