Crime & Safety

Jesse Matthew Booked Into Fairfax County Adult Detention Center; Hearing Friday

Matthew, suspect in disappearance of UVA student Hannah Graham, faces charges in a 2005 Fairfax City case.

The suspect in the Hannah Graham disappearance, Jesse L. Matthew, Jr., was brought from Charlottesville last night to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where he will stay while waiting for a status hearing Friday at 9 a.m., a jail employee confirmed Wednesday morning.

The court hearing concerns an assault case that took place in 2005 in Fairfax City. In that case, Matthew has been charged with attempted capital murder, rape and abduction with intent to defile.

The Fairfax City victim was walking home from a grocery store the night she was grabbed and dragged into a wooded area. The assailant left her after being startled by a neighbor.

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According to the Daily Progress, Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh said the victim of the 2005 sexual assault, who is not currently in the country, will return to testify during trial.

Found under the fingernails of the victim in the incident, 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.

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The Fairfax County Adult Detention Center is located at 10520 Judicial Drive in Fairfax. Some news reports say Matthew is being held in a single cell. Single cell supervision is the “most restrictive and intensive type of inmate supervision,” according to the county. It provides “maximum safety and security for both inmates and staff by housing the inmates individually in cells.”

Deputies monitor inmates by patrolling corridors, which are arranged in a similar fashion to linear supervision. Single cell supervision assists deputies in working with the specific special needs of inmates.

Matthew’s attorney in Albemarle County, Jim Camblos, will serve as co-counsel in the Fairfax case. Judge Dennis Smith recently appointed Fairfax public defender Dawn Butorac as lead counsel.

Matthew did not enter a plea at the Oct. 31 hearing for the Fairfax case because he did not have time to consult with his new lead counsel. During the hearing, Camblos requested a psychiatric evaluation for his client. Another judge will consider that motion.

Matthew has been arrested in the unrelated abduction in September of Graham. The body of the University of Virginia student has since been recovered. Graham graduated from West Potomac High School in Fairfax County.

Shortly after Matthew’s arrest on abduction charges in the Graham case, Virginia State Police announced a ”forensic link” between Matthew and the 2009 murderof 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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PHOTO is Jesse Matthew and co-counsel Jim Camblos appearing Oct. 31 in Fairfax County Circuit Court via video.

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