The search for two convicted murderers who broke out of prison brought investigators Tuesday to a tiny town in upstate New York after a local resident reported seeing two men walking along a country road late Monday night.

“A report was called in by a citizen of two suspicious men walking down a very rural road in the southern part of our town in the middle of a driving rainstorm,” Shaun Gillilland, the town supervisor in Willsboro, N.Y. “When the car this person was in approached, they took off into the fields.”

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