Eighteen year-old Hannah Graham, a student from the University of Virginia, has been missing since September 13th. She was last seen during a night out with friends. They had eaten dinner at a restaurant and then stopped by two different off-campus parties. Graham left the second party alone and eventually sent a text to a friend saying she was lost. In surveillance videos she is seen walking unsteadily, and at times running past a pub, service station, and a seven-block strip of bars and restaurants. The search for her whereabouts has been ongoing and fruitless, but the police have recently discovered new information.

Saturday evening, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo announced that the law officials who have been searching for Graham found human remains on an abandoned property in a heavily wooded farm area, about 12 miles southwest of UVA’s Charlottesville campus. The remains have been taken to the Virginia Medical Examiner’s office in Richmond to be identified. Investigators have not yet confirmed the identity of the remains.

Jesse L. Matthew, an operating room technician at the University hospital was the last person seen with Graham. They were together in a bar during the early hours of September 13th. He has been the main suspect in the ongoing case. Last month, he was arrested and charged with abduction with intent to defile, and is currently being held in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.

On Monday, authorities brought additional charges against Matthew: the abduction and rape of a 26-year-old woman in suburban Washington D.C. in 2005. Forensic evidence has now also linked Matthew to the death of Morgan Harrington, a Virginia Tech student, who disappeared and was found dead in 2009. The location of Harrington’s remains was roughly six miles from where the remains were found Saturday. Matthew has not been charged with the murder of Harrington, but remains a suspect.