Escaped killer who was on the run in Pennsylvania for 2 weeks pleads guilty to escape charges

Associated Press

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A convicted killer captured last year after two weeks on the run in southeastern Pennsylvania’s rolling farmlands has pleaded guilty to escape and burglary charges. Danilo Cavalcante escaped from a Chester County lockup while waiting to be transferred to state prison to serve a life sentence for killing his ex-girlfriend. The 35-year-old Cavalcante is from Brazil. He escaped by clambering up between two walls in a jail exercise yard, then climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof. Cavalcante had been convicted of killing ex-girlfriend Deborah Brandao to stop her from telling police about charges against him in connection with a 2017 slaying in Brazil.