Danelo Cavalcante update: Chester County manhunt widens five days after Pennsylvania prison escape
The escaped killer Danelo Cavalcante has been sighted again
The manhunt for convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante has since widened and local schools have been shut down after he was spotted on wildlife camera footage Monday night swerving past a police fence.
Cavalcante, 34, escaped from the Chester County Jail, Pennsylvania, on Thursday after being sentenced to life in prison without parole for stabbing his ex-girlfriend Deborah Brandão, 31, in front of their two young children. He is also wanted for a 2017 murder in Brazil.
Several sightings were reported during the six-day search for the escaped prisoner, and police established a two-mile perimeter around a wooded area where he was believed to be hiding.
On Monday, officers then sent a message from the killer’s mother, urging her son to surrender.
But in a morning update on Tuesday, police revealed that Cavalcante had been caught on camera the night before managing to sneak across the Parimeter. As a result, police have now expanded the police district and closed the Kennett Consolidated School District in Chester Count “out of great caution”.
The population was asked to protect their homes, outbuildings and vehicles from the dangerous killer.
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The escaped killer Danelo Cavalcante has been sighted again
Rachel SharpSep 5, 2023 3:20 p.m
The Prison Escape: How Danelo Cavalcante Broke Out of Chester County Jail
Danelo Cavalcante, 34, escaped from the Chester County jail around 8.50am Thursday morning – days after he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murder.
Cavalcante was convicted of stabbing his 33-year-old ex-girlfriend, Deborah Brandão, in August 2021.
The killer attacked Brandão in Schuylkill Township in front of her two children, aged only seven and three.
He is also wanted for a 2017 murder in Brazil.
Few details have been released about how he managed to escape from the facility.
Rachel SharpSep 5, 2023 3:10 p.m
FULL STORY: The search for an escaped killer leads to the closure of schools in Pennsylvania after mother’s message of surrender
Pennsylvania police have closed local schools “as a precautionary measure” as the search for escaped killer Danelo Cavalcante enters its sixth day.
In a memo to parents, the Kennett Consolidated School District in Chester County said schools across the county would remain closed Tuesday as the “search situation” to find the convicted killer has now changed.
Rachel SharpSep 5, 2023 3:05 p.m
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Rachel SharpSep 5, 2023 2:59 p.m
