{"id":69481,"date":"2023-09-13T21:51:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montelagocelticfestival.com\/?p=69481"},"modified":"2023-09-13T21:51:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:51:57","slug":"recaptured-murderer-danelo-cavalcantes-mom-defends-him-says-he-had-no-choice-but-to-kill-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montelagocelticfestival.com\/celebrity\/recaptured-murderer-danelo-cavalcantes-mom-defends-him-says-he-had-no-choice-but-to-kill-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Recaptured Murderer Danelo Cavalcante\u2019s Mom Defends Him &#8211; Says He &#039;Had No Choice&#039; But To Kill Girlfriend?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of convicted murderer <strong>Danelo Cavalcante<\/strong> is coming to his defense?!<\/p>\n<p>For those who haven\u2019t been keeping up with the situation, the convicted murderer escaped from prison two weeks ago. The 34-year-old was finally recaptured after a two week manhunt, with Pennsylvania State Police announcing Wednesday that authorities finally managed to track down the then-armed killer after some close calls.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately a dog \u201csubdued\u201d him before he could evade them again. (Is there anything they can&#8217;t do?) PSP Lt. Col. <strong>George Bivens<\/strong> said he was taken into custody and will be moved to a state correctional facility. Phew! Everyone in the Chester County area must be breathing a sigh of relief now.<\/p>\n<p>But as the manhunt went on, we learned more about the crime that put this man in prison in the first place &#8212; and his mother&#8217;s shocking defense of it!<\/p>\n<p>Cavalcante was convicted earlier this summer of stabbing his 33-year-old girlfriend to death in Pennsylvania in 2021. According to the Chester County District Attorney, <strong>Deborah Brand\u00e3o<\/strong> had been outside with her 7-year-old and 4-year-old kids at their home on April 18, 2021, when Danelo suddenly showed up, grabbed her by the hair, and threw her onto the ground. He then brutally \u201cstabbed her 38 times in virtually every vital organ including her heart, kidney, lungs, and liver, causing her to bleed to death.\u201d Just horrific. And the fact that her two young children witnessed everything makes us sick to think about.<\/p>\n<p>As for the motive? The DA explained Deborah had found out her ex-boyfriend had been wanted for another 2017 murder in Brazil, where he grew up. When the victim threatened to turn him in to the police, he decided to carry out this vicious killing to silence her. Danelo was convicted of first-degree murder on August 16 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But things obviously went awry days following the sentencing. On August 31, he managed to escape from Chester State Prison after crab-walking up a narrow outside corridor, right out of the prison yard!<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stunning video shows how convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante escaped Chester County Prison\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XcFW1_bEK3A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>OMG!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps even more shocking than the agile vanishing act is what Danelo\u2019s mom, <strong>Iracema Cavalcante<\/strong>, has said about his situation. Rather than being disappointed in her son\u2019s horrific actions, she shockingly came to his defense about the slaying! Iracema told <em>The New York Times<\/em> on Tuesday, before his capture, that he \u201chad no other choice\u201d than to kill Deborah:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid it happen? It happened. But it happened because of the stranglehold she put on him, the stance she took with him. It wasn\u2019t femicide. He had to, he had no other choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Um, what?! Is she serious?! There is zero excuse for carrying out a vile murder like this. The fact she appears to be on his side tells us more than we need to know about him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>During the long search, Cavalcante was spotted multiple times. He stole a .22 caliber rifle and ammunition from a resident in Pottstown and later took a van. At one point, a doorbell camera caught him looking completely different as he had new clothes and a shaved face. Iracema told the outlet her son managed to survive while evading the police for two weeks due to his difficult upbringing in Brazil. Instead of attending school, she claimed, her Danelo had to work to make money. He shined shoes at 5 years old before getting a job on a farm when he was 7. Iracema said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis training was his suffering. It was going to sleep hungry, it was waking up as I wondered what to feed them. We\u2019re poor. We\u2019re humble. But we\u2019re workers. What we have, we fought to get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She sounds almost proud. Of a murderer.<\/p>\n<p>While Iracema first said she didn&#8217;t want her son to suffer the same fate as his victims, she ended up backtracking and saying he would be better off dying before going back to prison:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I said my son didn\u2019t make a mistake, I\u2019d be lying. I know what my son did was wrong. I know my son should pay for his mistake. But I want my son to pay for his mistake with dignity. Not to pay with his life. If it\u2019s to go to a place to suffer and die in that place, it\u2019s better to die soon. You don\u2019t have to suffer so much. Today, I see my son as dead. In a strange place, trampled, everyone lying about him, saying he\u2019s something that he\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Something that he&#8217;s not? The man is a monster. Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p>Reactions, Perezcious readers? 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