The husband of Joyce Mitchell says he's "absolutely 100 percent'' certain he and his wife would have been killed by the two escaped murderers she's accused of helping break out of a New York maximum-security prison.
Lyle Mitchell told NBC's "Today'' show that if his wife had gone through with David Sweat and Richard Matt's plan to have her pick them up in the couple's vehicle after the June 6 escape, the convicts would have killed them. He says the inmates offered to give her pills that would have knocked him out.
Lyle Mitchell says if just his wife had shown up with the vehicle, the convicts would have killed her "within a half hour.'' The husband isn't suspected of having aided the escape.
Sweat and Mitchell remain at large Tuesday, with police searching an area 20 miles west of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, where the convicted murderers broke out of on June 6.
Joyce Mitchell is being held on charges she helped the prisoners escape by providing them hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools. She has pleaded not guilty.