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And then there were the girls who thought they were coming up short for JM's cab fare...and the trade-off he was willing to make with them. What if that had been reported to the cab company, or to the police? In a town with so many missing women, you think it might have at least alerted police...

I think if they would have pursued that taxi angle to the fullest extent, they would have had no choice but to name JM as a suspect. Then, when the shirt was found, they had JM's DNA along with a hair from his dog. For such a high profile case, I think the police work might be considered a bit...

Nothing can change the outcome of HG's journey that night, but knowing she didn't indirectly voluntarily fall into his hands leaves me feeling maybe a tiny bit less helpless than I felt thinking she may have trusted JM to take her to another party or home. The information that has now been...

Tempo isn't named as the restaurant, but I don't think they were together at any other restaurants.... "Graham disappeared after a night out with friends in Charlottesville. In surveillance video, she can be seen walking unsteadily and running at times before crossing a seven-block strip of...

Based on what's now being released, I think LE could have nailed him long before they did for this murder.

With all of the very damning evidence that was obtained so very early on in this case, I wonder why it took so long for a murder charge? I find that very baffling....

Don't you wonder now, though, Skigirl, if LE asked them to make the misstatements? The stories after the fact say there was video of HG and JM together inside a restaurant. I don't remember seeing that footage, and think maybe it was from Tempo. With all the eyewitnesses to her being at the...

Probably exchanged testimony for turning a blind eye on their illegal actions. Leaves you wondering how things would have turned out without that last drink? Maybe no different, but you just don't know.

Oh, I guess this is what she was writing about.... http://wvtf.org/post/parents-slain-students-see-jesse-matthew-first-time

Are they ready to make more charges?

Are we positive that the cigar butt had JM's DNA? Or was it MH's? I'm at a loss as to why the cigar butt DNA was so significant, when they had direct source DNA. In the Fairfax thread, I posed the question as to whether LE was looking for a DNA match to the cigarette found in Fairfax, and...

Hello, Conductor71! Are you thinking accomplice? I go back to one of LE's statements about MH and Anchorage Farms...when he said that the person responsible went back there in times of stress. Perhaps they were referring to cigarette butts found there, and those don't match JM? Maybe that's...

Like others, I wondering if the capital murder charge went off the table due to DP sentiments of the Grahams. Also, if Jesse gave up some information for the lesser charge. And...the "evil premeditation" that someone mentioned earlier may not apply to someone who was as plastered as he was...

They've got the taxi now, right? I don't recall how long he drove it after MH's abduction. Could be his story is that he accidently hit her to cause her death? What do you think is the evidence that seems to have totally convinced the Harrington's that LE's search is over? I don't think...

So much time has passed now...wouldn't there be charges in the MH case if they had anything substantial? Apparently, there is nothing else but the DNA which may put him with her, but nothing to prove he did anything to her? Or maybe the DNA match wasn't that close? I'm surprised not to have...

What does that usually mean? Lack of good evidence, or lack of defense?

That is so very disturbing in so many ways....

Answering my own question - from the article Heroine posted today: "Matthew's defense also asked the court for $2,000 to better examine DNA in the case, since the alleged Fairfax rape initially involved 8 other possible suspects, the defense says that led to some 17 different analysis reports...

It's been on my mind...how about you?

From that article: "Public Defender Dawn Butorac argued that the expert was necessary because the DNA evidence is crucial to the prosecution’s case. She said authorities had conducted 17 DNA tests on eight suspects during the investigation." “The only piece of evidence the...