alisyn is off for the day. david sweat is talking and revealing to police details about prison break and his three weeks on the run. sweat says he and richard matt planned to head to mexico but were forced to improvise when the plan took a turn. new insight in why they were able to escape in the first place. a federal investigation reveals corruption including an employee run heroin trade that may be going on inside that prison. our coverage begins on the inside and the house. sara is outside the hospital. they say his condition is improving. if he s talking, that s a clear indication. reporter: he certainly is talking. you know authorities, for three weeks, while they were on the run, they wondered was joyce mitchell that prison seamstress really their plan to get away? did they plan to run off with her? now that david sweat is captured alive and talking, authorities say they are
county court. it was his court appearance where they waived proceedings in this lower court. they will now go to the higher court and the grand jury according to the district attorney will be convened in most likely a month. they will determine whether there is an indictment of gene palmer. he is one of two employees charged at this point. he s got three felonies and one misdemeanor and charged with serious allegations. nothing to do with the actual escape but involving taking things in to matt and sweat. after they went missing, burning and burying their paintings. now, we have to wait for that grand jury and the other defendant, joyce mitchell. the question is will there be more charges if the drug trafficking has truth to it. michaela? we ll have to wait. jean, thank you so much for that. breaking overnight, president obama working to make
thing he cares about is his ego. i could imagine they have a suicide watch on him. maybe he doesn t care about that. thanks very much to you. one crucial piece of information investigators trying to get from david sweat is how they were able to find the first cabin where investigators discovered their dna. bill fairington hiked to the cab weren t they stayed. you saw this cabin. it was a 40-minute hike from the nearest dirt road. when you got there, what made you realize people had been there recently? i could see some shoe tracks atv tracks. that was probably what led me to walk that far up the path is that other people had been there before me. so you saw the tracks. we re looking at your photos. these pictures it s basically a
cop. those that s what broke the case on friday. reporter: richard matt refuses to drop his weapon when a border patrol team surrounds him in the woods. he is shot dead three times in the head. two days later, two miles south of canada police close the case. all of a sudden, the streets were just full of law enforcement, cars all the way down. reporter: a sergeant on a patrol spots sweat coming down this road. he captured the convicted killer. you got him? cool. reporter: investigators are now retracing both men s steps. here on the ground, they tell us in his last few days richard matt was moving slow maybe a mile or two a day. david sweat had advanced ahead of him covering a number of miles a day to end up here in this field where he was shot and captured just south of the
he broken rickerson s neck barehanded. so, yeah i am surprised that sweat would ditch him. i always felt that matt would have been the mastermind behind this and sweat was really the beneficiary. this is a man you tell me about this you were afraid to even have glass in the courtroom. true. actually, there was a decision made by the judge. she had recently gone through an incredible renovation of the courtroom and wanted to protect the tables and had quarter-inch plate glass put down so they wouldn t be destroyed. and all of that was removed because the fear was that matt would somehow break it and use a shard from that as a weapon. in spite of the fact that matt was wearing a stun belt while he was in the courtroom and there were six deputies in the courtroom. so there was yeah, there was a lot of fear about what he might do. what about just his bravado?