Danelo Cavalcante stabbed Deborah Brandao to death in April 2021, an attack, prosecutors said, that ended their tumultuous relationship.
It took a Chester County jury just 15 minutes of deliberation to reach a first-degree murder verdict against a man who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in front of her children.
“He couldn’t have that,” Ryan told the jurors, urging them to convict him of first-degree murder. “So he had to silence her. And that’s what he did.” Cavalcante fled the scene. Brandao was taken by medics to Paoli Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. “There’s no rhyme or reason to these stabs,” Barkawi said. “That’s the intense passion, that’s what happened when this relationship boiled over.”Two of Cavalcante’s friends, Francisco Lima and Michael Scahill, testified that afterward, Cavalcante drove to a business where the three parked rented construction trailers. There, the two helped Cavalcante wash Brandao’s blood off his hands, which were cut and bleeding from the brutal assault.
In a recorded statement played during the trial, Cavalcante told Chester County detectives “there was no reason” for the stabbing — the two simply started arguing, he said, and “it went from there.” Cavalcante told the detectives he was sorry for killing her, and wrote a letter to Brandao’s children, asking for their forgiveness.
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