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The night Jesse Matthew met and killed Hannah Graham

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Newly released court documents detail the movements and actions of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham and Jesse Matthew — who pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering Graham and Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington — the evening the two met on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall.

In the statement of facts, prosecutors and Matthew’s defense lawyers agree Matthew inappropriately touched and harassed several women in mall bars on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, before he saw Graham walking alone on the mall shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday.

In a plea agreement, Matthew pleaded guilty to first degree murder and abduction with intent to kill in the 2009 death of Morgan Harrington, and the same charges in connection with Graham’s 2014 death.

Matthew was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences, added to the three life sentences he received for the 2005 rape and attempted murder of a woman in Fairfax, Virginia.

As part of the agreement, prosecutors agreed to not try Matthew for capital murder in Graham’s death, which could have resulted in the death penalty.

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

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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