A Texas man who has been on the run for almost a year after being convicted of killing his girlfriend has been captured and is back in custody.
“On Thursday December 29, 2022 at approximately 8:30 pm Matthew Edgar was apprehended and taken into custody by the US Marshall Service,” the Sabine County Texas Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook Thursday night.
“He was immediately taken to the Sabine County Jail to await formal sentencing by the court.”
Edgar, who was convicted of murder in the 2020 killing of his 19-year-old girlfriend Livye Lewis but fled before the guilty verdict was read in court, was reportedly apprehended while smoking a cigarette and sitting on the back porch of a house not far from his mother’s house near Hemphill, Texas, KJAS Radio reported.
Matthew Hoy Edgar was arrested Thursday after a year on the run
(Sabine County Sheriff )
Edgar, 26, was last seen in January when he left the Sabine County Courthouse on a $50,000 bond during the trial when he was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Edgar had allegedly threatened to hurt himself and his family before he disappeared. Many feared that Edgar had either committed suicide or fled to Mexico over the past year.
Matthew Hoy Edgar has been on the run since January when he fled during a murder trial
(Texas Department of Public Safety)
The sheriff’s office received “a number of” reported sightings in the hours and days following Edgar’s disappearance. Deputies investigated various leads but had been unsuccessful in tracking him down 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 got one off the Texas Most Wanted list,” Sheriff Thomas Maddox told KFDM/Fox 4.
Maddox suggested that Edgar will not remain in Sabine County for long and will be moved to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after a hearing.
