The cold-blooded killers who busted out of one of New York state's toughest prisons are likely holed up in a safe house as they plot their next move to avoid capture, retired U.S. Marshal John Cuff tells
Newsmax TV.
"My experience is they'll stay together until they get to a goal line, whatever that goal line is," Cuff said Friday on "The Steve Malzberg Show."
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"They're probably in a safe house of sorts … and that's why it's equally important that the public remain vigilant."
The massive manhunt for David Sweat and Richard Matt is in its 14th day, following the fugitive killers' escape from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, near the Canadian border.
On Friday, U.S. marshals placed the highly dangerous pair — who fled through a homemade tunnel — on their 15 most wanted fugitives list. A $50,000 reward for information leading to their capture has been offered.
Cuff told Steve Malzberg there will come a point when Sweat, 35, and Matt, 49, decide to separate.
"Right now, it's like symbiotic. So they would be dependent upon one another to get to [their] goal. Then they're a liability to each other at that point," he said.
Asked if the killers will be apprehended, Cuff said he believes it's only a matter of time, although he declined to predict when.
Matt was serving a sentence of 25 years to life for the 1997 kidnapping and murder of his former boss. Sweat was doing a life sentence without parole for murdering a New York state sheriff's deputy.
Hundreds of cops, dozens of police dogs and several helicopters are continuing their search for the two.
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