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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:14Speaker 2: It's over double killer Danello Cavalcante is in custody.
- 0:23Speaker 3: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation
- 0:27Speaker 2: in series XM one eleven. Take a listen to this.
- 0:30Speaker 4: Last night, shortly after midnight, a series of events started
- 0:34Speaker 4: to unfold. First, we had a burglar alarm at a
- 0:39Speaker 4: residence near Prizer Road within the perimeter. Our people investigated that,
- 0:46Speaker 4: did not find Cavalcante there or anyone else, but it
- 0:50Speaker 4: brought it started to bring some of our people into
- 0:53Speaker 4: that area. We had been searching an area not far
- 0:56Speaker 4: from there already with some tactical teams. That night was
- 1:00Speaker 4: an aircraft overhead utilizing Fleer technology and close to one
- 1:06Speaker 4: am picked up a heat signal that they began to track.
- 1:10Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to go from A to Z first
- 1:12Speaker 2: with an all star panel. I'm going to go to
- 1:14Speaker 2: Eddie Cadam, investigative reporter with Fox twenty nine.
- 1:18Speaker 3: Out of Philly.
- 1:18Speaker 2: Eddie, thank you for being with us. I want to
- 1:20Speaker 2: focus on what I just heard. Are you telling me
- 1:23Speaker 2: that at one am, LA law enforcement was up in
- 1:27Speaker 2: the air looking for any heat heated movement in the
- 1:33Speaker 2: brush and in the woods. One am there in the
- 1:37Speaker 2: air with a helicopter.
- 1:38Speaker 5: One am a plane that was up in the air
- 1:42Speaker 5: flying around in circles. The way that it was described as,
- 1:45Speaker 5: it's like a cone that can kind of look down
- 1:47Speaker 5: into the woods.
- 1:48Speaker 2: So, Eddie Cadam, while everybody else is asleep in their beds,
- 1:53Speaker 2: you got law enforcement up there working through the night
- 1:57Speaker 2: twenty four to seven. Now I understand saying it was
- 2:00Speaker 2: a d E a plane.
- 2:03Speaker 5: Yes, that's correct, Nancy, a DEA plane with infrared technology
- 2:06Speaker 5: on it.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Wow, fixed wing guys with me an all star panel
- 2:10Speaker 2: or brand joining me, Douglas McGregor joining me, Doctor Gorniette,
- 2:14Speaker 2: Karen Start and Nima Ramani to you, Douglas McGregor, Geographic
- 2:18Speaker 2: profile or specializing and the hunt for missing people and fugitives.
- 2:24Speaker 2: You can find them at the g A profile or
- 2:27Speaker 2: explain to me how the infrared system works. Dan, We've
- 2:31Speaker 2: got a d A fixed wing plane with infrared capability.
- 2:37Speaker 6: Just as you mentioned the you know, the plane flying over.
- 2:39Speaker 6: They scan a certain area and they try to pick
- 2:42Speaker 6: up the heat signature from you know, objects below. So
- 2:46Speaker 6: obviously they're looking for a human in this case, it
- 2:49Speaker 6: could pick up animals or other objects as well. And
- 2:53Speaker 6: and cavilcante. He if he knows that the technology is
- 2:58Speaker 6: being used, he can, you know, put in countermeasures to
- 3:02Speaker 6: avoid that technology.
- 3:03Speaker 2: When you say that there are counter measures to fight
- 3:07Speaker 2: thermal imaging, I mean.
- 3:09Speaker 3: Most of us.
- 3:11Speaker 2: Well, okay, I have been on searches where thermal images
- 3:14Speaker 2: are used, but most people only know about thermal imaging
- 3:18Speaker 2: through like a James Bond movie or you know, something
- 3:23Speaker 2: like that high technology. So what is a potential countermeasure
- 3:28Speaker 2: that can be used against thermal imagery?
- 3:30Speaker 3: That's what Ellie is doing up in the air at
- 3:33Speaker 3: one a m.
- 3:35Speaker 2: What's a countermeasure to thermal imaging technology?
- 3:38Speaker 6: Accounter measure can be a barrier, so he could be
- 3:41Speaker 6: inside and it may not penetrate whatever he's behind, like
- 3:47Speaker 6: for example, a wall water could be a countermeasure. Anything
- 3:52Speaker 6: that significantly cools down his body could be accounter measure.
- 3:55Speaker 3: Yeah, I see, I see what you're saying. Douglas McGregor,
- 3:58Speaker 3: a Gee graphic profiler.
- 4:00Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there were problems late last
- 4:05Speaker 2: night with the thermal imaging. Take a listen to hour
- 4:08Speaker 2: cut seventy eight from Fox two nine.
- 4:09Speaker 7: In the beginning of this, it was so hot that
- 4:12Speaker 7: they were saying they were having issues. So they have
- 4:14Speaker 7: been using thermal imaging from the beginning. But the problem
- 4:17Speaker 7: is we were dealing with temperatures in the nineties and
- 4:19Speaker 7: the heat index was so high that it was hard
- 4:22Speaker 7: to make that happen to have it be effective. But
- 4:24Speaker 7: we have had rain and things have cooled off over
- 4:26Speaker 7: the past twenty four hours or so.
- 4:27Speaker 2: So while they are up there trying to get a
- 4:30Speaker 2: thermal image of where they think Danello Cavalcante maybe and
- 4:34Speaker 2: remember this is a two time killer.
- 4:38Speaker 3: He shot a guy at.
- 4:39Speaker 2: A food truck, reportedly over a car repair, and then
- 4:44Speaker 2: he stabbed his girlfriend in front of her children.
- 4:48Speaker 3: That's who we're talking about.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Cops desperately trying to find Cavalcante before he could strike again.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Let's do Lieutenant Colonel George Bivins cut a three.
- 4:58Speaker 4: Tactical teams made it the suit vision to secure that area,
- 5:02Speaker 4: that smaller area as best they could and hold it
- 5:05Speaker 4: through the storm and until we could bring additional resources
- 5:10Speaker 4: in and bring aircraft back overhead to ensure that we
- 5:13Speaker 4: did not have an issue with an escape. That resumed
- 5:17Speaker 4: early this morning, and shortly after eight am, tactical teams
- 5:22Speaker 4: converged on the area where the heat source was. They
- 5:26Speaker 4: were able to move in very quietly. They had the
- 5:28Speaker 4: element of surprise. Cavalcante did not realize he was surrounded
- 5:32Speaker 4: until that had occurred.
