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 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The former cab driver accused of killing two Virginia college students will admit to their murders in a plea deal Wednesday afternoon, a deal which both the victims' families support. 
 
 Jesse Matthew Jr. is expected to enter a plea agreement in court "to resolve both the Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington abduction and murder cases," a prosecutor said Monday. There will be conditions to the plea deal that will be entered at 1:30 p.m. in the Albemarle courtroom. 
 
 He is expected to plead guilty to first-degree murder and intent to defile in both cases, sources close to the deal said. He will serve multiple life sentences, not concurrently, and there will be no chance for early release as a condition of the deal. Matthew will not be eligible for parole, and will relinquish any possibility of geriatric release. 
 
 He will no longer face any chance of getting the death penalty, as he will no longer face a July capital murder trial for Graham's murder. However, he will never again pose a threat to public safety, sources close to the deal said. 
 
 When Matthew appears in court Wednesday, he will face the parents of Graham, an 18-year-old University of Virginia student, who went missing in September 2014. Authorities found her remains the next month on abandoned property eight miles from where the second-year college student was last seen. 
 
 He will also face the parents of Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student, who went missing in October 2009 after attending a Metallica concert in Charlottesville. Her remains were discovered on a nearby farm in January 2010. It was not until 2015 that a grand jury indicted Matthew on charges of first-degree murder and abduction with the intent to defile in the Harrington case. 
 
 Both families told CBS 6 they supported the plea. They will be entering statements in court today, something which is rare in a plea deal, but which the families requested. 
 
 "This is not a celebratory time of time of fist-pumping joy," Gil Harrington, Morgan's mother said to CBS 6. "Our daughter is still as dead as she was in 2009." 
 
 "We have seen Morgan’s broken bones and cannot comprehend what one human could have so desperately needed to have hurt and murdered our daughter," she said ahead of Matthew's court appearance. 
 
 His admission will come six-and-a-half years after the Harringtons first learned their daughter had been murdered. 
 
 For prosecutors, the plea deal is appropriate said CBS 6 legal analyst Todd Stone. 
 
 "The expense and cost is so much more than money. It is resources and man power in such a small prosecutor's office," he said. "They now will be able to focus on prosecuting things that they have. Perhaps preventing this from happening in the future." 
 
 Last year, a judge sentenced Matthew to three life sentences for the 2005 sexual assault of a 26-year-old woman in Fairfax, Virginia. The DNA in that case tied together all cases. 
 
 A series of Twitter posts Monday on the page of "Help Save the Next Girl," an organization founded by Harrington's parents, expressed gratitude for the plea deal. 
 
 "There are no winners here," mother Gil Harrington told CNN affiliate WVIR. "You know, our daughters are still dead. But then, I corrected myself, that actually the winner is the community, and maybe that's what the abstract of justice means." 
 
 Albemarle County Commonwealth's Attorney Robert Tracci did not have anything to say ahead of the hearing,"in the interest of protecting the integrity of the judicial process." 
 
 CBS 6 News will be inside the courtroom for Wednesday's hearing. Be sure to follow WTVR.com and the WTVR app for updates, and watch a live report on CBS 6 News at Noon. 
 
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 38.029306 -78.476678 ||||| Jesse Matthew is escorted out of court after a hearing on two different murder charges in Charlottesville, Va. 
 
 Jesse Matthew is escorted out of court after a hearing on two different murder charges in Charlottesville, Va. Steve Helber/AP 
 
 Jesse Matthew is expected to enter guilty pleas in the murder cases of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham and Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington. 
 
 Jesse Matthew entered guilty pleas in the murder cases of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham and Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington. 
 
 Jesse Matthew entered guilty pleas in the murder cases of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham and Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington. 
 
 Jesse L. Matthew Jr. hopped from bar to bar, making ever more aggressive advances on women and getting rebuffed, before he spotted Hannah Graham weaving drunkenly down a Charlottesville pedestrian mall in the early hours of Sept. 13, 2014. 
 
 A witness watched as Matthew, a burly former football player, caught up to Graham and slung his arm around her neck. The witness protested to Matthew, “You don’t even know her.” 
 
 Matthew replied simply, “Hush.” 
 
 The moment was the beginning of Matthew’s abduction and murder of the 18-year-old University of Virginia sophomore, whose disappearance would touch off a massive search and make headlines across the country. 
 
 The fresh details in the high-profile case emerged Wednesday as Matthew, 33, pleaded guilty to killing Graham, of Fairfax County, and Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington in a similar abduction in 2009. 
 
