Jesse Matthew Linked to 2nd Abduction & Secret Service Security Gaffes

Former FBI profiler and current TV writer/consultant Jim Clemente breaks down the latest developments in the abduction case of missing Virginia student Hannah Graham, who has still not been found.

Police arrested suspect Jesse Matthew on abduction charges in the disappearance of 18-year-old Graham, and new DNA evidence reportedly also links Matthew to another case of a missing Virgina woman, Cassandra Morton, who was found murdered in 2009

Clemente analyzes surveillance footage from the location believed to be the last time Graham and Matthew were seen together before her disappearance.

“On the part of Jesse, I would say that’s clearly predatory behavior. Given the forensic links to the prior abduction/murder, it doesn’t spell very good news for Hannah,” he said. “He was actually on the hunt here and you could see him changing his course when he saw her stumbling up the street.”

There is also another man seen on the footage walking in front of Graham and Clemente’s assessment is that he too seems to exhibit slightly predatory behavior. The man actually went to police and claimed he was going to try to help Hannah until he saw that she was with somebody else.

“He steps back into this storefront, and as soon as she walks by, he then follows her… So this guy wasn’t walking up to Hannah to actually help her. What he was doing was he was following her. Why didn’t he get to her before Jesse Matthew got to her. He could have saved her life.”

Clemente spoke about the profiling aspect of a suspect like Matthew, who is linked to multiple crimes, but doesn’t fit the image of a monster predator.

“If he is a serial offender, serial offenders are the ones who get away with it over and over again. The tools that they use to get away with it are this persona they put out – nice guy, intelligent, articulate, somebody who’s friendly, volunteers the hospital. In other words, he uses that to sort of groom the community around him so they don’t suspect him.”

Also discussed is the case of abduction and murder of Arkansas realtor Beverly Carter, whose body was recently found. The suspect in the abduction and killing of Carter, Aaron Lewis, is currently in custody, after initially getting away after fleeing from a hospital.

Lewis has admitted abducting Carter but denies he murdered her. “I think the fact that he admitted to the kidnapping and not the murder is a mistake on his part. Obviously he thinks he can talk his way out of the murder part, maybe because at the time he admitted, they hadn’t yet found the body and he hoped they wouldn’t find the body – well that didn’t come true.”

He had made an appointment to see Carter about seeing a home she was representing for sale. Her body was discovered in a shallow grave.

“The fact of the matter is, the behavior speaks loudly towards the person who was last seen with her, is the one who killed her, just because of the method that he decided to dispose of her body,” Clemente said.

The conversation also turns to recent lapses in security at the White House, including one breach in which a veteran got over the building’s fence, ran across the lawn and was able to actually enter the presidential residence. He was eventually tackled to the ground by an off-duty Secret Service agent during the incident, which occurred just after President Obama and his daughters had left the White House.

Clemente gives his view on why the security lapses are occurring, and also reacts to the testimony in Congress of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson, who addressed the incidents.

“I know that the Secret Service put their lives at risk every day. I don’t think it’s their fault, I think it’s funding and so forth. But I think her answers were asinine. I think it’s a bunch of bullshit – that 10 days later they’re still studying this – that’s ridiculous.

“There are probably more cameras in that place than any other house on this continent,” he said. “And because of that, they had actual footage of what actually went down. There doesn’t need to be any 10-day examination of this.”

“I’m not saying that they should just shoot anybody… It’s just a very, very difficult situation when you say look, yeah we’re studying the problem. As opposed to just standing up and say look, yeah this was a breach of security, we are quadrupling our efforts now. And now all those things are plugged.”

Watch the interview to also get an update on the man charged with beheading a co-worker in Oklahoma, and the latest on the Jodi Arias penalty phase retrial.