(CNN) — Jesse Matthew Jr. is expected to enter a plea agreement in court this week “to resolve both the Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington abduction and murder cases,” a prosecutor said Monday.
“In the interest of protecting the integrity of the judicial process,” Albemarle Commonwealth Attorney Robert N. Tracci said in a written statement, “our office is unable to provide any additional details as to the specific details of the plea agreement, or any other information related to the case, at this time.”
A hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Tracci said.
Prosecutors had said they planned to seek the death penalty if the Graham case went to trial.
Graham, an 18-year-old University of Virginia student, went missing in September 2014. Authorities found her remains the next month on abandoned property 8 miles from where the college sophomore was last seen.
After investigators said they believed he was the last person to see Graham before she went missing, Matthew, a former cab driver, was taken into custody. He faces a capital murder charge in that case.
Harrington, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student, went missing in October 2009 after attending a Metallica concert in Charlottesville. Her remains were discovered on a nearby farm in January 2010. Last year a grand jury indicted Matthew on charges of first-degree murder and abduction with the intent to defile in the Harrington case.
Last year a judge sentenced Matthew to three life sentences for the 2005 sexual assault of a 26-year-old woman in Fairfax, Virginia.
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