will talk about the months before the prison break and during the manhunt. she'll also be answering your questions on twitter. the special report, the great prison he is came starts now. a brazen escape. >> there was a hole cut out. >> two convicted killers, cutting their way to freedom. emerging from a manhole outside the prison walls. >> we estimate they climbed down and had power tools. and were able to get out tonight facility. >> two dangerous murderers, now free. >> they kill anybody they feel like killing any time. how did they get the tools?

who helped them and what was their plan? >> we're leaving no stone unturned. a scend in the woods, false sightings. all part of a desperate search and along the canadian border. from the ground and from the air. >> they could have gone to the north toward canada. >> law enforcement on the hunt. two dangerous fugitives on the loose. and a dramatic ending nobody sees coming. tonight, a cnn special report. the great prison escape. hello. i'm standing yards away from the clinton correctional facility where richard matt and david sweat broke out of. it is the first time anyone has escaped from this maximum security facility since it opened back in the mid 1800s. that bold escape was just the beginning of a story that is almost too twisted to believe. involving murder, in a minute lags and sex.

before the sun began to rise over dannemora, they were gone. it was carried out by two very dangerous men. >> on a scale of 1-10, they're a 10 dangerous wild animal. >> reporter: the prisoners had adjoining cells here at clinton correctional facility. the two were last seen friday night. june 5th, around 10:30 p.m. during what is called a standing count. where they showed themselves standing inside the cells. just hours later. a shocking discovery. that would leave prison guards shaking their heads. law enforcement on high alert. and this small upstate new york community, terrified.

>> this is a very elaborate plan. determining exactly what happened. what happened would take time to piece together. all authorities knew at this point was that at 5:30 a.m., saturday, june 6th, routine bed checks turns up only lumps of clothing under the sheets. the two prisoners were missing. >> they weren't actual dummies but they were, they had clothing on and it looked like people were sleeping in the bunks with a sweatshirt hoodie on. >> how could they have disappeared? after all, this is a maximum security prison. there are visual bed checks every two hours throughout the night. and guard towers high above the prison walls. but as authorities began to take a closer look, details soon

emerged. not over the prison wall but underneath. >> the search revealed there was a hole cut out through the back of the cell through which they escaped. >> reporter: a hole in the back of the cell. this is what it looked like. the men cut their way right through cell wall and steel that was a quarter inch thick. the he escapees, the prisoners their first taste freedom in years when they popped out of that manhole right there. this is the closest that we're allowed to get to it. and it was a pretty bold exit plan. right over there is a health club. and it is surrounded by homes in this quiet neighborhood. so anyone who might have been outside and might have seen them could have quickly called police. the manshow a block and a half from the prison. where the governor retraces the

men's steps hours after they disappeared. pictures of the governor's tour are proof of the elaborate he is came. an escape, it turns out, they had actually practiced the night before. here's how they figure matt and sweat made it out. once they slimmed out of their cell, it is believed they maneuvered across this six-story high cat walk. eventually dropping down to a series of tunnels. from this they broke through the brick wall, and then cut through a 24-inch steam i'm that. and a block away they cut another hole. this time to get out of the pipe. after this they cut right through the chain and lock, holding down the manhole cover. >> if there was a rabid tiger or a rabid lion that could kill, these two guys are those kinds

of animals. they could kill anybody at the drop of a hat. >> a closer look reveals they had likely been using some type of metal grate to conceal the hole they were cutting. investigators believe they may have used a hacksaw to keep the noise down. >> all of our law enforcement partners are conducting a full investigation into the escape of these two inmates. >> the escapees left a message for those coming for them. this yellow post-it noept reads, have a nice day with a smiley face on it. >> sure. they're taunting. they're being arrogant. you stupid idiot. you were not watching and we got out. >> they vanished up there prison walls. >> a variety of tactical units,

a number of canine to include blood hounds. even three aerial support aircraft. two state police helicopters and one from homeland security have been in the air since this event occurred this morning. >> the urgency is here. 35-year-old david sweat and 48-year-old richard matt had killed before. >> i was worried they would kill someone again. i was worried they would kill somebody. they're both killers. killers so terrifying, they were worried they may turn violent again. go pro with crest pro-health. it's formulated to target and kill 99% of germs without the burn of alcohol. so you move to a healthier mouth from day one. what do a nasca comedian... and a professional golfer have in common?

