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Before the sun began to rise over dannemora, they were gone. it was carried out by two very dangerous men. >> on a scale of 1-10, theyre a 10 dangerous wild animal. >> reporter: the prisoners had adjoining cells here at clinton correctional facility. the two were last seen friday night. june 5th, around 10:30 p.m. during what is called a standing count. where they showed themselves standing inside the cells. just hours later. a shocking discovery. that would leave prison guards shaking their hea...

Involving murder, manipulation and sex. before the sun began to rise they were gone. an escape plan worthy of a screen play, carried out by two dangerous men. >> on a scale of one to then. they are a ten dangerous wild animal. >> richard matt and david sweat had adjoining cells here at clinton correctional facility. the two last seen june 5th around 10:30 p.m. during whats called a standing count. where both matt and sweat showed themselves standing inside of their cells. hours later a shocking ...

Block? >> yes. >> in the honors block were you allowed to have a hot plate and bring you hamburger meat? >> they dont get it. you order it. the way they did it seems against the rules. you have to order it from an outside vendor, an approved vendor like omaha beef or something like that. >> then it shows up. okay. let me ask you this. theres a standing count at 10:30 p.m. >> uh-huh. >> after that standing count where everybodys supposed to be in his cell, at this maximum security prison, how oft...

I dont know whats going on. until i know, i can only speculate. the only thing i can think of is we have a missing inmate. thats probably the number one thing. >> institutional recall means all inmates are locked up at this time. there will be nobody out until we get a positive count. all tier officers report to your assigned tiers. positive standing count at this time. positive stand count. >> why we letting people out when the count aint clear? who let you out? take it back up. everybody, back...

All tier officers report to your assigned tiers. standing count. standing count. >> why we letting people out when the count aint clear? who let you out? take it back up. everybody, back in. take it in. take it in. im telling you to go back in. >> so what happens is a lot of the bed moves are done on second watch. when they are not verified, they dont happen. so what happens is they are still in the cell or they are in another cell and theres no accountability. so now were going to get some acco...

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