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He testified against him, and in a phone interview with anderson cooper called matt evil. >> if you wanted to take a picture of the devil, that's the face that you would see. >> bates remembers matt shoving a knife sharpener in his victim's ear and breaking his fingers before killing him. >> i have seen him kill. he did kill mr. rickerson, his old boss, in my presence. in a fit of rage, he reached into the car, grabbed mr. rickerson by his head and snapped his neck in front of me. >> matt worked for rickerson and was fired for poor performance just weeks before rickerson's murder, according to...

A phone interview with anderson cooper called matt evil. >> if you wanted to take a picture of the devil, that's the face that you would see. >> bates remembers matt shoving a knife sharpener in his victim's ear and breaking his fingers before killing him. >> i have seen him kill. he did kill mr. rickerson, his old boss, in my presence. in a fit of rage, he reached into the car, grabbed mr. rickerson by his head and snapped his neck in front of me. >> matt worked for rickerson and was fired for poor performance just weeks before rickerson's murder, according to testimony at trial. >> i don't u...

When david sweat and richard matt first meet at clinton correctional facility, they have one thing in common, murder. sweat had been convicted of killing a sheriff's deputy back in 2002 and is serving a life sentence without parole. matt had been found guilty of three counts of murder, three counts of kidnapping, and two counts of robbery. he is supposed to be behind bars for 25 years to life. back in 1997, matt had kidnapped his former boss, william rickerson. after torturing him for about 24 hours, he killed him and then did the unimaginable. he dismembered him. lee bates served time after a...

What their ultimate plan may have been. >> and that plan remains elusive. all investigators know is that their getaway fell apart when joyce mitchell backed out, leaving the escaped prisoners without the ride they needed. with no transportation, the fugitive killers were just blocks outside the prison, scrambling to avoid capture. checkpoints and roadblocks were quickly set up as police searched each vehicle for anything out of the ordinary, imploring the public to be on the lookout. >> they could be holed up in a home somewhere, canned food, maybe watching the whole search on television, nice...

Rickerson's body and then dumped the parts in the niagara river. >> we found two severed legs with no feet. two different sections of a torso. >> reporter: detective glenn gardner of north tonawanda pd got the case. lee bates was soon arrested. lee bates was the star witness that helped us eventually put the case together. and also make an arrest warrant out for richard matt. but while bates served more than sixteen years for his role in the murder, richard matt fled to mexico before he could be arrested. >> he's only there a short time and he walks up behind a man in a bar. the man's in the m...