MALONE – One desperate man continued to elude 1,200 police as they searched 22 square miles of rugged, mountainous land in the northern Adirondacks on Saturday. As the search for cop killer David P. Sweat stretched into its 22nd day, investigators have begun to piece together the last days of his fellow escapee, Richard W. Matt. He was probably miserable. When he was gunned down Friday afternoon, Matt, the two-time murderer who grew up in the City of Tonawanda, was sick and drunk. It also looked like he had been outdoors for a long time, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation into the prison escape. The indication that he was sick came Wednesday night, as an army of federal, state and local law enforcement officers went door to door at homes and camps around Owls Head and Malone. A burglary of a cabin on Route 41 was reported. That is where police found soiled underwear, the source told The Buffalo News, and a DNA test showed they belonged to Matt. The underwear also told investigators that Matt was ill, possibly from having consumed spoiled food or bad water. And police believe Matt was intoxicated when he was killed. That clue came after authorities were alerted to another cabin burglary Friday morning, this time a camp at the base of Humbug Mountain just off Route 30, the main north-south artery through the area. Malone Town Supervisor Howard F. Maneely said Saturday that his nephew, Robert Willett, owns the camp. “He went in there Wednesday to check on things and it was all OK,” Maneely said. But his nephew’s son discovered a far different situation when he returned Friday morning. “The camp had been broken into and there were booze bottles on the table,” the supervisor said. “That’s when he got hold of the authorities.” There was a half-empty bottle of gin and other bottles on the table, a law enforcement source said. Maneely described the camp as typical of those in the area, used mostly during the fall deer season and for summertime family picnics. It features a kitchen, lounge area and three small bedrooms. 
 
 Finding Matt Several hours later, a man who was hauling a camper on a trailer through Route 30 reported that someone had fired a shot at his camper while he was driving. At first, he thought it was a flat tire. He got out and checked it, found nothing, and drove another eight miles before finding the bullet hole. State police went to investigate and traced the path back eight miles, where they found another camp that had been broken into. Inside, they smelled gunpowder. A tactical team from U.S. Customs and Border Protection was helicoptered in and as they searched, they found Matt. He had a 20-gauge shotgun at his side, officials said. From his clothes and appearance, it looked like he had not bathed in a long time and had spent a great deal of time in the outdoors, a law enforcement source told The News. The tactical team challenged Matt, who did not give up his weapon. He did not say anything before he was shot, the source said. He did not fire his weapon. A strong odor of alcohol emanated from Matt’s body, the law enforcement source said. The News last week reported that as a young man, Matt had twice tried to commit suicide. And the special prosecutor who won the murder conviction against Matt said that he had been told in 2008 that, if Matt ever escaped, he would not be taken alive, according to the Associated Press. But a law enforcement source said it did not appear that Matt was committing “suicide by cop” when he was shot. Matt’s body was sent to Albany Medical Center on Saturday and was scheduled for an autopsy. His breakout from Clinton Correctional Facility with Sweat and the massive manhunt captivated the nation and led to wild speculation about where they could be hiding out. But in the end, Matt died just 40 miles from the prison. He was 49. His birthday was Thursday. 
 
 Search for Sweat But Matt’s death brought investigators no closer to finding his accomplice. Authorities thought Friday night that they had Sweat surrounded. Investigators have been operating under the assumption that Sweat was near Matt when he was killed about 4 p.m. Friday. But the last time they had any evidence that Sweat was still in the area came from DNA samples collected from a seasonal hunting camp in Owls Head that had been discovered burglarized June 20, the first of four cabins where police believe the two had taken shelter. That cabin is located about eight miles east of where Matt was shot. The News incorrectly reported Saturday that DNA from Sweat had been found Wednesday in the cabin on Route 41 where the underwear was found. And there have been no confirmed sightings of Sweat. So it is possible the two parted ways days – possibly even a week – ago. Saturday night, investigators were waiting for results on DNA tests on items recovered from the cabin where the gunpowder was smelled to determine whether Sweat had been there. In the meantime, the armies of federal, state and local law enforcement officers weren’t letting up on the search around Titus Lake, even with heavy downpours of rain forecast for Saturday night and all day Sunday. Asked how long the search would continue, State Police spokesman Beau Duffy answered Saturday: “Until we catch him.” “For the foreseeable future, we will either find him in that area or decide he’s not there,” Duffy said, adding that there is no contemplation of leaving the Malone-area search now. He also said morale remains high among the searchers. “I hear them all the time say they won’t stop until they find him,” he said. “That’s their attitude.” ||||| (CNN) After convicted murderers David Sweat and Richard Matt pulled off their brazen escape from an upstate New York prison, their relationship quickly began to sour, according to a law enforcement official briefed on Sweat's interviews with investigators. 
 
