His life was into turmoil,” a friend of Sweat’s mother, Pamela, told the New York Times. He was also partly the outcome of a dysfunctional upbringing. Though 14 years Matt’s junior, David Sweat was himself no stranger to skirting the law. As one retired police captain who had his brushes with Matt told the Washington Post, “He’s the most vicious, evil person I’ve ever come across.” Matt was ultimately put down for good a mere ten miles from Malone, New York, the hometown of Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell. In the interim, following the Rickerson murder, Matt fled to Mexico, stabbed a man to death, and served nine years behind bars there (and purportedly attempted to escape) before being extradited to the U.S. However, he wouldn’t be convicted of that act until 2008. In December 1997, he and an accomplice kidnapped, killed, and, with the aid of a hacksaw, dismembered Matt’s former boss William Rickerson, who was 76 at the time. Matt had two children: Nicholas (whom he conceived with his childhood crush and eventual girlfriend Vee, who raised Nicholas alongside his stepfather), and a daughter Jamie (conceived with ex Lucille Cliffa-Longo), who recently penned a book about her largely estranged relationship with her dad.Īs you can see in this video, Matt was primed for perpetrating more serious acts of violence by the time he was 30. Those who knew him then insist he was a menacing bully by elementary school and bona fide felonious criminal come early adulthood, even escaping an Erie County jail circa 1986. He was then raised in the upstate town of Tonawanda, close to the Canadian line, by foster parents. According to his son Nicholas Harris, Matt was left as an infant in a car. Border Patrol agent Christopher Voss in the woods of upstate New York, he’d been all but cast aside in his youth. Decades before the 49-year-old convicted murderer and multiple-time prison escapee was shot and killed by U.S. Richard Matt was born under the proverbial bad sign. Richard Matt (Played by Benicio Del Toro)
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