dismembered him. lee bates served time after being an accomplice. he testified against it. and in a phone interview with anderson cooper, called matt evil. you wanted to take a picture of the devil, that s the face that you would see. bates rebs matt shoving a knife sharpener in his ear and breaking his fingers before killing him. i have seen hill kill. he did kill mr. rickerson, his old boss in my presence. and in rage he reached into the car, grabbed mr. rickerson by his head and snapped his neck in front of me. matt works for rickerson and was fired for poor performance weeks before rickerson s murder, according to testimony at trial. eric jensen knew both richard matt and david sweat.