had used a hacksaw to dismember rickerson. the half brother also said matt threatened to kill both him and his wife unless he gave matt his van to run away. he told me mr. rickerson he thought mr. rickerson owed him back pay. matt took the van to texas, where he abandoned it and then crossed into mexico. it wasn t long before he ran into trouble in that country, killing a man outside of a bar, and then serving nine years in a mexican jail. when he was finally extradited to the u.s. to stand trial on rickerson s murder, the court reportedly installed snipers outside just in case he made a run for it. matt also wore electrodes under his suit in court so guards could shock him if he became unruly. his former girlfriend likely
described matt as crazy. to chop somebody up into pieces, and, you know, put him into plastic bags and throw him in different parts of a river in my book, that s kind of crazy. it s weird the aura you get from talking to somebody when you talk to somebody like, you could look at rich s eyes and you wouldn t see anything behind them. blank stare? they would be like a blank stare, yeah. that was creepy, i would imagine. it was creepy. it was very creepy. given richard matt s ugly past, jensen says he never turned his back on him. he had a weirdo crime. weirdo crimes are child molesters, serial killers, dismemberers, people who do weird crimes and do weird things. a weirdo crime means you are not stable? correct. correct. after matt killed his former boss, his half brother testified in court that matt told him he had used a hacksaw to dismember
acting as richard matt s accomplice in that 1997 murder. he testified against him. and in a phone interview with anderson cooper called matt evil. if you wanted to take a picture of the devil, that s the face that you would see. bates remembers matt shoving a knife sharpener in his victim s ear and breaking his fingers before killing him. i have seen him kill. he did kill mr. rickerson, his old boss, in my presence. in a fit of rage he reached into the car, grabbed mr. rickerson by his head and snapped his neck in front of me. matt worked for rickerson and was fired for poor performance just weeks before rickerson s murder, according to testimony at trial. i don t understand that. eric jensen knew both richard matt and david sweat. he served nine months in clinton
law enforcement shoot him dead. a tactical team from customs and border protection met up with matt in the woods, challenged him, and he was shot dead by border patrol at that time. we recovered a 20-gauge shot dpun from matt s body at the location. matt never fires his weapon. he is fatally shot three times in the head. you never want to see anyone lose their life, but i would remind people that mr. matt was an escaped murderer, killed two people who we know about, killed his boss in a dispute and dismembered him. we have one guy down. law enforcement rushed to the scene as word spread that richard matt is dead. but where is his accomplice,
boss, his half brother testified in court that matt told him he had used a hacksaw to dismember rickerson. the half brother also said matt matt threatened to kill both him and his wife unless he gave matt his van to run away. he told me mr. rickerson he thought mr. rickerson owed him back pay. matt took the van to texas, where he abandoned it, and then crossed into mexico. it wasn t long before he ran into trouble in that country, killing a man outside of a bar, and then serving nine years in a mexican jail. when he was finally extra indicted to the u.s. to stand trial on rickerson s murder, the court reportedly installed snipers outside just in case he made a run for it. matt also wore electrodes under his suit in court so guards could shock him if he became unruly. his former girlfriend likely sealed his fate testifying that he confessed to her he had