Two killers on the run from a northern New York prison for three weeks disagreed over whether to hole up in hunting cabin — one worried about being captured while the other suggested they could kill ...

A judge vacated the convictions of two men accused of killing Deborah Meindl in her Tonawanda, N.Y., home. On Friday, the district attorney began trying to convict them once more. By Jesse McKinley ...

The prisoners were caught after a three-week manhunt. — -- A three-week manhunt for two escaped prisoners, called a "nightmare" by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, came to a violent end this past ...

DANNEMORA, N.Y. -- The woman charged with helping two murderers escape from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York had discussed with them a murder-for-hire plot involving her husband, ...

The former accomplice of slain escaped murderer Richard Matt told NBC News he was relieved to hear Matt was no longer on the loose, saying that "it feels like finally a nightmare is over." Lee Bates, ...

Art may calm disturbed minds, but Richard Matt’s knack for drawing didn’t keep him from snapping his 72-year-old boss’s neck in 1997. It did, however, help him bust out of prison. According to the New ...

DANNEMORA, N.Y. -- Two civilians who encountered escaped murders Richard Matt and David Sweat said they are "lucky to be alive now" after seeing the convicts on the night they escaped. The friends, ...

David Sweat and Richard Matt's escape from the maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York baffled law enforcement and state officials in June 2015. The escape inspired the ...