i wonder if they had wifi?
They were hanging out in this hunting cabin for most of the time. Looks cozy
why in the hell did they two prison employees help these two convicts to escape?
Makes no sense as to why... Get across the border. Get into Toronto... Grab a job, save money, pay for a boat ride to Mexico or some other non-extradition country.Stupid.
According to the seamstress who was supposed to pick them up, they were going to drive someplace 7 hrs away. Matt was from the Buffalo area which about that far from the jail. My guess is that he was gonna go back home, see relatives, get some money, then head to Mexico.
Which also would be dumb. The first place they go is to the relatives... You can walk across the border in some of the remote areas pretty damn easily. It's not like there's barb wire and shit all over the area.There's tons of out of the way places to cross there.
The Canadian authorities were on high alert. It's not as though these guys would've been Scott free had they made it across. There was also an agreement in place so that U.S officers could continue the search in Canada.
I'm not saying they would have been scott free, but I do believe that getting out of the more sparse areas of NY and into a larger city would have made it easier for them.Certainly there would always be some luck for them to escape, but hanging out in more rural spaces is a guarantee you're going to get caught.
Noooo... absolutely not. They would have been caught within days, if not hours. The isolation of the area is what kept the on the lam for so long. Cops didn't know where to search. They would have had to committed more noticeable criminal activities just to make it day to day.
Both were caught.Why do people escape prison? With all the technology, linkages between police forces/CIA/FBI, etc, its almost impossible to escape long-term. Is it for the momentary bliss of freedom? Or just to say they did it?
Night after night for months, David Sweat slipped through a hole he had sawed at the back of his cell in the Clinton Correctional Facility in northern New York. He would plumb the catacomb-like tunnels beneath the prison, where he was serving a life sentence for murder, searching for an escape route, confident that the guards would have no idea he was gone because they were asleep. Then he would return to his empty bunk.His explorations began this past winter and continued through the spring. They took him underground almost every night for hours until he finally stumbled on what would become, through trial and error and countless hours of grueling work, his subterranean route out.
