The suspect arrested in connection to the disappearance of missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham has been linked to the 2009 murder of a 20-year-old student, Virginia police revealed.
Virginia police have never stopped an investigation into the death of Virginia Tech student Morgan D. Harrington, who disappeared in October 2009 while attending a Metallica concert in Charlottesville near the University of Virginia, Fox News reported. She was found dead three months later on a farm 10 miles outside Charlottesville.
On Monday, police said forensic evidence linked 32-year-old Jesse Leroy Matthew, who has been charged in connection to Graham's disappearance, to Harrington's murder.
Matthew's arrest last Wednesday "provided a significant break in the case with a new forensic link for state police investigators to pursue," Virginia State Police Spokeswoman Corrine Geller said in a statement.
"There is still a great deal of work to be done in regards to this investigation and we appreciate the public's patience as we move forward," Geller said.
Matthew arrived in Virginia on Friday after agreeing to be extradited from Texas, ABC News reported. He is being held at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail until his bond hearing Thursday.