- 5:33Speaker 2: As they said, we don't want an issue with an escape.
- 5:36Speaker 2: You mean another escape, the third escape. So let me
- 5:42Speaker 2: understand something joining me right now. IRV Brandt, Senior Inspector,
- 5:46Speaker 2: US Marshall Service International Branch.
- 5:48Speaker 3: He's been all around the world trying.
- 5:50Speaker 2: To find fugitives, just like Danello Cavalcante, author of Solo Shot,
- 5:55Speaker 2: Curse of the Blue Stone, and Flying Solo Top of
- 5:58Speaker 2: the World, both Amazon or Brandt. So how do you
- 6:02Speaker 2: know you finally get a beat on somebody through thermal imagery?
- 6:07Speaker 2: Is it like what we see in the movies where
- 6:09Speaker 2: you actually see a figure crawling around?
- 6:12Speaker 8: Yes, it is actually like that. I've been a number
- 6:17Speaker 8: of man hunts where we've used handheld flear devices for
- 6:23Speaker 8: thermal imaging, and also in aircraft the helicopters fixed wing.
- 6:29Speaker 3: I bet you have wait a minute. Most people listening.
- 6:33Speaker 2: Have never been up in a helicopter or a fixed
- 6:37Speaker 2: wing where they're conducting thermal imagery detective work.
- 6:42Speaker 3: Just explain it. What do you see? What do you notice?
- 6:45Speaker 2: I mean, when you're looking down at a disneywooded area,
- 6:49Speaker 2: I'm sure there's all sorts of critters and creatures.
- 6:53Speaker 3: How do you know what you're seeing?
- 6:54Speaker 8: Nancy? The devices are very advanced, and what you're looking
- 6:59Speaker 8: at on this screen is you'll see a darker area,
- 7:04Speaker 8: which is the cooler area. Then you'll pick up the
- 7:07Speaker 8: heat signature which contrasts to the darker area. Then as
- 7:13Speaker 8: it's moving, you can tell by the way it's moving
- 7:16Speaker 8: whether you're looking at a person, whether you're looking at
- 7:19Speaker 8: something like a deer, or maybe you know, something smaller
- 7:24Speaker 8: like a raccoon.
- 7:25Speaker 3: You mean it's that detailed, it's blurry.
- 7:28Speaker 8: But with practice and with experience, yes, you can tell
- 7:32Speaker 8: the difference between a human and an animal.
- 7:35Speaker 3: Have you ever seen a sonogram or a Brent?
- 7:37Speaker 8: Yes, that's spot on, Nancy, that's what you're looking at.
- 7:40Speaker 3: This is just amazing to me. What did you say,
- 7:43Speaker 3: except for the colors.
- 7:44Speaker 8: Right, it's the colors that the heat signature is giving off.
- 7:49Speaker 2: So it's so finely tanged you can tell if you're
- 7:51Speaker 2: looking at a deer, a rabbit, apostles or a person. Wow,
- 7:56Speaker 2: did not realize exactly how accurate the thermal imaging really
- 8:01Speaker 2: is and you know.
- 8:02Speaker 3: Back to you.
- 8:03Speaker 2: Investigative reporter with thoughts twenty nine Eddie Cadam Eddie. It
- 8:08Speaker 2: was a DEA plane. How did the locals get their
- 8:11Speaker 2: mits on a dea plane?
- 8:13Speaker 5: They had every resource available to them, and as the
- 8:17Speaker 5: days got on, they just increased their presence bringing in
- 8:21Speaker 5: There was DA They had the SERT team. I was
- 8:26Speaker 5: told the moving in the team and squad Middleen in
- 8:29Speaker 5: those twenty to twenty five tactical guys, some of the
- 8:31Speaker 5: most serious guys you want looking for him, that got
- 8:35Speaker 5: there quickly.
- 8:36Speaker 3: Twenty five tactical guys. What does that mean? Er Brandt?
- 8:39Speaker 3: Twenty five tactical guys.
- 8:42Speaker 8: Let's basically saying swat. Yeah, they're bringing in the big guns,
- 8:47Speaker 8: heavily armored people.
- 8:48Speaker 2: Even though we've got dea drug enforcement agency, which is extremely,
- 8:54Speaker 2: extremely powerful. Listen, I was a FED for three years
- 8:59Speaker 2: before after that, I was a felony prosecutor. I could
- 9:04Speaker 2: never get the FEDS to help me on a single case.
- 9:07Speaker 3: They have their own cases to deal with.
- 9:09Speaker 2: I got to help some county prosecutor trying to solve
- 9:12Speaker 2: a murder.
- 9:14Speaker 3: They're not gonna help.
- 9:15Speaker 2: They've got their own basket of worms to deal with.
- 9:18Speaker 2: So hats off to the locals that get the DEA
- 9:22Speaker 2: in on this. But guess what he wasn't caught by
- 9:26Speaker 2: thermal technology in the end?
- 9:29Speaker 3: Bow wow? Is that a hint? Take a listen our
- 9:32Speaker 3: cut eighty four.
- 9:33Speaker 4: He began to crawl through thick underbrush, taking his rifle
- 9:37Speaker 4: with him as he went. One of the Customs and
- 9:41Speaker 4: Border Control teams bore attack had a dog with them.
- 9:45Speaker 4: They released the dog. Some of our PSP cert members
- 9:49Speaker 4: were also there, had him surrounded. The dogs subdued him,
- 9:55Speaker 4: and team members from both of those teams immediately moved in.
- 9:58Speaker 4: He continued to resist, but was forcibly taken into custody.
- 10:02Speaker 4: No one was injured as a result of that.
- 10:06Speaker 8: Excuse me, He did sustain.
- 10:09Speaker 4: A minor bite wound. We had medical personnel at the
- 10:15Speaker 4: scene and they took a look at that.
- 10:17Speaker 2: Okay, I love the way that he kind of airbrushed
- 10:20Speaker 2: that whole thing.
- 10:21Speaker 3: The dog subdued him. Okay, he was covered in blood.
- 10:27Speaker 3: The dog chewed him up.
