According to the author and her interviews with the former fugitive, he allegedly said that he’d already served enough time in prison for his crime of murdering a police officer and deserved to be out, despite serving 12 years of the life prison sentence he was given. He was ordered to pay $80,000 in restitution and had more years added to the life sentence he’d already been given for his original murder charge.Ĭhelsia Rose Marcius, author of, Wild Escape: The Prison Break from Dannemora and the Manhunt that Captured America, spoke to Sweat after his capture and he allegedly told her that he had no regrets about how it all went down and felt justified in escaping. The two gunshot wounds to his abdomen severely wounded him, but he miraculously survived. At the time, New York State Police stood by their decision to fire at an unarmed Sweat since he was considered to be dangerous and had run when he was ordered to stop. It’s almost poetic that Sweat was so close to the border and his perceived freedom, but you have to assume that in the event that he made it to the border, he would have been caught anyway. Only with more jail time added and less charming fellow inmates. On the day of the escape, Matt and Sweat try to avoid mistakes. Unlike Matt, Sweat lived to tell his very Shawshank Redemption-esqe story. He was eventually shot twice in his torso. Two days later, police found Sweat walking through a field near a country road less than two miles from the Canadian border, unarmed, and a chase ensued. The seven-episode series was created and written by Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin and directed by Ben Stiller. It is based on the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape. Matt was found near a cabin 20 miles south of the Canadian border and was shot and killed by a Customs and Border Protection SWAT team when he didn't comply with orders to lower his own weapon. Escape at Dannemora is an American crime drama television limited series that premiered on Showtime on November 18, 2018. Police officials had reason to believe that the escapees would make a run for the Canadian border to secure their freedom outside of the United States, so they set up a perimeter to keep a close eye on the area where they believed the men might go to hide and wait it out. And 22 very long days later, it was over. But since it’s based on true events and Sweat is the lone survivor out of the pair, you have to wonder how it all went down.īoth convicted murderers escaped through a tunnel they dug with smuggled tools thanks to the help of two willing prison employees. After watching Showtime’s Escape at Dannemora, however, you’re going to be asking, how did David Sweat get caught in real life? Escape at Dannemora reads like a movie of the week - or a much darker, male version of Orange is the New Black. They were both later caught and while Matt was shot and killed by a customs agent, Sweat is still alive. And, we will get back to you shortly.In 2015, two inmates from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, Richard Matt and David Sweat, pulled off the escape of the decade when they literally tunneled their way out of the prison. Escape At Dannemora is a limited series based on the stranger than fiction 2015 prison break of two inmates from the Clinton Correctional facility in upstate. To get in touch with Sunriseread or to tell us about a Story or Press Release, just send an email to lindahopkins128 . An employee at a prison in upstate New York becomes romantically involved with a pair of inmates and helps them escape.ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA Official Trailer (.
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