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Of david sweat's story can authorities really believe? >> they have to you know sort of weave through that. they just don't know. they know he is a convicted cop killer. they know he's 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 of questioning david sweat in a lockdown section of albany medical center investigators say they ...

There were too many homes. she decide they decided they had would escape through a different manhole the following night. sweat said the two used nothing more than hacksaws. no power tools to cut their way out. these are some stunning new details if, of course i have to emphasize that sweat is telling the truth. >> reporter: if. you have to under score that. we're talking about a convicted cop killer a guy who escaped from prison. he doesn't have a lot to lose. he is talking from his hospital bed. what he is saying is that it was certainly much easier to break out than you might think. after t...

Because he was out of shape and couldn't keep up. sweat says the two went their separate ways after matt broke into a cabin and started getting drunk. it was after the two split up that sweat had his closest call with being caught. the district attorney tells abc news sweat was hiding in a tree stand as an officer walked past him. sweat says while on the run he learned officers had killed richard matt and pressed on to the canadian border until a state police officer shot and wounded him. he is now in a lockdown section for prisoners. >> how confident do we feel this patient is not going to es...