A fugitive murderer spent 16 years hiding in caves around his home village in northern Portugal before he was recaptured looking ‘like Robinson Crusoe.
Manuel Cruz, 54, had a deep tan and a long beard when he was arrested in the forested hills where he once had been a shepherd.
Cruz was serving a 10-year sentence for murder when he fled during a weekend furlough in the village in 1993.
He was convicted after an argument over goats with a local woman during which Cruz pushed her and she hit her head on the ground, later dying.
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