Search and rescue teams continued to look in farm and wooded areas on ATVs in various parts of Albemarle County on Tuesday, including the Key West neighborhood off of Route 20."We're working up into the farmlands and the woods and the mountains, mostly private property today and responding to any type of investigative leads," said Virginia Department of Emergency Management Search and Rescue Coordinator Mark Eggman.
Investigators with the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office say they are revisiting the case of a 23-year-old Lynchburg woman who went missing in 2009 to look for any connection to Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr.Authorities have linked Matthew, 32, to three possible incidents of violence against women in the Central Virginia area spanning a period of more than a decade.“We’re just trying to rule [Matthew] out, and following up on this possibility just like any other lead,” said Capt. Billy Crowe of the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office.Cassandra Morton’s body was f...
Police say they are going back to square one in the Graham case by going back over information and reviewing surveillance. Police say they are desperately searching for more video surveillance that shows Matthew, Graham, or both of them together. They are not just looking for footage from cameras in the downtown Charlottesville area. Police can only track Matthew and Graham up to 1:40 a.m. on September 13 on the downtown mall in Charlottesville.Police say more than 3,000 tips have come in to help investigators but police still need to know where Matthew and Graham went from the downtown mall. ...
... Reports about the 32-year-old lifelong local, who worked at UVA hospital helping transport patients to surgery, have painted conflicting pictures. Eyewitness accounts from the night Graham disappeared gathered by local radio news host Coy Barefoot describe him as aggressively physical, especially with women he met in downtown bars Blue Light Grill and Tempo in the hours before he was seen with Graham.
Virginia police aren’t saying much about their evidence against a suspect in the disappearance of a University of Virginia student, but they seem to be working systematically to link his DNA to an expanding circle of attacks on women, a criminal-defense expert suggested yesterday.Between searches of Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr.’s car and apartment and his arrest on a charge of abducting Hannah Graham last week, police had ample opportunity to obtain genetic evidence connecting him to multiple attacks, said Steve Benjamin, past president of the National Association of Criminal Defe...
The campus of Randolph Macon College was lit by the flicker of candles as hundreds gathered to pray, sing, and remember missing University of Virginia student, Hannah Graham. The college said that the vigil was held to "show support for Hannah and her family and to raise awareness for women's safety." Several speakers spoke about ways to prevent crime from happening right here on their campus.
A police spokesman said there is "no indication" that the man suspected in the abduction of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham is connected to the disappearance of a Newport News woman, but added the case is being reviewed by a special victims unit.Newport News Police made the statement Tuesday after being asked about the case of Sophie May Rivera, 31, who vanished after being last seen at her home Sept. 7, 2003. That's within the time frame of Jesse L. Matthew Jr.'s attendance at Christopher Newport University and five days before leaving CNU’s football team....
... In 2009, the then 27-year-old was accused of following a driver he thought had cut him off, then punching the man in the face twice and taking his phone near a convenience store. Strangely, that driver also claims Matthew actually drove him to the hospital after the confrontation.Additionally, Matthew was found guilty of trespassing in 2010 at the now closed Bucks Auto Repair after he was asked to leave four times.
A phone call from the Virginia State police to the mother of 20-year-old murder victim Morgan Harrington provided a break she'd long been waiting for -- a forensic clue had linked her daughter to the suspect in the disappearance of another college student, Hannah Graham.
Threats are in a class of unprotected speech, and Elonis v. United States will examine the current standard that determines whether speech is a true threat.“It seems as though the Roberts court has never met a First Amendment case it didn’t like,” said Leslie Kendrick, a University of Virginia Law School professor.Exaggerations and idle threats are prevalent on the Internet, and qualifying speech as a threat based on the perceptions of others, as the Elonis case did, could have a “cooling effect” on free speech, the experts said.“Arguably, they’ve deci...
U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright says poetry has been the pivot around which his life has turned for 50 years.Wright tells The Daily Progress (http://bit.ly/1uwcC2Z ) that poetry focuses his questions and longing about things.Wright calls himself a visual poet. He says everything that he writes almost always starts with something he sees.
Bruce Holsinger is a professor in the English Department of the University of Virginia who specializes in the medieval period.So when he decided to write a novel, he set it during the reign of Richard the Second, with Geoffrey Chaucer as one of his main characters.The result, “A Burnable Book, ” was released in paperback this month.We revisit the conversation Here & Now’s Robin Young had with Holsinger.
Nevertheless, showing independence from his party has upside, even in a safe election, said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia."Sen. Coons is skating to a second term so he has no electoral worries in any event," Sabato said. "But these moves show a bit of independence at a moment when many voters say they want bipartisanship and compromise."And the risk of alienating fellow Democrats is small, Sabato says, since Coons is touting a minor change to Obamacare, not advocating for sweeping revisions or repeal of the law.
The following is a guest post by political scientist Sonal S. Pandya of the University of Virginia....As Modi makes the rounds in New York and Washington this week, he needs to persuade weary U.S. business and political leaders that he has the vision and skill to transform India. Back home, Modi still needs to persuade weary Indians that FDI is necessary to transform India for the better.
The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) was honored today at the Concordia Summit with the prestigious P3 Impact award for its CocoaLink mobile phone program in Ghana.... Given by The University of Virginia Darden School of Business' Institute for Business in Society, Concordia, and the U.S. Department of State Secretary's Office of Global Partnerships, the P3 Impact Award was created to recognize and honor the examples of public-private partnerships (P3) that have had the greatest impact on improving communities and the world. The award recognizes the best practices and actionable insights in...
They both were walking alone, separated from their friends late at night on or near the University of Virginia campus. One was found dead nearly five years ago. The other is still missing.And now police believe they have found a link between the 2009 slaying of Morgan Harrington and the Sept. 13 disappearance of British-born Hannah Graham: Forensic evidence found in the arrest of a hospital worker and former taxi driver who fled the state when he learned police wanted to question him about the Graham case.... Clint Van Zandt, a former FBI profiler, said he was struck by the similarities betwee...
Evidence uncovered in the case of Hannah Graham has triggered “a significant break” in another case that has haunted Charlottesville for five years, state police said Monday.... As investigators seized on Harrington’s case with renewed vigor Monday, search crews planned to comb a wooded area behind the yellow vinyl-sided home on Ponderosa Trail that Matthew once shared with his mother. It was at least the third trip neighbors remembered authorities making to the winding path off Old Lynchburg Road just south of the Rivanna Rifle and Pistol Club.
... Police and other law enforcement officials would not disclose what evidence they have collected, how it is related to Matthew, or how it might be linked to Harrington’s case.But any connection between Harrington’s disappearance and Graham’s could indicate what many in the U-Va. community have feared: that an attacker has preyed on at least two young, vulnerable women near the state’s flagship public college campus.Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy J. Longo said Monday that it would be inappropriate for him to comment on the developments: “My focus is findin...
The Campbell County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the possibility that the man charged with abducting University of Virginia student Hannah Graham earlier this month was involved in the 2009 homicide of a Campbell County woman.Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., 32, faces a charge of abduction with intent to defile in the disappearance of Graham, an 18-year-old second-year University of Virginia student who was last seen Sept. 13 in Charlottesville.Campbell County Sheriff Steve Hutcherson said Tuesday that the Sheriff’s Office is “taking a closer look” at whether Matthew...