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Sweat had told investigators he spent nearly a month cutting holes in the steam pipe. all part of his secret nightly trips, spent matching out their elaborate escape. >> it is not easy. >> then the homestretch. passing one chained up manhole cover and making their way to the next one. the very same manhole richard matt and david sweat emerged from. kicking off a three-week manhunt. >> oh, my goodness. all right. randi kaye joins me now. randi, you lived this story. you were up there for weeks and weeks and weeks. now that we have seen the video of this remarkable video of the path they took. i...

Tunnel system at the clinton correctional system. they even claimed through the same steam pipe they used to freedom. and turn around tuesday. will wall street's rally hold up after yesterday's nose-dive? i like all of that green on the screen. will that continue for us? we'll watch that ahead of the closing bell. this is cnn. permission to parkt wherever you please. hey. that's that new gear feeling. this week, these folders just one cent. office depot officemax. gear up for school. gear up for great. it's the brand more doctorsose recommend for minor arthritis pain. plus, just two aleve ca...

Were the cockroaches. do the inmates think that's the issue? >> this is investigators who have suggested that there was nobody patrolling those cell blocks between the hours of say midnight and 5:00 in the morning when they have their first count. investigators believe not just inmates that this allowed mr. sweat i think primarily they think now to spend hours night after night for a number of months even going into the cat walks and boring into the tunnels looking for a way out and eventually found this steam pipe that led to his escape. it is unclear at this point at what point matt and swea...

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

Speaking to abc news. >> sweat seemed to be the mastermind not only of the escape, but the leader, if you will, when he got out. >> reporter: sweat telling police he was the brains, comparing his prison break to the one in "the shawshank redemption." for nearly six months, sweat roaming the underground tunnels beneath the prison. at 11:30 each night, crawling out of a hole in his cell, shimmying down a pipe into those tunnels, even bringing with him a second set of clothes to hide the dirt and a fan to keep him cool making it back each morning by the 5:30 a.m. check. sweat eventually spotting ...