Post by LadyBlue on Apr 22, 2017 23:18:22 GMT -5
Jesse Matthew to serve 4 life sentences for murders of Hannah Graham, Morgan Harrington
www.richmond.com/news/virginia/jesse-matthew-to-serve-life-sentences-for-murders-of-hannah/article_5c69b1a4-b7e6-50c6-b7bd-6f49ee64fe5e.html
Had the case gone to trial, prosecutors would have presented evidence and testimony that Harrington was intoxicated and had been seen by multiple witnesses attempting to hitchhike after leaving the concert; at one point, she was spotted standing on a bridge with her thumb out.
Authorities later recovered the shirt Harrington was wearing the night she disappeared; the shirt had human hair on it that matched DNA connected with the 2005 sexual assault case in Fairfax, according to the statement of facts about Harrington’s killing.
In addition to the human hair that ultimately helped authorities connect Matthew to both the 2005 case and the death of Graham, investigators found a dog hair on Harrington’s shirt, which tests revealed likely belonged to Matthew’s dog, Popcorn.
Witnesses would have testified that a man matching Matthew’s description was working as a taxi driver the night that Harrington went missing, and a dispatcher for the taxi company that Matthew worked for would have testified that Matthew was extremely difficult to reach that night.
The night before, Matthew told a customer that the taxi fare could be paid with sex acts instead of money, according to the statement of facts.
www.richmond.com/news/virginia/jesse-matthew-to-serve-life-sentences-for-murders-of-hannah/article_5c69b1a4-b7e6-50c6-b7bd-6f49ee64fe5e.html
Had the case gone to trial, prosecutors would have presented evidence and testimony that Harrington was intoxicated and had been seen by multiple witnesses attempting to hitchhike after leaving the concert; at one point, she was spotted standing on a bridge with her thumb out.
Authorities later recovered the shirt Harrington was wearing the night she disappeared; the shirt had human hair on it that matched DNA connected with the 2005 sexual assault case in Fairfax, according to the statement of facts about Harrington’s killing.
In addition to the human hair that ultimately helped authorities connect Matthew to both the 2005 case and the death of Graham, investigators found a dog hair on Harrington’s shirt, which tests revealed likely belonged to Matthew’s dog, Popcorn.
Witnesses would have testified that a man matching Matthew’s description was working as a taxi driver the night that Harrington went missing, and a dispatcher for the taxi company that Matthew worked for would have testified that Matthew was extremely difficult to reach that night.
The night before, Matthew told a customer that the taxi fare could be paid with sex acts instead of money, according to the statement of facts.
