Officials in Dannemora, New York have discovered footprints belonging to the two men who escaped from a maximum security prison last week, as a prison employee reportedly admitted providing tools for their escape.
After investigators noticed the footprints outside a Mobil gas station in the town, they brought in bloodhounds that picked up the scent of the two escaped killers, CBS News reports. Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie confirmed the breakthrough to CBS News Friday morning.
Dogs had also detected their scent in Cadyville, several miles away, though it’s unclear when the men would have been in each location since escaping from Clinton Correctional Facility early on Saturday. The footprints may indicate that the two men, David Sweat and Richard Matt, are on foot.
Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Mitchell said prison employee Joyce Mitchell had “provided some form of equipment or tools” to the escaped pair. These included hacksaw blades and drill bits according to CNN, which cited anonymous sources close to the investigation.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo tours the Clinton Correctional Facility, where two inmates escaped on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New YorkA man-made hole in the wall of the escaped inmates' cell at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New YorkThe industrial area where inmates escaped to from a hole in their cell at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New YorkGov. Andrew Cuomo tours the escape route taken by two prisoners at the Clinton Correctional Facility on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New YorkGov. Andrew Cuomo tours the escape route taken by two prisoners at the Clinton Correctional Facility on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New YorkGov. Andrew Cuomo tours the escape route taken by two prisoners at the Clinton Correctional Facility on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New YorkGovernor Andrew Cuomo tours the escape route taken by two prisoners at the Clinton Correctional Facility on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New YorkGovernor Andrew Cuomo tours the escape route taken by two prisoners at the Clinton Correctional Facility on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New YorkGov. Andrew Cuomo tours the escape route taken by two prisoners at the Clinton Correctional Facility on Saturday, in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New YorkGov. Andrew Cuomo surveys the manhole where two prisoners resurfaced after escaping from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. on June 6, 2015.Darren McGee—Office of the Governor of New York
