Inmates saw them with cell phones
Interviews with prison inmates indicated that Matt and Sweat were seen with cell phones before they escaped, according to Wylie.
"But we have no proof of these cell phones," he said.
Wylie said authorities have been in contact with relatives and friends of Matt and Sweat who live elsewhere in the United States, but all of them said they hadn't heard from the convicts since they broke out of their maximum-security cells.