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Authorities used a DEA aircraft with a thermal-imaging camera to narrow the perimeter around where the escaped killer could be hiding. Officers found him laying on his back on the ground and sent a canine officer to subdue him.

A murderer who brazenly escaped from a Pennsylvania jail was captured Wednesday in the woods by a team of tactical officers, bringing an end to an intensive search that terrified residents as the fugitive broke into homes for food, changed his appearance and stole a van and rifle during two…

Convicted killer was tracked down using thermal imaging technology before tactical teams surrounded him and – with the help of a police dog – captured him at around 8am on Wednesday morning

‘We have considered him dangerous from the very start, it changes nothing,’ Lt Col George bivens told reporters on Tuesday

Pennsylvania State Police warned locals that the fugitive is now ‘armed’ after stealing a .22 calibre rifle from a home in East Nantmeal Township

Chester County residents are growing increasingly frustrated as police scramble to keep up with the ‘dangerous’ killer’s moves, writes Andrea Blanco

‘Before it was advantageous to Cavalcante while he was playing tactical hide and seek in the woods,’ US Marshalls supervising deputy Robert Clark said

Cavalcante has managed, yet again, to sneak past the search perimeter

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