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dismembered him. lee bates served time after being an accomplice. he testified against it. and in a phone interview with anderson cooper, called matt evil. >> you wanted to take a picture of the devil, that's the face that you would see. >> bates rebs matt shoving a knife sharpener in his ear and breaking his fingers before killing him. >> i have seen hill kill. he did kill mr. rickerson, his old boss in my presence. and in rage he reached into the car, grabbed mr. rickerson by his head and snapped his neck in front of me. >> matt works for rickerson and was fired for poor performance weeks before rickerson's murder, according to testimony at trial. eric jensen knew both richard matt and david sweat.

he served nine months in clinton correctional facility in 2011 for possession of stolen property. he worked in the tailor shop with both fugitives and described matt as crazy. >> to chop somebody up into pieces and put him into plastic bags and throw him in different parts of a river is in my book, that's kind of crazy. the aura you get from talking to somebody. you can look at rich's eyes and you wonderful see anything behind them. >> blank stare? >> blank stare. >> that was creepy. >> it was creepy. >> given richard matt's ugly past, jensen said he never turned his back on him. >> he had weirdo crime. like child molesters, serial killers, dismemberers, people who do weird crimes and do weird things. >> a weirdo crime means you're not stable.

>> correct. >> after matt killed his former boss, his half brother testified in court that matt told him he used a hacksaw to dismember rickerson. the half brother. matt threatened to kill both he and his wyche nelson gave matt his van to run away. >> he said he thought that he owed him back pay. >> matt took the van to texas where he band only it and then crossed into mexico. it wasn't long before he ran into trouble in that country. killing a imagine outside of a bar and then serving nine years in a mexican jail. when he was finally extradited to the u.s. to stand trial on rickerson's murder, the court reportedly installed time? ers outside in case he made a run for it. matt also wore electrods under his suit in court so guards could shock him if he became unruly. his former girlfriend likely

sealed his fate saying he testified to her that he had broken rickerson's neck. she said he told her it was an accident. perhaps just as cunning and dangerous was david sweat. at 35, he is supposed to spend the rest of his life behind bars here for killing sheriff's deputy kevin tarsia. after they had ronald a fireworks and gun store, deputy tarsia confronted them. tarsia's sister spoke by phone with anderson cooper. >> i never put him out of my mind. i always think about what did he and how awful this guy is. >> it was july 4, 2002. deputy tarsia pulled into the parking lot where the men were parked. in court the three suspects shared what happened next. sweat who was hiding under a truck said the deputy opened fire first. then sweat got to his feet and started firing. one of sweat's bullets hit him

in the stomach. reportedly his small intestine and a kidney. as the. sweat jumped into another vehicle and ran over the deputy. dragging him with the car across the parking lot. he was still alive when one of the other suspects then charged out of the woods. picked up the deputy's gun which he had dropped and shot him. point blank twice in the face. sweat was charged after police found a hand drawn map and sketch of the fireworks store with sweat's finger print on it. now sweat was also heading to prison where he would meet richard matt for the first time. and other inmates say, quickly become friends. the relationship made closer by the fact both are house in the what is called the honor block at clinton correctional facility. a prison block reserved for inmates who have gone years without significant disciplinary problems. it has its privileges like hot

