debra fairic joins us now. we are learning tools were allegedly smuggled in some frozen meat? >> reporter: exactly right. joyce mitchell gave a colleague at the prison a corrections officer a piece of frozen hamburger meat. the men have hot plights in their cells to use it to make food. apparently that piece of meat didn't go through the metal detectedors. it's in that meat investigators believe come contraband was inside. that's what they are looking at now. >> wow. would the person she gave it to have known? >> that's an excellent question. the corrections officer who is now on paid leave -- it appears he did not know. his lawyer is saying if he helped in the escape it was completely unwith ittingly. at a place of work you have conversations with people, talk to them get to know them. it looks like rich matt was a mastermind. >> we are going to talk to that correction guard's attorney coming up on the. practice. in terms what have the inmates have access to right now, is it clear if they are monitoring news broadcasts on the radio or communications? >> that's a good question

now i want to bring in cnn's debra fairic with more on the crimes these two men committed and why authorities say they are so dangerous. good evening, deb. these two men are about as dangerous as it gets. what do you know about them starting with richard matt, the older of the two men? >> reporter: they are inzy deed extremely dangerous. that's why authorities are putting such a huge push on trying to capture them. they do believe if given the opportunity there is every possibility they could kill again. richard matt he killed two people one of them in the most brutal way possible. it was a former boss an elderly man by the name william pickerson who owned a food delivery business. matt was working for him when he went to his home duct taped him and tortured him trying to extort money. well the older man said he didn't have any money. and that's when matt and an accomplice threw him into a car, into the trunk of the car. they drove for some 27 hours again beating this man all the while trying to make him give them money. and then richard matt snapped his neck. moreover not doenl did he kill h