CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A former detective testified Monday that a police bloodhound detected traces of a slain University of Virginia student inside the apartment and on the car door of the man charged in her killing. 
 
 According to media outlets, former Louisa County Sheriff's Office Detective Buck Garner also said the bloodhound found 18-year-old Hannah Graham's scent at an industrial site about a mile from downtown Charlottesville. He said the dog alerted him to a scent indicating "fear and adrenaline," suggesting that Graham may have been attacked near a mulch pile at the site. 
 
 The new details emerged in a daylong pretrial hearing for Jesse Matthew Jr., 34, who is charged with capital murder in Graham's 2014 disappearance and death. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. 
 
 Matthew also faces first-degree murder charges in the 2009 death of 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington. He is serving a life prison term for a 2005 attempted murder and sexual assault in northern Virginia. 
 
 Garner testified at length Monday about his involvement in the early days of the Graham investigation working with a 7-year-old bloodhound named Shaker. 
 
 He described following Shaker as the dog traced Graham's scent to Charlottesville's downtown, where she was last seen. Surveillance video from businesses showed Graham walking alongside Matthew. Her remains were found six weeks later on an abandoned property in Albemarle County, about 12 miles from campus. 
 
 Garner testified that Shaker at one point traced a long route east from the Downtown Mall to the industrial site. During a subsequent search, Garner said, Shaker detected Graham's scent on the passenger door of Matthew's vehicle, in the doorway to his home and near a dumpster at his apartment complex. Garner said the dog did not find Graham's scent near other apartments. 
 
 The bloodhound's work provided the basis for police to obtain a search warrant for Matthew's apartment and vehicle. Defense attorney Doug Ramseur unsuccessfully challenged the search warrant in court, arguing that the search dog's findings were inconsistent with witness accounts and video surveillance evidence, that detectives might have misled a magistrate to obtain the warrant and that there was not probable cause for police to conduct those searches. 
 
 Albemarle County Circuit Judge Cheryl Higgins ruled there were no "instances of deliberate misstatements and reckless disregard" of the truth in the affidavit supporting the search warrant and, although the dog's findings may have had inconsistencies, there were other arguments in the six-page affidavit that could constitute probable cause. 
 
 She read some of those points out loud: Witness statements put Graham and Matthew together on the night of her disappearance, at least one witness said she saw the two go to a bar on the Downtown Mall, and Matthew bought them each drinks using his debit card. 
 
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 This story has been corrected to show that the former detective's last name is Garner. ||||| UPDATE: 
 
 
 
 
 
 UPDATE: 
 
 Charlottesville, VA - Monday, a judge in Albemarle County heard evidence in the Hannah Graham case. 
 
 The defense filed a motion that the search warrants for Jesse Matthew's car and apartment shouldn't have been granted. 
 
 Lawyers subpoenaed 14 witnesses to appear, but it took well into the afternoon for the court to grant a motion for a hearing to question detective Stuart Gardner, who used his dog to track Hannah Graham starting about 3 and a half days after her disappearance. 
 
 The second witness was Detective Sgt. Mooney. 
 
 He shared Graham's text records, indicating she was lost and wandering around the downtown area the night of her disappearance. 
 
 He also said there's surveillance video of her in different areas, which we've seen, but there are some unexplained gaps in time. 
 
 The first witness, Detective Gardner handled the canine tracking Graham's scent for several days. 
 
 His dog, Shaker, found a very strong scent in a mulch pile around an industrial area, which the detective says translated into fear or adrenaline. 
 
 Detective Gardner says the dog also found Graham's scent at Hessian Hills apartments, at the passenger side door of Matthew's car, the entrance to Matthew's building and at the door frame of his apartment. 
 
 Detective Mooney testified the surveillance video was consistent with the trail of scent the dog found. 
 
 Mooney also said one of the surveillance videos showed a car resembling Jesse Matthew's around the time Graham was wandering eastbound. 
 
 We are still following what is coming out in court. 
 
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 UPDATE- New details about the investigation are coming out today in court regarding Jesse Matthew. 
 
 His defense is blaming police omission in the investigation. 
 
 The judge is doubting whether the search warrant should've been issued. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- A man who has been charged with killing two college students in Virginia is set to appear in court. 
 
 A pretrial hearing for Jesse LeRoy Matthew Jr. is expected to be held on Monday. 
 
 Matthew has been charged with capital murder in the September 2014 disappearance and death of 18-year-old University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, whose remains were found about five weeks after she disappeared. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. 
 
 Matthew also faces first-degree murder charges in the 2009 death of 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington. 
 
 Matthew is serving a life prison term for a 2005 attempted murder and sexual assault in northern Virginia. 
 
 At a hearing last month, a judge approved the hiring of a mental health expert to examine Matthew before his trial. ||||| 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. 
 
 Matthew said nothing.
– A former police bloodhound handler told a court on Monday that during the search for UVa student Hannah Graham, the animal detected her scent outside the car and apartment of suspect Jesse Matthew—and the scent of "fear and adrenaline" where she was allegedly attacked. The handler was testifying during a pretrial hearing where lawyers for Matthew, who is already serving three life terms in prison for a 2005 sexual assault, unsuccessfully challenged the search warrants police obtained for Matthew's home and vehicle, the AP reports. He said the 7-year-old dog, Shaker, traced Graham's scent from downtown Charlottesville to a mulch pile at an industrial site, where the smell of fear was strongest. Matthew, 33, faces a capital murder charge in the 2014 death of Graham, whose body was found on an abandoned property around six weeks after she disappeared. He has also been charged with the 2009 murder of a Virginia Tech student. At Monday's hearing, another police witness testified that, contrary to what the defense claimed, the scent trail was consistent with surveillance videos that showed Graham wandering around, reports WSET. The officer shared text message records indicating that she was lost the night she disappeared.The Washington Post notes that Matthew is seen walking alongside Graham in some of the surveillance videos.