 Jesse L. Matthew Jr. entered a guilty plea on March 2 and was sentenced to four life terms in the kidnapping and deaths of two Virginia college students. (Ashleigh Joplin/The Washington Post) 
 
 The guilty pleas in an Albemarle County court — to two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of abduction with intent to defile — were part of an agreement with prosecutors that spared Matthew the possibility of facing the death penalty if convicted at trial in Graham’s murder. 
 
 Circuit Court Judge Cheryl V. Higgins sentenced Matthew to four life terms, added to the three life terms he is serving for a brutal sexual assault in Fairfax County in 2005. He was convicted in that case last year. As part of the deal, Matthew may not appeal or seek geriatric release, ensuring that he will die in custody. 
 
 The emotional hearing brought a close to a long, slow journey for the Grahams and for Harrington’s family, which had waited more than six years for her killer to be brought to justice. 
 
 Susan Graham, Hannah Graham’s mother, read a statement to the court. 
 
 “Her friends said that she would change the world, and she did, but at a terrible price,” Graham said, noting that her daughter helped police arrest “a serial rapist and murderer hiding in plain sight. She is a heroine.” 
 
 Wearing a black-and-white-striped jumpsuit, Matthew spoke only to answer the judge’s questions. Douglas Ramseur, his attorney, read a statement on his behalf. 
 
 “He’s very sorry for what happened,” Ramseur said. “He loves his family very much.” 
 
 Harrington, 20, disappeared after leaving a Metallica concert in Charlottesville in October 2009. Her body was found months later in an Albemarle County pasture, but it would take years and Graham’s disappearance to catch a break in the case. 
 
 Graham set out with friends on the evening of Sept. 12, 2014, to go to a restaurant and attended two parties. Witnesses told authorities that Graham had been drinking all night and had become increasingly intoxicated. 
 
 Around midnight, Graham said she was not feeling well and left the second party for home. Soon, she was lost. 
 
 Meanwhile, Matthew had made his way to several bars, where women would later tell investigators he made them feel uncomfortable by touching them and making unwanted advances. At one bar, prosecutors said Matthew took off a woman’s sock and grabbed her foot. 
 
 “A woman that takes care of her feet takes care of everything else,” he is said to have told her. 
 
 After 1 a.m., a surveillance camera captured the moment Matthew and Graham met — the same scene described by a witness. Susan Graham talked in court about the horror of watching Matthew notice her daughter and then make his way toward the young woman. 
 
 “We saw what evil looks like,” Graham said. “He hunted her.” 
 
 Matthew and Graham went to a bar called Tempo, where he ordered a drink for her. As the pair were leaving, prosecutors said, a witness who observed Matthew and Graham told someone ominously, “He’s gonna [expletive] her up.” 
 
 Matthew and Graham were then seen walking to his car. When they arrived, another witness heard Graham shout: “I’m not getting in that car with you! What is it, stolen?” The witness told investigators that Graham seemed frightened. The witness said he kept walking and listened, but heard nothing else. 
 
 It was the last time anyone saw Graham alive. 
 
 Friends quickly reported Graham missing, and searches for her began in the days that followed. Police soon found the surveillance footage of Matthew and Graham together, and he fled the area after being questioned. He was arrested in Texas after a nationwide manhunt. 
 
 About a month after her slaying, Graham’s body was found in a ravine behind an abandoned home in a remote part of Albemarle County. Susan Graham commented in court on the indignity of her daughter’s treatment. 
 
 “He dumped our daughter’s body like a bag of trash,” Graham said, noting that the remains sat for weeks in the wooded area, “to be picked over by buzzards and vultures.” 
 
 After Matthew’s arrest, he was linked through a DNA test to a cold case that bore striking similarities to the Graham disappearance — the slaying of Harrington. Harrington had stepped out of the concert alone and was unable to get back inside the arena. Matthew was driving a taxi in the area at the time, and a witness saw Harrington just feet from his cab that night. 
 
 [Man charged with killing U-Va. student said he was ‘really drunk’ that night] 
 
 A bloody T-shirt that Harrington wore was discovered in Charlottesville the next month, and her remains were found on a farm in southern Albemarle County three months later. 
 
 A DNA analysis of blood on the shirt yielded a match with a profile of a suspect in a 2005 sexual assault in Fairfax County. In addition, investigators found a dog hair on the shirt, prosecutors said. A lab that specializes in animal DNA would later determine it shared genetic similarities with hair taken from Matthew’s dog, Popcorn. 
 
 [The three cases police say are linked to Jesse L. Matthew Jr.] 
 
