Dingy Prison News Today

Law enforcement is maintaining a strong and visible presence in this region. >> these people are in need. they are in need of money. they are in need to sustain themselves. they are hunkered down right now. they are somewhere. they are going to have to make a move. and at some point when they feel comfortable they are going to surface, they are going to make a mistake. >> suddenly, another reported sighting. and this one feels real. a witness says a man was running out of a cabin into the woods ...

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 might assist them. they have dropped some items and left some things behind that aids in our search effort that we have collected and submitted to the lab. >> the escapees left in such a rush, they left behind boots, dingy prison-issued underwear, and bloodied socks, the first...

Sweat, who was hiding under a truck, said the deputy opened fire first. then sweat got to his feet and started firing. one of sweats bullets hit tarsia in the stomach, reportedly striking his small intestine and a kidney. 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, an...

Very preliminary stages of 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. >> they 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...

>> 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 through here. and if you go down, you have got, like,...

It? >> i dont know why anybody is surprised. i think all americans know that crazy, lonely, low self-esteem type of people like prisoners in prison. women married the menendez brothers, a man married the hillside strangler who tortured women in l.a. with coat hangers. can never ceases to amaze me how women are seduced by these guys. >> mitchell isnt just risking her marriage. she is risking her freedom. all the while she is having this relationship with matt, investigators say she is also aware ...

Also, a source close to the 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 e...

Also, a source close to the 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 e...

Prison. women married the menendez brothers, a man married the hillside strangler who tortured women in l.a. with coat hangers. it never surprises me. >> mitchell isnt just risking her marriage. she is risking 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 d...

Strong and visible presence in this region. >> these people are in need. they are in need of money. they are in need to sustain themselves. they are hunkered down right now. they are somewhere. they are going to have to make a move. and at some point when they feel comfortable they are going to surface, they are going to make a mistake. >> suddenly, another reported sighting. and this one feels real. a witness says a man was running out of a cabin into the woods in franklin county, new york, jus...