Police close road to investigate lead in hunt for escaped killers

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[h=4]Police close road to investigate lead in hunt for escaped killers[/h]A massive manhunt for two killers who escaped from a maximum security prison continued in New York State on Thursday, as police investigated a lead involving the pair.

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Nicholas Harris never had a relationship with his biological dad Richard Matt, one of the two inmates who escaped a New York state prison. Harris doesn't know much about the convicted killer, but he's sure of this: "I don't think he's coming here." VPC


New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, left, speaks while Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin listens during a news conference on June 10 in front of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. from where David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped.(Photo: Seth Wenig, AP)


A massive manhunt for two killers who escaped from a maximum security prison continued in New York State on Thursday, as police investigated a lead involving the pair.
Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, remain on the run after escaping the Clinton Correctional Facility in Upstate New York on Friday night or Saturday morning.
New York State Police (NYSP) on Wednesday night said they closed Route 374 east of the village of Dannemora — where the prison is located — to West Plattsburgh in Clinton County to investigate a lead involving the fugitives.
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Escaped killers may have fled to Vermont campground




The police force warned residents to expect an increased police presence in the area.
Earlier Wednesday, New York and Vermont beefed up security along their border because of concern that the two had intended to lay low in a campground in the Vermont lake area.
Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn said the Vermont State Police began searching camps along the Vermont shoreline of Lake Champlain, but have turned up no sign of the escapees so far.
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In a joint news conference, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, both Democrats, said the two states had formally agreed to coordinate the search effort, including allowing New York troopers to cross into Vermont.
NYSP Superintendent Joseph D'Amico confirmed that a female prison employee mentioned widely in the media had been questioned about the escape. He said it was "obvious she had befriended the inmates and may have had some sort of role in assisting them."
Police said Wednesday that they were investigating more than 500 leads, WPTZ reported.
Armed with cutting tools, possibly including torches, Matt and Sweat broke through walls, crossed a catwalk and cut into a steam pipe before crawling to the outside through a manhole.
Matt was serving 25 years to life for kidnapping, dismembering and killing his former boss in 1997. Sweat was serving a life sentence without parole for killing a sheriff's deputy.
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