After convicted murderer Charles Smith was recaptured Monday along the southwestern Michigan lakefront, he told prison officials his two fellow escapees were nearby in the woods around Grand Beach, Mich., when he was nabbed, according to new federal escape charges filed Tuesday afternoon.

Still-missing convicted murderer Mark Booher, 46, and convicted rapist Lance Battreal, 45, are now charged in Hammond federal court with fleeing into Michigan to avoid prosecution for their escape from Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Convictions on those charges could be piled atop the remainders of prison sentences awaiting them if they are recaptured -- at least 30 more years for both men -- as well as any other penalties for the escape.

Smith, 48, was apprehended early Monday by a private security guard outside Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's vacation home in Grand Beach.

Indiana Department of Corrections Commissioner Edwin Buss interviewed Smith on Tuesday, according to the federal criminal complaint. Smith told Buss the three men ran together through the woods near Grand Beach, trying to avoid being spotted by police hovering in helicopters, federal authorities say. Smith said he was trailing Booher and Battreal, in sight of Lake Michigan, before he was recaptured, the complaint states. Smith said Booher and Battreal fled when he was arrested, according to the complaint.

Police shifted their focus away from Grand Beach on Tuesday after an intensive manhunt Monday didn't net the escapees.