Upstate NY prison escapees who left a “have a nice day” post-it note for their jilted jailers had help in their sophisticated jailbreak, say investigators.
The two convicted killers are still on the lam, days after using power tools to perpetrate their elaborately planned escape from New York’s Clinton Correctional facility near the Canadian border.
Richard Matt, 48, and his 34-year-old crony, David Sweat, are the first inmates to break out of the maximum security prison in its 150-year history, and state officials doubt they managed it without inside assistance.
"I would be shocked if a guard was involved,” said Governor Cuomo, “"But we're looking at the civilian employees now and the private contractors to see if possibly a civil employee or contractor was assisting the escape because they wouldn’t have equipment on their own, that's for sure."
The incarceration complex has been under remodeling this year, so that explains where the fugitives obtained the necessary power tools to drill through cement and metal structures, but it still doesn’t explain who supplied these items to them.
However, police are reporting today that a female worker has been removed from her post at Clinton Correctional pending further inquiry into her possible role, and that a host of other extraneous employees are also being interrogated.
New York State is offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the escaped convicts’ capture, and, in acknowledging that the devious duo “could be anywhere” by now, has alerted both the Canadian and Mexican authorities to be on the lookout for them as well.
