A previous report claims that Jesse Matthew was also questioned in the disappearance of another girl in 2002, and now police is claiming that “forensic evidence” belonging to Jesse Matthew matched evidence collected during an investigation of another Virginia Tech student who disappeared in 2009.
Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, 20, disappeared in October 2009. Her remains were found in January 2010 on a farm in Albemarle County, Virginia.
Police in Charlottesville, Virginia, have charged Matthew, 32, in the disappearance of Graham, who was last seen on Sept. 13 with Matthew. The case has shaken the college town in central Virginia and drawn national attention.
The station said the sources did not detail the forensic evidence, but said it showed that Harrington had contact with Matthew the night she disappeared outside the University of Virginia’s basketball arena in Charlottesville in October 2009.
In a statement emailed to Reuters, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said Matthew’s arrest last week “provided a significant break in this (Harrington’s) case with a new forensic link for state police investigators to pursue.”
