Missing From UVA : Hannah Elizabeth Graham
Charlottesville, VA- Second year University of Virginia student Hannah Graham texted her friends last Saturday morning at approximately 1:20 AM- saying she was lost in the area of Wertland Street.
She has not been heard from since. According to Charlottesville Police Captain Gary Pleasants, it is believed Ms. Graham was intoxicated at the time of her disappearance and may have been on her way to a party but did not arrive.
In recently released images of Graham leaving her apartment at approximately 9:30PM Friday evening, she is shown wearing black skinny pants and a gold and black mesh crop-top, beige shoes or sneakers.
Ms. Graham’s disappearance is not related to a 2013 teen runaway from Indiana with the same name.
The disappearance of Ms. Graham comes on the heels of the recently adjudicated murder trial of Alexis Murphy , the disappearance on the same date as Ms. Graham in 2010 of Samantha Clark and of the course the unsolved murder of Morgan Harrington, who disappeared from John Paul Jones arena in October 2009 and later found murdered in January 2010 on Anchorage Farm in Albemarle County.
In Ms. Harrington’s case, the DNA profile and sketch of the suspect in her murder as well as a rape in Fairfax county in September 2005 was released, but he has not been identified by name or captured.
Harrington Murder Suspect Sketch
Ms. Murphy’s remains have never been recovered and Ms. Clark is still missing, also believed to also be a victim of Randy Allen Taylor, currently serving a life sentence for Murphy’s kidnapping and murder.
Hannah Graham is described as 5’11 tall, with light brown hair and blue eyes. Police are asking anyone with information regarding her disappearance to call the Charlottesville Police Department at 434-970-3280 or CrimeStoppers at 434-977-4000.
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I think the comparison of Lenny in Of Mice and Men is spot on.
This is very interesting…
From a WVTF article (link below). Talks about an altercation he got into during a road rage incident when he was driving a cab. The man who was punched didn’t want to talk but the journalist explains the story. Click the link and hit the play button to hear the story. http://wvtf.org/post/charlottesville-journalist-sheds-light-jesse-matthew#.VCGPoObs3Bk.facebook
“Jesse Matthew, who’s wanted for questioning in connection with the disappearance of UVA student Hannah Graham, is still missing, and he’s become the subject of considerable talk in the town where he grew up. Police say he has no record of violent crime, but reporter Hawes Spencer has been asking around and has come up with some intriguing information. We talked with Spencer about one particular incident.
Thanks Grace for the possibility that his car was nearby. However, I also had other thoughts regarding the choice of the restaurant. I thought maybe he would get her a little more drunk while waiting for someone else to arrive for transporting them both to a place other than his apartment. A prime suspect in my mind would be the white guy that also noticed Hanna.
Lindsay, you are right about the recognition of black people by whites. Unless one has experience with them, it is difficult to properly identify them. To many whites, all black people look alike which is very false.
The Food Lion is a place where cab drivers working the area around UVA park while awaiting to be dispatched for a pickup.
Oh, geez. If VaMahi thoughts are on point this could be a big break. Maybe there are connections and if very carefully handled, this could truly Help Save the Next Girl. I’m thinking of the JPJ arena and the hired cars waiting for riders outside too. Not just cabs, but hired drivers as well. Whatever, women are being brutally murdered by someone (s) that enjoys this. They can never be forgiven.
I’ve always questioned the DNA thing with sketch. I hope those questions are answered.
The cleft under LJ’ nose and below his bottom lip are eerily the same as what sketch’s victim described to police. Is this the same person, or a relative?
Could the murderer satisfy his own wants and needs enabled with separate connections to other crimes and criminals …. kind of skimming from the top? Yes, I think so.
What’s the difference here? Apparently there has been only correct information given in this investigation – not, she’s a run away – she does this often, she’ll find a ride, no signs of a struggle (with her purse and belongings strewn on the ground), etc. But, the biggest difference is WHERE ARE THE VIDEOS at JPJ arena?
Re: The clothes he is wearing that night, here is a direct quote to the video showing JM on the DTM, following HG.
‘That’s definitely him!’ one close friend said. ‘He is always wearing those dumb shorts.’
Per NBC29 Twitter Feed: BREAKING: #UVA tells @HenryGraff #JesseMatthew has been suspended without pay as a result of the criminal charge filed last night. This is proof that JM was still employeed by UVA (Presumably as a OR Patient Transporter, as earlier reported). It should be noted that UVA Hospital Transporters are required to wear scrubs therefore JM is not dressed in work attire while on the Down Town Mall, he is dressed in “dumb shorts” that “He is always wearing” per one of his close friends.
