The man charged with killing college students Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington in Virginia — a sexual predator a judge branded a “modern-day Jekyll and Hyde” — has agreed to plead guilty to the murders in order to avoid the death penalty.
Jesse Matthew, 33, is scheduled to appear in Albemarle County Circuit Court Wednesday to enter pleas for the 2014 murder of Hannah and the 2009 murder of Morgan.
Without the deal, Matthew could have faced the death penalty for killing Hannah.
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Hannah, 18, went missing on her way to a party at the University of Virginia in September 2014. She was last seen on surveillance video walking with a man who prosecutors believe is Matthew.
Her body was found in an abandoned building in November 2014.
After police named Matthew as a person of interest in Hannah’s disappearance, the beast fled the area, but was caught on a beach in Texas and charged with abduction with intent to defile, a felony.
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DNA testing linked Matthew to the murder of Virginia Tech student Morgan, 20, who had vanished at a Metallica concert at the University of Virginia in 2009. Her body was discovered more than three months later in a hayfield in January 2010 — just 6 miles from where Hannah’s remains were discovered.
Maniac Matthew is already serving three consecutive life sentences in prison for sexual assault on a 26-year-old woman in Fairfax County, Va., in 2005.
The judge in that case called him a “modern-day Jekyll and Hyde” who projected the image of a gentle giant to friends and family — but hid a double life as a violent sexual predator.