plates and refrigerators in cells. here prisoners are allowed to congregate for hours with fellow inmates which may have given matt and sweat the time they needed to plot their escape. >> and there you have one person that you completely trust. that you'll do everything with. it is called go toe to toe with, knife to knife in the yard. it is that one person, if something pops off, you'll hold them down. and i believe that's the relationship they had after their cells got moved together. >> reporter: prisoners housed in the honor block are also allowed to wear civilian clothing. instead of the traditional prison garb. which also may have allowed them on blend in easier, once on the outside. their good behavior lands richard matt and david sweat jobs in the prison tailor shop cox that be where they access the tools needed to cut their way to freedom? >> it was truly extraordinary, unusual and almost impossible to

duplicate. we want to find out exactly what happened. one of the big questions is where did the tools come from? >> to answer that question, investigators begin to zero in on tailor shop one. where the escapees worked, alongside a prison seamstress named joyce mitchell. the more they look into joyce mitchell, the plot starts to unravel. complete with sex, betrayal and a plan to murder.

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on the surface, this woman seems the most unlikely accomplice to a crime. 51 years old, she is a wife and a mother, married to the same man for 14 years. but joyce mitchell has secrets. secrets that have handed her in jail. accused of helping two dangerous felons break free. >> i get many escapees on america's most wanted that would have never gotten out if wasn't for the woman who helped them. >> in this case, authorities say joyce mitchell is the one who helped them with their plan. how and why did this wife and mother become involved with two convicted murderers?

it all started with david sweat. in 2013 was working in the prison tailor shop. there he befriended mitchell. eric jensen also worked in the tailor shop with the fugitives and joyce mitchell. david sweat was jensen's supervisor. jensen said. believed sweat was having a sexual relationship with mitchell. >> she used to keep him back in the mess hall. we would go to the mess hall for lunch. he would be there eating all kinds of fried chicken, barbecued chicken. that was after labor day. i remember. she brought it in a styrofoam tray. you know the handsome jock asking the chubby fat girl to the prom. >> did people sort of joke? >> oh, yeah. we all joked. we used to call her his boo.

like girlfriend. >> did you ever ask him? >> he never confirm it or denied it. >> mitchell's attorney denials she ever had a sexual relationship with sweat. but whatever it was, it led to sweat being moved out of the tailor shop in 2013. with sweat out of there, richard matt could make his move. matt is known as a ladies man, a charmer who befriends mitchell. in 2013, the two start a sexual relationship according to a source close to the investigation. they have sex in the tailor shop when no one else is around. all this time, joyce mitchell keeps it a secret from her husband lyle, according to his attorney. even though lyle mitchell also work in the prison tailor shop and knew both richard matt and david sweat. >> joyce has established a pattern of deception. >> reporter: the form he fbi profiler said inmates can be

like predators. on the lookout for vulnerable prey which are often women who work inside the prisons. >> it starts small. asking for her to bring in a candy bar or asking her to bring in a stamp. there's wording that goes along something like this. if only i had met a woman like you 20 years ago, i would never be in this situation. so she would be very gullible in believing. that that's really something we refer to in the fbi as magical thinking. that an inmate who has that kind of a criminal background would tell that you and you would believe that. and then it goes even further, to the point where they engage in sex together and she becomes almost 100% compromised. >> compromised enough that joyce mitchell tells investigators, richard matt made her feel special. and other reports say she thinks it could have been love. but was she in so deep she was willing to risk everything for

it? >> i don't know why anybody is surprised. i think all americans know that crazy, lonely, low self-esteem type women write to prisoners in prison. women write to manson. a woman married the hillside strangler who married 17 plus women in l.a. and tortured them with coat hangers. it never seem to amaze me how women are seduced. >> she is risking her marriage and her freedom. all the while she is having this relationship with matt, investigators say she is also aware of their escape plot. even giving them tools. a law enforcement official says she admitted smuggling in hacksaw blades by hiding them inside frozen hamburger meat. and having the meat delivered to richard matt. investigators say she also secretly brought in chisels, drill bits and other items. and it didn't stop there. authorities say mitchell

