Police say an escaped murderer on the run for a week and a half in southeastern Pennsylvania has apparently slipped out of the search area, changed his appearance is now being sought in a stolen van. Pennsylvania State Police said Sunday that Danelo Souza Cavalcante was seen overnight near Phoenixville in northern Chester County but later said they believe he is no longer in that area. State Police said Cavalcante is now clean-shaven and wearing a yellow or green hooded sweatshirt. He was driving a 2020 White Ford Transit van with a refrigeration unit on the top reported stolen by a dairy. The 34-year-old Cavalcante escaped from Chester County Prison while awaiting transfer to state prison on Aug. 31 after being sentenced to life for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in 2021.
