Missing UVA Student: New Details on Suspect
COOPER: Back in Crime and Punishment tonight. The parents of missing University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Graham released a video for the weekend where they called on anyone to step forward with any information where she can be found. Here's part of that message.</s>SUE GRAHAM, MOTHER OF MISSING UVA STUDENT: Please, please, please help end this nightmare for all of us. Please help us to bring Hannah home.</s>COPPER: Out of their, plea comes even with an arrest in the case Jesse Matthew was charged with abduction as we reported last week. Law enforcement sources tell CNN that DNA links Matthew to the rape and murder of a different woman in Virginia five years ago. We decided to dig into Matthew's past and found more surprises during his college years. Once again here's Randi Kaye.</s>RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Another Virginia college campus, another sexual assault accusation against Jesse Matthew. This time it was September 7th, 2003 at Christopher Newport University in Newport News. Paul Trible is the University's President.</s>PAUL TRIBLE, PRESIDENT, CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY: A complaint was filed by a student. It was thoroughly investigated by our campus police.</s>KAYE: The school can't say much siting student privacy laws, but Trible tells us the alleged sexual assault took place somewhere on campus. He shared this new information too. The alleged victim was a student and she decided not to press charges. Still he says she did take part in campus disciplinary hearings testifying against Matthew. The school couldn't divulge the result of those hearings but Jesse Matthew was gone soon after. A spokesman for Christopher Newport University says Jesse Matthew played football here for the CNU Captains from mid August to mid September of 2003. He left the university about a month later. The school also says students don't usually leave the second month in this semester or leave the football team so quickly. The university would not say if Matthew departed on his own or was expelled. For President Trible, this is personal. His was wife was raped back in 1973. Her attacker was never identified. Matthew had enrolled at Christopher Newport University in January 2003. Shortly after leaving Liberty University in Lynchburg Virginia where he was questioned after a woman reported being raped while he was there in 2002. Investigators determined there wasn't enough evidence to charge him. It seems Christopher Newport University was unaware of that case.</s>TRIBLE: Unless a student is an academic good standing and disciplinary good standing, we would never accept him.</s>KAYE: And now Matthew's behavior has raising eyebrows off campus at the Newport News Police Department.</s>CHIEF RICHARD MYERS, NEWPORT NEWS POLICE: The timeline, the proximity of when he was occupied here is about the only link we have.</s>KAYE: Chief Richard Myers is reviewing all missing person's cases that occurred while Matthew was attending college here including the disappearance of 24-year old Autumn Day. She was last seen shopping at this food line grocery store on July 24th, 2003. Her car was later discovered in a parking lot. Less than two months later, this woman, 31-year old Sophia Rivera also disappeared. Rivera went missing after leaving her home in this neighborhood about seven miles from the campus of Christopher Newport University. Just five days after she vanished September 12, 2003, Jesse Matthew left the football team at the university. A month later, he was gone from the school. Chief Myers has been fully briefed on both women's cases.</s>MYERS: At this point, there isn't anything we've uncovered that in anyway links to him.</s>KAYE: But he isn't ready to stop looking yet either.</s>COOPER: Randi Kaye joins us now. Would you able to find out ever if Liberty informed the next university?</s>KAYE: Not exactly Anderson. There's a lot of finger pointing going on here but what we know is that the NCAA requires that the school where the student is transferring from, the student athlete, they have to send what they call tracer form to the new university and say whether or not the student was in good academic standing and good disciplinary standing.</s>COOPER: Yeah.</s>KAYE: And you heard the President of the new school CNU say, I would never accept anybody who wasn't in good standing. So we went back to Liberty University and we said we would like to see the letter, the tracer form that you sent to</s>CNU. COOPER: Right.</s>KAYE: They said they don't have it anymore that the CNAA doesn't require them to keep it after 10 years. But they also couldn't tell us whether or not they sent it directly if it was ever sent or if Jesse Matthew sent it. And then we don't know if it was complete, whoever sent it, we're they forthcoming?</s>COOPER: Right.</s>KAYE: Whether they given honest assessment of his time at Liberty University, and if not who had a hand in that since we know if the letter...</s>COOPER: Right.</s>KAYE: ... was ever sent or by whom.</s>COPPER: Unbelievable. Randi thanks very much. I appreciate the reporting. More in the breaking in the breaking news. The President say -- saying that Ebola is a top national security priority. Coming up.