2007 file photo of Richard Matt, when he was returned to Western New York to face trial for the 1997 slaying of 76-year-old William Rickerson.
A massive manhunt is under way for Niagara County torture-killer Richard W. Matt and another prisoner who escaped from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in the Adirondacks.
Matt was serving 25 years to life for the 1997 torture murder of North Tonawanda businessman William Rickerson. While on the lam, he killed a man in a barroom brawl in Mexico. In the early 1990s, he was involved in a murder-for-hire plot and escaped from the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden.
Here are stories from The Buffalo News archives about Richard Matt:
2015: Two escapees' state of mind reflected in parole hearings
2015: Escaped killer's son shares memories of his notorious father
2011: Security issues aired in Matt's bid for new trial in murder
2008: Sheriff acts fast to send killer Matt to prison right after sentencing
2008: Portrait of Richard Matt's troubled life of crime
2008: Accomplice testifies about torture, murder of businessman who had fired Matt
2007: Suspect in grisly 1997 slaying brought back for trial
1998: Tonawandan a suspect in slaying of businessman
1993: Man who helped foil murder-for-hire plot gets prison in unrelated rape, stabbing
1992: WNY man seen as key to probe of California murder-for-hire plot
