break. sweat and matt had inside help. prison seamstress joyce mitchell romantically linked to both prisoners is arrested accused of planting tools in frozen hamburger meat for the convicts. corrections officer gene palmer also arrested for giving the hamburger meat for the prisoners. he claims he did not know what was in it. june 22nd, owlshead, new york, approximately 20 miles from the prison, about a mile and a half into the woods, an owner approaching his cabin sees someone move. police find dna from both inmates in that burglarized cabin concluding the two were traveling together. and at least one shotgun is taken. june 24th, a second cabin in malone, eight to nine miles north of the first cabin, is burglarized. dna of escapee, matt, was found, but there was no dna belonging
i knew him. let s talk about the relationship between richard matt and david sweat. did you see one as more of the ring leader if you will one as the leader and the other as a follower? yes, david sweat was actually very smart, articulate when you spoke to him, you would not guess he was in there for a murder es pebbly a murder of a law enforcement officer. richard matt was more of the like crazy he was a crazier person than dave. so one was probably the brains one was probably the brawn. one was the more, let s go do it let s do it now now. dave probably sat there and figured out everything and richard probably kept push it and pushing it. so they complimented each other in a sense. have you spoken to any other inmates, fellow inmates who are now out of prison? i don t know if you still keep in touch with some of them in
the other one is not that far behind. well, you know, that s assuming that they were in the same vicinity at the time which we still don t know about. but, you know, given the fact that matt s dna was all over the second cabin in malone, why wasn t sweat s if they were together? that s a good question. and, i mean, you could make the assumption that they probably were not together. and, but i think having the shootout there in that area, you have to cover all contingencies sure. and the sheriff is correct, you ve got to cordon off that area and do a complete search, and it sounds like they ve whittled that area down pretty well over the past 24 hours. tell us about the perimeter that s been set up. it s my understanding that you got some sharp shooters on the hard perimeter and, you know, the outlying perimeter is a little different. tell me about that. yeah. generally what they ll do is set up an outer perimeter usually
those are all being tracked down. we re maintaining this perimeter. if we get a lead that takes us someplace else, this will shift to that area. reporter: i just want to add one thing to what the sheriff said, judge. you know, last week when they found the evidence of these two guys in that one cabin, there was a lot of speculation that perhaps they would have moved on even northwest to canada, but as we know, matt was found just a few miles from where that first cabin was located. so clearly at least he stayed in this area. right. reporter: you have every other indication that perhaps sweat did the same. absolutely. yeah. reporter: and, again, judge, just to remind our viewers, both these men were convicted of murder. sweat is the one who killed a sheriffs deputy and then ran over his body. and he s serving a life sentence without parole. so you believe and other law enforcement belief that ve that armed and has nothing to lose at this point. if he had the opportunity to a
the other one is not that far behind. well you know that s assuming that they were in the same vicinity at the time which we still don t know about. but, you know given the fact that matt s dna was all over the second cabin in malone, why wasn t sweat s if they were together? that s a good question. and, i mean you could make the assumption that they probably were not together. and, but i think having the shootout there in that area you have to cover all contingencies sure. and the sheriff is correct, you ve got to cordon off that area and do a complete search and it sounds like they ve whittled that area down pretty well over the past 24 hours. tell us about the perimeter that s been set up. it s my understanding that you got some sharp shooters on the hard perimeter and, you know the outlying perimeter is a little different. tell me about that. yeah. generally what they ll do is set up an outer perimeter usually