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| The man suspected in the abduction of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham was indicted Monday in connection with a 2005 sexual assault in Fairfax City. | |
| Jesse L. Matthew Jr., 32, of Charlottesville, was charged with attempted capital murder, abduction with intent to defile and sexual penetration of a 26-year-old woman on Sept. 24, 2005. | |
| Fairfax County prosecutor Ray Morrogh and Fairfax City police chief Karl Pardiny declined to discuss details of the case. | |
| “The victim is grateful to the lead detective,” Morrogh said. “He promised her he would never give up and he didn’t.” | |
| Morrogh said his office will file for a bench warrant on Thursday, seeking his extradition to Fairfax County to face charges. | |
| The fresh charges stem from an attack on a 26-year-old woman that occurred as she was walking home from a Giant on Jermantown Road on the night of Sept. 24, 2005. Police said the woman was grabbed from behind about 10 p.m. and carried from Rock Garden Drive to a nearby wooded area, where she was assaulted. The suspect then fled. | The fresh charges stem from an attack on a 26-year-old woman that occurred as she was walking home from a Giant on Jermantown Road on the night of Sept. 24, 2005. Police said the woman was grabbed from behind about 10 p.m. and carried from Rock Garden Drive to a nearby wooded area, where she was assaulted. The suspect then fled. |
| Law enforcement officials had previously announced a forensic link between the Fairfax City rape case and the 2009 disappearance of Morgan Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student who vanished after attending a concert on the U-Va. campus. Matthew has not been charged in that case. | Law enforcement officials had previously announced a forensic link between the Fairfax City rape case and the 2009 disappearance of Morgan Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student who vanished after attending a concert on the U-Va. campus. Matthew has not been charged in that case. |
| The development in Fairfax City comes two days after police announced that they had discovered remains believed to be Graham’s on an abandoned property in Albemarle County. Authorities said they are awaiting forensics tests from the Virginia medical examiner before definitively identifying the body. | The development in Fairfax City comes two days after police announced that they had discovered remains believed to be Graham’s on an abandoned property in Albemarle County. Authorities said they are awaiting forensics tests from the Virginia medical examiner before definitively identifying the body. |
| Virginia State Police announced that DNA evidence linked Harrington’s case to a sexual assault in Fairfax City in July 2010. At the time of the sexual assault in 2005, Fairfax City police released a composite sketch of the suspect. | Virginia State Police announced that DNA evidence linked Harrington’s case to a sexual assault in Fairfax City in July 2010. At the time of the sexual assault in 2005, Fairfax City police released a composite sketch of the suspect. |
| Police on Monday continued to search the area outside of Charlottesville where human remains were found on an abandoned property in a rural stretch of Albemarle County. The body was transported to the medical examiner’s office in Richmond, where forensics experts will determine the identity of the remains and a cause of death. | Police on Monday continued to search the area outside of Charlottesville where human remains were found on an abandoned property in a rural stretch of Albemarle County. The body was transported to the medical examiner’s office in Richmond, where forensics experts will determine the identity of the remains and a cause of death. |
| The vacant property, 12 miles southwest of Charlottesville, is about five miles from where police found Harrington’s body in a hay field. | The vacant property, 12 miles southwest of Charlottesville, is about five miles from where police found Harrington’s body in a hay field. |
| In September, the Virginia State Police announced that Matthew’s arrest in the Graham case had provided investigators with a “significant break” in the unsolved Harrington case, and that a “forensic link” tied the two cases together. Law enforcement officials told The Post that Matthew’s DNA was found during the course of the Harrington investigation in 2009. Police officials had said that the DNA was also connected to the Fairfax City rape in 2005. | In September, the Virginia State Police announced that Matthew’s arrest in the Graham case had provided investigators with a “significant break” in the unsolved Harrington case, and that a “forensic link” tied the two cases together. Law enforcement officials told The Post that Matthew’s DNA was found during the course of the Harrington investigation in 2009. Police officials had said that the DNA was also connected to the Fairfax City rape in 2005. |
| Matthew was arrested Sept. 24 in Galveston, Tex., after a nationwide manhunt. He was charged with abduction with intent to defile in Graham’s disappearance, indicating that police believe he planned to sexually assault her. | |
| Prosceutors in Lynchburg have said that Matthew was accused of an on campus rape at Liberty University in 2002; officials at Christopher Newport University in Newport News said that Matthew was accused of sexually assaulting a woman while he was a student there in 2003. |