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In the early morning hours of July 4, 2002, Sweat, Nabinger and a third accomplice, Shawn Devaul, burglarized a fireworks store in Great Bend, Pennsylvania, to steal firearms. Sweat was known for elaborately planning burglaries he intended to commit with Nabinger, and they were arrested several times for in the late 1990s and were sent to prison. The two held short-lived jobs and became involved in the trade of marijuana. Д«y the time they were in their late teens, Sweat and his cousin Jeffrey A. After being sent to Florida to be raised by an uncle, he stole and wrecked his aunt's car and soon went into foster care. Sweat had a troubled childhood characterized by violent tendencies. David Sweat Дavid Paul Sweat (born June 14, 1980) was raised in the Binghamton metropolitan area by his single mother, Pamela Sweat, along with his two sisters.

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to face trial for Rickerson's murder, where Bates testified against him, and Matt received a 25-years to life sentence for second-degree murder, with no chance of parole until 2032. In 2007, he was extradited back to the U.S. Matt was soon arrested and given a 23-year sentence for murder in a Mexican court.

Matt tried to rob Perreault and then stabbed him to death at a bar as he was using the restroom.

On February 20, 1998, while in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Matt murdered a second man, Charles Arnold Perreault, an American engineer working at a local factory. Matt eventually killed Rickerson by breaking his neck before dismembering his body, throwing the parts in a river and escaping to Mexico. He and Bates drove to Ohio and back for more than twenty-four hours with Rickerson in the trunk of the car, periodically stopping to open the trunk to beat and torture their victim. Matt demanded to know the location of a large sum of money he believed Rickerson possessed. On December 3, 1997, Matt and an accomplice named Lee Bates kidnapped William Rickerson, Matt's former boss, from his home in North Tonawanda in an attempt to rob him. Having first escaped from a group home in his early teens, Matt had a history of escaping from correctional facilities.

A career criminal, Matt served recurrent prison terms in the 1980s and 1990s for various crimes including burglary, rape, theft and assault. Richard William Matt (JвЂ“ June 26, 2015) was born and raised in Tonawanda, New York, a suburb of Buffalo, and began receiving foster care along with his brother Robert early in life.

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