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| N.Y. inmates’ escape plot devolved into haphazard flight |
| By bostonglobe.com- Benjamin Mueller |
| Published: 06/30/2015 |
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After tunneling out of maximum-security cells, Richard W. Matt and David Sweat waited for the Jeep, driven by a cooperating prison employee, that would take them to Mexico. It never arrived. Eighteen days of cabin stays and bushwhacking later, the partnership that spawned one of the most improbable prison escapes in New York history crumbled, as Sweat left his older accomplice behind for fear that he was slowing them down. Until this weekend, investigators were a step slow, too, bogged down by dense vegetation, slow responses and miscommunication. But on Monday, a day after Sweat was shot and taken into custody by a state trooper in a freshly cut hayfield and three days after Matt was killed by a federal agent, new details surfaced about the three-week manhunt for the two convicted murderers that gripped remote stretches of northern New York. Read More. |
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