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sources close to the investigation have told cnn that matt had a relationship with joyce mitchell the woman who worked with limb and david sweat at the tailor shop. mitchell is alleged to have passed tools inside frozen is hamburger meat. mitchell as attorney says that richard matt considered clinton correctional officers palmer quote, as his boy. palmers s attorney has not commented on that. after the ricker son killing in 1997 richard matt fled to mexico to get away. he served nine years there for killing a man in a bar fight in mexico. then he was extradited to the u.s. to stand trial in the ricker son case. a detective from that case described richard matt as psychotic. quote i have seen him inflict wounds on himself, break her collarbone and not seek any treatment. he s just totally, totally fearless and does not respond
mitchell s attorney has denied that wolf. now we have confirmed that richard matt is dead that s certainly a relief to the detectives who put him away to begin with right? absolutely. we ve talked to a couple detectives who worked on that case that 1997 murder he told me that police contacted him and warned him of richard matt s escape back on june 6th. eve detective told new york times he had been prepared to defend himself in richard matt came after him. we had been told by former prison wardens and others for either of these two inmates, if they had freedom of movement it might have been playback time for the detectives. those gentlemen i m sure are grateful tonight this man is out of the mix. thanks for that report brian. take a look at this near malone new york. you see a police officer there. the suspicion is that david sweat is being chased in this
husband of joyce mitchell that his life supposedly had been threatened. tell us about that. that was revealed to him by his wife the first time he spoke to her after she revealed it to the police. she was very apologetic to him, but he said he was just in shock when he heard it. he s not sure his life was ever really in danger because, of course it would have taken thinks individuals coming all the way from dan el mora to st. regis falls, new york, which is quite out of their way, but it really shocked him. is it your client s sense that these two escaped killers had help from joyce mitchell lyle mitchell s wife and gene palmer but maybe others in the prison as well or just the two of them? just from everything he has seen on the news and everything he knows about the facility he
thinks they must have had other help. from the inside or outside? he would only be speculating if he answered that. i ve talked to him about it. he said he just doesn t know. is he worried about his own security right now? i think anyone in the malone area is worried right now, well now one of them just out and about in that area but especially worried, because his as lyle mitchell? no. tell him we thank him for his cooperation with the authorities. i know he s going through an awful, awful period discovering, as hi wife confessed to him, as you just pointed out, her involved in this escape. peter dumas, thank you for joinings us. thank you, wolf. we know alexandra, that one of the escaped killers had been shot and killed. david sweat is still on the run. what can you tell us?