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Richard Matt’s Lifelong Escape Techniques

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In 2015, Richard Matt made headlines after he escaped from Clinton Correctional facility alongside fellow prisoner David Sweat. This was not Matt’s first time as he had been escaping from various facilities since he was thirteen years old. In 1986, he fled the Erie County Correctional Facility, alluding police for four days. In 2007, he was imprisoned in Mexico and almost escaped but was shot down.

Matt’s son commented “He’s been shot like nine times. It’s like they can’t kill him.” He was sent back to the U.S. where he was tried for murder. This would be his last escape attempt. As he and Sweat managed to tunnel their way out of prison that landed them 500 feet outside of the prison wall. Twenty days after his escape Matt was shot and killed by officers. Sweat briefly escaped but was also apprehended only days later.