A Texas man convicted of killing his girlfriend who has been on the run for nearly a year has been found and is back in custody.
“On Thursday, December 29, 2022, at approximately 8:30 p.m., Matthew Edgar was arrested and detained by the US Marshall Service,” the Sabine County, Texas Sheriff’s Office said. posted on facebook Thursday night.
“He was immediately taken to the Sabine County Jail to await formal court sentencing.”
Edgar, who was convicted of murder in 2020 for the murder of his 19-year-old girlfriend Livye Lewis but fled before the guilty verdict was read in court, was reportedly detained while smoking a cigarette and standing sitting on the back porch of a house not far away. from his mother’s home near Hemphill, Texas, KJAS radio reported.
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Matthew Hoy Edgar was arrested Thursday after a year on the run
(Sabine County Sheriff)
Edgar, 26, was last seen in January leaving the Sabine County courthouse on $50,000 bail during his trial in which he was ultimately convicted and sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Edgar had allegedly threatened to harm himself and his family before disappearing, and many feared that he had committed suicide or fled to Mexico over the past year.
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Matthew Hoy Edgar has been on the run since January when he went on the run during a murder trial.
(Texas Department of Public Safety)
The sheriff’s office received “a number of” reported sightings in the hours and days after Edgar went missing and deputies investigated various leads but were unable to locate him over the course of the year.
In August, Edgar was added to the Texas Department of Public Safety’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list.
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Matthew Edgar was sentenced to 99 years in prison for killing his girlfriend in 2020
(Sabine County Sheriff)
“We have one on the Texas Most Wanted List,” Sheriff Thomas Maddox he told KFDM/Fox 4.
Maddox suggested that Edgar will not stay in Sabine County for long and will be transferred to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after a hearing.
