Now in its fifth day, the manhunt for escaped convicts Richard Matt and David Sweat has shifted back to Dannemora, the upstate New York town that houses the Clinton Correctional Facility.

Law enforcement agents are hoping to retrace their steps in the town after spending most of yesterday searching the area surrounding Willsboro, N.Y., where the fugitives were reportedly spotted running into the woods.

From the Albany Times Union:

“Law enforcement will be searching homes in the village of Dannemora on Wednesday. These searches are not the result of a new lead, law enforcement are retracing steps made early in the investigation. Residents will notice an increased police presence in the area,” troopers leading the search said in a statement released Wednesday morning.

The convicts escaped from Clinton Correctional sometime Friday night. Sweat was serving to life without parole for fatally shooting a sheriff’s deputy 22 times in 2002. Matt has murdered at least two people, including a 75-year-old New Yorker who he dismembered in 1997, and was serving a 25-year sentence.

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