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
Still recovering from deadly floods. What was Tropical Storm bill is now a tropical depression, but that distinction is little comfort to folks where rivers are in danger of overflowing and roads are submerged. Tonight, flood watches and warnings stretch more than 1,200 miles to illinois and ohio. Omar villafranca is in dallas. Reporter bill pounded the texas gulf coast before racing up north towards oklahoma. The heavy rain caused flash flooding in sealy outside of houston and shut down roads more than 200 miles away in dallas. So far, the state has avoided a disaster, but problems could still spill over for 40 Million People under flood watches. Before the may rainy season, texas was in a historic five year drought. In october of 2011, 97 of the state was in an extreme drought. Conditions slowly improved, but last months recordsetting rainfall, an estimated 35 trillion gallons, is helping to finish off the drought. More than 90 of the state is entirely drought free. At its height, th