 Sweat has told investigators that Matt, who was fatally shot last week, was out of shape and unable to keep up with him, the law enforcement official told CNN on Wednesday. 
 
 In particular, Sweat told investigators, he was irked that the older man began getting drunk after they broke into a cabin, the official said. The discord prompted the fugitives to split up. 
 
 After a border patrol agent caught up with and killed Matt on Friday, authorities said officers could smell alcohol on his body from a few feet away, according to a law enforcement source briefed on the investigation. 
 
 From his hospital bed in Albany, Sweat has been revealing details about the prison break and their time on the run that seem to baffle almost everyone -- except himself. 
 
 Sweat and Matt pulled off the sensational escape not once, but twice, the inmate told investigators. 
 
 Through it all, Sweat was the mastermind, or at least that's what he's telling authorities, a local district attorney said. 
 
 And while authorities initially spoke of the possible use of power tools in the escape, Sweat has said that he and Matt actually found a sledgehammer in an underground passageway. It was probably left behind inadvertently by a construction worker, according to the law enforcement official briefed on his interviews. The men supposedly used the sledgehammer to break down a brick wall on their way out of the maximum security prison, the official said. 
 
 During their time on the lam, the fugitives had several close calls as authorities closed in, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie told CNN. While hiding in the hunting cabin, they heard voices of people nearby at one point. And after the pair split up, Wylie said, Sweat saw a law enforcement officer walk right by him as he hid in a tree stand used by hunters. 
 
 An escape before the escape 
 
 Sweat said the plot to break out of Clinton Correctional Facility actually started in January, Wylie said. 
 
 After five months of hashing out strategies, Sweat and Matt made a practice run 
 
 One night before prison tailor Joyce Mitchell was supposed to meet them at a manhole, Sweat and Matt escaped from their cells, a New York state official said. 
 
 They navigated a maze of tunnels and pipes before popping out of a manhole. But Sweat said they saw too many houses near that manhole and decided to try for a different one the next night, Wylie said. 
 
 So why didn't the guards notice? It's not clear, but the state inspector general's office has been looking into whether guards had fallen asleep, officials told CNN. 
 
 Just hacksaws 
 
 Speculation has raged over what power tools the pair used, but Sweat told investigators that he and Matt used only hacksaws to cut through their cell walls and a steam pipe inside the prison, the district attorney told CNN. 
 
 After interviewing Sweat for several hours over the past two days, state police investigators had no plans for now to speak with him further, spokesman Beau Duffy said. 
 
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 Duffy did not have information on where Sweat will go once he's released but said he will be turned over to the corrections department. Sweat is listed in fair condition and is expected to remain at Albany Medical Center for at least a few more days, according to the hospital. 
 
 Mitchell, the prison tailor, has admitted to smuggling hacksaw blades by hiding them in frozen hamburger meat and then having the meat delivered to Matt, a law enforcement official said last week. 
 
 She has been arrested and charged with promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation. 
 
 Another employee, Gene Palmer, is accused of taking the meat to the inmates. He's charged with promoting dangerous prison contraband, two counts of destroying evidence and one count of official misconduct. 
 
 A dozen prison employees put on leave 
 
 But the investigation extends beyond Mitchell and Palmer -- and well beyond the escape. 
 
