Escaped Killer Who Was on Run in Pennsylvania for 2 Weeks Faces Plea Hearing

Escaped Killer Who Was on Run in Pennsylvania for 2 Weeks Faces Plea Hearing
Danilo Cavalcante escorted by officers with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections into the Magisterial District Court, Kennett Square, Pa., on Feb. 2, 2024. Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP
The Associated Press
Updated:
0:00

WEST CHESTER, Pa.—A convicted killer captured last year after two weeks on the run in southeastern Pennsylvania’s rolling farmlands is due in court Friday for a potential plea on the escape charges.

Danilo Cavalcante, 35, a native of Brazil, escaped from a Chester County lockup while waiting to be transferred to state prison to serve a life sentence for killing his ex-girlfriend. He escaped by crab-walking up a wall in a jail exercise yard, then climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof.