Texas fugitive who skipped out during girlfriend’s murder trial found
Matthew Edgar, a Texas fugitive convicted of murder, was arrested nearly a year after he skipped out on his girlfriend’s murder trial.
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A Texas fugitive from Hemphill convicted of murder was arrested Thursday night by U.S. Marshals after he was on the run for a nearly a year. The Sabine County Sheriff’s Office says marshals arrested Matthew Edgar who is convicted of the murder of his girlfriend at the time Livye Lewis, 19, in 2020, according to Beaumont station KBMT.
Edgar went on the run January when he didn’t show up to the third day of testimony during his murder trial. He was convicted on January 27, 2022, while law enforcement searched for him.
In August, Edgar’s sister told KLTV in August that his family wasn’t sure if he was alive or dead at the time and thought he may have taken his own life.
U.S. Marshals didn’t say where they found Matthew Edgar, pictured above.
Courtesy of the Sabine County Sheriff’s Office
During the trial, it was revealed Edgar argued with his girlfriend over her having a conversation with another man at a 2020 Halloween party, People reported. Lewis left the party on her own and Edgar chased her in his car.
She was later found dead with a shotgun wound to her neck on FM 89 in Hemphill. Edgar was found not far from her car lying on the ground in the fetal position.
The man Lewis was speaking with at the party sent a text to Edgar asking where she was, to which he replied “dead.”
Edgar is now in the Sabine County Jail and is sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murder of his Lewis.
