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Jesse Matthew Jr: A Woman’s Worst Nightmare

A man who spread terror in every woman near him for fourteen years

Jules
7 min readDec 25, 2021
Jesse Matthew | Photo Credits: The Washington Post

From 2000 to 2014, Jesse Matthew Jr spread fear among the women he was around. Although the terror took a palpable form in 2002, many females had complained before it too that they did not like the way Matthew took his sexual advances or flirting too far. Considering the allegations, it did not seem that Matthew had any regard for the age of the women he approached. Although, Matthew’s ex-girlfriend was the only one who shed some light on his behavior. She stated that since he was sexually abused as a child, he had always approached females with a somewhat predatory aggressiveness that unsettled them to no end. However, it did not justify his actions.

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Jesse Matthew Jr | Photo Credits: News and Advance

Jesse Matthew was a character that a lawyer once described as Jekyll and Hyde. One who could be increasingly soft and polite to your face, while his other face was that of a predator with no scope of remorse. Due to his considerable size and passion for the sport, he was an asset to any college with a football team trying to establish itself. However, two years after…

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Jules
Jules

Written by Jules

Psychology Expert | MSc Social and Cultural Psychology

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