The Woods Can Conceal a Fugitive. But for How Long?
Someone on the run can take advantage of natural cover to elude a manhunt for awhile, but experts say technology and time will eventually tip the scales toward the pursuers.
Someone on the run can take advantage of natural cover to elude a manhunt for awhile, but experts say technology and time will eventually tip the scales toward the pursuers.
Danelo Cavalcante, the Pennsylvania prison escapee, has now been roaming wooded areas and small suburban towns for nearly two weeks, presumably with no shelter and little to eat or drink, as he flees the hundreds of police officers desperately searching for him. Back home in rural Brazil, his mother, Iracema Cavalcante, sees a son whose…
The fugitive who escaped Chester County Prison and has eluded authorities for a week and a half was seen on Saturday night near a town about 25 miles from the area where hundreds of law enforcement officers had been searching for him for days, the Pennsylvania State Police said. The state police released photos early…
The manhunt for an escaped fugitive in the Philadelphia suburbs appeared to escalate on Friday afternoon as attention focused on the area around a sprawling botanical garden where the escapee had been seen twice in recent days. The number of officers searching for Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from the Chester County Prison on Aug. 31,…
In a news conference on Wednesday, Howard Holland, the acting warden of the prison, described for the first time how Mr. Cavalcante escaped. A little before 9 a.m., while a basketball game was going on outside in the exercise yard, he said, Mr. Cavalcante crab-walked up two parallel walls — putting his hands on one…
A Utah man accused of posing as a doctor and making at least $2 million selling a fake Covid-19 cure was arrested last week, ending a three-year manhunt that was part of a Justice Department initiative to stem illegal profiteering amid the Covid-19 pandemic, prosecutors said this week. The man, Gordon Hunter Pedersen, 63, of…