Matthew Edgar is a killer from Texas who was convicted of the murder of Livye Lewis
According to court documents Matthew Edgar would murder his girlfriend Livye Lewis inside of a vehicle following an argument. Livye Lewis was badly beaten and shot at close range with a shotgun. Edgar would be found nearby in a fetal position covered in her blood. Apparently Livye Lewis was talking to another man at a party and Matthew did not like
Matthew Edgar would be arrested and charged with her murder. However on the third of his trial he would disappear and remain on the run for the year. The trial would continue without him and he would be found guilty and sentenced to 99 years in prison
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SID Number: 08967992
TDCJ Number: 02426376
Name: EDGAR,MATTHEW HOY
Race: W
Gender: M
Age: 27
Maximum Sentence Date: 2121-05-31
Current Facility: ELLIS
Projected Release Date: 2121-05-31
Parole Eligibility Date: 2052-05-31
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Matthew Edgar Case
Authorities in eastern Texas need help finding a convicted killer, who has been on the run since January.
Matthew Edgar, 25, has been a fugitive since he failed to show up for his murder trial in late January.
Despite his absence, Edgar’s trial proceeded, and a jury found him guilty of killing his 19-year-old girlfriend, Livye Lewis. He received a 99-year prison sentence.
Lewis, who lived in Hemphill, was murdered on Oct. 31, 2020, in Texas’ Sabine County — a stone’s throw from the Louisiana border.
According to prosecutors, Lewis was found dead in a vehicle along Farm to Market Road No. 83. She died from blunt force trauma and a shotgun blast to the neck.
Officers found a blood-covered Edgar nearby, lying in the fetal position.
At his trial, prosecutors said Edgar was transported by ambulance to a local hospital. On the way, he told officials he last remembered drinking on a porch. When told Lewis was dead, detectives claim Edgar cried.
Lewis’ murder followed a party the pair attended. At the party, witnesses reported the two had argued, after Edgar called out Lewis for talking to another man. Lewis left the party on her own and Edgar, officials said, chased after her in his car.
Prosecutors shared text messaged from Edgar’s phone during his trial. One, from early on the morning of Nov. 1, 2020, came from the man Lewis had been speaking with at the party.
The man asked about Lewis’ whereabouts, to which Edgar replied, “dead.”
Police charged Edgar with the murder in November of 2020, and in April 2021, against the objections of prosecutors, a judge granted him $50,000 bond — which he eventually posted.
Lewis’ mother, Darci Bass, tells KPLC-TV she’d like to see her daughter’s killer behind prison bars, where he belongs.
“The pain of losing her, it’s not ever going to change,” Bass said. “I just want to start healing, you know. I mean, I am never going to walk the same. It’s like I’ve lost a limb, all of my limbs, and I’m learning to crawl again.”
Addressing Edgar specifically, Bass said, “Do what is right. You can’t hide from the lord.”
Sabine County Sheriff Thomas Maddox told the station his office was doing “everything we possibly can” to track down Edgar.
Maddox said he could be anywhere, and that there has even been a tip reporting that he was seen in Nevada.
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The U.S. Marshals Service has taken convicted murderer Matthew Edgar into custody after he was on the run for nearly a year, according to the Sabine County Sheriff’s Office.
In 2020, Edgar was charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend Livye Lewis, 19. She was found shot outside of Hemphill on Halloween 2020.
In early 2022, he attended the initial days of his murder trial in Hemphill before running off on Jan. 26, 2022.
He was convicted in absentia and sentenced to 99 years of confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Sheriff Thomas Maddox with Sabine County tells KFDM/Fox 4 that Edgar was captured without incident outside of Hemphill.
Edgar was reportedly sitting on the back porch of a house not far from his mother’s home east of Hemphill, smoking a cigarette, when federal agents captured him, according to Mike Lout with our media partner, KJAS radio.
A search spanned across Southeast Texas and investigators followed leads in several states, but Maddox tells KFDM/Fox 4 that it’s “unknown” if Edgar had been in Sabine County for the past 11 months.
Maddox indicated that Edgar would not be in the Sabine County Jail long and would be transferred to TDCJ soon after a hearing.
“We got one off the Texas Most Wanted list,” said Maddox.
Information below is from Sabine County Sheriff’s Office:
On Thursday December 29, 2022 at approximately 8:30 pm Matthew Edgar was apprehended and taken into custody by the US Marshals Service. He was immediately taken to the Sabine County Jail to await formal sentencing by the court
https://kfdm.com/news/local/murder-suspect-matthew-edgar-caught-after-nearly-a-year-on-the-run