Is it possible they have his DNA linking him to fairfax victim and morgan but don’t want to alarm the public? Apologies in advance for my severe case of tunnel vision in this case and its possible connection to morgan. More maybe the fairfax victim saw him on the news and recognized him as her attacker and called Charlottesville pd to inform them?
I am so inspired how this community is coming together for Heather and her family. This was posted on an FB site:
https://www.facebook.com/FindHannahGraham?fref=nf
LJ,
From one former football player to another. Please do the right thing and either call the police with your location or have someone drive you to the nearest PD and turn yourself in. You and I both know we are taught at an early age that in the game of football we sometimes get knocked down. However, our coaches always instructed us to pick ourselves up and move on to the next play. I’m asking you to do just that. Hannah’s family needs to know where their precious daughter is. Please help them find her. I understand you are an assistant coach at Covenant. Think how devastated those young men are right now. They looked up to you and for some you were probably their hero. You can show them the difference between right and wrong. LJ. you can do this. Hannah, her parents, and those young men are all depending on you right now. Please put an end to all this.
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http://m.nbc12.com/nbc12/index.htm
Prosecutor is saying there is no link between the person RAT implicated and Jesse Matthew.
Letter posted on FB from Commonwealth Attorney for Nelson County saying there is no connection between JLM and Alexis Murphy case.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=716843805069797&id=367858913301623
Post Script: …as for LJ’s cabbie days….easy way to lure inebriated young women. Know what I’m sayin?
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FriendLY- heart u, just behind is all. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
B
It just times like this that we could have used “ReadtheHook.” Hawes Spencer was always very thorough. Who doe she write for now, if at all?
It has been reported that Hannah was turned away from McGrady’s Irish pub by the doorman. Do most of the establishments in the area check id’s at the door? And does Tempo not have a doorman? Maybe this played a part in the choice to go into Tempo.
I’d hazard a guess that someone working inside Tempo has been scrutinized by LE as well as by management in regards to the under age drinking on the premises. That’s a big no no if one wants to keep their license.
It seems so strange to me that a predator, serial or not, would find themselves on video and in a public place with an intended victim. Was he highly intoxicated too, or just too comfortable in the area? Makes me go hmmmm?
VaMahi what I find interesting ,if true ,is the report the he purchased a BOTTTLE of alcohol. I waitressed for years .a customer purchasing a bottle at closing time is very rare,.i think it might be against liquor laws in certain jurisisdictions.the two times( in all my years )
I saw it happen ,the bartender had to get special permission from the manager, and it was a special courtesy to a regular, or a friend of the owner ,or someone who had just dropped a big wad of money. S0 I agree ; tempo needs to be called out.to some degree.
From watching the video and seeing the path HG took that night, it appears that she had a destination in mind. Some say she appeared drunk and/or lost. I don’t see that at all. She never backtracked, made u-turns, or took out of the way roads. It seems she knew where she was headed. What if Tempo had nothing to do with JM? Could Tempo have been the place that HG was headed to all along? Blink mentioned that HG posted about being high on FB before. Then something about a staff member(s) at Tempo involved in possible dealings. MAYBE an employee at Tempo was HG’s hookup. MAYBE JM just went along with her, bought some drinks and then he offered HG a ride. LE reports say they only spent 15 minutes at the bar. Who only spends 15 minutes at a bar? Perhaps HG knew to order a drink so it didn’t seem suspicious to other employees what she was really there for. Why haven’t the videos of the Tempo and the car been released yet? Maybe employee(s) are being questioned as to what went down in those 15 minutes and it’s evident on the video?
Hawes Spencer – I meant “he” not she
Hawes Spencer and Coy Barefoot have been all over this. Coy is a local Libertarian reporter/jounalist who shoots straight on everything. He’s immersed in the C’ville scene. He has a story coming out sometime this afternoon on his website insidechralottesville, where he has interviewed people that were on the mall and saw Hannah and JM together, people who were with JM before the incident and people inside Tempo during the time the two were there. He’s also said that he has an exclusive interview with someone who saw the two of the together at a new time of 1:40 a.m. It will be interesting to see what he’s got.
Susanm, that’s interesting, hadn’t heard about the whole bottle. Also interesting, or maybe it’s not, Tempo which is usually open on Mondays, was closed this Monday. Haven’t heard anything more on that, but thought it was strange.
I wannah know -where’s Hannah-was he swiggin while diggin, where’s the bottle ,in the woods with Hannah? What’s the profile method of a severly drunk mo? Special teams-who or what will make them give up the locations.
