Before Jesse Matthew is tried for the abduction and killing of a University of Virginia (UVA) student, he will go on trial for rape and attempted murder.

Matthew, a 33-year-old who once worked at UVA's hospital, was charged in Fairfax County with the sexual assault and attempted murder of a 26-year-old female. The incident occurred in 2005 and forensic evidence linked him to the crime when he was arrested and processed in the UVA student's case.

According to Reuters, Matthew's trial for the 2005 Fairfax rape case is scheduled to start Monday with jury selection and is expected to last two weeks. The alleged victim in the case flew to Virginia from India late last week for a hearing to determine if her testimony was reliable.

Conviction on his charges in the case could result in a lifelong prison sentence. However, Matthew potentially faces the death penalty if convicted of abducting, sexually assaulting and murdering Hannah Graham, a UVA student who first went missing in Sept. of last year.

The charges in that case, to which he has pleaded not guilty, include attempted capital murder during abduction, abduction with intent to defile, and sexual penetration with an object.

But there is a third case - a homicide - Matthew was linked to thanks to DNA evidence in the Graham case, the Washington Post noted. Matthew is suspected to abducting and killing Morgan Harrington, a Virginia Tech student who went missing after attending a concert in Charlottesville.

Matthew has not been charged in that case, but police previously disclosed his DNA was on evidence collected at the time.

Shortly after Graham's body was found, Matthew was arrested in Galveston, Texas and then extradited to Virginia. Skin under the victim's fingernails was a 99.9 percent match to Matthew's DNA.

That trial is expected to start by the end of the year.

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