Tillie Decided to Betray Big-Dicked Killer Escapee While Eating Chinese
Now we reportedly know when and where Joyce “Tillie” Mitchell changed her mind about wanting her loyal, if delusional, husband murdered by the formerly escaped killers David Sweat and Richard Matt. It was while dining at a Chinese restaurant with her husband, Lyle, the night of the escape that Tillie realized that maybe he wasn’t so bad after all.
The Buffalo News, citing a law enforcement official involved with the search, reports that Joyce’s sudden change of heart came to her as she looked at her husband across the table.
“They went out to dinner at a Chinese restaurant after work at the prison, and Joyce Mitchell had a realization that this was D-Day, and the fantasy she had been living for almost a year was now becoming a reality that included the murder of her husband, who had been a good and supportive man,” the law enforcement official told the News. “She had a moment of clarity.”
The “moment of clarity” reportedly led Mitchell to abandon plans to act as the murderous duo’s getaway driver and instead check herself into a local hospital. That decision likely saved Lyle’s life (and certainly ruined the murderers’ chances at making it to Mexico).
From the News:
On the morning of Friday, June 5, Matt approached Mitchell in the prison tailor shop, where she was the supervisor and he was a worker. He told her the escape was set for that night.
“The escape is on. Pick us up at midnight,” Matt said, according to information Mitchell provided in a series of interviews with authorities. He then handed her two pills intended to incapacitate Lyle Mitchell – also a civilian worker at the prison – before Matt would kill him that night inside the Mitchell home.
“I’m going to take care of the glitch,” Matt said, referring to Lyle Mitchell.
The News also reports that Sweat initiated the manipulation of Mitchell. The two became so close that the prison investigated their relationship, which Tillie said wasn’t sexual. After both were cleared of any wrong doing, Matt took over the seduction, and reportedly had sex with Mitchell in “secluded areas” of the tailor shop where she worked.
“They made me feel special,” Mitchell reportedly told investigators. “I got caught up in it.”
