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after Matthew Edgar was charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend Livy Lewis his family paid his bail and who was
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released with an ankle monitor on on the third day of testimony his defense attorney Rob Hughes got a call it was
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Matthew's mother who called to tell him that Matthew had fled and was now a fugitive she just started frantically
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telling me that Matthew was gone Matthew had run and he had taken a gun with him
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she was afraid he was going to kill himself authorities said he waited for the battery to run out on his ankle
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monitor before leaving his home on foot after deliberation the jury had found Matthew guilty of Lewis's murder but
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authorities still had to track him down Livy's mom Darcy says she heard rumors that Matthew's mother had been spotted
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buying her son's favorite cigarettes and liquor in large quantities Jeff couter a
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special Deputy with the US Marshals spent nearly a year working with the Sheriff's Office and other law
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enforcement agencies around the country to chase down every lead that came their
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way and we had put in a lot of hours a lot of weekends a lot of late nights then a tip that Matthew might actually
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be hiding in plain sight just yards from his grandparents property in this house
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that belonged to a family friend we were going to enter into the woods make our way up to the back of the property get
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as close as we could and sit there and see if we could get a visual of him while Coulter led a team of three men
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into the woods JP mcdunn and his deputies were on the opposite side of the house out of sight in their vehicles
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if cter and his men made a positive ID on Matthew they would finally have him cornered we went in about 4:30 in the
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afternoon we knew it was going to get dark about 5:30 we got to probably about 100 yards of the house and we heard
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barking um come to find out they had a pretty good sized right Waller in the backyard we're out there for an hour or
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so we could hear voices we could hear female voice we could hear male voice but it's so thick we can't
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see then we catch a violent thunderstorm and it lightning and thunder and torrential rain it was miserable but it
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was a blessing in disguise the noise covered our movement they were 30 yards from the house when a second storm hit
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but there was no giving up that's 11 months and 2 days this needed to end tonight drenched and exhausted Coulter
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and his team could hear voices on the back porch of the house but couldn't see faces until about 8:00 p.m. when a man
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stepped off the porch walks around the side of the house and he stands there one of coulter's men immediately
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recognized that man as Matthew Edgar he goes he's here I got eyes on him we got word that they had made a confirmation
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drove down pulled in the driveway back of the back back back watch the front I got I got movement they're in the house
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once we saw the lights it was a 30 yard Sprint all four of us we break the corner and we started screaming law
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enforcement police sheriff's office anybody inside come out with your hands up he jumps up and he throws himself
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against the wall like oh crap you got me yeah it was over with did you guys make
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eye contact absolutely he said hey JP I said hey Matthew and then he asked me you hadn't
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proven my innocence yet and I said no Matthew I have not Coulter says that's not all Matthew had to say that night he
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said please don't shoot my mother mother please come out of the house his mother
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is in the house his mother's at the house was she crying was she upset no I think she acted amazed that he was a
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like she didn't know what was going on really yes I'm going to jail for something I don't even know nothing
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about was she arrested as well not at the time she was not can somebody get my with mass your medicine on January 3rd
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2023 Matthew Edgar was formally sentenced for the murder of Livy Lewis 99 years in prison with the possibility
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of parole after serving 30 years