This same Commonwealth’s Attorney in Charlottesville has had an interesting year. He was embroiled in the middle of the Elizabeth Daly case, where this UVA student was surrounded by multiple ABC agents, all over a purchase of sparkling water. and cookie dough. Needles to say there was a $40 million lawsuit filed which has just been settled within the past months. This was a huge national debacle with Virginia citizens outraged on the facebook of this ABC unit and in the news. ABC who had surrounded her car, jumped on the hood, attacked her window trying to break it out with flashlights, then filed a felony arrest warrant against her to cover their shame and embarrassment when they found out all of this was over water. It took this Commonwealth Attorney in Charlottesville quite a number of months to figure out that the false felony charge should not be prosecuted. This is what we are dealing with. CA came to the right conclusion, but taking many months to do so.
Also bear in mind that the Virginia governor and first lady have just been convicted of multiple counts of corruption, corruption is finally being recognized as a problem in Virginia, and if there has been any police corruption in covering up these Cville abductions in the past several years, with close connections to LE leaking details to keep people in the clear, we are all hoping that some of this corruption among shadow law enforcement and those individuals close to law enforcement will be quickly outted.
Also— the big controversy in the above Elizabeth Daly case was that this UVA student “should have known” that the sketchy biker looking hoods who were ABC undercover who jumped on her car in a dusk parking lot, and attempted to detain her were actually LE. This was actually the Virginia ABC position for a long while, that this young woman should have just gone along with these sketchy looking people who wanted to detain her. Instead she rode away and got the felony, which the same Cville CA dithered and dallied about dismissing for fear of offending LE and ABC.
This did just happen btw, and one has to wonder if some people are dealing with reality in Charlottesville.
I saw somewhere Matthew’s roommates had moved out. Do you know anything about them or his girlfriend (who grandma mentioned)? Do you think they are volunteering any information?
Yes
B
VaMahi, I do agree with your theory on the oddness of Tempo as their hangout of choice… looking online at “le Menu” seems a bit too stuffy for a college sophomore to have a drink in with her dreadlock “friend”…there is something odd about that choice, this whole damn thing is odd….all of it…
If C-PD found some reason to search granny’s,
and or hold a family member as an accessory
after the fact, say the car owner, he’d show up fast enough.
I can understand the 15 minutes at Tempo’s bar as a situation in which Hannah was trying to get somewhere (home, the shuttle, the party her friends were at) and was approached by a suitor who wanted to hang out or get drinks. If she declined, I could easily see him saying, “C’mon. Let me buy you a drink. Just one. It won’t take long.” And maybe after walking around town for a while, she felt like she could use a quick break from walking and acquiesced to his request. One drink and they’re out. I did see some comment about drinks plural which could mean they did shots, or maybe that JLM drank a few drinks which people sometimes do to “catch up with” an already intoxicated friend/person.
The choice of Tempo could be for a number of reasons. My first thoughts about reasoning behind the choice were: To impress a young lady he’s trying to convince to “hang out” with him; To build up trust by demonstrating that he goes to and fits in at a classy place like Tempo; that he knew someone that worked there who wouldn’t card Hannah if she was with JLM.
? She was headed to buy something? The (two men) or just JL were expecting and watching for her to escort her to the seller? That’s ok too ………. we would know then where a supplier was and blow them all out of the water too. Maybe get the DEA there for that … catch the person that claimed Hannah as his prize … and let them all screw each other over!
Sorry if this question has already been answered, but how could police not know where JM is? If they were following and keeping an eye on him, why did they stop after he came by the station? Do you think they know where he is but are just trying to rattle him to do something stupid like lead them to more evidence? Just confused by how he has not been seen since the weekend.
Thanks!
I listened to insidecharlottesville … I didn’t hear the ‘new’ 1:40 time person. I didn’t hear why. Maybe a washroom run for me. But, a new conference is called for 7:00pm EST – 6:00pm, my time. New information will be released. I pray it’s good news.
@Lyndsay and others:
I think the original Sketch (by hand) looks SO much more like JM than the later computerized renderings (with and without beard). The guy is distinctly chubby cheeked and young looking in the original sketch from 2005.
Gosh, I feel so strange to be here again, and so sad that this has happened again in C’ville. I recall saying in one of my original posts related to Morgan that cab drivers were known to hang out behind Dragon Lady and Foods of All Nations! I drove over there one day in 2009 and there was a yellow cab idling. It seemed so possible that her abductor was a professional driver.
Innocent until proven guilty.
