Commission, this will not come as a surprise. Jake, thank you so much for joining us to talk about all of that. Thanks. And thank you for watching cnn prime time. Laura coates starts right now. Good evening everyone. Im so glad youre here with us tonight. Im laura coates. Welcome to cnn tonight. Manhunt, capturing a killer. I have been fascinated by the story, so our, you we will go in depth of the dramatic capture of Danelo Cavalcante for the one police kept up on him and surrounded him in the woods. Im right here in pennsylvania where it all went down. A few hundred yards behind me where the escaped murder was captured just after atm. Now tonight he is back behind bars for the first time i might add, since august 21st in the Pennsylvania State prison in a different county. This time montgomery county. Now he has another charge, this time felony escape. It adds on to the life in Prison Sentence for the heinous murder of his former girlfriend, in front of her two Young Children. Now you see him in the video shot by cnn, and cbs news philadelphia of Chester County and chair of the prison board. The story of how they got him is like something out of a hollywood movie. They used heat seeking technology to find him, and there is a four year old canine who ultimately subdued what is called a defined convict here. Now police explain how it all went down. They were able to move and very quietly, they had the element of surprise. Danilo cavalcante did not realize he was surrounded until that had occurred. That did not stop him from trying to escape, he began to crawl through the under brush taking his rifle with him as he went. One of the customs and Border Patrol came, had a dog with him, they released the dog. The dog subdued him, and team members from both of those teams immediately moved in. He continued to resist, but was forcibly taken into custody. Here with me tonight, cnns brian todd, denis friedman, they have covered this from the very beginning. Danny actually broke the news of this capture. I want to begin with you, this has been a fascinating man hunt. First of all, it was a heinous act that was committed that led to his conviction, and lifetime Prison Sentence. Then he broke out, i mean a crab walk on the wall. It took almost two weeks to get him, and here we are right now. He has finally been captured. Walk us through what it was like for this enormous Law Enforcement presence to get this done. Listen, laura, it was incredibly challenging like you said. 14, days two, weeks hundreds of officers sweeping different parts of Chester County where we are right now. It all went down here. This morning. But it also really started almost 24 hours, ago it was just after midnight in fact when officers got a report of a burglary in this area in Chester County. They responded, they did not find cavalcante, but then they got support from above. A fixed wing airplane got a heat signal of what they thought might have been cavalcante. Officers started to swarm, but then there is a huge storm last night. The fixed wing airplane had to go down. This was the decision that Pennsylvania State police say they, made they kept the tactical teams here. They formed a perimeter really into the area here in the dark of night, and they hailed that perimeter through that storm. I atm, they surprised, him they captured, him and then the canine, the Border Patrol canine was able to ultimately able to get into these woods right here. They apprehended cavalcante, bringing this 14day nightmare to an end. You cant overestimate or overstate really how dark it is here, brian. I know we are behind lights, but i had to see it for myself one is that how is this possible that this man has evaded capture all of this time . This is somebody of course who had a warrant outstanding from brazil, he was a brazilian national. So this is the second time, but aside from where we are standing right now, you cant really see in front of your hand very far, and you have dense forest, and all of these places you could hide. Talk to me about what he did to try and even survive all this time. Well you mentioned earlier, this was right out of a movie. Compared to the movie the fugitive, that is almost tame compared to this. What he did to elude detection for two weeks, we have new details tonight from robert heart of the u. S. Marshals who told cnn earlier tonight, just some of the details that from cavalcante in his post capture interview. He said this to investigators. This is what he said. He said the first two days after he escaped, he hunker down, or he did not move. Right. He couldnt have gotten too far. He basically hunkered down in place, in one place for a couple days. Then, when he did start to move, he survived by drinking stream water, eating a watermelon he found, and by burying his fecal matter so that the Law Enforcement people could not detect it. So, he did have experience as you mentioned from the 2017 murder where he was being hunted there in brazil. He did have Experience Hiding in the jungle, it is what we learned earlier from Lieutenant Colonel so he came to this with some knowledge, he came to knowledge of this area. It was really extraordinary, i have never seen a man hunt with this many instances of a fugitive being so close so many times to Law Enforcement. And to citizens, and people saw him with eyeballs. They, to a trooper saw him with his own