Living Through The Dannemora Prison Escape! [Richard Matt & David Sweat] from Crime On Tap

Living Through The Dannemora Prison Escape! [Richard Matt & David Sweat]

52 minutes Posted Jun 21, 2021 at 1:00 pm.

 a.m. bed check at the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. Matt was serving 25 years to life and Sweat was serving life without parole, both for murder. The two prisoners had dug a tunnel out of the prison, with tools obtained from two cooperating prison employees. Nearly three weeks after the escape, Matt was found, where he was shot and killed; two days after that, Sweat was shot and taken into custody."

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Welcome back to another episode of Crime on Tap! On this weeks episode, we are going local. No... for real, Shawn lived 15 minutes away from the maximum security prison where two inmates convicted of murder, escaped! Shawshank 2.0! Listen as Shawn and Megan share personal stories about living in the area during the escape and how life at the prison took a turn once the madness was over.

"On June 6, 2015, two inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat, were discovered missing during a

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