admitted she was actually going to drive the getaway car. this is where they were supposed to meet. this power plant is just a few hundred yards away from the manhole where the men emerged from. the power plan smokestack is visible from the tailor shop where they worked. the d.a. said that smokestack was likely a marker for their meeting place. on the day of the planned getaway, she panics saying she had chest pages. instefd picking up her lover and his fellow fugitive, she goes to the hospital with her husband lyle. >> prisoners have all the time in the world. they're conmen to begin with. they got to this woman's low self-esteem and they got her. which i think is really pretty sad. now her life is ruined. her life is holy hell. they're out there running around and they couldn't care less about her. >> joyce mitchell is arrested on a felony charge of providing

prison contra band and a misdemeanor charge of criminal facilitation. she pleads not guilty to both charges. another prison employee, is accused of delivering the hamburger meat with the hacksaw blades hidden inside to the escapees. palmer, a guard who worked in the same cell block is charged with promoting dangerous prison contra band. two count of destroying evidence and one count of official misconduct. his attorney says palmer was unaware the blades were in the meat. but the d.a. says palmer failed on properly screen the meat in a metal detector, violating prison policy. >> he was conned by joyce mitchell. she duped him. and back only, he can't believe that someone would take advantage of him. he knows he made a mistake and he should not have done what did he. >> meanwhile, joyce mitchell's lawyer said she is distraught. but her story is far from over. lyle mitchell visited his wife

in jail after she was taken in and is confronted outside by abc news with a stunning question. >> what do you make of the reports that she was trying to have you killed? >> that's right. not only was joyce mitchell allegedly having a sexual relationship with a prisoner and potentially helping them plot their escape. authorities say she was also aware of a plan to have her husband killed. her change of heart about taking part in the plot to kill her husband come on the eve of the escape, according to the buffalo news. while the couple is out on a dinner date sharing ching he's food. mitchell's attorney. she was not involved in the plot. >> did you know anything about the escape plan? >> lyle mitchell's lawyer. he didn't know about any of his wife' activities until he confronted her two days after the escape. that's when she told him they wanted to kill him. lyle was stunned when he heard about the murder plot and feels

betrayed by his wife. >> i hate to use the cliche but love is blind. >> joyce mitchell remains behind bars. sticking to her story she didn't want lyle to be hurt. >> they have a plan to do harm to lyle. she doesn't agree with that. she doesn't want lyle hurt. they start threatening her saying we're going to have someone hurt him any way. we'll have someone hurt him in the facility or have someone go to the house and hurt him. you have to help us out. >> for a woman of many secrets, some are still unknown. is she telling investigators everything she knows? or does she have more information on where richard matt and david sweat are heading? [ male announcer ] take zzzquil and sleep like... the kids went to nana's house...

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a massive manhunt on the way. law enforcement moving into neighborhoods. going door to door leaving nothing to chance. what did the prison seamstress now accused of aiding in their escape really know? >> what do we know about their plan after they left the prison? >> well, she's been consistent. she's been consistent. it was seven hours from this area. and she didn't know whether it was somewhere in new york,

pennsylvania, vermont, canada. if we believe her to be telling the truth on that, then they were keeping her at bay about what their alternate plan may have been. >> and that plan remains elusive. all investigators know is that their getaway fell apart when joyce mitchell backed out. leaving the escaped prisoners without the ride they needed. with no transportation, the fugitive killers were just blocks outside the prison. scrambling to avoid capture. check points and road blocks were quickly set up. as police searched each vehicle for anything out of ordinary. imploring the public to be on the lookout. >> they could be holed up in a home somewhere. food, maybe watching the whole thing on television. nice and cool, nice and dry. >> lee bates is a form he accomplice of rich matt's. >> they have something in common that says we're out.

when they catch us, we're done. and their mine set will be, they probably won't take us alive. would be ominous insight. after nearly three weeks, residents here are on edge. >> state police have been by here, without exaggeration, probably 50 times in the last few days. >> have they asked you questions? >> yes. if i've seen anything, heard anything. the answer has been no. >> it looks like tracks leading here. we don't know if somebody went through here. if you go down, you have a little string coming down. if you follow string, it is a nice way out. >> this woman was checking her attic and basement every night before bed. >> somebody will see something somewhere. somebody will give it up. >> in dannemora, investigators concentrate on a perimeter near the prison. four wheelers kupt paths through rough terrain. the thick brush makes it hard to see. so search teams are resorting to

