Newly focussed man hunt for those escapees in new york. Cnn has been told investigators have found dna from richard matt and david sweat in a cabin in owls head new york. It is about 20 miles or 32 kilometers from the Clinton Correctional Facility where the two men escaped back on june 6. Now police also say someone saw the men running into the woods over the weekend and investigators are look at a list of hotel guests in the area who may have checked in and known the escapees. Sources tell us the tools matt and sweat used for the escape may have been smuggled inside a chunk of frozen hamburger meat. They were allowed to cook their own food. Police have been shifting their resources to a small town called owls head in upstate new york. Its a small vacation area dotted with a lot of cabins. Reporter the people who live in the tiny hamlet have never seen anything like this. Weve developed evidence that the suspects may have spent time in a cabin in this area. We have Law Enforcement offi
With promoting dangerous contraband destroying evidence official misconduct in terms of destroying evidence that could be reference to some of the paintings that richard matt has made. You heard about those in the past. Apparently he gave may have given some paintings and or drawings to gene palmer as well. And then shortly after gene palmer found out about what happened with the escape he allegedly destroyed some of the paintings and or drawings. That could be part of the reason why you see that destroying evidence charge. I also as i said, i spock to his ahis i spoke to his attorney. He said his client is very upset. His client had no knowledge at all of what was inside that frozen chunk of hamburger meat that Joyce Mitchell you already know about her, that she convinced gene palmer to pass that on to richard matt. We have two prison employees, Joyce Mitchell you already know was charged in her connection with the escape. Now you have gene palmer who has also been charged. Once again
Kill and drug him but he doesnt believe that sex plays a role. She didnt know if i loved her anymore, she said and it went too far. He tried to kiss her a couple times and she said nah. And she said that he started to threaten her a little bit on things and she said, ive got Something Else to tell you. I said whats that . She said their plan was they wanted to kill you. I said what . They wanted her to come pick them up. So she admitted to you at that moment that once these two escaped from clinton and made their way to that manhole. Yep. That she was supposed to be the one to pick them up and drive them away . She told me that matt wanted her to pick them up. She said i never legal nowhere without lyle. Never. He said ill give you some pills to give him to knock him out and then you come pick us up. She said i am not doing that. I love my husband. I am not hurting him. And then she said then i knew i was over my head. The shocking revelations come as please home in on their own eviden
Degree class a misdemeanor. One large piece of the puzzle in our quest to find the two escaped murderers. Joyce mitchell now known as tillie in custody. Thats not all. She has been linked by investigators to both cop killer david sweat and torture murderer richard matt. Not only did she allegedly have some kind of relationship with both men, her husband is also potentially connected. We dont know how. He is under investigation though. He has yet to be charged with anything we should point out. And on top of all that, of course the two straervery dangerous men, killers are out there some where. Tillie may be in custody. They certainly are not. We begin our complete coverage with alexandra field on the arrest and arraignment. She joins us now. What else did the d. A. Have to say about Joyce Mitchell . Reporter well anderson this is the woman Police Believe was meant to drive the getaway car but never showed up at the prison when the fugitives escaped. She has been arrested. She will be a