Place one hand on the wall in entrance of you, after which put the other foot on the wall behind you. Repeat together with your different limbs till you might have wedged your self between the 2 partitions. Easy does it. Now, begin “walking” up.

This is how a convicted killer escaped from a jail close to Philadelphia almost every week in the past, in line with surveillance video launched by the authorities on Wednesday. He is still on the run after taking a route that one other prisoner utilized in an try to interrupt out from the identical jail in May.

The footage exhibits the convict, Danelo Cavalcante, 34, performing the maneuver at 8:51 a.m. final Thursday. As the 5-foot-tall Mr. Cavalcante ascends, he disappears from the digicam’s view in a matter of moments. After that, officers stated, he pushed via razor wires — put in after the earlier inmate scaled the identical wall — earlier than reaching the jail’s roof. He ran throughout the roof, scaled a fence, pushed his method via extra razor wire, and has eluded the police ever since.

“We know the gravity of the situation and how it’s impacted our community negatively,” Howard Holland, the appearing warden of the Chester County Prison, stated at a news convention on Wednesday. He added that officers ought to have additional “bolstered” the jail’s defenses following the earlier escape try.

But in that episode, the officer manning a lookout tower noticed the inmate, Igor Bolte, as he was making an attempt to flee and immediately sounded the alarm. Mr. Bolte was apprehended in 5 minutes.

In Mr. Cavalcante’s case, the tower officer on obligation had not seen or reported his actions, officers stated, and they’re investigating why.

“We’ll be taking appropriate action against personnel based on the results of that investigation,” Mr. Holland stated.

Mr. Cavalcante’s absence was found solely throughout a frequently scheduled inmate rely, carried out after the inmates moved indoors from the train yard. Initially, Mr. Holland stated, there was hypothesis that Mr. Cavalcante was in a room the place inmates communicate with guests through phone.

By the time the jail was locked down, 9:50 a.m., and the general public sirens had sounded, 10 a.m., Mr. Cavalcante had already been at massive for about an hour.

The police and an area nonprofit, Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers, are providing a mixed $20,000 award for info that results in Mr. Cavalcante’s arrest. He was convicted on Aug. 16 of stabbing his former girlfriend, Deborah Brandao, almost 40 occasions, killing her in entrance of her youngsters. On Aug. 22, he was sentenced to life in jail.