 Steven Racette 
 
 Three members of the prison's executive team, along with nine security staff employees, have been placed on paid administrative leave as part of the review of the escape, said the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. 
 
 Superintendent Steven Racette and Deputy Superintendent Stephen Brown are among the executives on leave, a state official told CNN on Tuesday. The other is First Deputy Superintendent Donald Quinn, according to a source familiar with the investigation. 
 
 Michael Kirkpatrick, a former first deputy superintendent of the Elmira Correctional Facility and head of the Corrections Emergency Response Team, on Wednesday was named the new superintendent of the Clinton Correctional Facility. 
 
 Since the escape, other measures have been taken: 
 
 -- Every cell at Clinton is being inspected once a week, with supervision from a senior security staff member. 
 
 -- The number of cells searched daily and randomly for contraband has tripled, with each cell being searched at least once every two months. 
 
 -- All tunnels are being inspected monthly instead of biannually. 
 
 -- The so-called "honor block," where the escaped prisoners had been housed, has been eliminated pending further review, according to the department. 
 
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 The FBI is investigating possible broader corruption at the prison, law enforcement officials briefed on the case said. Agents are looking into whether drug trafficking or other criminal behavior among employees and inmates took place, officials said. 
 
 Some employees who have been questioned told investigators that there was heroin use among prisoners and an alleged drug trade involving employees. 
 
 How the plan derailed 
 
 According to Sweat, officials said, this is how the plan was supposed to play out: 
 
 Sweat and Matt would come out of a manhole and meet Mitchell, who would drive them away. The convicted murderers would then kill Mitchell's husband, Lyle, before fleeing to Mexico 
 
 Sweat has told investigators that it was Mitchell's idea for them to kill her husband, according to the law enforcement official briefed on his interviews. But her attorney denied that accusation Wednesday. And Mitchell has also told authorities that Matt and Sweat hatched the plan to kill her husband. 
 
 In his interview, Sweat also denied any sexual contact with Joyce Mitchell and said it was Matt who had a sexual relationship with her, officials said. 
 
 Authorities have said that Matt had a sexual relationship with Mitchell, and that she had been investigated in the past for an inappropriate relationship with Sweat that led corrections officials to move him out of the tailor shop where she worked. 
 
 The night of the escape, Mitchell did not show up, forcing the fugitives to improvise on the run for more than three weeks. 
 
 Police caught up with and killed Matt on Friday. Two days later, an officer shot and wounded Sweat less than two miles from the Canadian border. 
 
 Sweat told investigators that he was upset when he learned that Matt had been killed and decided to try to make it to Canada, the official said. 
 
 Matt's family members at first had said they wouldn't claim his body, but they changed their minds, Franklin County Coroner Brian Langdon told CNN. 
 
 Langdon believes the body will be turned over to Matt's son. 
 
 The Heald Funeral Home in Plattsburgh will handle the body's transfer, Langdon said. 
 
 Matt's body is at Alice Hyde Medical Center's morgue in Malone.
– The escaped prisoner who was shot to death on Friday may have been both drunk and sick when troopers finally caught up with him, reports the Buffalo News. The body of Richard Matt reeked of booze, authorities tell the newspaper. That gibes with the report of a cabin owner who checked his place and found that somebody had gotten into his alcohol, polishing off half a bottle of gin and leaving other bottles on the table. It might have been a birthday bash: Matt had turned 49 the day before he was killed. His final days clearly weren't pleasant, however. The state of his body made clear that he'd been exposed to the elements, and—this part is a little gross—his soiled underwear suggests he'd been sick, maybe the result of consuming bad food or water. What's more, CNN reports that when troopers finally zeroed in on him, after a motorist reported a gun shot, it was a telltale cough that gave him away. They heard the sound in the woods, spotted Matt, and ordered him to raise his hands. Authorities say that while Matt didn't shoot at troopers—he had a shotgun—he also failed to comply with their order, and so they opened fire. (His escape partner David Sweat remains on the run, perhaps more dangerous than ever.)