- 10:31Speaker 2: Let me remind you before you start feeling sorry for
- 10:34Speaker 2: Calvin Kante.
- 10:35Speaker 3: He had a sowd Off rifle with him. He's already
- 10:40Speaker 3: killed twice that we know of.
- 10:42Speaker 2: You don't think he would have unleashed a hell of
- 10:44Speaker 2: bullets on any law enforcement that came toward him once
- 10:49Speaker 2: he could identify them in the dark, unless that dog
- 10:54Speaker 2: hadn't got to him first. Bloodied Chiller Danello cal contest
- 11:00Speaker 2: sniffed out by canees while lying under a pile of
- 11:04Speaker 2: leaves and wood as the cops surreptitiously creeped up and
- 11:10Speaker 2: surrounded him. Time Stories with Nancy Grace, Eddy Kaden with
- 11:27Speaker 2: me investigate Reporter Fox twenty nine, tell me every detail.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Don't leave anything out about this particular juncture.
- 11:34Speaker 3: Of the manhunt.
- 11:35Speaker 5: All right, So let's start with the first sighting. Last
- 11:39Speaker 5: night there was a burglary alarm at a residence inside
- 11:44Speaker 5: the perimeter. This is near Priser Road. They didn't find
- 11:49Speaker 5: him there, but what that did do is it brought
- 11:51Speaker 5: manpower to that area. After that, they put up the
- 11:55Speaker 5: aircraft with the infrared tech. This is now around one am,
- 12:00Speaker 5: picked up a heat heat signature believed to be him,
- 12:04Speaker 5: converged on that heat source and so at the same time, though,
- 12:08Speaker 5: some storms made it came in and that caused the
- 12:11Speaker 5: aircraft to actually go down. But at this point, the
- 12:14Speaker 5: teams are in position, and this is all information from
- 12:17Speaker 5: the presser.
- 12:18Speaker 2: So they're out there in the dark and in the rain.
- 12:21Speaker 2: After they pick up a heat signature.
- 12:23Speaker 3: Is that right?
- 12:23Speaker 5: Yeah, And this is a serious storm. It's thunder, it's
- 12:26Speaker 5: lightning too. It's in rough condition.
- 12:28Speaker 3: But they didn't give up.
- 12:29Speaker 2: They stayed out there even when the plane had to
- 12:31Speaker 2: come down.
- 12:32Speaker 3: Okay, then what happened?
- 12:33Speaker 5: So they converge on him, and as you were just saying,
- 12:36Speaker 5: spot on, very sneaky. They he did not They saw
- 12:40Speaker 5: him before he saw them, so he didn't know he
- 12:44Speaker 5: was getting rolled up on until he was getting rolled
- 12:46Speaker 5: up on. Essentially, he was, we're told, in a prone
- 12:49Speaker 5: position when he noticed he was surrounded. The way law
- 12:53Speaker 5: enforcement put it, he didn't even have a chance to
- 12:55Speaker 5: get his gun out once once the engagement started. They
- 12:58Speaker 5: said it was about five minutes total. He was trying
- 13:01Speaker 5: to crawl away. They released that dog. Shout out to
- 13:05Speaker 5: dogs everywhere herero today. They released the dog. The dog
- 13:09Speaker 5: got to him, The officers were able to get to him,
- 13:12Speaker 5: bring them in take.
- 13:13Speaker 3: A listen to our friends at Thoughts twenty nine.
- 13:15Speaker 7: The first moments when he was captured, we were there.
- 13:17Speaker 7: Sky Fox was there showing all of the police as
- 13:21Speaker 7: they gathered around him, see all the wood and they're
- 13:23Speaker 7: wiping his face and cords.
- 13:25Speaker 4: Of wood, wiping his face possibly of blood.
- 13:29Speaker 9: Who knows what the takedown was like.
- 13:32Speaker 7: And so we're learning now as we take a look
- 13:34Speaker 7: in the juxtaposition here when they first captured him, when
- 13:37Speaker 7: they first caught him and they put his handshind his
- 13:39Speaker 7: back to now he's being taken away to Sci Phoenix.
- 13:41Speaker 7: We've learned that he was found inside of a shed
- 13:43Speaker 7: there at Prisoners that's where they found him, and he
- 13:46Speaker 7: did have that stolen rifle with him.
- 13:48Speaker 2: How fast it would have been for him to take
- 13:50Speaker 2: that rifle out and start shooting, That's the question, guys,
- 13:55Speaker 2: for those of you just joining us, the man hunt
- 13:58Speaker 2: is overco he found and brought out covered in blood
- 14:03Speaker 2: after K nine got hold of him, but that K
- 14:06Speaker 2: nine disarmed him, so he never had a chance to
- 14:08Speaker 2: start firing on law enforcement.
- 14:11Speaker 3: Doctor Jan Gorniac joining US.
- 14:12Speaker 2: Renowned forensic pathologist, former medical examiner Clark County. That's Vegas
- 14:18Speaker 2: and you know as well as I do, there's never
- 14:21Speaker 2: a lack of business from medical examiner in Vegas. Doctor
- 14:25Speaker 2: Gorniac explain why he was bleeding from the head, And
- 14:32Speaker 2: isn't it true that around your face and your nose,
- 14:36Speaker 2: your neck, you bleed so much more profusely then you would,
- 14:40Speaker 2: for say, a cut on your arm.
- 14:42Speaker 10: Yes, good morning, everybody. You're absolutely correct. Your scalp especially.
- 14:47Speaker 8: Is very vascular.
- 14:49Speaker 10: So if he was in a high energy state, as
- 14:52Speaker 10: in being trying to get away from a dog or
- 14:54Speaker 10: trying to get away from law enforcement, his blood pressure
- 14:57Speaker 10: is high. So any cut to the head is going
- 15:02Speaker 10: to bleed terribly. I mean, it looks like you're like
- 15:06Speaker 10: bleeding to death because your scalp is so vascular, so
- 15:10Speaker 10: any cut he has is going to look like it's
- 15:13Speaker 10: it's profusely bleeding compared to his arms or his legs.
- 15:18Speaker 10: And it sounds like the brush that he was in.
- 15:21Speaker 10: I don't believe the bleeding from his head is from
- 15:23Speaker 10: the dog, but probably from other you know, the brush
- 15:27Speaker 10: or whatever else he was in contact with.
