CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Police in Charlottesville, Va., have taken clothing from the apartment of the man they believe was the last person seen with a missing University of Virginia student.
Charlottesville Police Capt. Gary Pleasants said the items were recovered during a search of Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr.'s apartment Monday.
Matthew, a nursing assistant at University of Virginia Hospital, is seen in two surveillance videos with Hannah Graham, the 18-year-old who has been missing since Sept. 13. In one of the videos, Matthew's arm is around Graham, authorities said.
Witnesses said they saw Matthew with Graham at Tempo Restaurant early that morning.
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Authorities first searched the 32-year-old's car and apartment Friday, and Pleasants said information that came up during the investigation led to a second search of the apartment. He would not give details about the clothing or elaborate on the search.
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Missing University of Virginia student Hannah Elizabeth Graham has been missing since early Saturday, Sept. 13.(Photo: AP)
Contributing: The Associated PressThe state lab was still analyzing evidence it received from the Charlottesville Police Department, which included nearly two dozen items and eight 'known samples that we would use for comparison purposes,' said Jeffrey Ban, director of the Department of Forensic Science's Central Laboratory in Richmond, Va.
Police are hoping that DNA evidence from items seized from Matthew's home and car can help them find Graham.
Sept. 12
Authorities are still trying to locate Matthew, who is wanted on a reckless driving charge.
He hasn't been charged in the disappearance of the sophomore from northern Virginia, but authorities say they want to talk to him about Graham.
Sept. 13
Pleasants said authorities have not had contact with Matthew since Saturday, when he stopped by the Charlottesville police station with several family members for about an hour and asked for a lawyer. He was provided with one but left in a vehicle at a high rate of speed that endangered other drivers and led to the reckless driving charges, Charlottesville police Chief Timothy Longo has said.
The search for Matthew has been intense as police stop anyone who might resemble Matthew.
Matthew works as a patient technician in the operating room at the University of Virginia hospital. He used to work as a cab driver for Yellow Cab.
'I'd be very surprised if he were involved in this in a negative manner,' said John Amata, who used to work with Matthew.
Before Hannah Graham disappeared
What police know about the hours before Hannah Graham disappeared from Charlottesville, Va., near the University of Virginia campus, come mostly from businesses' surveillance cameras. A map locates the places in this timeline.
1. 9:30 p.m. ET. Graham is captured on Camden Plaza Apartments surveillance video in a hallway a few blocks away from the GrandMarc apartments (1) where she lives.
2. 11:50 p.m. Graham's friends meet her at Camden Plaza Apartments on 14th Street Northwest. It is the last time they see her.
3. 12:46 a.m. Graham is captured on surveillance video at McGrady's Pub on Grady Avenue. Police say she was having a conversation with a man and appeared drunk.
4. 1 a.m. Graham is captured on surveillance video at a Shell gas station on Preston Avenue across railroad tracks from her apartment and the U.Va. campus. She's seen running then walking.
5. 1:06 a.m. Graham is captured on surveillance video at Sal's Pizza on East Main Street. A white man walks into the camera's view, looks over his shoulder then steps into a doorway. Graham walks past him and then he starts walking behind her. He later came to police and told them he was following Graham because she seemed distressed and he wanted to make sure she was safe.
6. 1:08 a.m. Graham is captured on surveillance video at Tuel's Jewelers on East Main Street. The video shows the man walking some distance behind her.
7. After 1:08 a.m. Graham and a man with dreadlocks enter Tempo Restaurant & Bar on Fifth Street Southeast. He buys alcohol, they stay 15 minutes and leave together.
* 1:20 a.m. Graham texts friends, 'I'm coming to a party...but I'm lost.' It was the last time she had contact with anyone. If her phone pinpointed her location, police have not released the information, and police did not clarify whether the text was sent before or after leaving the bar.
On Sept. 19, police receive a warrant to search a car and condo (8) about 3 miles northwest from where Graham was last seen.
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