just a few steps off the highway, an abandoned trailer, where it turns out richard matt found shelter. inside, insects and spider webbs, old sleeping bags and a closet, silverware sitting in an old mason jar, and a tee pot still on the stove. john shodat lives right across the street. to my knowledge, he had been staying there a few days. and on the day after his birthday, on friday, he decided, apparently, to shoot at a passing camper. probably to slow them down and maybe, you know, commandeer it and take them somewhere. but they kept going. law enforcement are closer than ever. they carefully close in on richard matt, who is found lying here, behind a tree, armed with a shotgun, and in hiding. a cough gives him away. matt is just a five-minute walk from the abandoned trailer when
questions. were the fugitives still together when matt was killed? had david sweat already made it to canada? and does he have a weapon, too? 13,000 law enforcement scour this year. all it takes is one trooper with a keen eye who notices something strange along this road in constable, new york, two miles from the canadian border. he spotted a male basically jogging along the side of the road. he approached him. as he exited the car the male turned to him. he says, hey, come over here. the male kind of ignored him. he called out to him again. at which time the male turned around kinds of like, you know, what do you want from me? and he recognized him to be david sweat. sweat ignores sergeant jay cook s commands and bolts across a field heading right for a tree line. so the new york state trooper a
three weeks after two prisoners pulled off the most stunning escape ever from this maximum security prison, one of them is still on the run. by now, it s believed david sweat knows his partner in crime, richard matt, was shot dead by authorities. and he also knows he could be next. we are going to follow every lead, whether it s within that perimeter, adjacent to that perimeter, or anywhere within the county or anything that looks like it might have some credibility to it. search teams are hopeful they are closing in. they find a camp near route 41 in franklin county, close to where richard matt was killed. sweat s dna is found at the site, but two days have passed since then, and sweat is still nowhere to be found. and still so many unanswered
involving manipulation and sex. before the sun even began to rise over the small town of dannemora, new york, they were gone. an escape plan worthy of a screenplay carried out by two very dangerous men. on a skain scale of one to ten, they are a ten, dangerous wild animal. prisoners richard matt and david sweat had adjoining cells here at clinton correctal facility. the two were last seen friday night, june 5th, around 10:30 p.m. during what s called a standing count where both matt and sweat showed themselves standing inside their cells. but just hours later, a shocking discovery that would leave prison guards shaking their heads, law enforcement on high alert, and this small upstate new york community terrified. this was a very elaborate plan, but we are only at the very preliminary stages of
accused bringing tools to prisoners richard matt and david sweat to help them escape. that sparked a massive manhunt that covered much of state of the new york. rick leventhal is on the story live from the courthouse in plattsburgh, new york, with details. rick? reporter: jon we expect to hear more from d.a. andrew wiley shortly who could shed light on plea agreement. we were in court moments ago when joyce mitchell pled guilty to two counts against her, felony count for promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation. she had tears in her eyes at one point when she signed an agreement to waive her right to grand jury. she waived obviously her right to trial as well. what we don t know how much time she will actually face. her sentencing is set for september 28th. wiley reiterated court she faces to 7 and a third years and one year on the misdemeanor count. he expects her to pay total of 6,000-dollars in fines.