- 15:30Speaker 3: I think the dog bet him on the head, That's
- 15:31Speaker 3: what I think.
- 15:32Speaker 2: But when you say heavily vascular, you mean a lot
- 15:36Speaker 2: of veangs, right.
- 15:37Speaker 10: A lot of blood vessels. You're correct, at a lot
- 15:39Speaker 10: of blood vesters. I remember at a camp when I
- 15:41Speaker 10: was younger, one of my playmates fell hit his head
- 15:44Speaker 10: on a rock and I really thought he was going
- 15:46Speaker 10: to die, that's how much it was bleeding. And then
- 15:48Speaker 10: once you clean it up, it was just this little
- 15:50Speaker 10: a little cut. So, yes, if you're in a high
- 15:53Speaker 10: energy state, meaning you know your blood pressure is up,
- 15:56Speaker 10: you're moving around, your blood is pumping harder and fact,
- 16:00Speaker 10: so your scalp is going to bleed excessively, but not
- 16:04Speaker 10: enough to die from.
- 16:06Speaker 3: And Jackie is waving a note at me, Yes, you're right.
- 16:10Speaker 2: He was bitten by the dog and he was crawling
- 16:15Speaker 2: away when the dog.
- 16:17Speaker 3: Caught him and started chewing.
- 16:20Speaker 2: Wow, Thank Heaven, because this guy had his sought off
- 16:25Speaker 2: right behind him and a backpack that I'm still curious about.
- 16:29Speaker 2: Where the hey did he get a backpack?
- 16:32Speaker 3: Guhys?
- 16:32Speaker 2: The escape prisoner Danello Cavicante's to Do by k Nines,
- 16:35Speaker 2: captured in the early early morning hours fall we were
- 16:39Speaker 2: all asleep. He was looking at life behind bars without parole.
- 16:44Speaker 2: In the Murder, the brutal stabbing death of his girlfriend
- 16:47Speaker 2: in front of her children. He was in a local
- 16:51Speaker 2: jail that they call a prison. He had not made
- 16:54Speaker 2: it to a max security prison yet, and he actually
- 16:58Speaker 2: scaled the wall a spider so called crab, walking up
- 17:03Speaker 2: the two sides of a hallway in alcove to get
- 17:07Speaker 2: to the ceiling through barbed wire, run across the ceiling,
- 17:10Speaker 2: jump down, and make off. Over an hour passed before
- 17:14Speaker 2: anyone realized he was even gone.
- 17:17Speaker 3: The guard on.
- 17:18Speaker 2: Watch has been fired. He had an inappropriate cell phone
- 17:21Speaker 2: with him. In other words, it was against regulations. I
- 17:23Speaker 2: don't know what he was doing scrolling through a dating
- 17:26Speaker 2: app TikTok, who knows, but he wasn't watching. Cavalcante one
- 17:31Speaker 2: of the most dangerous prisoners they had in the facility. Now,
- 17:35Speaker 2: this is after he kills somebody in his homeland Brazil,
- 17:39Speaker 2: goes and hides in the jungle for weeks on end,
- 17:42Speaker 2: makes it out of the jungle to Puerto Rico, hides
- 17:44Speaker 2: out there until.
- 17:46Speaker 3: He can make it to the prize the US. What
- 17:49Speaker 3: more do we know.
- 17:51Speaker 2: About the takedown in the early morning hours, take a
- 17:54Speaker 2: listening to our cut sixty five.
- 17:55Speaker 3: Our friends at CBS.
- 17:57Speaker 11: Jim Barnes and his wife. They knew caval Kante around
- 18:00Speaker 11: their area, and he says they've been very vigilant, locking
- 18:04Speaker 11: their doors, locking their cars as this search goes on.
- 18:08Speaker 11: But nothing really could have prepared them for what happened
- 18:11Speaker 11: last night when their home actually became part of this investigation.
- 18:16Speaker 8: We had a very interesting night.
- 18:19Speaker 12: It was very sleepless.
- 18:21Speaker 2: How did the varns is minding their own business suddenly
- 18:25Speaker 2: become part of the search for a double killer? Take
- 18:28Speaker 2: a let's not cut sixty six CBS.
- 18:30Speaker 11: It started as a pretty typical Monday for Jim Varnes
- 18:33Speaker 11: and his wife on Fairview Road. Jim's wife went out
- 18:36Speaker 11: for groceries and they sat down to relax.
- 18:39Speaker 8: We got our.
- 18:40Speaker 12: Groceries in it and then we locked everything up and
- 18:43Speaker 12: we're just sitting here watching mass TV.
- 18:46Speaker 11: They knew escape Chester County in Maitdenelo cabal Conte was
- 18:49Speaker 11: around their area, but the Barnes never thought they'd be
- 18:52Speaker 11: dragged into the case. Then they saw the police lights outside.
- 18:56Speaker 12: Maybe five ten minutes later. They were all here and
- 19:00Speaker 12: we're like, what the heck's going on?
- 19:01Speaker 3: What the heck's going on?
- 19:03Speaker 2: You got a double killer outside your door, That's what's
- 19:05Speaker 2: going on.
- 19:06Speaker 3: Listen.
- 19:07Speaker 11: Varnes says police told him a passerby saw a man
- 19:09Speaker 11: crouching in the field across from their home and called
- 19:12Speaker 11: nine one one. Then his wife made the discovery. Jim's
- 19:15Speaker 11: grass cutting boots were missing from the.
- 19:17Speaker 12: Back porch, and we'd be right down there where the
- 19:20Speaker 12: where the where chair was right there.
- 19:23Speaker 11: Police now believe Cavalcante stole the boots from the Varnes
- 19:26Speaker 11: home Monday night, no more than twenty feet from where
- 19:29Speaker 11: Jim and his wife were watching TV. Varnes says. Investigators
- 19:33Speaker 11: also found what's believed to be Cavalcante's shoes on their property.
- 19:36Speaker 2: To Karen Start, joining us renowned psychologist also TV and
- 19:40Speaker 2: radio trauma expert. You can find her at Karenstart dot com.
- 19:43Speaker 2: That's Karen with a C. Karen Start, thank you for
- 19:47Speaker 2: being with us. I guess what's so disturbing to me
- 19:50Speaker 2: that I can't really convey is that this guy was
- 19:55Speaker 2: going to be shipped off to a max facility prison day.