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canada. this is the border right here. or i can walk into canada, no questions asked. closer to the prison, tips were pouring in. in saranac, a resident thought he saw two escapees jumping over a wall. another alleged sighting, two men spotted walking in the middle of the night in the pouring rain. and another possible lead. near the pennsylvania border. two men seen leaving the woods near these railroad tracks. >> the state police is asking residents who live on this area, along the new york/pennsylvania border to be on alert. if they are spotted, please call 911 immediately. do not approach. both are considered to be very dangerous. >> despite warnings and calls to be on the lookout, nothing pans out. the search comes up empty. but investigators figure, it will only be a matter of time

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weeks have passed since richard matt and david sweat cut their way out of this prison to freedom. the first time anyone has ever escaped from maximum security here. and they are still on the run. but investigators have renewed hope that they are getting close. in the small town in new york, population about 500, a major break in the manhunt. a cabin owner calls police after noticing two men run out the back of his cabin. authorities discover dna evidence, proof that both fugitives had been inside this cabin. seen here from nbc news. after weeks of dead end leads, law enforcement now have something to go on. >> they have some basic supplies that you might find in a hunting

cabin. they have taken some items with them that may assist them. they left some items and left something behind. that we've collected and submitted to the lab. >> the he is camees left in such a rush, they left underwear and bloodied socks. the first pieces of solid evidence that puts the fugitives in this area of owls head, new york. this is just 20 miles from the prison. but still, finding them will be tricky. >> the weather, the terrain, the environment, and the vast skoem of the north country of the ad rona. adirondacks. >> just thick, thick vegetation that you can't see ten feet in front of you. >> making it even more difficult to track these killers, authorities have a hunch they are using picnic style peopler shakers to throw the search dogs off their scent.

meanwhile, residents in this quiet town are taking up arms and locking their doors. >> i have plenty of guns and ammunition. >> hopeful the two men will soon be caught. >> i am very concerned. these two convicts, they ain't got nothing to lose. >> it has been awful. i can't sleep. and then darkness hits. i'm wondering where they are, how they got out. >> another lead come in when a cabin owner notices an open bottle of gin in his cabin who calls his father and says to call the trumaners. a short, to call the troopers. and then there was a gunshot. >> i heard it. >> that gunshot was directed at a man driving along this road in franklin county, pulling a camper. the camper is hit by a bullet. the driver calls the police who end up here. just a few steps off the highway

an abandoned trailer where it turns out richard matt found shelter. inside, insects and spider webs. old sleeping bags in a closet. silverware in a mason jar and a tea spotted pot still on the stove. >> to my knowledge, he had been staying there a few days. and on the day after his birthday, on friday, he decided apparently to shoot at a passing camper. probably to slow them down and maybe commandeer it and take it but they kept going. >> law enforcement are closer than ever. they carefully close in on richard matt who was found lying here behind a tree. armed with a shotgun and in hiding. a cough gives him away. matt is just a five-minute walk from the abandoned trailer when

law enforcement shoots him dead. >> a tactical team from customs and border protection met up with matt in the woods, challenged him, and he was shot dead by border patrol at that time. we recovered a 20-gauge shotgun from matt's body at the location. >> matt never fires his weapon. he is fatally shot three times in the head. >> you never want to see anyone lose their life. but i would remind people that mr. matt was an escaped murderer, killed two people who we know about, killed his boss in a dispute and dismembered him. >> law enforcement rushed to the scene as word spreads that richard matt is dead. but where is his accomplice,

david sweat? >> 20 feet down the line. >> a perimeter is set up as investigators comb the area looking for nip sign of him. be but as the minutes and hours drag on, there is no sign of david sweat. and it is starting to become very clear that the manhunt is far from over. >> we have no reason to believe that mr. sweat was not with mr. matt at the time but we don't have any confirming evidence that he was either. there are several leads that are being tracked down as we speak about mr. sweat and his possible whereabouts. law enforcement quickly moves to track down those leads. and close the perimeter, hoping to get david sweat to surface. >> he's been on the run for three weeks. he's tired, fatigued. he is hungry. he is going to make mistakes. and once again, those calls that we get in, the leads we get from the public. i've been saying it right along.

