BOLO: Double Killer 'CRAB WALKS' Out of Jail, on the Run
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The search continues for Danelo Cavalante.
The convicted killer escaped from Chester County Prison by scaling a wall and ducking under barbed wire. Since his escape, there have been at least 10 sightings, twice in Phoenixville over the weekend and on two doorbell cameras. He has tried to contact two previous co-workers.
Cavalante is considered extremely dangerous.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Matthew Mangino – Attorney, Former District Attorney (Lawrence County); Author: “The Executioner’s Toll: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States”
- Dr. Jorey Krawczyn – Police Psychologist, Adjunct Faculty with Saint Leo University; Research Consultant with Blue Wall Institute, Author: Operation S.O.S. – Practical Recommendations to Help “Stop Officer Suicide”
- Irv Brandt – Senior Inspector, US Marshals Service International Investigations Branch; Chief Inspector, DOJ Office of International Affairs; Author: “Solo Shot: Curse of the Blue Stone” (available on Amazon) and “Flying Solo: Top of the World;” Twitter: @JackSoloAuthor
- Douglas MacGregor - Geographic Profiler (specializes in serial and violent crime, missing persons, and locating clandestine burial sites); Twitter: @TheGeoProfiler
- Dr. Priya Banerjee - Board Certified Forensic Pathologist, Anchor Forensic Pathology Consulting; Twitter: @Autopsy_MD
- Alexis Tereszcuk - CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker at Lead Stories.com; Twitter: @swimmie2009
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| 0:00.0 | What is happening? Is this real? Does no one learn from history? Look, I'm not perfect. |
| 0:22.6 | Everyone can agree on that. But I try to look at the mistakes I've made in the past and |
| 0:27.6 | I try not to at least repeat those mistakes again. I can make all new mistakes. But this is serious. |
| 0:35.6 | Right now, a two-time killer convicted, two-time killer, is on the run. Now wait for it. He's not just on the run. |
| 0:49.6 | A prison guard was on duty. At the time, Danello Cavacante, how do I say crab walks up the wall? |
| 1:02.6 | You can see the jailhouse video. He is, like, has his arms on one side. It's a very narrow wallway. |
| 1:12.6 | Allway, he's got his arms on one end, his feet on the other. And he just climbs up. And he gets out. |
| 1:21.6 | Through barbed wire fits a double killer. And so far, he has managed to outsmart authorities for days and days and days. |
| 1:32.6 | You think he won't kill you to get a place to stay, or to get your vehicle, or to get some money, or different clothes, because he will. |
| 1:44.6 | I mean, it's he graced this is crime stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series X, |
| 1:50.8 | Sam 111, below. Be on the lookout. Take a listen. Our friends at Fox 29 local state and federal law enforcement spending hours into the night, searching for Danello Cavacante, |
| 2:01.8 | the 34-year-old escaping from the Chester County prison just before nine o'clock this morning. |
| 2:06.8 | It had deployed canine units, drones and helicopters in this manhood. But you see him, do not approach him. We are asking you please to contact 911. |
| 2:17.8 | He is considered extremely dangerous. Tom Pancoast lives near the prison. We locked the house up one more in it now. |
| 2:24.8 | Residents within a six mile radius were notified of the prison break nearby Westchester University sending out an alert to students. |
| 2:32.8 | It was honestly pretty shocking. Like I was just in class and I got like a text everyone did and we were just all confused about it. |
| 2:37.8 | No one knows what to do in this situation. So it's kind of just like one of those where you just stay inside if you can. |
| 2:43.8 | I will never forget the night, the Fulton County courthouse killer escaped. |
| 2:54.8 | He was on an elevator with a female sheriff who was armed. He managed to disarm her and get away. |
| 3:02.8 | I had just flown down to visit my parents from New York where I lived and |
| 3:09.8 | that was the first thing that I saw on the knees and I was walking through the airport. |
| 3:14.8 | And the whole city was in fear because this guy had committed many felonies including murder shot up the courthouse including a judge. |
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