- 20:02Speaker 2: That's why he had to escape then, That's why he
- 20:04Speaker 2: couldn't be caught. That's why he was willing to kill
- 20:08Speaker 2: again if he had to. That's why he had a
- 20:10Speaker 2: sawed off shotgun with him at twenty two right there
- 20:14Speaker 2: in his backpack. When you have somebody cornered like Cavalcante
- 20:18Speaker 2: and they're looking at life without parole, they'll do anything.
- 20:24Speaker 2: Explain what I'm talking about here and start.
- 20:26Speaker 13: It's desperation, Nancy. So when you are telling the story
- 20:31Speaker 13: about them watching television, I'm thinking to myself, they have no.
- 20:35Speaker 10: Idea what could have happened to them?
- 20:38Speaker 13: Because this guy would do anything.
- 20:41Speaker 3: What does he have to lose? He would do.
- 20:43Speaker 13: Anything to make sure that he's not captured, and so
- 20:47Speaker 13: their life was really at stake.
- 20:49Speaker 2: Guys, this family and other families suddenly get the message.
- 20:55Speaker 2: Take a listen to our cut seventy six bucks twenty
- 20:58Speaker 2: nine Philly.
- 20:58Speaker 7: They reverse nine one one call was sent to residents
- 21:01Speaker 7: in the area of the Perimeter and quote. What it
- 21:04Speaker 7: said was, this is a message from Pennsylvania State Police.
- 21:07Speaker 7: The search for Dnello cavlo Conte is over. The subject
- 21:10Speaker 7: is now in custody. So the word has been spreading.
- 21:14Speaker 7: The reverse phone calls have been made.
- 21:16Speaker 3: It's over.
- 21:17Speaker 2: Wow, what does that mean to anybody on the panel.
- 21:20Speaker 3: A reverse nine to one one.
- 21:23Speaker 2: Call goes out to the whole community. How does that
- 21:27Speaker 2: work straight out to you. IRV Brant or Douglas McGregor,
- 21:31Speaker 2: how does.
- 21:31Speaker 8: That work well, Nancy? In an emergency situation, the homes
- 21:38Speaker 8: in the area in a nine to one one area
- 21:42Speaker 8: can receive messages and it's like an automated message telling
- 21:47Speaker 8: people about different dangerous situation.
- 21:50Speaker 3: You mean, like an amber alert.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Correct that pops up on your phone with that crazy
- 21:55Speaker 2: piercing screen. So it basically goes out to every number
- 22:00Speaker 2: that police have in their registry.
- 22:02Speaker 8: Correct, Correct, within that nine one one operating area.
- 22:06Speaker 2: Ah, got you, So that's where the nine to one one,
- 22:08Speaker 2: that's the operating area.
- 22:10Speaker 3: Guys joining me right now.
- 22:11Speaker 2: In addition to our other guests that you've been listening to,
- 22:14Speaker 2: Nima Romani is joining us. He's a renowned former federal
- 22:18Speaker 2: prosecutor turned trial lawyer, president and co founder of the
- 22:22Speaker 2: West Coast Trial Lawyers, author of.
- 22:24Speaker 3: Harvard to hashtag Nima, thank you so much for being
- 22:29Speaker 3: with us.
- 22:29Speaker 2: You and I have both dealt with prisoners with nothing
- 22:34Speaker 2: to lose.
- 22:36Speaker 3: That is why when a.
- 22:37Speaker 2: Verdict is read in a courtroom, multiple sheriffs come in.
- 22:42Speaker 2: If you know what's happening, you'll see that armed sheriffs
- 22:46Speaker 2: bailiffs are at every window, in front of every window,
- 22:51Speaker 2: in front of every door. They're in front of the jury.
- 22:54Speaker 2: They may stand in front of the prosecutor. I didn't
- 22:57Speaker 2: like that because I couldn't see. I'd have them behind me.
- 23:00Speaker 2: There'll be one to the side of the judge's bench,
- 23:05Speaker 2: so they can jump in front of the judge's bench if.
- 23:07Speaker 3: They have to.
- 23:08Speaker 2: But you want everyone to be able to see and
- 23:10Speaker 2: hear the judge and the prosecutor.
- 23:13Speaker 3: In my case, I always had to read the verdict.
- 23:17Speaker 3: But that's for a reason.
- 23:19Speaker 2: Once a guilty verdict, if it is a guilty verdict
- 23:22Speaker 2: is read, that defendant is no longer innocent. He or
- 23:27Speaker 2: she is going to jail, and you can never underestimate
- 23:31Speaker 2: what that person will do. I've had a defendant lunge
- 23:35Speaker 2: at me in the courtroom I hadn't been for my investigator.
- 23:39Speaker 2: I don't know what would have happened, because I did
- 23:40Speaker 2: not expect it. I was standing there waiting for the
- 23:43Speaker 2: I think the jury to come in, just looking at
- 23:47Speaker 2: the jury deliberation room for them to come back in
- 23:50Speaker 2: to resume evidence, and all of a sudden, the guy
- 23:53Speaker 2: leaps across the desk at me, with a pen, I
- 23:55Speaker 2: guess to stab me. If my investigator hadn't been sitting
- 23:58Speaker 2: there would happened. So you can't underestimate the mindset of
- 24:04Speaker 2: Danello Cavalcante at this moment.
- 24:07Speaker 14: Well names that you can.
- 24:08Speaker 9: And there's a reason his mom said that she prefers
- 24:12Speaker 9: that he actually dies and go back to prison. So
- 24:16Speaker 9: if the one's mom's telling them that, think of what
- 24:18Speaker 9: the mindset of a double murderer is. I'm shocked that
- 24:22Speaker 9: he didn't try to shoot his way out of this
- 24:24Speaker 9: or fight or I mean, obviously the reports are coming back,
- 24:27Speaker 9: but yeah, if you spend the rest of your life
- 24:29Speaker 9: in prison, there's a lot of people who would rather
- 24:31Speaker 9: die than experience that.
- 24:33Speaker 2: Well, Nima, I was saving this as a little surprised
- 24:36Speaker 2: for you. But speaking of the mom that gave birth,
- 24:41Speaker 2: this is her spawn.
- 24:43Speaker 3: Take a listen.
