The pint-sized killer still on the lam after escaping a Pennsylvania prison last month learned to dodge authorities while hiding out in the wilderness of Brazil — to avoid another murder rap.
The pint-sized killer still on the lam after escaping a Pennsylvania prison last month learned to dodge authorities while hiding out in the wilderness of Brazil — to avoid another murder rap.
Danelo Cavalcante, 34 — who infamously crab-walked up two walls at Chester County Prison to escape Aug. 31 — spent weeks in 2017 hiding out in the rural fields and ranches outside Figueirópolis, a small town in central Brazil.
The 5-foot-tall killer had fled after allegedly gunning down a friend in a dispute over car payments.
“Once you get out, it’s just ranches and bush beyond here. It’s not hard to disappear,” Figueirópolis priest Kelton Meneses told the New York Times.
Cavalcante — who was behind bars in the US for fatally stabbing his girlfriend in 2021 — had moved with his mother and brother to the Brazilian community about a year before he allegedly killed his pal over money.
Calvacante toiled on a ranch and earned a reputation as a hard worker — but also somebody you didn’t want to cross, residents said.
