
Escape from Dannemora
Richard Matt, David Sweat, and the Great Adirondack Manhunt
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Narrated by:
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Al Kessel
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By:
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Michael Benson
It was one of the biggest crime stories of the decade-two deadly killers, desperate and on the run. After months of planning, Ricky Matt and David Sweat cut, chopped, coerced, and connived their way out of a maximum-security prison in the wilderness of upstate New York and managed to elude police for three weeks, sending the region into lockdown and keeping the entire country on edge. The media called it "a bold escape for the ages," and veteran true-crime writer Michael Benson leads us along the story's every wild path to dig out a tale of adventure, psychology, sex, and brutality.
Escape from Dannemora examines the strange case of Joyce Mitchell, the long-time prison employee who had a sexual relationship with at least one of the killers, and who smuggled them tools and aided in the escape, while they cooked up a plan to kill her husband. In the end, Benson looks closely at conditions at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, a crumbling Gothic pile now under investigation for charges of drug trafficking and brutality.
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Better than expected
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Very interesting and informative
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Basic Summary of what was in the news
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The only thing I warn is that the reader, who is very good, tends to use a mob-ish, new-yorky, east-coasty accent whenever quoting anyone. It is unnecessary and actually detracts from the listening experience. But it is definitely not a deal breaker. Crazy story!
Useful but accents were...tiresome
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Good background on the true story
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An Open Comment to Al Kessel
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All over the place....scattered.
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Inaccurate....from the start.
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The story itself was hard to follow, I had to go back several times to know what was going on. I think half the book goes on to explain why the inmates were in prison, relatively brief narrative of the escape itself then an equally brief story of them being captured and the last several hours go on in detail of the aftermath and punishment of those involved.
I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone.
Long and flat story
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