- 24:44Speaker 2: Our cut seventy two are our friends at crime online
- 24:46Speaker 2: dot Com.
- 24:47Speaker 15: Daniello Calacante's mother is defending her son while admitting he
- 24:50Speaker 15: did kill his former girlfriend in front of her two children.
- 24:53Speaker 15: But the fugitive's mother tells The New York Times he
- 24:56Speaker 15: did it but he had no choice. Iris Siema Kava
- 24:59Speaker 15: Kante said quote did it happen. It happened, but it
- 25:03Speaker 15: happened because of the stranglehold she put on him, the
- 25:06Speaker 15: stance she took with him. It wasn't femicide. He had
- 25:09Speaker 15: to he had no other choice. Unquote the choice she
- 25:13Speaker 15: speaks of. Deborah Brendeo was tired of being threatened and
- 25:17Speaker 15: beaten by Cavalcanti and threatened she would go to police
- 25:19Speaker 15: in Pennsylvania and tell them about Cavalcanti, the illegal immigrant
- 25:23Speaker 15: wanted for murder in Brazil for a stabbing a friend
- 25:26Speaker 15: at a food truck in twenty seventeen. That is the
- 25:29Speaker 15: corner of Cavalcanti's mother is speaking.
- 25:31Speaker 2: Okay, let me understand this. You know what, I'm just
- 25:34Speaker 2: a JD. I need a shrink to you, Karen Stark.
- 25:39Speaker 2: Mommy is saying he had to butcher his girlfriend in
- 25:44Speaker 2: front of her two little children.
- 25:46Speaker 13: They will never recover these little children.
- 25:48Speaker 2: And mommy is saying, oh, my son, it's her fault.
- 25:53Speaker 2: She got stabbed thirty nine times. And when she says stranglehold,
- 25:57Speaker 2: she's not talking about the girlfriend having him in a stranglehold.
- 26:01Speaker 2: She is talking about the claim that Deborah Brendeio, the
- 26:06Speaker 2: girlfriend stabbed thirty eight or thirty nine times. And I'm
- 26:10Speaker 2: going to go back to doctor Gorniac about how you
- 26:12Speaker 2: can't tell how many stab wins exactly thirty eight or
- 26:14Speaker 2: thirty nine times.
- 26:15Speaker 3: She'd have been a physical stranglehold. Oh thank you, Jackie.
- 26:19Speaker 2: Children ages seven and four see their mother stabbed thirty
- 26:25Speaker 2: nine times to death seven and four.
- 26:30Speaker 3: You think they're ever going to get over that answer?
- 26:32Speaker 2: No, Mommy is saying he spawned calvil Kante.
- 26:38Speaker 3: It's not his fault. She'd have been a stranglehold in that.
- 26:42Speaker 2: She told him if you didn't quit beating her all
- 26:44Speaker 2: the time, she'd tell authorities he was wanted from murder
- 26:47Speaker 2: back in Brazil.
- 26:48Speaker 3: Karen Stark thoughts.
- 26:50Speaker 13: Well, I mean, Nancy, you know mothers to spend their children.
- 26:55Speaker 13: We're not surprised about that.
- 26:56Speaker 3: Oh you are not telling me that you expected this.
- 27:00Speaker 13: What this is about as an extreme as you could
- 27:03Speaker 13: possibly get. I mean, here is a mother and it
- 27:07Speaker 13: just goes to show talk about Sponge why he turned out.
- 27:11Speaker 10: To be the person that he is, because he's.
- 27:14Speaker 13: Allowed to get away with anything. He could kill somebody
- 27:17Speaker 13: because they're threatening to go to the police, and she's
- 27:20Speaker 13: saying that he had no choice that she was strangling him.
- 27:25Speaker 10: What this is not your everyday mother.
- 27:29Speaker 13: This is a mother of a criminal.
- 27:30Speaker 3: It's a monster mother. It's a monster mother.
- 27:34Speaker 2: Now we'll say it's okay to stab the girlfriend.
- 27:37Speaker 13: Not just that, but Nancy. She also said she'd rather
- 27:41Speaker 13: have him dead than be captured again. This is his mother,
- 27:46Speaker 13: would rather see him dead.
- 27:47Speaker 3: Doctor Gane.
- 27:48Speaker 2: Gorniac joining us, very well respected pathologist who has taken
- 27:54Speaker 2: to the autopsy table there in Vegas many many times,
- 27:58Speaker 2: hundreds of not thousands of times to perform autopsies.
- 28:02Speaker 3: Doctor Gorniac. When someone is stabbed.
- 28:05Speaker 2: Multiple times, and the first time this may have come
- 28:08Speaker 2: into the public's consciousness was in the case of Jody Arius.
- 28:14Speaker 2: I hate to even say your name. I don't want
- 28:16Speaker 2: to conjure her up out of the cauldron. But she
- 28:20Speaker 2: stabbed her lover, Travis Alexander. I believe twenty nine times.
- 28:25Speaker 2: Can you check me on that, Jackie. But the number
- 28:29Speaker 2: of stabbings fluctuated depending on who was reporting it, and
- 28:34Speaker 2: the reason was, once you stab somebody so many times,
- 28:41Speaker 2: you start stabbing them in the same place, the stab
- 28:44Speaker 2: wounds begin to overlap each other, and it's very more
- 28:48Speaker 2: than twenty seven c see I said twenty nine because
- 28:51Speaker 2: another person said some doctor said twenty nine. But you
- 28:56Speaker 2: stab on top of your stab wounds, and it's for
- 29:00Speaker 2: the medical examiner to determine exactly how many times you
- 29:03Speaker 2: stab somebody.
- 29:04Speaker 6: Yes, you are correct.
- 29:05Speaker 10: Also not even that the wounds will start to overlap.
- 29:10Speaker 10: You don't also don't have to remove the sharp force,
- 29:15Speaker 10: the instrument, the knife out of the body to continue stabbing.