Come forward JM and speak if you’re innocent.
By the way, regarding comments made about the downtown mall, it’s just a place people work, shop, and hang out. It isn’t strange or macabre. It is home to anyone who lives in C’ville. If you were in a large city, you would find all kinds of people on a two or three block strip, and in a way that’s true of the mall. There are similar pedestrian strips all over the world.
My gut tells me RAT is connected to the county girls (Orange and Nelson are where he lived and are very rural) while JM may be connected to the UVA/town girls. He lived in town (just outside the city/county border) and apparently also lived in southern Albemarle too–not exactly in the Red Hill area but close enough to have connections and to know it well.
Has everyone seen this photo of JM from 2007?
http://wvtf.org/post/person-interest-named-charlottesville-investigation
What a stylistic switch (clothing, hair, etc.) from then to now.
Thanks for the heads up on the radio/video site VaMahi. It appears to be an interesting one.
The young woman in front of the old B battery radio in the site banner could have been me in front of our 1928 Everready B battery, AM only radio, on a Sunday afternoon listening to the New York Philharmonic orchestra in the early 1930s. All those old radios had fine wood cabinets and 15″ speakers with tubes a foot high on bases larger than that of present day light bulbs. Our cabinet was burled elm. The super hetrodyne radio design didn’t appear until 1934.
There is some reason that the french restaurant was closed on Monday. Perhaps searching for DNA or a drug connection.
Re Tempo, definitely sounds feasible that they went there for a reason – lots of restaurant workers (even high end ones and sometimes even more so in the fancier ones) take drugs, distribute etc. however Tempo would also have been in their natural ‘path’ – the bars get fewer and farther between towards that end of the mall and Tempo is on the south side where they were walking. It is around the corner so less foot traffic than some of the other bars they would have passed like Commonwealth which is directly on the mall and not a side street. Have they released info in where JM’s car was parked on the mall? It seems like that might be helpful for getting witnesses to speak up about seeing her get in his car, but maybe they don’t want to ‘lead’ witnesses?
Labpawsx12 says:
September 24, 2014 at 12:52 pm
From watching the video and seeing the path HG took that night, it appears that she had a destination in mind. Some say she appeared drunk and/or lost. I don’t see that at all. She never backtracked, made u-turns, or took out of the way roads.
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If you look at the videos, you can see her walking past McGrady’s Pub, and some time later, backtracking and reappearing on screen near the pub’s outdoor area. On that same video she appears to stumble and be unsteady on her feet. She then leaves the pub and goes in the opposite direction (backtracking).
Thank Goodness!!! He’s been arrested, found in Louisiana, never been soooo excited!
NBC News (9) says LJ has been arrested ………….
Correct, he is in custody
B
I didn’t check out their colleagues, but wtvr’s Live Stream of Press Conference was
the easiest to access & view I have experienced from any TV media wrt live
briefings.
per briefing: a Galveston Sheriff’s Deputy took him in to custody.
Just saw the press conference. Apprehended in Texas.
Arrested in Galveston, Texas. I wonder if he was trying to make his way to Mexico?
My understanding is that he was arrested by the Galveston County Sheriff’s Dept. here in Texas. I am so proud of them!!
Here is the local Texas paper carrying the news
http://www.galvestondailynews.com/free/article_f075608c-4446-11e4-a2af-001a4bcf6878.html
http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/crime-courts/article/Suspect-in-missing-UVA-student-s-abduction-5778791.php?cmpid=bna
Jessi Mathews has been arrested in Galveston, Texas this afternoon. How he managed to get that far is amazing. Probably by taking the back roads and using self-service gas stations at small towns on the route.
Depending on what roads he traveled, he could have used Texas hwy. 87 from Port Arthur which would have forced him to use the ferry from Port Boliver to Galveston. That would be a perfect place to stop him. There should be a news report from the C’ville police giving some of the details.
Correction about the location. He was arrested at Gilchrist, a small beach town on hwy 87 East of Port Boliver. He was found by a sheriff’s deputy probably from Chambers county, Texas. He never made it to Galveston.
I thought he was captured in Galveston, TX. Curious what took him there? Also, would love to see if he’d changed his appearance. Knock knock… Where’s Lady Blink when you want to hear from her?
Correction, it was Galveston, Texas, not Louisiana. Our local station broke the news as that state by mistake.
Found on a beach, this is a Houston channel.
http://abc13.com/news/suspect-in-student-disappearance-arrested-in-galveston/321945/
http://wvtf.org/post/charlottesville-journalist-sheds-light-jesse-matthew