eyes, chased, him he got away. He got away from the guy in the garage use shot him several times and did not hit him. Right he was close to you at one point. He was close to, us we figured out tonight to go when we were doing a live shot, 8 45 at a barn, based on a sighting that a woman has seen him about less than an hour earlier, he was right near where we were. He could have been feet away. As you mentioned, you cannot see ten feet out here. So he was close. Danny, what was he headed next . That is one of the interesting pieces we got from the marshals office, he said cavalcante told investigators today, his next plan was within the next 24 hours, to carjack someone, take their vehicle, and drive up towards canada. I have to say, we have been hearing from investigators for a long time that his plan was to try and leave the country, and try and get wheels. The two biggest terrifying factors the police had, was getting a weapon, and a car. He stole a dairy van, he ditched, it he got a gun, but he wasnt able to get a car this time because police were able to capture him here. It is unbelievable, i have not been here, even in spite of both of your unbelievable reporting, keeping us all informed all this time, giving us so much information, and in many ways quelling things already of the people and community here knowing we are on the ground. So glad to have you both here today. Everyone, theres so much more to think about what is happening. By the way, when you think about, and try to understand just how hard this search really was, forget the darkness. Im talking about how many places there are to hide. I want you to see, when i saw this evening on a farm where police say, they actually saw signs that cavalcante had actually been there. It is right behind where im standing everyone. Matthew patterson showed me around, a director of the Farming Community that is behind us here. Where do you think he would have been hiding . Im seeing all these homes, i know there are tenants, but i am seeing stables. Is there some thought he was in those areas . That he was fighting . Absolutely. So, there was a Heat Signature that was picked up over in this field early this morning. I want to say one a. M. Is what one of our tenants was telling me. Then down in the lower part of the barn, there is actually a upturned trash can which our tenant did not do, he came out to feed his cows that he feeds every morning. He came out, the trash can is flipped over. He did not do that. Nothing missing, and certainly places to hide all over this place. Especially down in the section, the access, if he were in the field where they picked up the Heat Signature, all you need to do is jump over that fence and certainly you have all these structures to hide in. I mean you have open windows, open doors, vehicles that can be used, and you said it was peak harvesting season. You have food. Yes, we have a lot here. We have pretty much everything. He would have had access to food, apples there is apples in this barn. He had a food source over here. If he knew where to look. If you start to line the pieces, up yes. Just over here this is where the trash can is. Show me where it is. You can see, if he heard the helicopters, you can hide underneath all of this. There certainly places to hide away back here. Just thinking about i am actually getting freaked out. It is freaky to think about. The areas he would have had, even areas like this to hide behind. Inside here, lucas dark that is in their. Is this old Farm Equipment . Yes. So if you are helicopter trying to go over here, you are not seeing anything. And we have multiple structures like this. There are tenants, but no one would have been in there. So he had potentially anywhere he wanted to hide. Yes, it was a freeforall, that is why it was so scary here. This is the overturned trash can. So when our Lieutenant Officer has these, but he said i did not do that. So it is freaky to think about. That is the surreal part. You see these pieces almost every day things you walk past that you would never think twice, and you are like did i do that . Who was in here . And we work with six different members, so people are in and out, we share the space. So did you do that . Did i do that . You would never think. Then, you are thrown in the situation where did i put all of the pitch forks away, is there anything that can be used for a weapon . They are just everyday tools. They tended to use them. And no light . I see light bulbs, but i mean, if you do not want these, on this is going to be pitch black. And if you see here, where the hate naturally is, you look at this anomaly and not thing for one second there is something underneath here. Now i want to bring in david, he is the Chief County Detective for Chester County pennsylvania. David, this is pretty unbelievable. We have been captivated by what we have seen. I mean, we learned officers nearly stepped on cavalcante three times. Law enforcement, they brought in so many resources. I just cannot wrap my mind about how do you tackle the problem, not just the scope, and the sheer breath of the area, but how many places this man would have had to hide. Good evening, laura, thank you for having me back on. Yes, this was a lot of challenges in this investigation and search. And when we spoke long forsman for 35, years i have never been a part of an investigation of this magnitude