were multiple gunshots. reporter: what was missing in the cabin? just the bottle of gin that moved from one counter to the other. it was split. a thing of toothpicks in the cub cuboard. reporter: was that all in. two pairs of boots missing. one anyway. reporter: what do you think that you and your son were key to leaving the police to richard matt? it s overwhelming. i m glad they got one. too bad they didn t get them both. reporter: were you afraid for yourself for your son, as you re hearing that gunshot over the phone, getting there? yeah, i was worried for him. yeah. i went up this morning and checked it. brought a gun and checked again. the trooper got done and i haven t been in there since they were in there.
thanks for joining us. i m suzanne malveaux. just in to cnn, we have now learned that escaped inmate richard matt died from gunshot wounds to the head. new york state police say matt was hit in the head three times. shots from a semiautomatic weapon fired by u.s. customs and border protection tactical unit. 1400 law enforcement members control the hunt in upstate new york for the other prisoner david sweat. they are going door to door. they are focusing on 22-square mile perimeter near the town of malone. new york governor andrew cuomo says police are looking at every scenario including the possibility that matt and sweat were not together. there are three options, at least, right? three scenarios. they could have split up very early on. they could have said you go this way, and i ll go that way.
we ve heard from the cabin that they entered eight days ago that that s where they gained the shotguns and several hunting knives. that was the last time supposedly both of them were confirmed at the same location. we don t know that they ve been together since then and were near each other or together at the time matt was killed two days ago. there s a lot of questions we still have. i ll throw out theeranother theory out. they re both homicidal killers. they could have gotten in an argument and fought and matt could have killed sweat a week ago or more. because the whole escape plan was botched. they could have argued over who trusted joyce and whose fault was it. you told me she was okay and she wasn t. yeah but you were sleeping with her, too. they could have had a falling out that ended up in the murder of sweat. that s a messy scenario, but anything is possible. jonathan i want to go to that point. i asked about this earlier today. is it possible that sweat also
let s bring in james reese. thank you so much for being with us. you are a trained human tracker. you got your expertise at a tracking school. if matt was sick, would you also assume that sweat could be suffering in some way as well? yes. there s a great possibility, especially if they were traveling together. people who are on the run, you know, psychologically they start to panic and they start to lose their sense of right and wrong. what i mean by right and wrong is making the right decision making out there to elude law enforcement. and like we said in the report, they start running out of provisions and food, they start to drink from the stream and someone gets a gastrointestinal disease and get sick. that could absolutely be or just because they get wore out
cnn obtained a copy of the richard matt autopsy report that lists the cause of death as severe skull fractures and brain injury due to gunshot wounds to the head. we have the latest on the search. first of all, let s talk about this a little bit. why do you believe police believe sweat is in this 22 mile radius especially since he hasn t been seen in a very long time? reporter: well that s true. but that is where they got richard matt. it was designated that that 22 square miles was going to be the primary search area. that is the perimeter they re looking at. they re also looking today, and we saw them going door to door in the towns of malone and nearby communities right there. that is outside the perimeter. we just got very important information here. this is the autopsy report. it has just come out in regard to richard matt who was shot