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Relationship with sweat. but whatever it was raised eyebrows and led to sweat being moved out of the tailor shop in 2013. and with sweat out of there, richard matt could make his move. matt is known as a ladys 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 atto...

Practiced the night before. heres how they figure matt and sweat made it out. once they slipped out of their cell, its believed they maneuvered across this six-story high catwalk, eventually dropping down to a series of tunnels. from there, they broke through a double brick wall, then, incredibly, cut through a 24-inch steam pipe, shimmying their way through it. on the other end, about a block away from the prison by then, they cut yet another hole, this time to get out of the pipe. after that, ...

Were the fugitives still together when matt was killed? had david sweat already made it to canada? and does he have a weapon, too? 1300 law enforcement scour this area. all it takes is one trooper with a keen eye who notices something strange along this road in constable, new york, two miles from the canadian border. >> he spotted a male basically jogging up along the side of the road. he approached him. as he exited the car, the male turned to him. he says, "hey, come over here." the male kind ...

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...

When david sweat and richard matt first meet at clinton correctional facility, they have one thing in common, murder. sweat had been convicted of killing a sheriffs deputy back in 2002 and is serving a life sentence without parole. matt had been found guilty of three counts of murder, three counts of kidnapping, and two counts of robbery. he is supposed to be behind bars for 25 years to life. back in 1997, matt had kidnapped his former boss, william rickerson. after torturing him for about 24 ho...

Who in 2013 was working in the prison tailor shop. there, he befriended mitchell, the prison seamstress. eric jensen also worked in the tailor shop with the fugitives and joyce mitchell. david sweat was jensens supervisor. jensen said many believe sweat was having a sexual relationship with mitchel. >> she used to keep them back from the mess hall when we would come back from the mess hall for lunch, and she would keep him there and he would eat all kinds of chicken and other meals. that i remem...

So they went back to the prison and pulled it off the next night using a different manhole. sweat also confirms the escapees hadnt used power tools after all, just hacksaw blades wrapped in cloth to make them easier to use, to cut through the steam pipe and cell wall. but, he adds, they did use a sledgehammer they had found underground to knock down a brick wall on the way out. an impressive jail break that the one surviving escapee will be able to think about behind bars, authorities hope, for ...

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...

She ever had a sexual relationship with sweat. but whatever it was raised eyebrows and led to sweat being moved out of the tailor shop in 2013. and with sweat out of there, richard matt could make his move. matt is known as a ladys 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,...

>> a relieved community 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 had separated from richard matt five days earlier because matt was slowing him down. sweat says matt was out of shape and hitting the bottle too much after they had broken into a cabin. sweat also shares that they had planned to go to mexico after escaping, but wer...