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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 ....
Detained, they have declared a state of emergency and the National Guard is coming in. Not a good situation. Dylan is in for al this morning. Will the crews get any help from the weather . They actually will. Last week the worst kind of conditions. Severe drought over california so everything on the ground is very dry, and temperatures last week were breaking records. They were well above average. There has not been any rain or any humidity for that matter, but now the pattern is going to change. Were going to get more of a stream of moisture coming in off the pacific. Weve got a series of cold fronts that will also increase humidity, give a chance of showers today and especially on wednesday. Its also going to knock back temperatures. We should see high temperatures drop down into the 70s and 80s as opposed to being the mid to upper 90s so all of these factors will certainly help with the fire fight but it looks like the ground i ....
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 priso ....