richard matt is dead. but where is his accomplice, david sweat? we are going to space it out 20 feet down the line. a perimeter is set up as investigators comb the area looking for any sign of him. but as the minutes and hours drag on, there is no sign of david sweat and it s starting to become very clear that the manhunt is far from over. we have no reason to believe that mr. sweat was not with mr. matt at the time, but we don t have any confirming evidence that he was either. there are several leads that are being tracked down as we speak about mr. sweat and his possible whereabouts. law enforcement quickly moves to track down those leads and close the perimeter, hoping to get david sweat to surface. he has been on the run now for three weeks. he s tired. he s fatigued. he s hungry. he is going to make a mistake. and once again, those calls that we get in, those leads that we get in from the public i ve
just a few steps off the highway, an abandoned trailer, where it turns out richard matt found shelter. inside, insects and spider webs, old sleeping bags and a closet, silverware sitting in an old mason jar, and a teapot still on the stove. john shodat lives right across the street. to my knowledge, he had been staying there a few days. and on the day after his birthday, on friday, he decided, apparently, to shoot at a passing camper. probably to slow them down and maybe, you know, commandeer it and take them somewhere. but they kept going. law enforcement are closer than ever. they carefully close in on richard matt, who is found lying here, behind a tree, armed with a shotgun, and in hiding. a cough gives him away. matt is just a five-minute walk from the abandoned trailer when law enforcement shoot him dead. a tactical team from customs and border protection met up
relationship with sweat. but whatever it was raised eyebrows and led to sweat being moved out of the tailor shop in 2013. and with sweat out of there, richard matt could make his move. matt is known as a lady s man, a charmer, who befriends mitchell. in 2013, the two start a sexual relationship, according to a source close to the investigation. they have sex in the tailor shop when no one else is around. all this time, joyce mitchell keeps it a secret from her husband, lyle, according to his attorney, even though lyle mitchell also worked in the prison tailor shop and knew both richard matt and david sweat. joyce has established a pattern of deception. former fbi profiler mary ellen o toole says inmates can be like predators on the look
been saying it all along. something like that is going to tip this case. but concern grows that david sweat had parted ways with richard matt long before matt was shot and killed. search teams are racing against the clock, fearing this dangerous killer could be making a run for the border. they couldn t have been more right.
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