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Brendan Banfield, a former IRS agent, was sentenced to life in prison after plotting with the family’s Brazilian au pair to murder his wife and a man she lured to their Northern Virginia home; the judge called the crime cruel and evil, signaling a calculated, deadly plan rather than a spur-of-the-moment act.
Brendan Banfield, a Virginia man, was found guilty of aggravated murder in the 2023 killings of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan after a jury rejected his account of events; prosecutors said he plotted with the family’s au pair to impersonate his wife on a sexual fetish site to frame a stranger as her killer.
In Fairfax County, Virginia, au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães testified that Brendan Banfield stabbed his wife Christine Banfield and, with Magalhães’s help, lured a stranger from a fetish site to their home to frame him, part of a broader double-murder plot prosecutors say stemmed from the couple’s relationship and custody concerns as Banfield goes to trial.