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Sparked by a stove that was disconnected from a gas line. now back to our msnbc special. >> reporter: as law enforcement hunted down the escapees david sweat and richard matt, joyce mitchell was called in with her husband lyle to the police station to face investigators. they wanted to know why she hadn't shown up for work that saturday, and they had other questions too. >> joyce mitchell was identified relatively early as somebody that had contact with both matt and sweat. >> reporter: authorities were certain matt and sweat had help carrying out their elaborate plan, and joyce was their numb...

>> like i said, i was -- >> reporter: where you could have stopped this. >> i was just so scared. >> reporter: whatever joyce might have done to stop the escape, sweat and matt had reached the point of no return. on june 5th, joyce was in the tailor shop when richard matt approached. >> he just happened to come in one day and said, "tonight's the night." >> reporter: and what's the last thing you said to him? >> i just -- i kinda stayed away from him the rest of the day. >> reporter: you didn't say, "i'll see you tonight"? >> no, because at the end of the day as he was going out the door, he r...

And it got out of hand. >> reporter: and when she gets out of prison, can you trust her? >> yes. 100%. >> reporter: do you understand why people in the region of the country where you live in are so furious? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: when she gets out of prison, lyle, can the two of you continue to live up in that area? is it possible? >> yes. >> reporter: but he has no idea when he and joyce might be together again. she's about to be sentenced. possibility is that she could spend seven years in prison. what are you hoping for? >> i'm hoping she'll be home less than two. >> reporter: but he's...

>> i know. but i -- i was so scared. matt had other inmates watching myself and my husband through all of this. they knew where i went, when i went, and who i was talking to. >> reporter: how many times did you want to tell lyle what was going on? >> there were a lot of times i wanted to just sit down and tell him what was going on, but i knew that if i did, he would you know, he'd go in and confront them. and it would've been just like mr. matt to do something to him right in the prison, and i couldn't -- i couldn't let that happen. >> reporter: you were literally afraid that at some point du...

Law enforcement, says clinton county district attorney andrew wylie, it did not seem she was being completely honest. >> she was providing truthful information, but she wasn't providing everything. >> reporter: joyce admits that now. >> i was not completely honest with the state police at first. >> what did you lie about? >> about knowing that they had gotten out and the other parts of the story. >> reporter: but investigators made a startling discovery. the phone number for richard matt's daughter was in joyce's cellphone. when they pressed her about it, joyce was forced to tell them she had ...