The prison escapee, Danilo Cavalcante, who had fled from a prison in Pennsylvania on August 31, managed to avoid capture for nearly two weeks. During his escape, he scaled a wall, climbed over a fence, navigated through barbed wire, and disappeared into the woods.
He survived by drinking water from streams and initially sustained himself with a stolen watermelon from a nearby farm. Later, he managed to procure clothing, food, weapons, and even shaved. Local residents spotted him multiple times, but he always eluded capture, with police coming within meters of him on several occasions.
According to CNN, his ultimate goal was to steal a car and head north to Canada within the next 24 hours. Currently, Cavalcanth is back in a maximum-security Pennsylvania prison, Phoenix State Correctional Institution, in Montgomery County, where he will serve a life sentence for his previous conviction for first-degree murder.
In 2021, he was found guilty of brutally killing his 33-year-old girlfriend, inflicting 38 knife wounds in front of her 7 and 4-year-old children. The motive for the murder was jealousy, and the victim had previously reported threats to her life and abusive behavior from Cavalcante to the police.
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