With an Escaped Killer Loose, an Unsettling Encounter in a Darkened House

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary For nearly a week since a convicted murderer slipped away from the Chester County Prison, the people in the area, a quiet stretch of farmland and wooded thickets about an hour’s drive outside Philadelphia, have had to live with a relentless unease.

Teams of police officers jog through backyards, drones buzz in the skies, and for a time, helicopters shuddering overhead blared the sound of a woman’s voice pleading in Portuguese — the mother of the man who escaped, begging, in a recording, for him to give himself up.

Mr. Cavalcante has been seen in the seven days since, once by a prison employee, several times in the ghostly infrared light of security cameras and most recently, said Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police, by a resident who spotted him on Tuesday evening in a creek bed, heading into the woods.

At a news conference on Saturday, while discussing possible break-ins related to the escape, the Chester County district attorney, Deb Ryan, said that a homeowner had thwarted an attempted burglary in the area on Friday evening, and that authorities had a “strong belief” that the intruder was Mr. Cavalcante.

News of the prison break sent recess indoors at the local schools and as she got ready for bed, Mr. Drummond’s 9-year-old daughter asked her father nervously about the French doors that didn’t seem to lock right.

Telling his wife to call the police, Mr. Drummond braced for a potential confrontation, then watched as the man walked to the French doors, carrying a bag and appearing to be in no particular hurry.

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When I read "escaped" I figured it would be one of those "in the dead of night things" but that GIF is wild! "crab walk" is a great way of putting it
He pushed through two installations of razor wire, some of which was put in after another inmate escaped by the same route in May,
Well that's embarrassing.
- Sources online have said he's 5'0 (~152 cm) and 120 lbs (54 kg) so he's a really tiny guy. I can definitely see him squeezing through the gaps in razor wire.
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary For nearly a week since a convicted murderer slipped away from the Chester County Prison, the people in the area, a quiet stretch of farmland and wooded thickets about an hour’s drive outside Philadelphia, have had to live with a relentless unease.
Teams of police officers jog through backyards, drones buzz in the skies, and for a time, helicopters shuddering overhead blared the sound of a woman’s voice pleading in Portuguese — the mother of the man who escaped, begging, in a recording, for him to give himself up.
Mr. Cavalcante has been seen in the seven days since, once by a prison employee, several times in the ghostly infrared light of security cameras and most recently, said Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police, by a resident who spotted him on Tuesday evening in a creek bed, heading into the woods.
At a news conference on Saturday, while discussing possible break-ins related to the escape, the Chester County district attorney, Deb Ryan, said that a homeowner had thwarted an attempted burglary in the area on Friday evening, and that authorities had a “strong belief” that the intruder was Mr. Cavalcante.
News of the prison break sent recess indoors at the local schools and as she got ready for bed, Mr. Drummond’s 9-year-old daughter asked her father nervously about the French doors that didn’t seem to lock right.
Telling his wife to call the police, Mr. Drummond braced for a potential confrontation, then watched as the man walked to the French doors, carrying a bag and appearing to be in no particular hurry.
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