- 29:19Speaker 10: So therefore you can have one stab wound into the body,
- 29:22Speaker 10: but you can be moving the knife around and have
- 29:24Speaker 10: like say four or five stab wounds to the lung
- 29:28Speaker 10: with one stab wound through the skin, if that makes
- 29:31Speaker 10: any sense. So you don't withdraw the knife out, So
- 29:34Speaker 10: it could be I mean, you can see one stab
- 29:36Speaker 10: wound on the body, but have four stab wounds on
- 29:38Speaker 10: the inside to the heart in the lungs. So yes,
- 29:41Speaker 10: it's very difficult to count how many times someone is
- 29:44Speaker 10: stabbed because they do overlap. People move, you know, if
- 29:48Speaker 10: you're not just gonna lay there or stand there and
- 29:50Speaker 10: get stabed. So the more you're moving, not only you're
- 29:53Speaker 10: going to have stab wounds of your body, you're going
- 29:55Speaker 10: to have you know, defensive wounds on your hands. If
- 29:59Speaker 10: you grab the neck. So these are the worst cases
- 30:03Speaker 10: for me. I really do not of all the cases
- 30:06Speaker 10: I do, except for pediatric cases those babies. Stab wound
- 30:11Speaker 10: cases are the worst cases that I have to do.
- 30:14Speaker 3: I hate stabcases. I hate them. It's visceral.
- 30:19Speaker 2: I can't tell you why I hate them more than
- 30:21Speaker 2: other except for child victims.
- 30:24Speaker 3: I'm with you, doctor Gorniac.
- 30:41Speaker 1: Prime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 30:47Speaker 2: Doctor Garniac. Personal question, do you compartmentalize? I mean, how
- 30:54Speaker 2: do you just go about your day, your regular day,
- 30:58Speaker 2: like with your family, with your dog or your cat,
- 31:01Speaker 2: or going to the grocery store without visions of stabbing
- 31:06Speaker 2: autopsies coming up in your hand and dancing.
- 31:09Speaker 3: Through like a parade.
- 31:10Speaker 10: Right I did? I do get that that question quite
- 31:13Speaker 10: a bit. So when I'm doing my job, I'm a
- 31:18Speaker 10: physician first, so and that's the only way I can
- 31:21Speaker 10: get my job done. So if I go into the
- 31:25Speaker 10: autoives room as jam, it's not going to be a
- 31:29Speaker 10: good thing for myself or my colleagues. So I equate
- 31:32Speaker 10: us to being like the room the emergency room physician
- 31:37Speaker 10: when people come through the door with bloom Forth's trauma,
- 31:39Speaker 10: stab wounds, gunshot wounds, that emergency room physician has to
- 31:44Speaker 10: respond and react and treat that patient. Unfortunately, for on
- 31:48Speaker 10: our side, our patients are deceased, so we put on
- 31:52Speaker 10: our doctor's head and we treat our patients and then
- 31:56Speaker 10: we have to you know, then jam comes out. So
- 32:00Speaker 10: over the years that it has taken time, but I
- 32:03Speaker 10: have worked very intentional on leaving it in the autax room.
- 32:07Speaker 10: Not to say that some cases do not stay with me.
- 32:11Speaker 10: Like I said, some of these as I'm talking about it,
- 32:14Speaker 10: I can picture a stab wound case I had back
- 32:17Speaker 10: in two thousand and seven. So but you know, you
- 32:22Speaker 10: just have to be professional, be that puisition, treat your
- 32:25Speaker 10: patient the best that you can, and then leave it
- 32:28Speaker 10: in the autopsum.
- 32:29Speaker 2: Nima Romani is with me, former federal prosecutor turned trial lawyer.
- 32:34Speaker 2: You can find him at West Coast Trial Lawyers dot com,
- 32:37Speaker 2: author of Harvard de hashtag neema. I guess same thing
- 32:41Speaker 2: for you, and I want to use this segue to
- 32:44Speaker 2: talk about the mind of Danello Cavalcante. You know, when
- 32:50Speaker 2: I had one particular judge, and I know this is unorthodox,
- 32:53Speaker 2: but it worked whenever would have a big arraignment calendar
- 32:56Speaker 2: or pola calendar. I would sit in a ram a
- 32:59Speaker 2: conference room, of course, with armed guards, and the defense
- 33:04Speaker 2: attorneys would come in and they would bring their jill
- 33:06Speaker 2: clients who'd been brought over like four o'clock that morning
- 33:10Speaker 2: into the conference room.
- 33:11Speaker 3: That's sit on the other.
- 33:12Speaker 2: Side of the table, and I go through the police
- 33:13Speaker 2: report and all the evidence and let them look at
- 33:17Speaker 2: everything there was, and I'd give them a plea deal.
- 33:19Speaker 2: Of course, they would never want the plea deals that
- 33:21Speaker 2: I gave them, but a lot of times they would
- 33:23Speaker 2: get a plea. I would look at them, and very
- 33:28Speaker 2: often they would seem like a regular person to just
- 33:33Speaker 2: look at them in their demeanor. But when you look
- 33:36Speaker 2: at the police report and you see this guy is
- 33:39Speaker 2: sidomized children for the last seven or eight years, or
- 33:43Speaker 2: this guy killed his own mom, or this guy gunned
- 33:47Speaker 2: down a store clerk and his assistant for a pack
- 33:49Speaker 2: of cigarettes, and you're looking at the guy and they
- 33:53Speaker 2: seem charming and affable.
- 33:56Speaker 3: It's freaky. And this guy, we know, Calvalcante, could be very.
- 34:03Speaker 2: Very charming.
- 34:05Speaker 3: That's how we got the girlfriend to start with Nima.
- 34:08Speaker 14: Well, in the beginning of Targe, you know, I put
- 34:10Speaker 14: more than a thousand people in federal prison. And now
- 34:13Speaker 14: I don't feel any sympathy for the defendants, but the
- 34:15Speaker 14: family members.
- 34:16Speaker 3: I didn't say sympathy, hgl n oh.
- 34:19Speaker 2: I didn't feel sympathy, but I was always intrigued, like
- 34:23Speaker 2: looking at a spider in a box or the snake
- 34:27Speaker 2: at the snakehouse at the zoo. I'm intrigued by how
- 34:31Speaker 2: they can be so charming when I know they're a
- 34:34Speaker 2: cold blooded killer.
- 34:35Speaker 9: Oh, no question.
- 34:36Speaker 14: There's really those family members, right, the kids, the girlfriend,
- 34:40Speaker 14: the moms. Right, they're crying, they're begging, they're pleading. But
- 34:45Speaker 14: after a while, an you know, you just get desensitized
- 34:47Speaker 14: and you realize that these are criminals and their own
- 34:51Speaker 14: families are better off if they're locked up in prison
- 34:53Speaker 14: for a very long time.
