Cop killer Eddie Matos maintains his current address: Green Haven Maximum Security Correctional Facility in the upstate.
Matos, who is serving a 25-year-to-life sentence for the October 1989 murder of Anthony Dwyer, has been denied parole for the seventh time, officials announced this week.
“My family and I are very happy with the result. I’m disappointed that I have to start all over again in less than two months,” Dwyer’s sister, Maureen Brisette, 45, told the Post.
“I hope the board continues to do what is right and keep this cop killer behind bars.”
A two-person parole board was split in April 2023 on whether to release Matos, but a three-person board later voted to keep Matos behind bars.
That decision was later abandoned due to a technicality, paving the way for the board’s most recent vote.
His next attempt at freedom will take place in June.
“It is absolutely insane that this cop killer would get another chance at freedom just weeks after being denied freedom,” said Patrick Hendry, president of the Police Benevolent Association.
“This family of heroes didn’t get the chance to bring back their brother and son, and yet they must continue to relive this nightmare every few months to keep their killer behind bars.”
Dwyer’s family will never forgive Matos for his deadly act committed decades ago.
On Oct. 17, 1989, Matos and three accomplices smashed the glass door of a McDonald’s at Seventh Avenue and 40th Street with a sledgehammer and arrested the employees at gunpoint, according to court documents.
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A maintenance worker escaped and returned with Dwyer — who had worked at the Midtown South Precinct for two and a half years — and two other officers, who saw Matos running toward the back of the restaurant and climbing a ladder to at the roof. Dwyer quickly followed.
Once on the roof, Matos pushed the young officer into a 25-foot air shaft.
Matos was captured the next day.
He was sentenced in 1990 to 25 years to life in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder.
“He can rot in hell,” Dwyer’s mother Marge said of Matos.
Dwyer was a volunteer firefighter and a devout Catholic who taught Sunday school at St. Vincent de Paul in Elmont, Long Island.
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