but they got away, vanishing in the shadows of the prison walls. variety of tactical units like s.w.a.t. units, a number of canine, to include blood hounds, even three aerial support aircraft, two state police helicopters, and one from homeland security have been in the air since this event occurred this morning. the urgency is clear. 35-year-old david sweat and 48-year-old richard matt had killed before. i was worried they were going to kill somebody again. i was worried they are going to kill somebody. they are both killers. killers with a criminal past so terrifying those who feared them worried they may turn violent again. how can anyone sleep like that? well, just put on a breathe right strip and pow! it instantly opens your nose up to 38% more than cold medicine alone. so you can breathe and sleep. shut your mouth and say goodnight mouthbreathers.
it? i don t know why anybody is surprised. i think all americans know that crazy, lonely, low self-esteem type of people like prisoners in prison. women married the menendez brothers, a man married the hillside strangler who tortured women in l.a. with coat hangers. can never ceases to amaze me how women are seduced by these guys. mitchell isn t just risking her marriage. she is risking her freedom. all the while she is having this relationship with matt, investigators say she is also aware of their escape plot, even giving them tools. a law enforcement official says she admitted smuggling in hacksaw blades by hiding them inside frozen hamburger meat and having the meat delivered to richard matt. investigators say she also secretly brought in chisels,
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he testified against him, and in a phone interview with anderson cooper called matt evil. if you wanted to take a picture of the devil, that s the face that you would see. bates remembers matt shoving a knife sharpener in his victim s ear and breaking his fingers before killing him. i have seen him kill. he did kill mr. rickerson, his old boss, in my presence. in a fit of rage, he reached into the car, grabbed mr. rickerson by his head and snapped his neck in front of me. matt worked for rickerson and was fired for poor performance just weeks before rickerson s murder, according to testimony at trial. i don t understand that. eric jensen knew both richard matt and david sweat. he served nine months in clinton correctional facility in 2011 for possession of stolen property.
also, a source close to the investigation says that, according to sweat, this was a plan long in the making. sweat told investigators beginning last winter sweat cut a hole in his cell first, then matt s cell. sweat would leave his cell every night in search of an escape route, wandering through the tunnels beneath the prison. the new york times reports that at one point sweat cut through a wall when steam started blowing unbearable heat on him. sweat says he rigged a fan to help cool him using electricity from the tunnel s lights. also an inmate told richard matt he heard noise coming from sweat s cell as the two were cutting through the wall with a hacksaw. the paper says matt explained it away, saying he was stretching canvas for one of his paintings which he made in prison. and it turns out sweat and matt had made a practice run the night before the actual escape. but when they emerged from a manhole, sweat told authorities there were just too many houses,