the prison on may 4th. he was able to short circuit by able to cut through the steam pipe with a hacksaw. took him over a month to do it. interesting detail they hit a sewer pipe at one point and thought they could escape through that ala "the shawshank redemption." one other detail they have, the two joked about the fact that "the shawshank redemption" character took 20 years to escape and it took them 10 to escape from their real one. there was the question of who was the mastermind. richard matt escaped twice before. once successfully. it was assumed he was the mastermind. investigators telling the new york times, it was david sweat. sweat was moved next to matt's cell in 2013. another inmate at one point heard the sawing and asked matt