WTVR-TV6 in Richmond is reporting that Jesse Matthew, serving a life sentence in the murders of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington and UVA student Hannah Graham in Charlottesville from more than a decade ago, has been transferred from the supermax prison at Red Onion to Keen Mountain Correctional Center, a max-security prison in Oakwood.
Among the prisoners at Keen Mountain: George Huguely, the former UVA Lacrosse player convicted in the murder of Yeardley Love, a member of the women’s lacrosse team at UVA, in 2010.
Matthew pleaded guilty in 2016 to the abduction and murder of Graham, 18, in 2014, and the 2009 abduction and murder of Harrington, 20.
Matthew was sentenced to the statutory maximum for these offenses – four additional consecutive life terms.
He is also serving three life terms after entering an Alford plea to a 2005 abduction, sexual assault, and attempted murder charge in Fairfax.
A Virginia Department of Corrections spokesperson told WTVR-TV6 that Keen Mountain “meets the inmate’s security needs, along with meeting the safety and security of our corrections team and the incarcerated population.”
From the Archives: Jesse Matthew murder cases
- Timeline, other new details in Morgan Harrington case
- State Police: Remains in Albemarle appear to be Morgan Harrington
- UVA, Charlottesville police search for missing first-year student Hannah Graham
- Body believed to be Hannah Graham found in Albemarle County
- Forensic link between Hannah Graham, Morgan Harrington cases
- How did Jesse Matthew fly under the radar for so long?
- Jesse Matthew pleads guilty to Hannah Graham, Morgan Harrington murders
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