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Reports: Jesse Matthew charged with murder of Hannah Graham

By WTOP Staff

UPDATE:
WASHINGTON – Jesse Matthew has been indicted on charges of first-degree murder and abduction with intent to defile in the disappearance and death of Hannah Graham, the Albemarle County commonwealth’s attorney says.

EARLIER:
WASHINGTON — Jesse Matthew has been charged with first-degree murder in the case of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, officials will announce Tuesday in Albemarle County,  Virginia, according to reports from WVIR and WTVR.

County police chief and prosecutor will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. where they are expected to announce that Matthew, 32, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Graham.

Matthew has already been charged with abduction with intent to defile in the Graham case, in nearby Charlottesville. The 18-year-old student disappeared from the downtown mall in September and was found dead in Albemarle County a few weeks later.

Police have said forensic evidence also connects Matthew to the 2009 disappearance and death of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, whose body was also found in the county.

Matthew is being held in Fairfax County in connection with a 2005 sexual assault.

Jesse Matthew’s family begged him to help find Hannah Graham

By Neal Augenstein
WASHINGTON — Family members of Jesse Matthew pleaded with him to help find Hannah Graham during the time police believed the University of Virginia student was still alive, "because she is someone's child." In a newly unsealed document dated Sept. 22, 2014, FBI special agent Robinson Blake detailed some of the evidence police had gathered against Matthew as they searched for Graham, who was last seen with Matthew in the early morning hours of Sept. 13, 2014.
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