In this picture from video offered by CBS NEWS Philadelphia, regulation enforcement officers pose for a bunch picture with Danelo Cavalcante after his seize in rural Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023.

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In this picture from video offered by CBS NEWS Philadelphia, regulation enforcement officers pose for a bunch picture with Danelo Cavalcante after his seize in rural Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023.

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WASHINGTON — While the nation has been transfixed by the two-week manhunt for escaped prisoner Danelo Souza Cavalcante in Pennsylvania, one other fugitive drama has been enjoying out within the nation’s capital with comparatively minimal consideration.

Christopher Haynes has been on the run for every week, since escaping from police custody at George Washington University Hospital on Sept. 6. Haynes, 30, had been arrested earlier within the day on homicide prices regarding an Aug. 12 taking pictures within the district. His escape prompted a several-hour shelter-in-place order final week for the whole GW campus and transient roadblocks on close by streets.

Cavalcante, a 34-year-old Brazilian nationwide who was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, was captured Wednesday morning in southeastern Pennsylvania after an prolonged pursuit that obtained wall-to-wall reside protection. Haynes remains to be at massive and awaits a trial.

The distinction between the 2 manhunts has been stark: whereas the nationwide media has tracked each improvement in Cavalcante’s flight, Haynes has mainly dropped off the map. Police have been capable of present a picture final week of Haynes wearing a black t-shirt and gray briefs and shifting by means of a neighborhood yard. But the one updates since then have been the providing of a $25,000 reward for data resulting in his seize and a news release Tuesday rising the reward to $30,000 and offering extra particulars in regards to the escape.

Brian Levin, a legal justice professor at California State University San Bernardino, believes the distinction in public consideration and media protection comes all the way down to a lot of components. For starters, there’s the viral video of Cavalcante’s progressive escape from Chester County Prison as he braced himself between two partitions and carried out a kind of vertical crab-walk up and out of sight.

“There were all these aspects that were Hollywood-esque,” Levin stated. “The video of that crab-walk up the wall looked like something out of a movie.”

Haynes additionally staged a dramatic-sounding escape, in response to the Metropolitan Police Department. However, no video of that escape has but emerged.

After being dropped at the hospital complaining of ankle ache, he attacked the officers escorting him and escaped as they have been trying to handcuff him to a gurney. Police Chief Pamela Smith, who assumed the job six weeks in the past amid spiraling violent crimes charges, later admitted that the officers had not correctly secured Haynes, offering a possibility for his escape.

Levin stated the Cavalcante manhunt additionally featured a gentle trickle of latest developments that elevated public curiosity because the hunt dragged on. There have been repeated Cavalcante sightings, together with stories that he had shaved his facial hair and stolen a van and at one level stole a rifle and was shot at by an space resident.

“There was a new twist with virtually every news cycle. There were so many new twists that the public became fixated on what’s coming next,” Levin stated. “Whereas with this D.C. fellow, there haven’t been any new details where the stakes and intensity would grow with each news cycle.”

Police in Washington could not say if he was armed.

Cavalcante’s fugitive flight additionally unfold concern throughout a large rural and suburban neighborhood, with faculties closing and authorities sending out warnings to all space telephones, telling residents to lock their doorways and keep on alert. They have been capable of set up perimeters the place they targeted their hunt.

But Haynes escaped within the midst of a giant metropolis not removed from a subway station. Police this week stated that that they had obtained a number of stories of attainable sightings of Haynes. But aside from the several-hour lengthy shelter-in-place order for the GW campus on the day of his escape, there have been no different public indicators of the pursuit.

“MPD continues the search for Christopher Haynes while the reward for information leading to his arrest has increased to $30,000,” police posted on the social community X, previously referred to as Twitter, on Tuesday.

The public’s excessive curiosity within the Pennsylvania case was not that stunning.

Levin stated the American public has a longstanding fascination with this kind of true-crime flight-from-justice story. “The American crime narrative culture is something that dates back 100 years — to the days of Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson,” he stated.