Prison Escapee Richard Matt shot/killed

[hunter49]

Wouldn't of had this problem if lifers were exicuted to begin with, approx 60,000 a year to keep in jail, and a million a day to look for them when they escape, immediate death by firing squad 325.00 (60 bucks per person an hr (5 on a squad )plus cost of bullets. Savings to taxpayers multi millions....

   Agree 100%.!  Speaking of tax payers money did anyone else notice the state/prison issued bunk beds, mattresses, pots, pans & other items in the correction officers hunt cabin ?  Looks  like tax payers may be outfitting some hunt cabins. Also one has to wonder why they walked past other cabins & ended up in a cabin owned by correction officers?  What could 2 killers offer/do for anyone on the outside,why help them? Makes no sense.

 

[Mr VJP]

Clearly capital punishment is alive and well here in the empire state.

 

Only when capital murderers escape and resist arrest.

 

The Liberals have made carrying out capital punishment more expensive than giving them life sentences.  The amount of appeals and court proceedings required to carry out the sentence became so long, and so expensive, states that abolished the death penalty did so on monetary considerations alone.

 

So, all of the costs incurred by taxpayers for these felons, be they executed or kept alive for 80 years, or escaped and sought at our expense for weeks, are the fault of bleeding heart liberals.  They own it!

 

Doesn't seem to bother them at all though.  No matter how much any of their desires raise costs to taxpayers, they simply mouth the same mantra.  Raise Taxes!

[growalot]

This is such an interesting read...I'm going to say the following and let me be clear..think what you want,for I know my heart and mind to the following statement and it's purely fact and nothing more..Thank God he/ they weren't of any color other than white...it would be weeks of BS other wise.

Edited June 27, 2015 by growalot

[Freytown]

Tomorrow David Sweat will get his tightie-whites soaked with forecasted rain. I'm sure the black flies and mosquitos are eating well too.  

Edited June 27, 2015 by Freytown

[fasteddie]

Tomorrow David Sweat will get his tightie-whites soaked with forecasted rain. I'm sure the black flies and mosquitos are eating well too.  

 

He might be high and dry in someone's cabin ............

[Lawdwaz]

Or laying dead in a ditch.

[ants]

This is such an interesting read...I'm going to say the following and let me be clear..think what you want,for I know my heart and mind to the following statement and it's purely fact and nothing more..Thank God he/ they weren't of any color other than white...it would be weeks of BS other wise.

I heard they were both "white african american, latino, asian female males who identified as lawn furniture"

[Merlot]

In stead of stuff like this stretching out for weeks, Just put collars on inmates with tracking hardware built in the minute the prisoner arrives at prison. Should discourage this kind of behavior....easier to find people who wander away from prison...Oh wait, that would be inhuman....

[Lawdwaz]

Pretty interesting article from today's Buffalo News.......................

 

http://www.buffalonews.com/feed/matt-was-ill-drunk-when-found-sweat-continues-to-elude-searchers-20150627

 

 

MALONE – One desperate man continued to elude 1,200 police as they searched 22 square miles of rugged, mountainous land in the northern Adirondacks on Saturday.

As the search for cop killer David P. Sweat stretched into its 22nd day, investigators have begun to piece together the last days of his fellow escapee, Richard W. Matt.

He was probably miserable.

When he was gunned down Friday afternoon, Matt, the two-time murderer who grew up in the City of Tonawanda, was sick and drunk.

It also looked like he had been outdoors for a long time, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation into the prison escape.

The indication that he was sick came Wednesday night, as an army of federal, state and local law enforcement officers went door to door at homes and camps around Owls Head and Malone. A burglary of a cabin on Route 41 was reported.

That is where police found soiled underwear, the source told The Buffalo News, and a DNA test showed they belonged to Matt. The underwear also told investigators that Matt was ill, possibly from having consumed spoiled food or bad water.

And police believe Matt was intoxicated when he was killed.

That clue came after authorities were alerted to another cabin burglary Friday morning, this time a camp at the base of Humbug Mountain just off Route 30, the main north-south artery through the area.

Malone Town Supervisor Howard F. Maneely said Saturday that his nephew, Robert Willett, owns the camp.

“He went in there Wednesday to check on things and it was all OK,” Maneely said.

But his nephew’s son discovered a far different situation when he returned Friday morning.

“The camp had been broken into and there were booze bottles on the table,” the supervisor said. “That’s when he got hold of the authorities.”

There was a half-empty bottle of gin and other bottles on the table, a law enforcement source said.

Maneely described the camp as typical of those in the area, used mostly during the fall deer season and for summertime family picnics. It features a kitchen, lounge area and three small bedrooms.

 

Finding Matt

Several hours later, a man who was hauling a camper on a trailer through Route 30 reported that someone had fired a shot at his camper while he was driving. At first, he thought it was a flat tire. He got out and checked it, found nothing, and drove another eight miles before finding the bullet hole.

State police went to investigate and traced the path back eight miles, where they found another camp that had been broken into. Inside, they smelled gunpowder.

A tactical team from U.S. Customs and Border Protection was helicoptered in and as they searched, they found Matt.

He had a 20-gauge shotgun at his side, officials said.

