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Danelo Cavalcante eluded authorities in the Philadelphia suburbs for two weeks after an Aug. 31 escape. The convicted murderer was captured in an Eagles sweatshirt, carrying a stolen rifle.
The fugitive, Danelo Cavalcante, slipped out of Chester County Prison on Thursday morning, roughly two weeks after he was convicted of first-degree murder in the April 2021 killing of his former girlfriend.
At an unknown time and at an unknown location, Danelo Souza Cavalcante, a 34-year-old citizen of Brazil, entered the United States unlawfully — without being inspected or admitted by a U.S. immigration official, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Sometime after that, in April 2021, prosecutors said he fatally stabbed his Brazilian girlfriend in front of her children in Pennsylvania, and he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. It was the second time he was accus
Undocumented immigrants accused of minor crimes are often sent back to their homelands. Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from a U.S. prison, had been facing a murder charge in Brazil.