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- To escape, Matt sneaked past a guard and climbed a 9ft (2.7m) wall. The razor wire at the top of the wall scarred his hands. His son, Richard Harris, told the Buffalo News that his father showed off the scars, boasting of the escape attempt. Police found Matt five days later at his brother's house in Tonawanda.
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On June 6, 2015, while serving a 25 years to life sentence for Rickerson's murder, the 48-year-old Matt and 34-year-old David Sweat executed an elaborate escape from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York and became the subjects of a trans-national manhunt.
The 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape was a jailbreak that took place on June 6, 2015, when two inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat, were discovered missing during a 5:17 a.m. bed check at the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, United States.
Jul 28, 2015 · Richard Matt, left, and David Sweat were on the run after they escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on Saturday, June 6. Matt was killed by police on Friday,...
Jun 8, 2016 · Last year, two convicted murderers pulled off a brazen escape from Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in the town of Dannemora, in upstate New York. Richard Matt and...
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Aug 27, 2015 · Three weeks after inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from an upstate New York prison, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol unit brought into the hunt for the fugitives jumped into two...
Sep 19, 2016 · Matt was shot and killed June 26 in the woods 30 miles west of the prison; Sweat was captured two days after that, heading for the Canadian border. New details released in a Freedom of...
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Jun 8, 2015 · Richard Matt’s former fiancee, a step-brother and co-defendant took turns at Matt’s trial providing details of the 1997 kidnap, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of Matt’s 76-year-old former boss, whose body was found in pieces in the Niagara River.