 It was just one example of the lengths investigators went to in gathering evidence in the cases. In Graham’s case, detectives called on a botanist who determined plant material removed from the chassis of Matthew’s car matched plants at the location where Graham’s body was dumped. Forensic anthropologists examined the skeletons in both cases. 
 
 Last year, Matthew was convicted in the Fairfax County case. Evidence showed that DNA recovered from the victim’s fingernail was highly likely to belong to Matthew. 
 
 After he took the witness stand steps away from his daughter’s killer, Dan Harrington described the void left in his family by her death and asked aloud the questions that he had thought about for 6 1/ 2 years. 
 
 “How could he? Why would he?” Harrington said. 
 
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 The so-called "UVA Killer" pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing two coeds and received four life sentences. 
 
 In doing so, Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. closed a painful chapter for the loved ones of the two Virginia college students he admitted killing — Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington. 
 
 A booking photo of Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. Galveston County Sheriff via AP 
 
 "This resolution serves the interests of justice by ensuring the defendant will never again pose a threat to public safety," Albermarle County Prosecutor Robert Tracci said. "It is consistent with the wishes of the Graham and Harrington families. " 
 
 Graham's father, John, said the agreement "has our full support." 
 
 It denies Matthew the ability to "inflict his depravity on young women," the grieving dad said. "Today's events do not bring Hanna back to us, of course. But at times like this, we must take comfort where we can." 
 
 Harrington's mother thanked law enforcement for tracking Matthew down and everyone who supported them on the "hard road." 
 
 "They say it takes a village to raise a child," Harrington's mother, Gil, said. "I know it takes one to bury a child." 
 
 Matthew, 34, did not shed any tears as he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of abduction with intent to defile in a Charlottesville, Virginia courtroom. He received a life sentence on each charge. 
 
 Matthew also appeared to show little emotion as two impact statements were read by members of the Graham and Harrington families. 
 
 Susan Graham said that Matthew murdered her daughter for his own wicked perversions, leaving her body "to be picked over by buzzards". 
 
 Matthew did not give a statement during the hearing, though his lawyer said that Matthew was sorry for what happened. 
 
 The pleas take the death penalty off the table for Matthew, who was already serving three life sentences for the 2005 rape and attempted murder of a woman from India in Fairfax County, Virginia. And it all but assures he will never be a free man again. 
 
 Under the deal, Matthew will not be eligible for appeal or a geriatric release, Tracci said. 
 
 Matthew was charged in February with murdering Graham, an 18-year-old University of Virginia sophomore who vanished Sept. 13, 2014 after a night out with friends. 
 
 Seven months later, Matthew with charged with killing Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student who disappeared Oct. 17, 2009 during a Metallica concert on the UVA campus in Charlottesville. 
 
 A former college football player at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, Matthew was a patient technician at the UVA medical center when the coeds went missing. 
 
 After cops named Matthew a person of interest in Graham's disappearance, he went on the run and was later nabbed on a beach in Texas. He was charged with abduction with intent to defile and a DNA sample connected him to the sexual assault in Fairfax County, officials said earlier. 
 
 That, in turn, enabled police to connect Matthew to the Harrington murder, they said. 
 
 "No outcome could bring about closure," Tracci said. "But this is a time for recognition for the thousands of volunteers that made Hannah and Morgan's cause their own." 
 
 Morgan Harrington's mother, Jill, spoke about the long journey for justice her family had been going through. She thanked law enforcement and media for their persistence. 
 
 "For six and a half years, you were determined to find the predator that hunted in this community," she said.
– The man known as the "UVA killer" will in all likelihood spend the rest of his life behind bars after pleading guilty to killing two Virginia college students over the past seven years, NBC News reports. Jesse Matthew was sentenced to four life sentences on Wednesday as part of a plea deal that will allow him to avoid the death penalty. The deal was supported by the families of both of his victims, according to WTVR. Matthew's lawyer said his client agreed to the plea "to not have the sentence of death hanging over his head," the Washington Post reports. NBC states the deal "all but assures he will never be a free man again." Matthew has no chance of parole, early release, or geriatric release. Twenty-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington disappeared in 2009 after attending a concert at the University of Virginia. Eighteen-year-old Hannah Graham was a UVA student when she disappeared five years later. Matthew worked at the UVA medical center at the time of the disappearances. "Today's events do not bring Hannah back to us," Graham's father said during Wednesday's hearing, per NBC. "But at times like this, we must take comfort where we can." Graham's mother described her daughter as a "heroine" for giving her life to help police arrest “a serial rapist and murderer hiding in plain sight." Matthew was sentenced to three life sentences last year for sexually assaulting and attempting to murder a 26-year-old woman in 2005.