From his clothes and appearance, it looked like he had not bathed in a long time and had spent a great deal of time in the outdoors, a law enforcement source told The News.

The tactical team challenged Matt, who did not give up his weapon. He did not say anything before he was shot, the source said. He did not fire his weapon.

A strong odor of alcohol emanated from Matt’s body, the law enforcement source said.

The News last week reported that as a young man, Matt had twice tried to commit suicide. And the special prosecutor who won the murder conviction against Matt said that he had been told in 2008 that, if Matt ever escaped, he would not be taken alive, according to the Associated Press.

But a law enforcement source said it did not appear that Matt was committing “suicide by cop” when he was shot.

Matt’s body was sent to Albany Medical Center on Saturday and was scheduled for an autopsy.

His breakout from Clinton Correctional Facility with Sweat and the massive manhunt captivated the nation and led to wild speculation about where they could be hiding out.

But in the end, Matt died just 40 miles from the prison.

He was 49. His birthday was Thursday.

 

Search for Sweat

But Matt’s death brought investigators no closer to finding his accomplice.

Authorities thought Friday night that they had Sweat surrounded. Investigators have been operating under the assumption that Sweat was near Matt when he was killed about 4 p.m. Friday.

But the last time they had any evidence that Sweat was still in the area came from DNA samples collected from a seasonal hunting camp in Owls Head that had been discovered burglarized June 20, the first of four cabins where police believe the two had taken shelter. That cabin is located about eight miles east of where Matt was shot.

The News incorrectly reported Saturday that DNA from Sweat had been found Wednesday in the cabin on Route 41 where the underwear was found.

And there have been no confirmed sightings of Sweat.

So it is possible the two parted ways days – possibly even a week – ago.

Saturday night, investigators were waiting for results on DNA tests on items recovered from the cabin where the gunpowder was smelled to determine whether Sweat had been there.

In the meantime, the armies of federal, state and local law enforcement officers weren’t letting up on the search around Titus Lake, even with heavy downpours of rain forecast for Saturday night and all day Sunday.

Asked how long the search would continue, State Police spokesman Beau Duffy answered Saturday: “Until we catch him.”

“For the foreseeable future, we will either find him in that area or decide he’s not there,” Duffy said, adding that there is no contemplation of leaving the Malone-area search now.

He also said morale remains high among the searchers.

“I hear them all the time say they won’t stop until they find him,” he said. “That’s their attitude.”

 

Lake Titus search

Police believe Sweat is armed. That means people living on and around Lake Titus remain confined to their properties as police shrink the perimeter established around where Matt was killed.

“It’s nerve-racking right now. But it also makes us feel safer knowing that the police are so close,” said Frances Anderson, who lives on State Route 30 within the roadblock, in the area being searched most intensely Saturday.

Police have walked through her property for access to some of the wooded tracts where Sweat might be hiding.

Anderson said that when she saw spotlights being moved in Friday night, she thought police were close to finding him, and she was mildly disappointed to learn at daybreak that he remained at large. But she noted that one man can find many places to hide in the dense Adirondack woods.

Robert A. Reyome, 63, a retired painter who has lived in the area for more than 50 years, said the forest around his residence is “so wooded, so dense.”

“If someone was standing 5 foot from you, you’d have trouble seeing them,” Reyome said.

“He’ll never make it,” he said of Sweat’s chances against the elements and terrain.

“Their 21 days of freedom,” Reyome said, “wasn’t much of freedom.”

News Staff Reporters Matt Spina and Charity Vogel contributed to this report. email:

 

[Nomad]

In stead of stuff like this stretching out for weeks, Just put collars on inmates with tracking hardware built in the minute the prisoner arrives at prison. Should discourage this kind of behavior....easier to find people who wander away from prison...Oh wait, that would be inhuman....

In the 1,991 prison movie Wedlock , the collars would explode .......

Or just give each prisoner an I Phone. It'll never leave their hand and one can track it quite easy .

Edited June 28, 2015 by Larry302

[fasteddie]

In the 1,991 prison movie Wedlock , the collars would explode .......

Or just give each prisoner an I Phone. It'll never leave their hand and one can track it quite easy .

 

I remember that movie . Collars would be paired with another prisoner but they didn't know who they were paired with . If the two paired collars got too far apart , they would explode . Sounded like the ideal baby sitter for prisoners !

 

[Nomad]

I had to look it up, I had a faint recollection of it as well as a Star Trek episode that had collars .

[Water Rat]

Even though David Sweat deserves to die , I sincerely hope he is captured or surrenders. He was originally sentenced to life without parole and now faces an additional 7 years for felony escape (which is redundant.)

The best part of his capture would mean he would be placed in SHU (special housing unit ) in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. The only human contact he would have would be with correctional staff. That would be a hell of a lot worse than being dead. Dying would be too good for him.

[bkln]

....and who would be paying for this "treatment"? Sorry, I would spend $.25 on a bullet and be done with it. You kill, you get killed it is so simple IMO.

[greg54]

He could be dead already, or close to it from being out in the elements for so long

[Hock3y24]

David sweat shot and captured!

[fasteddie]

He should have been captured and shot !