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In custody. >> reporter: a relieved community turn s out to thank law enforcement. [ cheering ] >> 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 separated from richard matt five days earlier because matt was slowing him down. sweat said matt was out of shape and hitting the bot le too much after they had broken in to a cabin. sweat shares they planned to go to mexico after escaping but were forced to improvise when prison seamstress joyce mitchell failed to pick them ...

Hours after they disappeared. >> must have kept you awake with all of that cutting, huh. >> pictures of the tour are proof of an elaborate escape, an escape they practiced the night before. here's how they figure matt and sweat made it out. once they slipped outside of their cell it is believed they maneuvered across this six story high catwalk, eventually dropping to a series of tunnels. from there they broke through a double brick wall and incredibly cut through a 24-inch steam pipe shimmying their way through it. on the other end, a block away from the prison then, they cut yet another hole...

Tarsia in the stomach reportedly striking his tack and kidney. sweat jumped in another vehicle and ran over the deputy, running over him dragging him in the car across the lot. one of the other suspects charged out of the woods, picked up the deputy's gin and shot him point blank, twice in the face. sweat was charged after police found a hand drawn map and sketch of the fireworks store with sweat's fingerprint on it. now sweat was was also heading to prison where he would meet richard matt for the first time and other inmates say quickly become friends. the relationship made closer by the fact...

Sealed his fate testifying he confessed to her he had broken rickerson's neck. she said he told her it was an accident. perhaps just as cunning and dangerous was david sweat. at 35, he is supposed to spend the rest of his life behind bars here for killing sheriffs deputy kevin tarcia. after sweat and two with others robbed a fireworks store, the deputy confronted them. his sister spoke by phone to anderson cooper. >> i never put him out of my mind. i always think of what he did and how awful this guy is. >> reporter: it was july 4th, 2002, deputy tarsia pulled in to the parking lot where the m...

It all started with david sweat. who in 2013 was working in the prison tailor shop. there he befriended mitchell. eric jensen also worked in the tailor shop with the fugitives and joyce mitchell. david sweat was jensen's supervisor. jensen said many believed sweat was having a sexual relationship with mitchell. >> she used to keep him back in the mess hall. we would go to the mess hall for lunch. he would be there eating all kinds of fried chicken, barbecued chicken. that was specifically after labor day. i remember that. she brought it in on a styrofoam tray. >> for him. >> yeah. it was like ...