#155: Escape at Dannemora: Further Analysis of the Inspector General’s Report

Real Crime Profile

Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this episode, the Real Crime Profile Team (Laura Richards, Jim Clemente and Lisa Zambetti) continue the conversation with real life Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott and Deputy Inspector General Jim Davis about their work investigating the escape and developing an extensive report, with key findings including: Gene Palmer’s involvement, Richard Matt and David Sweat’s planning of the prison break and their relationship with Joyce Mitchell, Leahy’s real interview with Joyce Mitchell and the criminal negligence at the prison.

This episode was done in partnership with and is sponsored by SHOWTIME and the new Limited Event Series Escape At Dannemora, directed by Ben Stiller and starring Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano & Bonnie Hunt.

Based on bizarre but true events, Escape At Dannemora tells the story of two prisoners who broke out of a maximum-security prison in upstate New York and their twisted relationship with the female prison employee, who aided in their escape.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile add-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:07.0	This episode series was done in partnership with and sponsored by Showtime.
0:12.0	The prison break effectively transformed Denimora and the surrounding areas into a police state
0:18.0	with as many as 1500 search teams tracking down the two inmates.
0:23.0	One of the most amazing things I think is the elaborate way they got out, cutting through a wall,
0:34.0	going shimming down six floors and going through this labyrinth of pipes to pop out of a manhole on the other side,
0:41.0	it seems impossible that they didn't have inside knowledge of the layout of this facility.
0:47.0	Was that, it sounds like a dumb question, but was it common knowledge the layout of this facility?
0:53.0	Did inmates talk about this?
0:55.0	No, we don't have, you know, common knowledge of the layout of the prison.
0:58.0	So for them to have that, it had to be somebody inside,
1:02.0	somewhere we actually give them this information to maps of where, what leads to what.
1:06.0	That's the only way I could see that happening.
1:08.0	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clemente.
1:12.0	I'm Laura Richards.
1:14.0	And it's me, Lisa Z.
1:16.0	And our guests,
1:18.0	New York State Inspector General Catherine Leighi Scott,
1:21.0	Deputy Inspector General James Davis.
1:23.0	Well, we're continuing our conversation about the escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Denmark or in New York.
1:30.0	So I have a question for you before you highlight key findings and recommendations.
1:36.0	Who in your view was grooming whom?
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