"Element of surprise": Authorities reveal details of escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante's capture
CBSN
Escaped convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante was captured and taken back into custody Wednesday morning, ending a two-week manhunt.
Cavalcante had escaped from the exercise yard at Pennsylvania's Chester County Prison on Aug. 31 by climbing up a wall to a roof area. Surveillance footage showed Cavalcante hoist himself up from the ground and crab-walking upwards until he disappeared from view. For weeks, police pursued Cavalcante until he was finally apprehended in a wooded area in northern Chester County on Wednesday.
Law enforcement first came to the area around midnight, when a burglar alarm went off at a residence. Officers investigated but did not find Cavalcante or anyone else present, but it "started to bring some of our people into that area," Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police said in a news conference Wednesday.
