Discussion for article #229005
It kind of sounds like there has been a serial murderer in the area and there was a cover up. No?
What? In “reality” there has been a serial RAPIST murderer in the area for years, and he has finally been busted.
C’mon man, he is on in VIDEO walking with her before she went missing, there are witnesses as well, he has been accused of rape before, and DNA ties him to other crime scenes.
But in your world it’s one big coverup? Hysterical.
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This POS needs to be thrown into the prison general population as soon as possible and get the repeated ass kicking’s he deserves for the rest of his life.
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If only the Liberty student had pursued prosecution, at least 3 young women might have been spared horrible ordeals, and at least one might still be alive.
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I don’t know about this particular rape case, but Liberty University (Jerry Falwell’s twice-born institute of higher learning) doesn’t like to acknowledge rapes. There was likely some pressure against the victim to shut up.
I live in Charlottesville, and this has been one more wrenching case of many. I think the reason that this got so much more national attention than other cases is because of the videos that showed her walking about a half mile from the downtown mall, and then another camera picked her up again on the mall. The video showed her talking to an older white guy, who said he was trying to see if she needed help. Then he saw Jessie Matthews come up and put his arm around her waist and she acted like she knew him, so he went on his way. Hannah and Matthew were then seen together later by several witnesses in Tempo, which is a bar at the Eastern end of the mall.
The situation with Morgan Harrington (she left an arena where a Metallica Concert was going on and they refused to let her back in, which was their policy) – most people surmise now that she voluntarily got into a taxi which was driven by Matthew.
There are several other missing young women from all around here, and it scares the bejebus out of everyone to think that a serial killer taxi driver was around for so long. I have seen police looking along the roadside and behind bushes as I was driving home from the grocery store. The thought of Hannah being tossed behind a rock like Morgan had been was just excruciating. I can’t imagine what her parents have been going through.
Of course all the information isn’t in yet, but the videos are very damning to his case. If the DNA is the link that they are alluding to, I can’t imagine that even his very excellent lawyer can help him.
Yes, he is innocent until proven guilty when he goes to court, but no one who has watched this unfold could be blamed for having an opinion.