Graham Suspect Indicted in 2005 Rape Case; Sources: Teen's Blood on Ferguson Cop's Gun, Car, Uniform
BURNETT: The prime suspect in the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham indicted for sexual assault. A grand jury has just indicted Jesse Matthew in a rape from 2005. The charges, though, very importantly include attempted murder and abduction. The case against Matthew is growing. He has been forensically linked to the case of another dead young woman, Morgan Harrington, a Virginia Tech student who vanished from Charlottesville in 2009. And now, officials are looking at him in a possible suspect in four other unsolved cases in Virginia. This comes as police found a skull and bones scattered just eight miles from where Hannah Graham was last seen. Jean Casarez is OUTFRONT from Charlottesville tonight. And, Jean, did the Hannah Graham case and what they have now found help bring this new indictment for another rape today?</s>JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, the commonwealth attorney was asked that question and he said yes, that the Hannah Graham case did help. Now, we know when they collected all the evidence, from the car, in the apartment of Jesse Matthew, it is easy to get DNA of Jesse Matthew, through a cup or a straw, and he had never been convicted of a felony. Furthermore, there is a living alleged victim in Fairfax City, Virginia, that was able to potentially ID who her perpetrator was. Now, it is so different here in Charlottesville. Day and night, crime scene investigators are processing a makeshift grave.</s>CASAREZ (voice-over): It has been every day for five weeks, searching for missing UVA student Hannah graham. On Saturday, everything came to an abrupt halt.</s>CHIEF TIMOTHY LONGO, CHARLOTTESVILLE POLICE DEPT.: A search team from the Chesterfield County Sheriff's Department was searching an abandoned property along old Lynchburg Road in Southern Albemarle County when they discovered what appears to be human remains.</s>SGT. DALE TERRY, CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VIRGINIA SHERIFF'S OFFICE: Something just inside me, told me, just continue to look.</s>CASAREZ: Sergeant Dale Terry was part of the search team that made the grim discovery about 10 miles away from the UVA campus. A skull and bones scattered across the creek bed, along with a pair of tight dark colored pants. No hair, no flesh. Pants, much like the one Hannah Graham was wearing when she went missing on September 13th. The development quickly became a difficult reality for investigators.</s>LONGO: The Detective Sergeant James Mooney of the Charlottesville Police Department made a very difficult phone call and reached out to John and Susan Graham to share with them this preliminary discovery.</s>CASAREZ: It was just last week that Hannah's parents pleaded for anyone to help them find their daughter.</s>SUSAN GRAHAM, HANNAH'S MOM: We appeal to you to come forward and tell us where Hannah can be found.</s>CASAREZ: Now, authorities may have found her, but it will take forensic experts to confirm it is the 18-year-old UVA sophomore.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Full decomposition down to skeletalization can occur as soon as three weeks. So, 35 days, I'm not surprised. They expected it.</s>CASAREZ (on camera): The scene continues to be processed right up there by investigators. We are in the southern part of the county, Albemarle County, right outside the city of Charlottesville. And if you go up that road for four miles, what you'll find is the house that Jesse Matthew used to live in with his mother. (voice-over): This is house that Matthew lived in for with six years, according to his neighbors.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: His mother talked a lot and she seemed to be a real nice person. She wanted to stay out here to try to keep him away from the city, away from the gangs.</s>CASAREZ: But as Jesse Matthew sits in the county jail for the abduction of Hannah Graham, he could be facing a lot more trouble than the gangs of Charlottesville.</s>CASAREZ: And law enforcement tells me they will continue processing the scene for as long as it takes. It could be at a minimum on Thursday, that they could be finished. And then, Erin, there is so much more to do, because with the chief medical examiner, number one, they have to identify these remains through DNA. And number two, the cause and the manner of death, and then those black pants that they did find at the scene, they've got to see if there is any foreign DNA of the perpetrator that may have caused Hannah -- the alleged victim here to lose her life.</s>BURNETT: Jean Casarez, thank you so much. And OUTFRONT now, retired FBI profiler, Jim Clemente. And, Jim, let me start with this question of whether this is Hannah. They said they found a skull and scattered bones but no hair and no flesh. The remains were found 35 days after Hannah Graham was last spotted. Is it possible that this isn't her? That this is too far of a state of decomposition?</s>JIM CLEMENTE, RETIRED FBI PROFILER: Well, it is possible it is another victim or some random body. The chances are pretty good. I mean, offenders can accelerate that skeletalization process by putting the body in a stream, which then, if it rained, you know, it could have been much more activity. Could have removed the skin and so forth from the bones. But the offender himself could have used some type of acid to get rid of the flesh and hair.</s>BURNETT: To try to hide his tracks. Let me ask you a question, though, about where there was. The remains were found ten mile from her Hannah Graham was last seen. I want to show you a map just to lay the groundwork here. So, everyone, as you can see, 10 miles from where Hannah Graham was last seen, four miles from Jesse Matthew once lived, five miles from where Morgan Harrington was found. Matthew has been linked by forensic evidence to Morgan Harrington's disappearance. She went missing outside UVA in 2009. You study serial killers, Jim. Is there any significance that you see when you look at these distances?