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Victims of crimes cannot be blamed for their victimization

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A corrupt argument has circulated since the disappearance of our young student, Hannah Graham. The argument is that Graham might have averted the sad fate that we now presume, if only she’d behaved differently. Those who make this argument have their own characteristically narrow notion of how a young person should behave

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The corrupt argument has been heard many times before, and it is the source of a crippling guilt that lingers in the minds of many victims, long after a time of abuse

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There will be an appropriate time to consider whether a predator acted alone or if he was enabled or even encouraged by those around him. But for now, we must remember that Ms. Graham was, is, and will forever be innocent.
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http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/09/williams-free%20from%20blame
 
The Girls Who Were Taken Before Hannah Graham

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The woman was grabbed from behind as she was walking from a grocery store to a friend’s home in Fairfax, Virginia, on the night of September 24, 2005.
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When the police responded, she was able to help them prepare a sketch of that face she saw before everything went dark. Investigators were able to secure a sample of the man’s DNA, and they only needed to match it with somebody in the state database for the next step to be an arrest.

But there was no match
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The sample was entered into the database, and five years later it was matched with another sample, this from a case involving a 19-year-old student named Morgan Harrington
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On Monday, police in Charlottesville announced that they had “forensic evidence” linking Harrington’s murder—and therefore the Fairfax rape—to the prime suspect in the September 13 disappearance of 18-year-old Hannah Graham.

The suspect was Jesse Matthew, who is now behind bars, charged with abducting the still-missing Graham.
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Read more: http://www.970wfla.com/articles/national-news-104668/the-girls-who-were-taken-before-12814407
 
Police: Harrington, Graham cases linked

The arrest of Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. last week on a charge he abducted Graham provided &#8220;a forensic link&#8221; to the death of Morgan Harrington, the 20-year-old Virginia Tech student who went missing from outside John Paul Jones Arena on Oct. 17, 2009, state police said.

Her remains were discovered several months later, in January 2010 in an Albemarle County field. A forensic profile submitted by state authorities in the Harrington case matched the DNA profile of a man who sexually assaulted a woman in Fairfax City on Sept. 24, 2005, the FBI has said. However, authorities could not link that DNA profile to an identifiable suspect.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that a law enforcement source said authorities had obtained DNA evidence that links Matthew to Harrington. Matthew has not been charged in the Harrington case.

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&#8220;We&#8217;re relieved that justice for Morgan may be coming,&#8221; Dan Harrington told The Roanoke Times. He declined to elaborate on what the Harringtons have been told by police, saying &#8220;I think the focus needs to be on trying to find Hannah Graham.&#8221;

A second-year University of Virginia student, Graham, 18, has been missing since Sept. 13. Police said Matthew was the last person to be seen with her. The owner of the Tempo Restaurant in the Downtown Mall area said Matthew was seen early Sept. 13 walking away with his arm around Graham, who appeared incapacitated and was leaning on him for support.

Police first searched Matthew&#8217;s car and Hessian Hills apartment Sept. 19. They also searched the car he drove to Galveston, Texas, where he was arrested Wednesday.

Authorities have declined to discuss the results of forensic tests on clothing and other items seized from Matthew&#8217;s home and apartment. Deciphering DNA evidence can take as much as a few days to weeks or longer, forensic officials said.

http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/p...0e8-484e-11e4-b26d-0017a43b2370.html?mode=jqm
 
Parker Slaybaugh 8News

HANNAH GRAHAM BREAKING: Christopher Newport says in a statement regarding Jesse Matthew Jr. "Christopher Newport University has determined that there is a single file responsive to your inquiry regarding infractions against Matthew issued by University Police."
This means at one time an investigation was open into Matthew while he was a student there. The school will not say what the investigation was about, or if it was the reason he left the school after only 9 months.

https://twitter.com/Parker8News
 
Rick Boone &#8207;@RickBooneFOX5DC 50s50 seconds ago
Update:#HannahGraham Search Team says their using drones looking for the UVA student. @fox5newsdc

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Rick Boone @RickBooneFOX5DC · 41s 41 seconds ago
Stafford Co sheriff's office join the search for #HannahGraham. More than 100 miles searched. 3000 tips have come in @fox5newsdc

Rick Boone @RickBooneFOX5DC · 24s 24 seconds ago
Search for #HannahGraham first time the drones have been used to search for a person. @fox5newsdc

Rick Boone @RickBooneFOX5DC · 18s 19 seconds ago
Drones called a UAS are from Virginia Tech. It has camera's on board to fly over property very difficult for teams to reach @fox5newsdc

Rick Boone @RickBooneFOX5DC · 18s 18 seconds ago
12 teams now on the ground searching for #HannahGraham. A Fairfax County chopper is helping. @fox5newsdc

Rick Boone @RickBooneFOX5DC · 52s 53 seconds ago
Nothing found in the search for #HannahGraham so far. Checking NE Charlottesville right now. @fox5newsdc

Rick Boone @RickBooneFOX5DC · 6s 7 seconds ago
Some 55 crew members on the ground now looking for #HannahGraham.

