The two convicted killers who cut themselves free from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York reportedly were planning to strike again – by killing the husband of the woman accused of helping them, it was revealed Sunday.
Clinton Correctional Facility tailor shop worker Joyce Mitchell, 51, confessed the killers’ plan to authorities, a law enforcement source told the New York Daily News.
“They planned on killing her husband,” the source said, referring to Lyle Mitchell, who also works at the prison.
Joyce Mitchell also said she was supposed to drive David Sweat and Richard Matt to her home, but “didn’t say that she was going to help them” kill her husband, the source added.
But before the alleged plan could come to fruition, Joyce Mitchell got cold feet and checked herself into a local hospital as the two men escaped from the prison in Dannemora, N.Y., near the Canadian border.
Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie told Fox News on Saturday that Joyce Mitchell has been explaining how the plot was supposed to unfold to authorities, revealing the pair of fugitive murderers also expected to be 7 hours away from the Clinton Correctional Facility quickly after tunneling under its imposing outer wall.
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Clinton Correctional Facility tailor shop worker Joyce Mitchell, 51, confessed the killers’ plan to authorities, a law enforcement source told the New York Daily News.
“They planned on killing her husband,” the source said, referring to Lyle Mitchell, who also works at the prison.
Joyce Mitchell also said she was supposed to drive David Sweat and Richard Matt to her home, but “didn’t say that she was going to help them” kill her husband, the source added.
But before the alleged plan could come to fruition, Joyce Mitchell got cold feet and checked herself into a local hospital as the two men escaped from the prison in Dannemora, N.Y., near the Canadian border.
Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie told Fox News on Saturday that Joyce Mitchell has been explaining how the plot was supposed to unfold to authorities, revealing the pair of fugitive murderers also expected to be 7 hours away from the Clinton Correctional Facility quickly after tunneling under its imposing outer wall.