of this man hunt. At one point we had over 500 federal, state, county, and local Law Enforcement working. And, working together, with a plan, and most of the credit goes to Lieutenant Colonel he directed, us and with the leadership we put together a tactical plan, and investigative plan behind mr. Cavalcante which we did. You know, i find it so fascinating, you know, many people who would have escaped a person would never have known how to do that. Let alone, how to survive in the elements, in the extreme heat, in the cold at some point in time. You see i have a jacket on. It is not warm here. Last week we had a heat wave occurring as well. He had to turn to Survival Tactics that he was able to use and implement in order to evade capture. He was eating watermelon, he was covering his waist, i mean what does it take to survive and state hidden out here . Thinking about what was going through his head and what was technically planned . Yes so we thought through all that stuff, we had all that information from his arrest. I was there when the murder happened, one of the first detectives to respond to that scene. I was involved in that investigation and prosecution the whole time. And you know, he was resourceful. He did the things he knew he could do. He wanted to shelter in the woods, and we had found that information before when he was in brazil. And he did things that he was comfortable with. He moved at night, he told our investigators that at some points he stayed still for a day, a day and a half. Yes, he told us at some points, the tactical teams walked past him, and you had mentioned there went through some of that bush, that area i know well used to work on, and i spoke to a lot of the tactical, team and they told me in the report, they are in there for five feet apart, and they cannot see each other. That is how thick it is at some point and with the terrain. And the hills, just everything in that area was tough, challenging. We were committed. We had a team, and to watch this team get together and work, it was one of the most Amazing Things i have been a part of. First of, all im so glad you mentioned, because we can really not lose sight of why this man was considered extremely dangerous. What he did to his mother of two Young Children. In front of her two Young Children can not be dismissed. This was 38 times she was stabbed in front of her children i might add. That is why he was not only arrested, but convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. And that cannot get lost when we talk about the danger of this person. But it got exponentially more dangerous of course when we knew that he was now going to be armed. And apparently, he even planned to hijack a car in the next day or so after doing all he has done right now. I mean how much more dangerous could this have gotten if he had managed to escape this parameter. This area. And made this a national issue. So we were always concerned that he might get a weapon or hurt somebody. That is the reason we had a tactical investigative plan and using all of the resources, that you had mentioned earlier. We had every type of resource and a lot of sophisticated equipment. To help find him. And that was a part of our plan. And it worked. We got him in a certain area. We came close a couple of times where he was able to allude us. And you, right that murder was horrific. What he did showed no emotion. I watched that trial. I was in that trial. I watched him show no emotion. He did not apologize. The jury came back in 15 minutes after hearing that case. In 15 minutes and convicted him of firstdegree murder. And that is how horrific this crime was. To see a week later, him escape the way he did was shocking to me. We gathered our support, called all of our agencies and we put a plan together. And did not stop working 24 hours a day. I have to tell you the, level of dedication of the men and women. Every agency, particularly the tactical operators. It is hard to describe here in words what they did. 12 hour shifts in the woods, with all of their tactical gear, never once did they complain. Ever about the mission, youre focused. And they wanted to capture him safely and make sure none of the citizens were injured or put in jeopardy. The county, it was unnerving for a lot of people. Not only in the county, my phone rang off the hook the whole time. Where is he, is he close, when are you guys going to get him. Is it safe to go here. The fear of the unknown was a hard for a lot of people. But the men and women part of this investigation, particularly the leadership of the agencies, the state police, the federal agencies, the county agencies. We stayed on the same page with the same mission. And we ultimately were able to take him into custody without Firing A Shot and injuring anybody. David, it cannot be underscored enough, what youve just said i will talk to a woman who had her three year old daughter. And the same area where this man was likely captured. 100 yards away. Schools were closed in this area, people were afraid for their lives. Why, because the real unknown was what would a man who had nothing to lose do to stay not captured. Thank you so much for joining us. Tonight weve got a lot more to come this very hour. Because im still asking the question, what did it take to bring this man hunt to an end. 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