In the interim, following the Rickerson murder, Matt fled to Mexico, stabbed a man to death, and served nine years behind bars there (and purportedly attempted to escape) before being extradited to the U.S. However, he wouldn’t be convicted of that act until 2008. In December 1997, he and an accomplice kidnapped, killed, and, with the aid of a hacksaw, dismembered Matt’s former boss William Rickerson, who was 76 at the time. Matt had two children: Nicholas (whom he conceived with his childhood crush and eventual girlfriend Vee, who raised Nicholas alongside his stepfather), and a daughter Jamie (conceived with ex Lucille Cliffa-Longo), who recently penned a book about her largely estranged relationship with her dad.Īs you can see in this video, Matt was primed for perpetrating more serious acts of violence by the time he was 30. Those who knew him then insist he was a menacing bully by elementary school and bona fide felonious criminal come early adulthood, even escaping an Erie County jail circa 1986. He was then raised in the upstate town of Tonawanda, close to the Canadian line, by foster parents. According to his son Nicholas Harris, Matt was left as an infant in a car. Border Patrol agent Christopher Voss in the woods of upstate New York, he’d been all but cast aside in his youth. Decades before the 49-year-old convicted murderer and multiple-time prison escapee was shot and killed by U.S. Richard Matt was born under the proverbial bad sign. But the reality is that they did these brutal crimes, so that's why I felt it was important to have it be shocking and brutal, as a viewer after sort of being lulled into the reality of who they were now.Richard Matt (Played by Benicio Del Toro) just guys in prison trying to get out, which is what your experience would be of them if you met him the way I met David Sweat, as a guy just sitting there across from me. you've developed this sort of impression of who these guys are based on who they've been for the last five hours of the series. But it's very brutal, and I mean the intention behind it was hopefully, as an audience, you are jarred because. It came down more as we were editing it, got less and less in terms of what we saw. I had to kind of go off my own subjective feeling about what was important to see about what did.
#DR BAIK ESCAPE FROM DANNEMORA SERIES#
On waiting until late in the series to reveal the gruesome murders that landed Sweat and Matt in prisonĭirector Ben Stiller says he was intrigued by Matt and Sweat's escape story: "What really interested me was how they were able to do this, how they were able to get away with this."
At the same time, he offered up all the details that I could ask for and was really specific. I think he really made it clear that he knew that he had done something wrong, and didn't want to seem that he was kind of proud of it.
My experience with him was that he was very affable and he had a sense of not really wanting to boast about in a way that seemed like he had accomplished something that was good. I mean the details of the escape are really the most interesting thing to me about talking to him and why I wanted to talk to him. So I just wanted to sit across from him and see what he had to say about the escape, especially. I wrote a letter to him, and then the Department of Corrections, when they decided to start helping us, offered us access to go meet with him if he agreed to meet. I wanted to meet with him, mainly because I'd spent so much time on the research. On interviewing David Sweat, who was captured and returned to prison on June 28, 2015 The series also dives into the complicated relationship between Matt and Sweat (played by Benicio del Toro and Paul Dano) and Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell ( Patricia Arquette), the civilian prison worker who enabled their escape. Stiller explores the nuts and bolts of the escape, which involved sledge hammering through brick walls and cutting into and shimmying through an 18-inch steam pipe, in his seven-part Showtime series Escape at Dannemora. "It seemed like such an old-fashioned sort of escape, and I thought, 'Wow, how can that happen in today's prison system?' " "What really interested me was how they were able to do this, how they were able to get away with this," Stiller says. So when he heard about Richard Matt and David Sweat, two convicted murderers who used tools provided by a prison employee to break out of a New York state maximum security prison in June 2015, he was intrigued.
Paul Dano and Benicio del Toro play inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt in Escape at Dannemora.īen Stiller loves a good escape story.
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