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How Escape at Dannemora Actors Compare to Their Real-life Counterparts
Meet the real people behind Ben Stiller’s dramatization of Richard Matt and David Sweat’s prison escape, and learn where they are now.
In case you were wondering: Yes, Richard Matt and David Sweat — the two inmates who escaped an upstate New York maximum-security prison in 2015, with only one living to tell the tale — were both lifelong bad seeds and brutal murderers. Finally, on the eve of July 4, 2002, after burglarizing a Pennsylvania fireworks store with two friends, Sweat and his accomplices were confronted by local Deputy Sheriff Kevin Tarsia in nearby Kirkwood, New York. Ironically, Leahy Scott originally hailed from downstate in Nassau County, Long Island, and earned both her bachelor and legal degrees from Hofstra University, a few miles from her home base in Levittown.
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