Escaped Killers Continue to Elude Authorities in Upstate New York

 

By Rodrique Ngowi

Two escaped murderers remained at large as a woman charged with helping the killers flee from a maximum-security prison by providing them hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools made a second appearance in a New York court.

More than 800 law enforcement officers on Monday kept up a methodical search for Richard Matt, pictured on the right, and David Sweat, who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility near the Canadian border on June 6.

Prosecutors say Joyce Mitchell, a prison tailoring shop instructor who had befriended the inmates, had agreed to be the getaway driver but backed out because she still loved her husband and felt guilty for participating.

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Source: NBC News