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    Did Alexis Murphy chat with Jesse Matthew on social media?

    The Nelson County Commonwealth’s Attorney has ordered an analysis of social media accounts held by Alexis Murphy, CBS 6 reporter Laura French confirmed Thursday. The exact number of accounts and nature of the analysis remained unclear.

    The analysis was requested by the attorney for Randy Taylor. Taylor was sentenced to two-life terms for abducting and killing Murphy, even though her body was never found. Taylor’s attorney wanted to determine if there were any social media connections between Murphy and Jesse Matthew Jr.

    Murphy, 17, disappeared last summer when she left her Nelson County home for Lynchburg to do some shopping. Matthew, 32, is in jail charged with abducting 18-year-old University of Virginia student Hannah Graham last month and sexually assaulting a Fairfax woman in 2005.

    He has also been linked to the disappearance of Morgan Harrington, the Virginia Tech student who disappeared in Charlottesville in 2009. Harrington’s body was found several months later on an Albemarle County farm. That farm is just a few miles from where human remains, which tests could reveal to be Hannah Graham’s remains, were found over the weekend.

    Taylor’s attorney also asked Murphy’s car be tested for evidence that could link her to Matthew. There was DNA found in Murphy’s car that did not match Taylor.

    Matthew’s DNA would not have been tested during the Murphy case because it was in a state database prior to Graham’s disappearance, French said. Matthew’s DNA profile is now in both the state and federal databases.

    Murphy’s family members said they did not think the testing would change anything in the case against Randy Taylor.

    “I’d be surprised if it did. Honestly, I would be surprised,” Alexis’ aunt Trina Murphy said.

    Last month Nelson County Commonwealth’s Attorney Anthony Martin stated there was no evidence Matthew was connected to Murphy’s disappearance.

    “In recent days, there has been much discussion in news reports and on social media as to whether or not there is any connection between the case involving Jesse Leroy Matthew, Jr., charged in connection with missing UVa. student Hannah Graham and Randy Allen Taylor who was convicted in May 2014 for abduction with intent to defile and the first degree murder of Alexis Murphy,” Martin wrote on September 24.

    Specifically, he said, Matthew Jr. was not the man Taylor tried to “implicate in his trial of being with Alexis Murphy when she left Taylor’s camper in August 2013.” Taylor implicated another man, who was later cleared, Martin said. Martin said neither Matthew’s name nor any vehicle that matched the description of Matthew’s car came up during the Taylor investigation and subsequent.

    “Some have questioned whether or not the surveillance video from Liberty Gas Station the night Alexis Murphy disappeared show her walking behind the back of an object some say looks like Jesse Matthews’ vehicle,” Martin said. “FBI and Virginia State Police have re-examined that footage in light of these concerns and are confident that the orange object is not a vehicle, but a portion of a sign hanging from the window.”

    http://wtvr.com/2014/10/23/alexis-mu...-social-media/
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    New search for long-missing Va. teens

    ORANGE COUNTY, Va. -- More than 150 search and rescue personnel resumed the search Sunday for two long-missing Virginia teens.

    Alexis Murphy, 17, was last seen at a gas station in Lovingston, Va. in August of 2013 and her car was found in Charlottesville, about 35 miles away. Samantha Clarke was 19 when she was last seen at her Orange County home in 2010.

    Randy Taylor was convicted in May of Murphy's abduction and murder, though her body has never been found. DNA from a bloody hair extension and a false eyelash in Taylor's camper indicated that Murphy was with Taylor there and a struggle ensued, prosecutors said at trial, reported the Richmond Times Dispatch.

    Taylor, believed to be about 50 years old, is also suspected in Clarke's disappearance, Orange County Police Chief James Fenwick told 48 Hours' Crimesider. The night before the teen disappeared, Taylor and Clarke spoke on the phone several times, Fenwick said.

    As soon as Taylor became a person of interest in Alexis Murphy's disappearance, the two cases became "inextricably entwined," Fenwick said.

    Taylor has not been charged in the Clarke case.

    Sunday, crews re-focused efforts on a plot of land that's been searched before -- a 200-acre private hunting club in the Eheart area of Orange County, in east-central Virginia, reports CBS affiliate WTVR.

    "We're looking to find one or both -- hopefully both," Fenwick said.

    Fenwick told Crimesider the plot was searched early on in the Clarke investigation and again early this year. He said it had been set for another search in the fall because conditions are easier for search crews once leaves have fallen from the trees.

    "It is an area were Randy Taylor would have been familiar with and had access to. Close to an area were he used to live," Fenwick told reporters Sunday, reports the station.

    The search isn't based on a new tip or information from Randy Taylor, Fenwick said.

    "I can't go into detail on what our conversations have been with him - I would term him as being less than cooperative in this case," Fenwick told Crimesider.

    Fenwick couldn't discuss what, if anything, was discovered Sunday. He said crews have wrapped up the active search, but may go back later to go over certain areas again.

    Investigators in the Clarke case have looked into whether there could be a link between her disappearance and 32-year-old Jesse Matthew, charged with abducting University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. Graham was last seen Sept. 13 on Charlottesville's downtown pedestrian mall after attending two off-campus parties. Her remains were found on an abandoned property in Albemarle County last month after an extensive search.

    Matthew has also been charged with attempted murder in a 2005 Fairfax rape, and investigators have said he's linked by forensic evidence to Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, who disappeared in 2009 after attending a rock concert on U.Va.'s campus. Her remains were found three months later in rural Albemarle county.

    Fenwick said there does not appear to be a link between Matthew and Clarke.

    The Nelson County commonwealth's attorney also announced they would investigate whether Matthew could be linked to Murphy following a request from Taylor's lawyer. However, Nelson County Commonwealth's Attorney Anthony Martin has maintained he believes there is no evidence to suggest Matthew was involved in Murphy's disappearance.

    Several jurisdictions in Virginia are investigating to see whether Matthew could be linked to other unsolved murders and disappearances in the state, including the 2009 murder of Cassandra Morton. Morton vanished near Lynchburg a week before Harrington disappeared.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-sear...irginia-teens/
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    No DNA link between Matthew, missing Va. teen

    A prosecutor says DNA testing has ruled out the suspect in the abduction of a University of Virginia student with the disappearance of a central Virginia teenager.

    The testing involved Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. and Alexis Murphy, a 17-year-old who was last seen in August 2013. Her body has never been found.

    Randy Allen Taylor was convicted last summer in the murder and abduction of Murphy. He is serving two life sentences.

    Taylor’s attorney requested DNA tests to determine whether Matthew’s DNA could link him to Murphy’s disappearance.

    Friday, the commonwealth attorney for Nelson County, Anthony Martin, said the DNA testing excluded Matthewas the source of DNA from samples taken from Murphy’s car.

    Matthew is charged with abduction with intent to defile Hannah Graham.

    http://wavy.com/2015/01/23/no-dna-li...ssing-va-teen/
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