Murderer escaped by scaling wall topped with razor wire, says US prison official

Murderer Danelo Cavalcante was able to escape a from prison yard in Pennsylvania last week by climbing up a wall and over razor wire, officials said (Steven M Falk/The Philadelphia Inquirer/AP)

A murderer made a brazen escape from a prison yard in Philadelphia by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof in a breakout that went undetected by guards for a full hour, authorities in Pennsylvania said as the killer eluded a widening manhunt for a seventh day.

The timeline and details of Danelo Cavalcante’s escape – including that he got out using the same route another prisoner took in May – were released as police from various agencies flooded a search zone of increasingly worried residents.