Murderer Danelo Cavalcante was able to escape a prison yard in suburban Pennsylvania last week by climbing up a wall and over razor wire, officials said at a news conference Wednesday.
Holland laid out a timeline of Cavalcante's escape, noting that the fugitive was missing for nearly an hour before anyone noticed.Cavalcante escaped from the prison by "crab walking" up a wall, pushing his way through razor wire installed after Bolte's escape, running across the prison roof and scaling more razor wire, Holland said.
An official who viewed surveillance video of the Burham's escape said the inmate "looked like a spider" as he quickly climbed to the roof and got away.Cavalcante, who authorities said is also wanted in his native Brazil in a homicide investigation, is the subject of a manhunt involving hundreds of state and local agencies as well as the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Bill LaTorre, a retired Pennsylvania State Police sergeant who now runs his own security consulting firm, told ABC News on Wednesday that he is not surprised Cavalcante is suspected of using the same escape method as the one Bolte. But he said he was surprised that officials didn't do more to "defeat that strategy to escape."
He said steps are being taken now to completely enclose the eight exercise yards at the prison, which are now open air. He said additional security cameras will also be installed and additional officers will be on the ground to help the tower officers monitor the inmates in the exercise yards. "Yet we have these people on trial for homicide, people who have been convicted of homicide and that's where they are. They're in a less secure facility and these are the guys who have every reason to escape," LaTorre said. "I know these county prisons sometimes have more secure areas within the building, but the prisoners generally traverse throughout parts of the building and that's where they find these vulnerabilities.
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