Deborah Brandão, mother of two, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend Danelo Cavalcante in 2021 in front of her kids. Her biography explored.
Danelo Souza Cavalcante is a convicted murder of Brazil descent.
He is serving a life sentence. A jury convicted him of murder after 15 minutes of deliberations.
However, he was reported on Thursday, August 31, 2023, (roughly a week) after his conviction to have fled from Pennsylvania’s Chester County Prison.
Cavalcante had stabbed his ex-partner, Deborah Brandao, to death causing her younger kids a lot of trauma since they witnessed this horror incident.
This murder happened after she learned he was wanted in his native Brazil on homicide charges.
But who was Deborah Brandao, what exactly happened to her, who are her parents, and children? Read on for more.
Who was Deborah Brandao?
Deborah Brandao was a 33-year-old woman who lived in Pennsylvania.
At the moment, details about her parents, family and relatives have not yet been identified.
She was in a relationship with murderer and Brazilian national, Danelo Cavalcante, however, details about their relationship remains unclear.
The duo were separated for reason which has not been disclosed.
Danelo Cavalcante brutally murdered his ex-partner Deborah Brandao in front of her two children in in April 2021.
The monster reportedly stabbed Brandao 38 times during the sickening slaying.
Cavalcante is also wanted in Brazil for a separate killing that occurred in 2017.
Prosecutors believed he killed Brandao to stop her from telling police information about this murder.
Cavalcante came to the United States illegally from Puerto Rico after fleeing Brazil following the 2017 murder.
Cavalcante was then convicted of first-degree murder on August 16 for killing his former girlfriend, 33-year-old Deborah Brandão, in 2021.
Who are Deborah Brandao’s children?
Before Deborah Brandao was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, Danelo Cavalcante, she was a mother of two.
She has a daughter and a son whose names have been withheld because they are minors.
Her kids were aged four and seven at the time of the murder.
Her children’s father is not known as it appears her murderer, Danelo, isn’t their real dad.
At the moment, who the kids are living with, what they are doing and where they live are also not known to the media.
How did Danelo Cavalcante escape?
Authorities did not immediately revealed how the criminal managed to escape Chester County Prison in West Chester, Pennsylvania Prison on Thursday morning, August 31, 2023, however, a footage of the incident was released on the internet.
He broke out of the county prison by crab-walking up a wall, scaling a barbed wire fence, and running across the prison roof without detection.
He was spotted on a residential surveillance camera about 1.5 miles from the jail he escaped from, according to the Chester County District Attorney.
Chilling CCTV footage showed Danelo Cavalcante walking through a wooded area near Chester County Prison, Pocopson Township, Pennsylvania, at around 1.40am on Saturday morning.
It was caught on a residential security camera and a witness reported they saw someone who fitted Cavalcante’s description.
He was wearing a white T-shirt and white sneakers.
His clothes appeared to be prison-issued and he was carrying a backpack.
How did Danelo Cavalcante get caught?
After 14 days of eluding capture, Danelo Cavalcante, 34 was arrested in a heavily wooded area on Wednesday morning.
Shortly after 8am, Pennsylvania State Police Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens said tactical teams moved in on an area where a heat source had been detected hours earlier.
“We had the element of surprise,” Bivens said, adding that Cavalcante did not know he was surrounded.
The heat source led authorities to a pile of wood logs at a John Deere store in South Coventry Township.
Cavalcante began “crawling through thick underbrush, taking his rifle with him as he went, Bivens disclosed.
A police dog was released to subdue him, and tactical teams moved in to make the arrest as Cavalcante tried to fight off the K-9 and escape.
A bloodied Cavalcante, wearing a Philadelphia Eagles sweatshirt and rugged boots, was pictured handcuffed from behind and surrounded by heavily armed Border Patrol Strike Force officials.
The clothes were cut off Cavalcante as he was mounted on the back of an armed Special Response Team vehicle.
He suffered a minor bite wound from the police dog, Bivens said.
Cavalcante will be transferred to a state correctional institute, where he will serve the remainder of his sentence.