Rick Boone @RickBooneFOX5DC · now
According to VA State Police. "This is the greatest search effort law enforcement ever seen" in the search for #HannahGraham @fox5newsdc

Rick Boone @RickBooneFOX5DC · 2m 2 minutes ago
Breaking: Chief Longo shows up at search team press conf. @fox5newsdc

Rick Boone @RickBooneFOX5DC · 47s 47 seconds ago
Chief Longo: #Jesse Matthew is not talking to police. Police will not say if his DNA is being tested @fox5newsdc

Rick Boone @RickBooneFOX5DC · 19s 20 seconds ago
Chief Longo:will not be at #JesseMatthew hearing Thur @fox5newsdc

Rick Boone @RickBooneFOX5DC · 1m 1 minute ago
Longo says he still feels #HannahGraham could be still alive @fox5newsdc
https://twitter.com/RickBooneFOX5DC
 
CNN interview with Hannah's softball coach "She was a special child"

[video=youtube;kf-1gj5re6g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf-1gj5re6g[/video]
 
Randy Taylor lawyer wants new DNA tests to check for Jesse Matthew link
Posted 10:08 am, October 2, 2014, by Nick Dutton, Web Staff and Laura French, Updated at 01:01pm, October 2, 2014

NELSON COUNTY, Va. — The attorney representing Randy Taylor, the man found guilty of murdering Alexis Murphy, wants investigators to check for a possible link between Hannah Graham abduction suspect Jesse Matthew Jr. and the missing Nelson County teen.
*Note: Until LE confirms a link, please discuss Randy Allen Taylor in the Randy Allen Taylor forum.

Forum: Randy Allen Taylor
 
Thread for discussion in Randy Allen Taylor forum.

Press Release: Nelson County Commonwealth Attorney's Office, 2 October 2014

Do not discuss here in Hannah Graham's forum.

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Randy Taylor's Lawyer: Test DNA for Potential Jesse Matthew Connection to Alexis Murphy
Updated: Thu 5:25 PM, Oct 02, 2014
By: Rachel Ryan - Email

Below is the full press release from Nelson Co. Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Anthony Martin:

The Nelson County Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney&#8217;s Office, the Nelson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, FBI and Virginia State Police again maintain that there is no credible evidence linking Jesse Leroy Matthew, Jr. for the abduction and murder of Alexis Murphy in which Randy Taylor was convicted.

Randy Taylor was the last known person to have had contact with Alexis Murphy on August 3, 2013 shortly before she went missing. All of the physical evidence at trial showing a violent struggle was located inside Randy Taylor&#8217;s camper. This physical evidence consisted of a diamond stud, a fingernail fragment, a long black hair that showed signs of being forcibly removed, all of which had Alexis Murphy&#8217;s DNA and were found on the floor of Randy Taylor&#8217;s camper and the hair was found on Randy Taylor&#8217;s pillow.

Alexis Murphy&#8217;s shattered cellphone was found in the brush outside Randy Taylor&#8217;s camper. The blue T-shirt that Randy Taylor was seen wearing at the Liberty gas station on August 3rd when he was seen talking with Alexis Murphy, was found under Randy Taylor&#8217;s sofa inside his camper. That shirt contained Alexis Murphy&#8217;s blood and had hair extensions and false eyelashes that had Alexis Murphy&#8217;s DNA and Randy Taylor&#8217;s DNA balled up inside the shirt.

Randy Taylor was then seen at Applebee&#8217;s Restaurant around 10:00 p.m. August 4th approximately 15 minutes after Alexis Murphy&#8217;s vehicle was seen pulling in the Carmike parking lot within walking distance of Applebee&#8217;s. Taylor then got a cab ride back to Nelson County, and refused to give authorities the name of the person who drove him down to Charlottesville that evening. The cab driver&#8217;s name was John Sapp who testified at trial.

Randy Taylor denied ever going to Liberty gas station on August 3rd and denied ever seeing Alexis Murphy. Only after authorities found forensic evidence, putting Alexis Murphy inside his camper, did Randy Taylor admit that Alexis Murphy was in his camper but was with a third person. According to Randy Taylor, the &#8220;black guy with cornrows&#8221; and Alexis Murphy left in separate vehicles and everything was fine.

Within days after Randy Taylor&#8217;s arrest for abduction of Alexis Murphy, Randy Taylor and Mr. Hallahan, his attorney, were 100% certain that the black male that Alexis Murphy left with was Dameon Bradley, a thin light-skinned black male, who drove a maroon Chevy caprice. Mr. Hallahan provided law enforcement with a photo of Dameon Bradley who looks absolutely nothing like Jesse Leroy Matthew, Jr. Dameon Bradley testified at Taylor&#8217;s trial that he did know Alexis Murphy and they were only friends and he worked at the McDonalds at the Liberty gas station which is a place that Randy Taylor frequented on a daily basis.

At no time did the name Jesse Leroy Matthew, Jr. ever come up by Randy Taylor or Mr. Hallahan until Mathew&#8217;s arrest in Hannah Graham several days ago.

Nelson County authorities have not received any information from investigators in the Jesse Leroy Matthew, Jr. case that links him in any way to the abduction and murder of Alexis Murphy. Some of the same investigators who worked the Alexis Murphy case are working with authorities in the Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington cases.

However, in order to dispel any further speculation, I will be meeting in the coming days with investigators in the Murphy case to address the concerns outlined in Mr. Hallahan&#8217;s recent letter.
Even though the evidence on Randy Taylor and Randy Taylor alone in the Alexis Murphy case is clear, the Commonwealth will make sure that scientific testing is done in order to bring closure to the speculation.

http://www.newsplex.com/home/headli...ntial-Jesse-Matthew-Connection-277932552.html

 
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