Danelo Cavalcante

Eventually, Brandão would file for a temporary protection order from a judge. Despite this, Cavalcante kept in touch with Brandão, texting her throughout early 2021. Some accounts even claimed that Cavalcante began stalking his former lover, following her movements in secrecy, always tracking her. Cavalcante even hacked into Brandão’s Instagram account at one point, the peak of his obsession with his ex-girlfriend. The temporary protection order would expire in March 2021 after Brandão failed to arrive at a court hearing. Brandão was terrified of Cavalcante. Her landlord, Brian Flaxman, noticed that she had put up battery-operated alarm sensors on all of the windows and most doors at her apartment in Schuylkill Township. Brandão had anticipated that Cavalcante might come for her and wanted to protect her family. They made the long trek from Brazil to the US, and Brandão wanted to ensure that her children would have a future. Brandão would eventually discover the warrant for Cavalcante’s arrest regarding the murder of Valter Júnior Moreira dos Reis. She used this information to keep him at bay, threatening to tell police about his active warrant in Brazil if he would not leave her alone. In a video interview with news journalist Chris Cuomo of NewsNation, Daniela Hernandez claimed that Brandão used this information to protect herself, with Cavalcante then threatening, “If you rat on me, I will kill you,” an ominous foreshadowing of what would come. Just a day after this threat, a night of pure terror would ensue for the family. Brandão, a dedicated mother and loving sister, would soon be lying dead in a pool of her own blood in front of her children, stabbed to death by the man she had once called her partner.

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