blisters on his feet and cuts. as smart as they were joyce mitchell was plan a. reporter: they were found dressed for the woods. tools, bug spray and pop-tarts. matt s body reeked of alcohol. the dna found inside this cabin, along with an open bottle of gin. there was cooking gear a barbecue it looked well equipped for a place that far out in the woods. reporter: sweat remains in this hospital here in serious condition. he is under, of course heavy security here. law enforcement and hospital officials watching him 24/7. they do expect he will be here a few more days before being released to the department of corrections. he does plan to charge david
richard matt and david sweat planned their escape from the maximum security prison. sweat confessing that he and matt were going to run away to mexico with joyce mitchell. when mitchell didn t show up, the duo headed toward canada instead. but 18 days after their escape the men separated sweat telling investigates 49-year-old matt was slowing him down. a source telling cnn there s evidence matt was sick possibly from contaminated food or water. an examination of his body found blisters on his feet and minor cuts. breaking out of a maximum security prison and evading police for three weeks, jump was plan a. reporter: inside sweat s bag there were tools, bug spray and pop tarts. the dna found inside this cabin
hospital. and the investigation of what went on behind those walls. we re going to begin with sorry. reporter: for three weeks authorities really wondered was their plan really to run off with prison seam stress joyce mitchell or did they have something else in mind? now that david sweat has been captured and arrested and he s talking authorities are learning that yes, that was their plan a. they were going to run off with her to mexico. when she got cold feet and didn t show up that night, they were forced to improvise and go towards a different border. investigators hoping david sweat continues to talk this morning. the former fugitive s condition improving after being shot twice in the torso sunday. he s going to be brought back to the department of corrections when he s cleared medically. authorities wondering how
factor follow up segment tonight, over the weekend escaped killer david sweat 35 years old shot and captured by police in upstate new york. sweat and his cohort, 49-year-old richard matt escaped from a high security prison on june 6th. they evaded authorities for about three weeks. even though thousands of law enforcement agents were on their trail. but what really happened here? with us now jonathan guilliams, former fbi agent and form navy seal currently ceo of a consulting company. let s start with the beginning. i m not buying a lot of this stuff. you have got to have pretty heavy duty tools to go through a wall, go through pipes. you have got to know where you are going. it was a complicated situation. how do you read the initial breakout? well, i think that the tools that were snuck in through the frozen meat, quote, unquote were not adequate enough to cut into some of those pipes. so i m with you there. i thought all along that there was extra help and possibly if not other gu
investigation for several weeks now. they have been going through files, but more than that they have been talking with employees. some of the employees told officials there is heroin use amongst the inmates. the question is are the employees involved in that? more than that were matt and sweat involved in that? they had access to areas in the prison other inmates may not have. we are learning their dna was found deep inside tunnels, inside the prison down below and because of any issues why did they get access to those areas? now, they are also talking with inmates as to whether they have been spoken to about the outside. if employees talked about what it s like out here what routes are outside the prison. now, while the prison is doing their investigation the courts are taking their toll. gene palmer appeared he made his first appearance in this