in florida. prison officials say two inmates sentenced to life, charles walker, joseph jenkins, they gain their freedom by gaming the system. they used fake release paper that includes a forged signature from the judge. and the men played the dupe so well, they even went back to the jail to register as felons after they got out. here cnn s nick valencia. there have been tips being received in terms of legitimate spottings. reporter: how did joseph jenkins and charles walker dupe the system? that s a question no one seems to be able to answer and a mistake no one wants own. so i m not here to point fingers on anyone. there will be plenty of that to go around, i m sure. reporter: in between the fingers of ejang gentleman liev.
two inmates sentenced to life, charles walker, joseph jenkins, gained their freedom by gaining the system. they used fake release papers that included a forged signature from a judge. the men played the dupe so well, they even registered as a jail as felons after they got out. cnn s nick valencia is live at the franklin county correction institute where the men were supposed to be locked up. nick, how long have they been free now? reporter: good morning, one man has been free since late last month, the other at least a week and a half. the orange county sheriff s department said they have legitimate reason to believe those two men are still in the state of florida. there have been tips being received in terms of legitimate spottings. reporter: two convicted killers on the loose, days after they use the forged documents to get an early release from prison. but how did they dupe the system?
$10,000 reward each for their arrest. charles walker and joseph jenkins have been free awhile now, using forged documents, although authorities only learned of their escape this week. nick valencia has more. there have been tips in regards to spottings. reporter: two convicted killers on the loose, three after they forged documents to get early release from prison. how did they dupe the system? that s a question no one seems to be able to answer and a mistake no one wants to own. so i am not here to point fingers at anyone. there will be plenty of that to go around eventually i am sure. reporter: in between the fingers her fingers is a letter from florida department of corrections about her son s killer, charles walker. it says his release was beyond their control. we are in shock. we are frightened. and we feel let down that the
more spottings and better pictures will help the are the thises and public find out these people identity. next steps. 15 seconds. forensics are worked on and tying in the pieces of where the components may have been purchased and sending out information to airlines and rail way and station and border stations from our border people and entered bovereder people and moving forward with it i think we ll see movement on it quickly and next days or so. we ll get them. bret: bill, we appreciate your time tonight. you re welcome. bret: breaking news and we ll go back with the images and the two suspects and we have the other big story out of texas and an arrest in the ricin case. an amazing story out of
spottings of this guy who they say took her at dawn this morning and it took just a couple of short hours, because it is earlier out there than on the east coast for this little girl to be found. get this, the guy driving that pickup truck that they were looking for dropped her off, dumped her basically in the yard of a home about 3 miles away from where she had been taken. she was outside her ome home, playing and a stranger picked her up last night, the little girl there, and now this picture just coming in from fox 26, our affiliate who is working very closely with us on this story, this is just outside the home where the little eight-year-old child from fresno was found this morning, elisa cardenas, she just arrived with her mom and what the fox affiliate is saying is they think she s going to be okay. the guy they picked up, in his 20s. we re waiting for the news conference as planned, from the california highway patrol and the fresno police officers.