Jesse Matthew Jr., the suspect in Hannah Graham's death, was moved to Fairfax County to face sex assault charges from 2009. VPC
FAIRFAX, Va. — Jesse Matthew Jr., charged in the disappearance of a University of Virginia student who was found dead, has been moved to a Fairfax County facility where he faces three felony charges in relation to a 2005 sexual assault.
Matthew is scheduled to appear in Fairfax County Circuit Court on Friday at 9 a.m.
According to the indictment, Matthew, 32, faces charges of attempted capital murder, abduction and sexual penetration with an object in the 2005 incident, which involved a sexual assault on a 26-year-old woman who was walking home from a supermarket in Fairfax.
Authorities have said the assault was linked by DNA to the disappearance of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington. Fairfax authorities charged Matthew shortly after authorities linked the Harrington case to the abduction of University of Virginia second-year student Hannah Graham.
Matthew is facing one abduction charge with the intent to defile in the Sept. 13 disappearance of Graham, whose remains were found Oct. 18 on an abandoned farm in Albemarle County, just 10 miles from the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, where the 18-year-old from Alexandria was last seen.
Further charges are pending against Matthew in Graham's case. The two can be seen on surveillance video together on the night of Graham's disappearance, and witnesses told police they saw Matthew with Graham at a bar.
In the arraignment on Oct. 31, Matthew appeared via video from the Albemarle County Regional Jail, where he was being held. An attorney for Matthew, James Camblos, asked that his client undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Judge Dennis J. Smith deferred any action on Camblos' request for a psychiatric evaluation.
Contributing: Nikki Burdine, WUSA-TV, Washington, D.C., and The Associated Press
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