I first saw mention of it tonight on CNN's Erin Burnett Out Front. I can't recall the words Burnett used, but she made it seem that she heard from LE that there's a real possibility of the link. After I saw this, I looked it up on Google. I found a story on the webpage of WIBW Channel 13 from Topeka, Kansas???
This is a snippet from the article:
"In addition, authorities said they are studying other unsolved homicide and missing person cases in Virginia: In Campbell County, the sheriff's office is investigating a possible link to the case of Cassandra Morton, whose body was found in a wooded area near Lynchburg in November 2009; in Orange, police are checking for possible ties to the missing person case of Samantha Ann Clarke, who was last seen September 13, 2010; and in Montgomery County, the sheriff's office is looking for possible links to the unsolved 2009 shooting deaths of two Virginia Tech students, Heidi Childs and David Metzler."
This is the link to the story:
http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/...e-To-2-Missing-Virginia-Women--277605341.html
If there is any connection to the Samantha Clarke disappearance, that would be a VERY big deal. There are already documented connections between Randy Taylor (who was convicted of a different murder earlier this year) to Samantha Clarke. So if they are thinking that JM might also be connected, that would strongly infer that there may be connections between Taylor and Matthew.
LE enforcement has also been reported today searching Rt20 north of Cville. That is the road that you would take if you were going from Cville to Orange County.