As I scroll through the New Posts, I see only this one in connection with Hannah Graham. What a beautiful person she was! She appears to me to be so graceful, so talented, so full of life, so intelligent, so worldly, so promising. To have her life cut short so quickly because a 32 year old man, who made nothing of his life, decided that what he wanted was more important than her life is very, very sad.
I am sure that there are victims dating back to his childhood - when he first discovered that being large and playing dumb worked in his favor; that he could take advantage of people.
That he took "playing stupid" to the level of murdering talented, attractive, kind, well-educated young women as a 32 year old man, with at least a 12 year history of sexual assaults, should force change to how sexual assaults are handled on college campuses like those attended by Jesse Matthew. It was known by people in positions of power on college campuses that Jesse Matthew was a threat to young women, yet this knowledge was swept under the carpet because he was an asset - a sports asset. People in power were afraid that if one of their assets had a smeared reputation, it would reflect badly on them, so they swept it under the carpet, expelled the bad asset, and ignored the consequences of not dealing with the problem. As a result, not only was Jesse Matthew already a predator of women when his ego was frequently stroked (as a sports asset), but he associated a hit to his ego with the fact that he got caught. His life was altered because he preyed on women, and he very likely blamed those women for his failures.
It would not surprise me if one of his early victims in 2002, when he was 20 years old age, was a Caucasian, intelligent, talented, kind young woman.