something like that. >> but concern grows that david sweat had parted ways with richard matt long before matt was shot and killed. couldn't h right.

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>> three weeks after two prisoners pulled off the most stunning break, one of them is still on the run. by now, david sweat knows richard matt was shot dead by authorities. and he also knows he could be next. >> we're going to follow every lead. anywhere within the county or looks like it might have some credibility to it. >> search teams are hopeful they're closing in. they find a camp near route 41 in franklin county. close to where richard matt was killed. two days have passed since then and sweat is still nowhere to be found. and, still, so many unanswered questions. were the fugitives still

together when matt was quilled? had david sweat already made it to canada? and does he have a weapon, too? >> 1300 law enforcement scour this area looking for david sweat. but all it takes is one state trooper with a very keen eye who notices something strange along this road in constable, new york, just two miles from the canadian border. >> he spotted a male basically jogging up along this side of the road. he approached him. as he exited the car, the male turned to him. he said hey, come over here. the male kind of ignored him. called out to him again. at which time, the male turned around, kind of, like wharks do you want from me? and he recognized him to be david sweat. >> sweat ignores sergeant jay cook's commands and bolts across a field heading right for a tree line. so the new york state trooper, a trained firearms instructor, reportedly drops to one knee and

fires his weapon twice from 50 yards away. he hits david sweat both times in the torso. as word spreads over police radio that david sweat is down, law enforcement races to the scene. startling residents in this small, rural chunty. >> my wife ran out of the house and said oh, my god, something's going on up the street. and then i heard the shots. >> incredibly, sweat was just two miles away from crossing the canadian border. now, bloody and handcuffed, he is once again in custody. turns out, he is unarmed, but he does have with him a backpack full of supplies. bug repellent, wipes and pop tarts. also, sweat had somehow managed to swap his prison guard for camouflage clothing. >> the nightmare is finally over. mr. matt is deceased and the other escapee is in custody.

>> a kroud turns out to thank law enforcement. >> the nightmare is over, but the story is still unfolding. even in critical condition, david sweat begins to spill the details about the great escape. he tells investigators he'd separated from richard matt five days earlier because math was slowing him down. sweat says matt was out of shape and hitting the bottle too much after they'd broken into a cabin. >> sweat also shares they were going to go to mexico after escaping but had to itch vise when she was failed to be picked up. >> the mexico plan gets foiled and then they head north towards canada. >> and remember the plan to kill joyce mitchell's husband, lisle? sweat tells investigators it was actually mitchell's idea to kill her husband, before they all fled to mexico. her attorney denies that. also, a source close to the

investigation says that according to sweat, this was a plan long in the making. stwet told investigators beginning last winter, sweat cut a hole in his cell, first. and then matt's cell. sweat would leave his cell every night in search of an escape route. the new york times reports that sweat cut through a withdrawal when steam was being blown on him. an inmate told richard matt he heard noise coming fr sweat's cell as the two were cutting through the wall with a hacksaw. the paper says matt explained it away saying he was stretching canvas for one of his paintings. it turns out sweat and matt made a practice run the night before the actual escape. but when they emerged fr a manhole, sweat told authorities there were just too many houses.

so they went back to the prison and pulled it off the next night using a different manhole. sweat also confirms the escapees hasn't used power tools at all. just hacksaw blades. he adds they did use a sledge hammer they'd found under ground to knock down a brick wall on the way out. an impressive jailbreak. that the one surviving else quail pea will be able to think about behind bars for many more years to come.

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