fires his weapon twice from 50 yards away, an incredibly difficult shot. he hits david sweat both times in the torso. as word spreads over police radios that david sweat is down, law enforcement races to the scene, startling residents in this small, rural community. my wife ran out of the house and said, oh, my god, something is going on up the street. and then i heard the shots. incredibly, sweat was just two miles away from crossing the canadian border. now bloodied and handcuffed, he is once again in custody. turns out he is unarmed, but he does have with him a backpack full of supplies, bug repellant, wipes, and pop tarts. also, sweat had somehow managed to swap his prison garb for camouflage clothing. the nightmare is finally over. mr. matt is deceased, and the other escapee, mr. sweat, is in custody.
weeks have passed since richard matt and david sweat cut their way out of this prison to freedom, the first time anyone has ever escaped from maximum security here. and they are still on the run. but investigators have renewed hope that they are getting close. in the small town of owl s head, new york, population just about 500, a major break in the manhunt. a cabin owner calls police after noticing two men run out the back of his cabin. authorities discovered dna evidence, proof that both fugitives had been inside this cabin, seen here from nbc news. after weeks of dead-end leads, law enforcement now have something to go on. they have some basic supplies
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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,
rickerson. the half brother also said matt threatened to kill both him and his wife unless he gave matt his van to run away. he told me mr. rickerson he thought mr. rickerson owed him back pay. matt took the van to texas, where he abandoned it and then crossed into mexico. it wasn t long before he ran into trouble in that country, killing a man outside of a bar, and then serving nine years in a mexican jail. when he was finally extradited to the u.s. to stand trial on rickerson s murder, the court reportedly installed snipers outside just in case he made a run for it. matt also wore electrodes under his suit in court so guards could shock him if he became unruly. his former girlfriend likely sealed his fate, testifying that he confessed to her he had broken rickerson s neck. she said he told her it was an accident.