Go on behind prison bars. What did she know why didnt she stop it . Who could i tell . Who could i trust. Theres more to the story you havent heard. There was a gun. Joyce mitchell with her first and only interview. What have you lost in all this . The accomplice. Good evening everyone and welcome to dateline im matt laer. Two desperate convicts murders on the run after escaping with the help of a prison seamstress who may or may not have been in love with one of the killers. Tonight youll hear it all in our interview with the woman at the center of the story. A woman who claims that in a way she was a prisoner, too. The massive manhunt for the two escaped murders. An escaped manhunt that seems like a movie. How they got out, who is involved. It was an inside job we suspected almost immediately. Somebody knew somebody. No way possible that you could do it by yourself. Reporter somebody on the inside must have helped the two killers escape from the prison that was dubbed shawshank a fea
Go on behind prison bars. What did she know why didnt she stop it . Who could i tell . Who could i trust. Theres more to the story you havent heard. There was a gun. Joyce mitchell with her first and only interview. What have you lost in all this . The accomplice. Good evening everyone and welcome to dateline im matt laer. Two desperate convicts murders on the run after escaping with the help of a prison seamstress who may or may not have been in love with one of the killers. Tonight youll hear it all in our interview with the woman at the center of the story. A woman who claims that in a way she was a prisoner, too. The massive manhunt for the two escaped murders. An escaped manhunt that seems like a movie. How they got out, who is involved. It was an inside job we suspected almost immediately. Somebody knew somebody. No way possible that you could do it by yourself. Reporter somebody on the inside must have helped the two killers escape from the prison that was dubbed shawshank a fea
Helpless in there. Reporter for officers like jeffery dumas, working at clinton correctional was practically a fight. Typically every day we had somethin to handle, whether it was just a fist fight, whether it was drugs bein found, whether it was a stabbing, a slashing, gang violence. Something like that typically always happened every day. Reporter in 2008, it was into this forbidding world that Joyce Mitchell, a seamstress, entered, to work in the prison tailor shop. And thats where we begin her story. We met her recent ly at Clinton County jail where she was awaiting sentencing for her role in the prison break. She was shackled, handcuffed, and at times seemed nervous and emotional as she revealed how she was drawn into an brazen plot by two cunning and desperate murderers. Reporter first of all, theres obviously an irony here in that you were someone who worked in a prison. Yes. Being held behind bars. Whats it been like, so far . Its its nervewracking, because its not someplace th
Go on behind prison bars. What did she know why didnt she stop it . Who could i tell . Who could i trust. Theres more to the story you havent heard. There was a gun. Joyce mitchell with her first and only interview. What have you lost in all this . The accomplice. Good evening everyone and welcome to dateline im matt laer. Two desperate convicts murders on the run after escaping with the help of a prison seamstress who may or may not have been in love with one of the killers. Tonight youll hear it all in our interview with the woman at the center of the story. A woman who claims that in a way she was a prisoner, too. The massive manhunt for the two escaped murders. An escaped manhunt that seems like a movie. How they got out, who is involved. It was an inside job we suspected almost immediately. Somebody knew somebody. No way possible that you could do it by yourself. Reporter somebody on the inside must have helped the two killers escape from the prison that was dubbed shawshank a fea
Video of police heading to the scene. Now, at this moment as im speaking the other killer david sweat is on the loose. Theyre on a desperate effort to find him. Law enforcement officials tell us they dont have eyes on him. Officials say the escaped killers may have been on their way to canada. Yesterday they found evidence in the town of malone. It was near there that matt was killed tonight. The two men escaped from a maximum security prison in new york thats 21 days ago. As you can see the distance on the map, about 40 miles per hour. We have people on the ground where this is going on. We have the latest of sweat and the search. I want to start with minute by minute we are awaiting whether they possibly find him. What happens to david sweat in what do you know about the hunt for him at this moment . Reporter well erin that critical moment right now unfolding not far from where im standing along route 30. You can see the barricade thats been set up. You need a police badge to get pas