A correctional officer warned that convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante was planning to escape a month before the killer busted out of a Pennsylvania jail, sparking a massive manhunt.
Cavalcante, 34, broke out of the Chester County Prison in August – shortly after he was sentenced to life for murdering his ex-girlfriend.
Just hours after Cavalcante crab-walked up a wall in the prison yard, Sgt. Jerry Beavers sent an email to Cpt. Harry Griswold noting there had been a warning about the killer’s plans.
‘I am just sending this cause I don’t want this to come back on us or [Officer] Hernandez in anyway,’ Beavers wrote in the email seen by ABC News. ‘He noted back in July that this inmate was planning an escape.’
Griswold then forwarded the message to newly appointed acting warden Howard Holland, writing: ‘This was sent to me this afternoon and I have not forwarded it to anyone else… I am not sure how you want to move forward with this information internally.’
A correctional officer warned that convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante was planning to escape a month before the killer busted out of a Pennsylvania jail
Just hours after Cavalcante crab-walked up a wall in the prison yard, Sgt. Jerry Beavers sent an email to Cpt. Harry Griswold noting there had been a warning about the killer’s plans
And it was not the first time jail officials had noted that Cavalcante was at risk of escape. In fact, there were warnings about him from the moment of his arrest.
Chester County spokesperson Becky Brain told ABC News the killer was ‘initially identified as an escape risk when captured in Virginia and committed to Chester County Prison in 2021.’
‘During the time surrounding his trial, unsubstantiated information from an unknown source was received reinforcing Cavalcante’s status as an escape risk,’ she added.
However, despite the warnings, Cavalcante was allowed to spend time in the prison yard, where he mingled with other detainees during recreational time and was not directly supervised by an officer.
The escape is being investigated by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, and a spokesperson for the jail has said changes have been made to the prison since Cavalcante’s escape, including different color clothing and increased monitoring by correctional officers.
Hundreds of law enforcement officials spent days frantically searching for the killer before he was discovered hiding in thick underbrush by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection tactical team. The team’s search dog, a four-year-old Belgian Malinois named Yoda, bit him on the scalp and then latched onto his leg as Cavalcante, still armed with a rifle he’d stolen a few days earlier, made one last futile effort to crawl away.
Cavalcante, 34, broke out of the Chester County Prison in August – shortly after he was sentenced to life for murdering his ex-girlfriend
Speaking in Portuguese through an interpreter, Cavalcante told police he didn’t eat for the first three days after busting out, surviving on creek water and then, finally, stealing watermelon from a farm and cracking it open with his head.
Using the difficult terrain to his advantage, Cavalcante stayed put for days at a time and only moved at night, hiding in foliage so thick that search teams came within a few yards of him on three separate occasions.
He said he covered his feces with leaves in an effort to hide his tracks from the hundreds of federal, state and local law enforcement agents who were out looking for him.
The killer’s capture, which took about five minutes, brought relief to anxious residents of southeastern Pennsylvania who endured sleepless nights as he hid in the woods, broke into suburban homes for food, changed his appearance, and fled under gunfire with a rifle pilfered from a garage.
Residents or Pocopson Township had been told to stay alert and indoors as more than 500 agents actively searched for Cavalcante, who was armed and dangerous and somehow managed to escape the original search perimeter around the prison.
Cavalcante was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 33-year-old Deborah Brandão in 2021.
He stabbed Brandão 38 times in front of her then seven- and four-year-old children in April. She had brought the children to the US from Brazil for a better life. Prosecutors say he murdered her to stop her from telling police he was wanted in Brazil for a separate killing.
Police updated the search perimeter after Cavalcante was spotted outside the original search area over the weekend
Cavalcante had already been accused of murdering a friend before fleeing from authorities in his home country.
It’s still unclear how the killer entered and made money in the U.S. after he fled Brazil following the murder of his friend Walter Junior in Figuéiropolis, Tocantins, on November 5, 2017.
Evaldo Feitosa told Brazilian news outlet G1 that he was talking to Cavalcante when the killer approached Junior at a corner table. He remembered they were having a conversation before he heard several shots being fired and someone shout, ‘man the guy killed his friend.’
TV Globo also reported that the killing was over money Junior owed Cavalcante.
Two months after the murder, he managed to slip past authorities at Brasília–President Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport.
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