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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 in franklin county, new york, just 20 miles away from the prison. investigators pounce on the cabin ...

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 evidence that puts the fugitives in this area of owl's head, new york. this is just 20 miles from t...

Sweat, who was hiding under a truck, said the deputy opened fire first. then sweat got to his feet and started firing. one of sweat's 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 deputy's gun, which he had dropped, and shot him, point blank, twice, in the face. sweat was charged after police found a hand drawn map...

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 weren't 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 is a maximum security prison, there are visual bed checks every two hours throughout the night, an...

>> 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 i've seen anything, heard anything. the answer has been no. >> it looks like tracks leading here. you have got broken pieces down here. so we don't know if somebody went through here. and if you go down, you have got, like, a little stream coming down. so if you follow the stream, it's a nice way out. >> this woman was ...