{"id":2036,"date":"2009-12-30T10:18:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T17:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2012-12-10T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T00:57:17","slug":"portugal-fugitive-lived-in-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/portugal-fugitive-lived-in-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal fugitive lived in caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/46134544_portugalcave226i.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2040 alignright\" title=\"_46134544_portugalcave226i\" src=\"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/46134544_portugalcave226i.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>An escaped murderer who spent 16 years on the run hiding in caves and living mainly off fruit has been recaptured in northern Portugal, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old man tried to resist arrest when cornered by police on Wednesday night in Vieira do Minho, but did not use the pistol he was carrying.<\/p>\n<p>The former shepherd, who had a deep tan and a long beard, was serving a 10-year jail sentence when he escaped in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>His family and friends had provided him with food and medicine, police said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cave in which the fugitive is believed to have lived<br \/>\nThe former shepherd lived in caves in hills near his family&#8217;s village<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Since his escape, he hid out and lived in three or four caves in the region, which he knew well,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chief Inspetor Carlos Gomes of the judicial police in Braga told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He fed himself on fruits and had never seen a doctor, but he seemed to us to be in good health,&#8221; he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Gomes said officers had carried out surveillance on the caves over the past two years after receiving reliable information that the man was hiding in the hills around his home.<\/p>\n<p>The fugitive &#8220;looked like Robinson Crusoe&#8221; and had been keen to talk to police after being recaptured, he added.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8176576.stm\" class=\"broken_link\">BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An escaped murderer who spent 16 years on the run hiding in caves and living mainly off fruit has been recaptured in northern Portugal, police have said. The 54-year-old man tried to resist arrest when cornered by police on Wednesday night in Vieira do Minho, but did not use the pistol he was carrying. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-self-reliance"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}