Women from upstate New York claim to have seen recently escaped Convicts from the Clinton Correctional Facility. The two witnesses were returning home around 12:30am when they saw two men in their backyard who they claim to be the wanted fugitives. Both men were spotted wearing dark jeans and one of them was said have been carrying a black guitar case. Police are now speculating whether or not the said guitar case was used in hiding the power tools the convicts used in escaping the Prison.
The said criminals whose names are David Sweat, and Richard W. Matt, were both serving long sentences for committed murder. Matt was convicted and sentenced for 25 years to life, for the kidnapping and death of a man in 1997, while Sweat and an unknown accomplice killed a deputy Sheriff in 2002 by shooting him more than a dozen times and was sentenced to life imprisonment without chance of parole.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of the state of New York is offering a $100,000 reward for any valid information leading to the whereabouts of the two convicts. Prison guards discovered the inmates beds inside the prison were stuffed with clothes to serve as decoys for the escaped convicts in an attempt to fool the guards doing their rounds. Matt and Sweat apparently used power tools to escape the Prison.
Police are also investigating the alleged inside help by a prison worker. Joyce Mitchell, an industrial training supervisor, is being questioned for being an accomplice in the recent prison breakout. She is in-charge of inmate work assignments.
There is still no word about their whereabouts, but Police are still continuing there search for the escaped convicts, and the investigation about, whether or not Joyce Mitchell is actually an accomplice in the escape of David Sweat and Richard Matt, is still ongoing as well.
