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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. 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. 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.

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.

#ESCAPE FROM DANNEMORA SUNDA MOVIE#

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. 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.

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