February 29: The unsolved murder of Clifton Walker
Plus: youngest school shooting victim, college student murder plea deal, and more.
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2016: Jesse Matthew accepts deal in college student murders
On February 29, 2016, prosecutors released a statement to news outlets announcing that murder suspect Jesse Matthew had accepted a plea deal and would plead guilty to the murders of 18-year-old Hannah Graham and 20-year-old Morgan Harrington, both college students in Virginia.