DNA in Fairfax Assault Linked to Jesse Matthew: Report

An analysis of DNA evidence in the 2005 sexual assault of a Fairfax woman has confirmed a connection to Jesse L. Matthew Jr., the suspect indicted last month.

Matthew has been arrested in the unrelated abduction in September of Hannah Graham. The body of the University of Virginia student has since been recovered.

Last month, prosecutors announced Matthew’s indictment on charges related to the local incident. In 2005, a 26-year-old woman was walking home when she was forced into a wooded area near Rock Garden Drive and sexually assaulted. The perpetrator fled.

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Found under the fingernails of the victim in the incident, the DNA evidence was analyzed after the charges were filed last month. Virginia Department of Forensic Science’s found there was an incredibly slim chance the DNA belonged to anyone but Matthew, according to The Washington Post.

• Read more of The Washington Post report.

Shortly after Matthew’s arrest on abduction charges in the Graham case, Virginia State Police announced a ”forensic link” between Matthew and the 2009 murder of Morgan Harrington, a college student killed while visiting Charlottesville for a concert.

The FBI has previously linked Harrington’s death to the 2005 sexual assault in Fairfax.

Matthew was arrested in Texas on Sept. 24. He had fled Charlottesville after being identified as the last person to see Graham alive Sept. 13.

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