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A planned getaway ride may have fallen flat, leaving jail breakers Richard Matt and David Sweat stranded in upstate New York and hurled into an arduous game of survival. Like other fugitives before them, the convicted killers will need backwoods skills.
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The state of New York on Sunday offered a reward of $50,000 per inmate for information leading to the arrest of two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum security prison close to the Canadian border. Governor Andrew Cuomo. Matt and Sweat escaped from adjoining cells by cutting holes in pipes in the prisons heating system and had the time and nerve to leave a note bearing a smiley face and the words ���Have a nice day���. They escaped in the early��.
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Facebook �� Twitter �� Google �� LinkedIn �� Pinterest �� Email. New York State Police provided these images on June 6, 2015, of David Sweat, left, and Richard Matt, right, after they allegedly escaped a maximum security prison. ����.
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Officials closed roads and local schools Thursday near Dannemora, N.Y., where convicted murderers Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, had put dummies in their prison beds and used power tools to escape the Clinton Correctional Facility.
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New York (AFP) - A frantic manhunt was on Sunday for two convicted murderers who busted out of New York states biggest maximum security prison by cutting through cell walls with power tools and escaping along tunnels.
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Early Thursday, they were still on the lam. Thats odd for New York State prison breaks. Authorities usually round up escaped prisoners within little more than a day. Though their jail break illustrates their cunning and skill, Matt and Sweat are not.
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Thats odd for New York State prison breaks. Authorities usually round up escaped prisoners within little more than a day. Though their jail break illustrates their cunning and skill, Matt and Sweat are not known to be trained survivalists. Other.
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Female prison worker questioned after 2 killers escape Clinton
Its hard to believe two convicted murderers did not have some inside help to escape a maximum security wing of New Yorks Clinton Correctional Facility, tucked high in the Adirondack Mountains near the Canadian border, Gov.. Authorities are focusing on civilian employees and contractors working at the prison, he said.. A $100,000 reward has been posted for their capture and a manhunt involving some 250 law enforcement officials continued Monday morning.
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. prison escape in New York. DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) ��� As investigators seek accomplices who may have helped two convicted murderers escape a maximum-security prison, many other questions remain about the brash, elaborate breakout.. LOS ANGELES (AP.