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Investigation says that according to sweat, this was a plan long in the making. sweat told investigators beginning last winter sweat cut a hole in his cell first, then matts cell. sweat would leave his cell every night in search of an escape route, wandering through the tunnels beneath the prison. the new york times reports that at one point sweat cut through a wall when steam started blowing unbearable heat on him. sweat says he rigged a fan to help cool him using electricity from the tunnels l...

Going to be, they are not going to take us alive. >> and that would prove to be ominous insight. after nearly three weeks into the search, residents here on edge. >> state police have been by here without exaggeration probably 50 times in the last two or three days. >> have they asked you any questions? >> yes, they have. if ive seen anything, heard anything. the answer has been no. >> it looks like tracks leading here. you have got broken pieces down here. so we dont know if somebody went throu...

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. on saturday, june 6th, routine bed checks turned up only lumps of clothing under the sheets. the two prisoners were missing. >> you this werent actual dummies, but they were -- they had clothing on, and it looked like people were sleeping in the bunks with a sweat shirt hoodie on. >> how could they have disappeared? after all, this is a maximum security ...

Cabin. they have taken some items with them that might assist them. they have dropped some items and left something behind that aids in our search effort that we have collected and submitted to the lab. >> the escapees lefted in such a rush they left behind boots, dinghy prison issued underwear and bloodied socks. the first 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. >> there are a number of f...

As the deputy struggled for his gun, 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 deputys 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 sweats fingerprint on it. now sweat was also heading to prison, where he would meet r...

Three weeks after two prisoners pulled off the most stunning escape ever from this maximum security prison, one of them is still on the run. by now, its believed david sweat knows his partner in crime, richard matt, was shot dead by authorities. and he also knows he could be next. >> we are going to follow every lead, whether its within that perimeter, adjacent to that perimeter, or anywhere within the county or anything that looks like it might have some credibility to it. >> search teams are h...

Involving manipulation and sex. before the sun even began to rise over the small town of dannemora, new york, they were gone. an escape plan worthy of a screenplay carried out by two very dangerous men. >> on a skain scale of one to ten, they are a ten, dangerous wild animal. >> prisoners richard matt and david sweat had adjoining cells here at clinton correctal facility. the two were last seen friday night, june 5th, around 10:30 p.m. during whats called a standing count where both matt and swe...