A murderer on the loose in suburban Philadelphia escaped from a jail yard by climbing up a wall and over razor wire last week, prison officials said Wednesday.
A security video of the escape shows Danelo Cavalcante, 34, standing in a passageway before bracing his hands against one wall and his feet against another, then walking his way upward out of the camera's view.
There was a guard in an observation tower, and there were no guards walking in the yard, said Howard Holland, the acting warden of the prison.
Cavalcante escaped in the same way as another inmate in May, and the prison added the razor wire after the earlier escape, Holland said.
The escape and manhunt have attracted international attention and became big news in his native country, where it has been a daily fixture on in the news. The main newspaper in Rio de Janeiro ran a lengthy story in the Wednesday edition with the headline “Dangerous hide-and-seek.”
Cavalcante received a life sentence last month for killing his ex-girlfriend, Deborah Brandao, in front of her children in 2021, and escaped while awaiting transfer to state prison. Prosecutors say he killed her to stop her from telling police that he’s wanted in a 2017 killing in his native Brazil.
He had been captured in Virginia after Brandao’s killing and authorities believe he was trying to return to Brazil.
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