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Jun. 7—DANNEMORA — From the beginning, the escape from Clinton Correctional Facility by David Sweat and Richard Matt has been described "like something out of a movie." The story was ripe for ...
Less than three years after the real escape attempt at Clinton Correctional Facility, people around the world got to witness the drama behind the real-life caper once again - this time, on their ...
The escape came to a dramatic end on June 28th when then State Trooper Jay Cook encountered, chased and shot Sweat in Constable, a rural area of northern New York near the Canadian border.
DANNEMORA, NY (WVNY/WFFF) It’s been 10 years since the notorious Dannemora prison break that thrust the North Country into the national spotlight. Most of the world doesn’t know the small town ...
The escape was featured in a 2018 Showtime miniseries, "Escape at Dannemora," with Patricia Arquette playing the part of Mitchell. Mitchell was sentenced to 2 1/3 to seven years and was denied ...
In “Boyhood,” she raised the curtain on a single mom’s not-so-ideal life. In “Escape at Dannemora,” she shows us what could possibly lead a woman to conspire with criminals.
Dannemora, NY, June 7, 2015--MANHUNT--Corrections officers work through the evening inspecting cars and car trunks in their search for two escaped prisoners from Clinton Correctional Facility this ...
The search moves to Franklin County Over about two weeks, Matt and Sweat had walked nearly 40 miles, from Dannemora towards Malone. On June 22, 2015, the men’s DNA was found in a cabin near Owl ...
New photos show Joyce Mitchell living a bleak, reclusive life in upstate New York nearly 10 years to the day after she helped Richard Matt and David Sweat escape from Clinton Correctional Facility.
The escape was featured in a 2018 Showtime miniseries, "Escape at Dannemora," with Patricia Arquette playing the part of Mitchell.