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 and analyzes the behavior of suspect Jesse Matthew in surveillance footage with Graham.
Police arrested 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.
“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,” Clemente said about surveillance footage from the location believed to be the last time Graham and Matthew were seen together before her disappearance.
“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.”
Discussed in the full episode is the case of abduction and murder of Arkansas realtor Beverly Carter, whose body was loated today. The suspect in the abduction and killing of Carter, Aaron Lewis, is currently in custody, after initially getting away after fleeing from a hospital.
Comments