As the search for a convicted murderer continues, a mixture of fear and unease has settled over the community outside Philadelphia where he escaped and is believed to be hiding.
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For nearly a week since a convicted murderer slipped away from the Chester County Prison, the people in the area, a quiet stretch of farmland and wooded thickets about an hour’s drive outside Philadelphia, have had to live with a relentless unease.
Teams of police officers jog through backyards, drones buzz in the skies, and for a time, helicopters shuddering overhead blared the sound of a woman’s voice pleading in Portuguese — the mother of the man who escaped, begging, in a recording, for him to give himself up.
Mr. Cavalcante has been seen in the seven days since, once by a prison employee, several times in the ghostly infrared light of security cameras and most recently, said Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police, by a resident who spotted him on Tuesday evening in a creek bed, heading into the woods.
At a news conference on Saturday, while discussing possible break-ins related to the escape, the Chester County district attorney, Deb Ryan, said that a homeowner had thwarted an attempted burglary in the area on Friday evening, and that authorities had a “strong belief” that the intruder was Mr. Cavalcante.
News of the prison break sent recess indoors at the local schools and as she got ready for bed, Mr. Drummond’s 9-year-old daughter asked her father nervously about the French doors that didn’t seem to lock right.
Telling his wife to call the police, Mr. Drummond braced for a potential confrontation, then watched as the man walked to the French doors, carrying a bag and appearing to be in no particular hurry.
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For nearly a week since a convicted murderer slipped away from the Chester County Prison, the people in the area, a quiet stretch of farmland and wooded thickets about an hour’s drive outside Philadelphia, have had to live with a relentless unease.
Teams of police officers jog through backyards, drones buzz in the skies, and for a time, helicopters shuddering overhead blared the sound of a woman’s voice pleading in Portuguese — the mother of the man who escaped, begging, in a recording, for him to give himself up.
Mr. Cavalcante has been seen in the seven days since, once by a prison employee, several times in the ghostly infrared light of security cameras and most recently, said Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police, by a resident who spotted him on Tuesday evening in a creek bed, heading into the woods.
At a news conference on Saturday, while discussing possible break-ins related to the escape, the Chester County district attorney, Deb Ryan, said that a homeowner had thwarted an attempted burglary in the area on Friday evening, and that authorities had a “strong belief” that the intruder was Mr. Cavalcante.
News of the prison break sent recess indoors at the local schools and as she got ready for bed, Mr. Drummond’s 9-year-old daughter asked her father nervously about the French doors that didn’t seem to lock right.
Telling his wife to call the police, Mr. Drummond braced for a potential confrontation, then watched as the man walked to the French doors, carrying a bag and appearing to be in no particular hurry.
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