- 34:55Speaker 2: Have you always noticed, as I did, I don't care
- 34:58Speaker 2: how bad the evidency is. Mommy the defendants, Mommy sits
- 35:04Speaker 2: through it like she didn't hear a thing.
- 35:06Speaker 14: No matter what, Mom's going to get up there and testify,
- 35:09Speaker 14: and we're cross examined moms, right, and the cross examination
- 35:13Speaker 14: is always just say, well, you love your son, right,
- 35:16Speaker 14: and you don't want him to go to prison, and
- 35:18Speaker 14: he'll do anything or say anything to protect them.
- 35:20Speaker 3: And that's it.
- 35:21Speaker 14: You know, the bond between a mother and her son
- 35:24Speaker 14: is unlike any other.
- 35:27Speaker 2: Back off if you're talking about my son John David
- 35:29Speaker 2: Lynch or my daughter Lucy, because they can never do
- 35:32Speaker 2: anything wrong.
- 35:34Speaker 3: Okay, you're right.
- 35:36Speaker 2: Douglas McGregor joining me, Guys McGregor. That's what you call
- 35:41Speaker 2: a geographic profiler. He specializes in serial and violent crime,
- 35:45Speaker 2: missing persons, locating clandestine burial sites. You can find him
- 35:51Speaker 2: at at the geo Profiler. Douglas did Cavalcante.
- 35:56Speaker 3: Do exactly what you thought he was going to do?
- 35:58Speaker 6: I think that he did, Nancy, Yes, he did. He
- 36:01Speaker 6: had he had a plan. He executed it fairly well.
- 36:03Speaker 6: He just got interrupted by law enforcement doing a good job.
- 36:07Speaker 6: He he traveled north and he went to East Pikeland
- 36:11Speaker 6: and Phoenix, still looking for you know, accomplices, people that
- 36:14Speaker 6: help him out resources. And then after that he traveled
- 36:17Speaker 6: west and the key here is the place that he
- 36:21Speaker 6: dumped the vehicle, the van. It wasn't random, it wasn't
- 36:26Speaker 6: a mistake, and it wasn't just because he ran out
- 36:27Speaker 6: of gas like that place was pre selected. It was
- 36:32Speaker 6: actually the property of the father of Michael Cahill, Michael
- 36:38Speaker 6: ska Hill who helped him after he murdered his ex girlfriend.
- 36:45Speaker 6: So he knew where he was going, and he knew
- 36:47Speaker 6: where he was dumping that van. And then that's not
- 36:50Speaker 6: to implicate Michael ska Hill at all. He may have
- 36:53Speaker 6: had no knowledge that Cavalcante was heading to that residence,
- 36:58Speaker 6: that property, but Cavalcanti might just have been familiar with it.
- 37:03Speaker 6: He might have stayed there at one point, and he
- 37:06Speaker 6: may have been having continue to head west. I mean,
- 37:09Speaker 6: if if Skhill was involved in this, or wasn't accomplished
- 37:13Speaker 6: in this in any way, then Cavalcante may have been
- 37:17Speaker 6: continuing on to Ohio, specifically of a Youngstown area. So
- 37:23Speaker 6: I can't say that for sure, but he did have
- 37:25Speaker 6: a plan and he was he was trying to follow it.
- 37:27Speaker 2: Through Youngstown, Ohio college town, and there would be plenty
- 37:34Speaker 2: single young women alone all over the place in Youngstown.
- 37:41Speaker 3: Wow.
- 37:42Speaker 2: Now police are trying to figure out did Cavalcante have help.
- 37:48Speaker 2: Don't feel sorry for this guy. I know he looks
- 37:51Speaker 2: bloody and pitiful, but remember he had a soft off
- 37:55Speaker 2: in his backpack. He's killed before and he would do
- 37:59Speaker 2: it again.
- 38:00Speaker 3: RV brand.
- 38:01Speaker 8: What do you think, Nanthy, You were talking about how
- 38:06Speaker 8: people are surprised that he wasn't taken alive, that he
- 38:09Speaker 8: was captured and this was done. I'm sure he planned
- 38:14Speaker 8: was not to be taken alive, but it was superior
- 38:17Speaker 8: tactics by the police. Like the colonel said in his briefing,
- 38:21Speaker 8: they surrounded him and he was unaware that he was there.
- 38:25Speaker 8: And then if they would have lit him up with
- 38:28Speaker 8: floodlights and bullhorns telling him he was surrounded, he would
- 38:33Speaker 8: have shot it out with police. He had no intentions
- 38:36Speaker 8: of going back to jail. But in police work, we
- 38:39Speaker 8: have a saying action is faster than reaction, and there's
- 38:44Speaker 8: nothing faster than a canine. They let the dogs loose
- 38:48Speaker 8: on him and before he could react. He was trying
- 38:51Speaker 8: to crawl away. He wasn't given up. He was trying
- 38:54Speaker 8: to call it, but he couldn't resist the canines. Then
- 38:59Speaker 8: they moved in and they captured him. That's the only
- 39:02Speaker 8: reason why he was captured a lot. So when you
- 39:04Speaker 8: look at that bloody picture of him, well he's alive.
- 39:09Speaker 8: If it would have went any other way, the picture
- 39:11Speaker 8: would have been with him with a bullet hole in
- 39:14Speaker 8: his head. From a sniper.
- 39:17Speaker 2: You are hearing the voice of IRV Brand, Senior Inspector,
- 39:19Speaker 2: US Marshall Service and author Eddie Cadam joining US Fox
- 39:22Speaker 2: twenty nine Crack investigative reporter. Where is he now and
- 39:27Speaker 2: what happens next?
- 39:28Speaker 5: He's heading to Abingdale for processing and then he'll be
- 39:31Speaker 5: taken to the State Correctional facility where he will serve
- 39:35Speaker 5: his life sentence. And important with that too to the tenant, saying,
- 39:40Speaker 5: as long as he's in their custody, he's not getting
- 39:42Speaker 5: out again, something everybody wants to hear, obviously.
- 39:46Speaker 2: An amazing effort, and finally Danello Cavalcante behind bars where
- 39:53Speaker 2: he belongs.
- 39:56Speaker 3: Goodbye friend,