</s>CLEMENTE: Well, actually, this looks like a fairly classic example of what a serial killer might, and that is, they move the person away from the abduction site to a place where they have more privacy and control. That could be a remote area, an abandoned house, a place they can pull their car off the road without being seen. And then when they kill the person, they want to distance themselves from the body. And typically, they'll go away from the abduction site. Not towards the abduction site when they dispose of the body. In this case, it looks like this was a fairly good disposal site, because it was located behind an abandoned house and in a stream bed. Although there isn't active concealment, it is a very difficult place to find.</s>BURNETT: All right. Jim Clemente, thank you. Of course, we're waiting to see. And of course, the hope that that would not be Hannah. We're awaiting those final forensic results. Well, the city of Ferguson, Missouri, is now bracing for a violent protests because there is new evidence that could acquit the officer who shot unarmed teen, Michael Brown. Law enforcement sources tell CNN that Brown's blood was found on the gun, uniform and car belonging to Officer Darren Wilson. This new evidence may support Wilson's account. OK, that account was that he fired in self-defense. That Brown had approached him at the car and attacked him. Sara Sidner is OUTFRONT.</s>SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the new normal in Ferguson, protests night and day for the past 73 days. Their number one demand? Justice. To them that means the indictment and arrest of Officer Darren Wilson who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown August 9th. Tensions are high again after new details about the investigation were leaked by a federal source to "The New York Times", indicating forensic evidence may mean potential civil rights charges are unlikely. U.S. law enforcement sources told CNN, Brown's blood was found on the Wilson's gun, inside Wilson's patrol car and on his uniform.</s>DANNY CEVALLOS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: What that does is that tends to support any testimony that there was some kind of scuffle in the police car. And if so, that tends to support Officer Wilson's testimony and his justification for using deadly force.</s>SIDNER: Early on, Brown's friends said there was a scuffle but that Wilson was the aggressor.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He pulled up alongside us, he tried to push the door open. We were so close that it ricocheted and it bounced back to him. And I guess that, you know, got him a little upset as he was trying to choke my friend. And he was trying to get away. And the officer then reached out and he grabbed his arm to pull him into the car.</s>SIDNER: CNN legal analyst Danny Cevallos says the newly reveal forensic evidence only goes so far.</s>CEVALLOS: Ultimately, that officer will have to come one justification, not for firing his gun the first time but for each and every bullet that came out of his firearm, whether at the car or away from the car.</s>SIDNER: Whatever happens, police tell CNN, they are preparing, especially after hearing this time and again for protesters in the streets.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If there is not an indictment -- excuse my French -- all hell is going to break loose.</s>SIDNER (on camera): Are you worried that there is going to be serious violence?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. I mean, again, we're constantly looking at those things. I believe it was five shootings in August.</s>SIDNER: During the protests.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, during the protest that came out of that. And then also to protect businesses and the property and the citizens who live in the area.</s>SIDNER (voice-over): Protesters also have plans.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everybody is planning for whatever the grand jury decides. I think certainly there are lots of us planning peaceful protests for, should it not be indicted. Certainly there are other people that have other ideas at hand.</s>BURNETT: So, Sara, when is the grand jury going to return this decision, and what is the range of charges that they could indict if they did?</s>SIDNER: These are all been questions. First of all, let's talk about the range of charges that you asked about. There are four main charges that the grand jury is being asked to look. A one, first-degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter. They're being asked to look at that. They've been given the statutes for what is self-defense and for what is legally the use of force. And as far as when this grand jury is going to come back with a decision, everyone is trying to figure that out. However, we talk to the prosecuting attorney's office and the official there told us, they're expecting something to come down in mid-November. These protesters want to it happen fast better you they say they will be here every single night until then. And depending on what the outcome is, things could get pretty hairy around here.</s>BURNETT: Sara Sidner, thank you so much. And OUTFRONT next --</s>DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Survivors. A survivor spirit. Survivors.</s>BURNETT: Don Lemon with an emotional trip in search of his roots. And journalism can be a dangerous job. But covering the pumpkin festival? I mean, you know, you wouldn't bet, but you would bet wrong. Jeanne Moos explains.