Prosecutors accuse a police officer of allying with a known criminal for a murder

A new judicial investigation points out that Richard Matt, one of the most notable criminals in New York history, was the one who actually killed a woman in Buffalo for whose murder two robbers were blamed without evidence almost 30 years ago, according to the newspaper. from The New York Times.

This new theory grew out of an investigation by two prosecutors in Erie County, New York, who presented their findings to their boss, District Attorney John J. Flynn, in August.

Because prosecutors have not released details publicly, it is unclear what they believe implicates Matt in the murder.

Neither would comment either, although one of them is attempting to testify in the case, according to the aforementioned newspaper.

Flynn, however, rejected this hypothesis, claiming that they did not accept his decision "with the professionalism that is expected."

Prosecutors also made another incendiary claim:

, the detective who investigated the crime.

Richard Matt escaped from prison in 2015. Getty Images

In February 1993, Deborah Meindl, a nursing student with two young daughters,

The initial suspect was her husband, who had once said he wanted to kill her.

But the investigation soon turned to two thieves who ended up being convicted despite a lack of forensic evidence.

In a motion filed in state Supreme Court in October, defense attorneys said

in 2015, before he was killed by a federal agent.

Matt allegedly confessed it to another inmate with whom he had escaped from jail.

However, DNA tests have not only cleared the two thieves convicted of the crime, but also Matt himself.

James Pugh, one of the robbers, was recently paroled. The other, Brian Scott Lorenz, is still in prison.

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A detective who was like a father to Matt

David Bentley, the lead detective who investigated the crime and whom prosecutors pointed to in his theory, strongly denied any involvement and offered to submit to a lie detector test.

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" he said, adding that he had not met Meindl and that he had testified against Matt in another murder case, The New York Times reports.

Bentley, who retired in 2003, helped raise Matt's daughter, Jamie, after he was convicted of murder;

and in an interview and in text messages he

, whom he used as an informant in his day.

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“I identified with Rick: I felt bad for him,” she said, “you could almost say I loved him.” Bentley also suggested that Matt “was known to brag about all kinds of things that never existed”.

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" he concluded.