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11:30 and 5:00? whats going on? apparently it appears the guards were sleeping. the amount of noise he had to be making with a sledgehammer -- he said he used a sledgehammer on that pipe and make that noise for a month trying to get through the pipe with just a hacksaw, thats incredible. >> incredible. arthur to harrys point, impossible to believe they still pulled this off. is it -- its possible that david sweat, that he had been roaming the tombs for months without any of the prison guards not...

Killing a california couple and their two children is postponed. charles merit is the accused of former business associate of the father. he is charged with murdering the entire mcstay family. prosecutors say he beat them to death with a sledgehammer. the family disappeared in february of 2010 but their remains were not found until 2013. now this trial is postponed after merritts attorney says he is filing a motion challenging the prosecution to name the date the family died because without that...

Jihadi cause. they are constantly being barraged with this message from those that are operating abroad to wreak harm against u.s. citizens here in the united states any way upon. unlike al qaeda which has typically looked for the big impact major news story. these new terrorists are looking to impact a little bit at a time. use a knife, use a gun, use a sledgehammer to hurt people. what the director is saying is that by using encrypted technology the fbi, which is necessarily uses interception ...

Hammer, that sledgehammer, and used it to bludgeon to death his wife first. >> they found her notes there on the shag carpet submerged in a pool of blood. >> one of her earrings was found in the study on the floor. >> once he had killed her, he took her back into the master bedroom, laid her on the bed, then you go upstairs and you see where the 14-year-old son was murdered. blood everywhere. >> he did not have a background of criminality or violence, so how could somebody whos very much like my...

Smiting trees in his way. the east and the west are mine. theres a tremendous ego, i dont need anything, i will take a sledgehammer and hammer anything in my way. >> the stale cadaver blocks up the passage. the burial waits no longer. >> he drove 275 miles south, then to a state road, then to a rural road, then the logging road wasnt even on the maps. truly, you dont just find this spot happenstance. he had to have been down there before.

So if you snitch and say this is where they keep their codes, their weapons, they dont want the gangs inside the prison. >> was there any inclination among -- i say the authorities there or the higher ups that this was going on? you knew it as a prisoner, your fellow prisoners knew it but was it sort of accepted at the top? >> i believe there was an officer on that said theres no secret inside a prison. everybody knows everything. so if the warden the superintendent did not know what was going o...

Of david sweats story can authorities really believe? >> they have to you know sort of weave through that. they just dont know. they know he is a convicted cop killer. they know hes escaped from prison. but they are listening to what he has to say. they want to hear what he has to say and he certainly is talking quite a bit from his hospital bed. what he has led authorities to certainly believe is that it was much easier to break out of this place than anyone could have imagined. after two days ...

Section of albany medical center investigators say they have heard enough for now. sweat saying escaping with richard matt wasnt as complex as you might think, using hacksaws to cut through their walls and a steam pipe they snuck out night after night. and they came across a sledge hammer breaking down a brick wall. they first tried one manhole in a dry run but it was too close to a neighborhood. >> they felt that due to there being a number of houses in that area that it might not be a good spo...

Days later. lets get the latest from kyung lah. >> reporter: good morning, john christine. they concluded the interview with david sweat. it was easier to break out of the correctional facility than anyone could have imagined. sweat detailing that he and his accomplice used hacksaws to get out of their jail cells and cut into the piping that they were able to slip in and out of their cells at whim. they made it to an underground passage way and they found a sledgehammer left behind by a construc...

Smell alcohol on him from feet away. and we have kyung lah in albany with the latest. >> reporter: investigators completed the interview of david sweat for now. he has been talking to them from his hospital bed. he has been saying a lot. first and foremost leading investigators to understand it was a lot easier to break out of the correctional facility than anyone could have imagined. sweat detailing to investigators that he and his accomplice used hacksaws, manual hacksaws to get out of the jai...