How did a Pennsylvania murderer escape prison? New video released amid manhunt

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Philadelphia jail yard by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof in a breakout that wasn’t detected by guards for a full hour, authorities said Wednesday as the killer eluded a widening manhunt for a seventh day.The timeline and details of the escape of Danelo Cavalcante — including that he got out using the same route another prisoner took in May — were released as police from various agencies have flooded a search zone of increasingly worried residents. A tower guard on duty during the breakout, who has not been named, was put on leave as part of the escape investigation.The escape and search have attracted international attention and became big news in Cavalcante’s native country of Brazil.

The main newspaper in Rio de Janeiro ran a lengthy story in the Wednesday edition with the headline “Dangerous hide-and-seek.”Howard Holland, the acting warden of the Chester County Prison, played a security video at a news conference Wednesday. It shows the 34-year-old Cavalcante standing in a passageway next to the jail yard before bracing his hands on one wall and his feet on another then “crab-walking” up the walls out of the camera’s view.Holland said the prison had brought in a consultant after the first escape in May and added razor wire to that area.“What was perhaps overlooked was the fact that addressing the single point of physical countermeasures should have been bolstered by additional means.

We are addressing that,” Holland said. He said the prison was fully staffed when Cavalcante broke out.He said the prison is considering adding officers to the yard during recreation times, as well as caging in the top of those yards.