{"id":6604,"date":"2015-06-29T10:50:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T17:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2015-07-19T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T17:57:11","slug":"richard-w-matt-artist-of-the-stars-and-vicious-gin-soaked-sociopath-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/29\/richard-w-matt-artist-of-the-stars-and-vicious-gin-soaked-sociopath-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard W. Matt, Artist-of-the-Stars and Vicious Gin-soaked Sociopath, Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/in-brief\/richard-matt-painter-convict-shot-312544\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from artnet<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Police Shoot and Kill Celebrity Portrait Painter-Convict Who Escaped Prison<\/h1>\n<p>by Christie Chu<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-311972\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/wp-content\/news-upload\/2015\/06\/julia-roberts-richard-matt-e1435307819130.jpg\" alt=\"Richard W. Matt Julia Roberts Photo: heavymetal.com\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>Richard W. Matt Julia Roberts<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Photo: heavymetal.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A nation-wide manhunt for the prisoner escapees from Dannemora Correctional Facility has come to an abrupt end, as the pair were both shot this weekend on separate occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Although\u00a0David Sweat\u00a0remained in critical condition, the other, Richard W. Matt, a convicted murderer, died last Friday due to three gunshots to his head, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/new-york-prison-escape\/escaped-inmate-richard-matt-died-three-shots-head-autopsy-n383406\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Besides being a\u00a0skilled\u00a0escapee, whose feats have been compared to those demonstrated by characters in the film <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/06\/09\/tim-robbins-has-had-enough-of-your-shawshank-prison-escape-comparisons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shawshank Redemption<\/a><\/em>, Matt was also regarded as a highly skilled painter.<\/p>\n<p>In an article from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/29\/arts\/richard-matt-dannemora-escapee-known-for-his-paintings.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>, Matt was described by a fellow prisoner, John Mulligan, as &#8220;the best in the system that anyone could recall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/in-brief\/richard-matt-painter-convict-shot-312544\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet Police Shoot and Kill Celebrity Portrait Painter-Convict Who Escaped Prison by Christie Chu Richard W. Matt Julia Roberts Photo: heavymetal.com A nation-wide manhunt for the prisoner escapees from Dannemora Correctional Facility has come to an abrupt end, as the pair were both shot this weekend on separate occasions. Although\u00a0David Sweat\u00a0remained in critical condition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}