Matt, armed with a 20-gauge shotgun, was laying in the woods, aiming at the agents. and Canadian law enforcement sent reinforcements in an effort to keep them from potentially making it out of the country.Ī tactical team was deployed to a cabin and inside, the team noticed the smell of gunpowder. That day, officials had announced they had reason to believe Sweat and Matt were planning to head to Canada, so U.S.
He wanted to continue his odyssey and escape.” One killer is stoppedĪfter Sweat abandoned him, Matt moved on, but on June 26 Matt found himself surrounded by police near Elephant's Head, New York, about 50 miles away from the prison. “As his frustration level grew, he talked increasingly about harming members of the public or law enforcement, and Sweat really apparently wanted no part of that. Any of these cabins where he could find alcohol, he would drink,” Charles Guess of the New York State Police told ABC News’ "20/20" in 2015. However, in their rush to flee the scene, vital clues - including a toothbrush and razor with their DNA - fell out of Matt's pack.Īuthorities later learned that at this point Sweat was getting fed up with the increasingly unstable Matt and decided to ditch him. On June 20, near Owls Head, New York, 20 miles from the prison, a man stopped by his unlocked hunting cabin and saw signs of activity, including a misplaced coffeepot, a missing shotgun and a map ripped off the wall, and he alerted authorities.Īuthorities said Sweat later told them that Matt was prepared to take the cabin owner hostage with the shotgun, but Sweat was able to convince him to leave.
Matt started to freak out, but Sweat told authorities that he stayed level-headed and convinced Matt to follow him into the woods. Sweat later told authorities that soon after he and Matt escaped, people pulled up to a house on the block near the prison and asked the men what they were doing in their yard. Sweat allegedly told investigators he and Matt originally planned to flee to Mexico, but without Mitchell's car, they ditched the Mexico plan and decided to head to Canada. In 2015, Matt and Sweat were inmates at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, about 20 miles south of the Canadian border. On the two-year anniversary, here's a look back at Sweat and Matt's shocking prison break and where the key players involved in the ordeal are now: 'SHAWSHANK'-STYLE PRISON BREAK SPARKS MASSIVE MANHUNT The prisoners Matt, 48, had been shot and killed by a border patrol SWAT team days earlier.Īs the manhunt and subsequent investigation unfolded, a portrait of a broken prison system emerged, one that officials said both men took advantage of to stage their high-profile escape. On June 28, 2015, after 22 days on the run, Sweat, now 37, was shot and taken into custody near the New York-Canada border, ending what was the largest manhunt in New York State Police history. Weeks earlier, the two men had escaped from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York in dramatic fashion with the help of a female employee they seduced and a correctional officer who unknowingly provided them with the tools they needed to break out. Today marks two years since the manhunt for convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt came to an end. — - It was a story straight out of the movies.
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