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Rudy Giuliani Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City. Personal Birth date: May 28, 1944 Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Birth name: Rudolph William Louis Giuliani Father: Harold Giuliani, tavern owner Mother: Helen (D’Avanzo) Giuliani, secretary Marriages: Judith Nathan (May 24, 2003-2019, divorced);

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Robert Blake Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Emmy-award winning actor Robert Blake. Personal Birth date: September 18, 1933 Death date: March 9, 2023 Birth place: Nutley, New Jersey Birth name: Michael James Gubitosi Father: James Gubitosi Mother: Elizabeth Gubitosi Marriages: Pamela Hudak (March 2017-December 7, 2018, divorced); Bonny Lee

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Bedroom sharing and the buddy system. How a Pennsylvania community is coping during a manhunt for an escaped killer

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Pocopson Township, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Heavily wooded neighborhoods, curvy roads lined with lush trees, and homes that sit on large plots of land – that’s what authorities in eastern Pennsylvania are competing with as the search for an escaped convicted murderer enters its seventh day. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, escaped from Chester

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Michigan authorities search for ‘armed and dangerous’ man who set police vehicles on fire and shot them with rifle

By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — Michigan authorities are looking for an “armed and dangerous” suspect who they say set fire to multiple state police vehicles and struck them with rifle rounds early Wednesday at the Sault Ste. Marie post. No troopers were in the vehicles when the incident occurred at about 3:30 a.m., police

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Video shows murderer who escaped a Pennsylvania prison using same route as another inmate who broke out in May

By Nouran Salahieh and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — The manhunt continued Wednesday for murderer Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison last week by thwarting newly installed razor wire put in place after another inmate briefly broke out a few months ago, authorities said at a Wednesday news conference. Cavalcante, 34, who was

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Nearly 5 decades after he was wrongfully convicted of rape in New York, new DNA testing exonerates 72-year-old man

By Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Nearly five decades after he was wrongfully convicted of rape, a New York judge has overturned the conviction of Leonard Mack following new DNA testing that eliminated him as the perpetrator and identified a different man who has since confessed to the crime, prosecutors announced. Mack, 72, served more

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The daughter of the woman killed by Pennsylvania prison escapee Danelo Cavalcante told police he said he was going ‘to do something bad’ to their lives

By Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — The prisoner who is now the subject of a massive manhunt after escaping from a Pennsylvania prison late last month had killed his ex-girlfriend in a brutal 2021 stabbing in front of her two young children, authorities say. Danelo Souza Cavalcante, a 34-year-old who was convicted in the killing

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Flamingo sightings are pouring in from states where the birds aren’t usually spotted. Hurricane Idalia may be the cause

By David Williams and Jared Formanek, CNN (CNN) — When you think of flamingos, the images that come to mind are probably of African water holes, the Caribbean, Florida – or almost anywhere else other than Waynesville, Ohio. So, when Jacob Roalef saw Facebook posts about flamingos at Ceasar Creek State Park, near Dayton, last

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Danelo Cavalcante

Authorities searching for convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison say they know how he was able to get away

CNN, KYW, WPVI By Nouran Salahieh and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Investigators believe convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante escaped from the Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania last Thursday by climbing onto the roof and fleeing from there, a law enforcement source told CNN. About 200 law enforcement personnel searching for Cavalcante in eastern Pennsylvania are

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NY attorney general and civil liberties groups reach ‘landmark agreement’ with NYPD over protest responses during 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations

By Celina Tebor and Brynn Gingras, CNN (CNN) — The New York Attorney General, the Legal Aid Society, and the New York Civil Liberties Union announced what they called a “landmark agreement” with the New York Police Department that “significantly reforms” the department’s policing of protests to protect “the public and members of the press

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South Carolina attorney general asks for state investigation into Alex Murdaugh jury tampering allegations

By Shawn Nottingham, Dianne Gallagher, Eric Levenson and Alta Spells, CNN (CNN) — South Carolina’s attorney general has asked a state law enforcement agency to investigate claims of jury tampering during Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial this year, officials said Thursday. The request comes after attorneys for Murdaugh, the notorious South Carolina fraudster who was convicted

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Danelo Cavalcante

2 school districts close as police expand hunt for escaped murderer after he was spotted outside the original search zone

CNN, KYW, WPVI By Lauren Mascarenhas and LJ Spaet, CNN (CNN) — The manhunt for Danelo Cavalcante has expanded and two school districts have closed after the escaped murderer was spotted outside the original search area, Pennsylvania police said Tuesday. Cavalcante escaped from Chester County Prison on Thursday and authorities began by scouring a heavily

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Manhunt for escaped killer continues for 6th day, leaving school districts closed and a Pennsylvania community on edge

By Lauren Mascarenhas and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Chester County, Pennsylvania (CNN) — The manhunt for Danelo Cavalcante that has communities in southeastern Pennsylvania on high alert has shifted after the escaped murderer was spotted just south of the original search area, state police said Tuesday. Cavalcante escaped from Chester County Prison on Thursday morning and

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