 when he and other prisoners entered the yard. Just 20 minutes later he had managed to 'crab-walk' the wall, putting his feet on one wall of a narrow corridor and his hands on the facing wall, before 'walking' up with his body horizontal to the ground. According to Mr Hollard, he then ran across the roof, pushing through sheets of barbed wire in his path before climbing another wall and passing through more barbed wire. Cavalcante's absence was noted at 9.45am, prompting officers to launch a special count that confirmed his disappearance. Prisoner Igor Bolte broke out of the Chester County Prison in a similar way in May but was detained almost immediately. The search for Cavalcante entered its seventh day on Wednesday. Officials are offering a $10,000 (£8,000) reward for any information leading to his arrest. Hiding in undergrowth It is thought that he is moving at night, while during daylight hours he has been hiding in thick undergrowth, which officers have been forced to hac){kind=link}
Danelo Cavalcante, jailed for fatally stabbing an ex-girlfriend, managed to flee while a guard was off-duty
A convicted murderer made a daring escape from prison by “crab-walking” up the side of a building before bolting across its roof and barbed wire.
Danelo Cavalcante, 34, broke out of the prison in West Chester, Pennsylvania, on Aug 31 where he was jailed for stabbing an ex-girlfriend to death in front of her two small children.
Officers are said to have been taken off guard at the time of his departure, despite a similar escape method being used by another inmate earlier this year.
One positioned in a guard tower overlooking the exercise yard, where the escape occurred, “did not observe nor report the escape”.