The lead detective who stayed in touch with her regularly over the course of nine years and promised her hed never give up and he never did and i wouldnt expect less from him. So i think its fair to say that shes grateful that the case will go forward to whatever resolution it comes to. And back live here in charlottesville downtown mall area where Hannah Graham was last seen. Saturday they found human remains about 10 miles from this spot. Were still waiting to find out what the medical examiner is going to say. Certainly no new facts have come out about the case since that discovery. Were all waiting but to ease speculation weve been talk to a lot of people on twitter. I wanted to bring up some of those questions now. Mike mcgregor asked if there was any indication that Hannah Graham or Jesse Matthew were in the area where the human remains were found. Maybe there were pings from their cell phones. At this point the honest answer is we dont know. Police are not answering our question
Well explain why. Jesse matthew, the suspect in the Hannah Graham case, is indicted on charges related to a nearly decade old Fairfax County rape case. Im jan jeffcoat. Im derek mcginty. Tonight the 32yearold is either charged or linked to three area cases. The charges filed today include attempted capital murder, abduction and sexual penetration related to a Sexual Assault of a woman in fairfax in 2005. The then 26yearold victim was able to provide enough detailed description to yield that police sketch, one that years later would link matthew to the case of Morgan Harrington, the Virginia Tech student who vanished in charlottesville in october of 2009. Harrington was found dead the following january. Police say forensic evidence does link those two cases. So the former Liberty University student is charged with allegedly doing almost the same thing to graham only this time the victim lived to tell her story. Weve got our team of reporters tracking every angle of the Hannah Graham cas
Searching for missing student Hannah Graham. Hank silverman has more on todays developments. Good afternoon, hank. Reporter good afternoon, andre ya. Todays developments are this basically. We are waiting for the report from the medical examiner. Ive been told by the people at the medical Examiners Office that is not likely to happen today although it is possible. We will not get the report directly from them. It will go to the police who are in charge of the investigation. They vish add statement saying they are not issued a statement saying they are not going to have any news briefings. Theyll release something when and if they get a positive i. D. On Hannah Graham. Its also possible we will be told it is or isnt hannah and the rest of the report will not come out till later on. Sometimes these things can take weeks. Reason why were not just trying to identify the body. Theyre also trying to build a case against Jesse Matthew for when this goes to time as for the trial, goes to trial
Us that closure is out of grasp for so many. What are some of the things that destroy dna . Its going to be humidity and its going to be heat. And since the day she is gone, theres been at least four inches of rain in that area, if my calculations are correct, and theres at least six days where its been over 80 degrees. 25 days 70 or 80 degrees. So she is going tho be long gong. The trace evidence is going to be gone and whats left are the bones. And again, we are just waiting to get an id on those remains. I want to point out yesterday there was charges that came down against Jesse Matthew in connection with a 2005 sex assault and attempted murder. We are reported that there is a con firmed forensic link according to police between Jesse Matthew and the body of morgan harrington. That was the Virginia Tech student found murdered in 2009. One last thing, i did speak to the Nelson County Prosecutors Office today. Nelson county are the people looking into the disappearance of alexis murp
Remains, investigators will take the dirt several feet below. And as if anything could be more disturbing, were now learning this area is being scoured for more evidence than it could be a dumping ground for bodies. On charlottesville bridge, fliers of missing women remind us that closure is out of grasp for so many. In the wake of mondays fresh charges against Jesse Matthew for the 2005 rape and attempted murder of a woman in Fairfax County in 2005, we tried to reach out to people close to the 32yearold suspect. After fresh charges against Jesse Matthew, the suspect in the Hannah Graham disappearance, what do his Family Members have to say . Off camera, a man who lives with matthews family, also named jesse, says the elder matthew doesnt come out of the house much. And is grappling with how to process the mounting charges against his son. And the man is, too. Now police have confirmed there is a forensic link between Jesse Matthew and another person, morgan harrison. There have been n