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This Murder Case Has A Terrifying Plot Twist · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: Herndon, Virginia, the kind of neighborhood that people move to
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  Speaker 1: of February twenty fourth, twenty twenty three. This is the
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  Speaker 1: But today we are talking about a wild plot twist
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  Speaker 1: get back to it. Christine and Banfield grew up on
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  Speaker 1: Long Island, New York, and she was the kind of
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  Speaker 1: person who knew exactly what she wanted to do with
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  Speaker 1: her life and then did it. She earned her nursing
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  Speaker 1: degree from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, graduating with a Bachelor
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  Speaker 1: of Science and Nursing in two thousand and seven, and
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  Speaker 1: afterwards she got right to work, starting in the pediatric
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  Speaker 1: ICU at Stonybrook Medicine on Long Island, working with sick
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  Speaker 1: children and cases so high pressure, high stakes. And she
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  Speaker 1: also worked as a pediatric registered nurse at Catholic Health
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  Speaker 1: Services and eventually Christine became the Seffolk County Clinical Supervisor
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  Speaker 1: for the s Nurse Examiner program at the VIBS Family
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  Speaker 1: Violence and Crisis Center and that role put her face
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  Speaker 1: to face with survivors of actual violence at the most
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable moments of their lives, and she provided emergency medical
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  Speaker 1: care with sensitivity to trauma, collected forensic evidence, and took
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  Speaker 1: the stand in courtrooms even and testified about what she
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  Speaker 1: had documented. And she earned two additional certifications from the
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  Speaker 1: International Association of forensic nurses. One focused on adult and
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  Speaker 1: adolescent patients and the other on children, but both required
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  Speaker 1: extensive horsework and demanding exams. So this was a woman
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  Speaker 1: who chose over and over again to walk into rooms
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  Speaker 1: full of suffering and do something about it. And in
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Christine accepted a position at Inova Fairfax Hospital
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  Speaker 1: in Falls Church, Virginia, where she continued her work in
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  Speaker 1: the pediatric intensive care unit and kept her role as
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  Speaker 1: an as nurse examiner, and though it was a new state,
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  Speaker 1: she still had the same mission. One of her patients
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  Speaker 1: in Virginia was a man named Rodrigo of Volderama, who
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  Speaker 1: contracted COVID and spent weeks in a coma, and when
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  Speaker 1: he finally opened his eyes, Christine was the first person
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  Speaker 1: he saw, calling her an angel, and he remembered the
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  Speaker 1: things she did for him that had meaning to him,
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  Speaker 1: like shaving his face and helping him set up a
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  Speaker 1: zoom call so he could actually see his family for
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  Speaker 1: the first time since he'd been admitted. These kinds of
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  Speaker 1: details stayed with people who knew Christine, and at home
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  Speaker 1: she was just as present, and she was active in
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  Speaker 1: her neighborhood and Facebook group posting about looking for a
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  Speaker 1: backyard landscape or asking about a doll hospital to fix
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  Speaker 1: her daughter's toy and find out a border facility for
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  Speaker 1: the family husky, and our instagram bio reads quote my
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  Speaker 1: journey to health, strength and balance unquote. So she's a
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  Speaker 1: loving mother, a woman who gives time to her patients,
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  Speaker 1: her energy to her family, and her attention to the
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  Speaker 1: small things. And the man she shared life with had
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  Speaker 1: been beside her almost from the very beginning. And that
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  Speaker 1: man was Brendan Banfield, who also grew up in New York.
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  Speaker 1: And he met Christine when they were both eighteen years
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  Speaker 1: old and just freshman at Quinnipiac University, and they started
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  Speaker 1: spending NonStop time together almost immediately, and in Brendan's own words, quote,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, we were pretty inseparable. We were
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  Speaker 1: always planning for the future unquote. They loved each other
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  Speaker 1: dearly and Brennan studied accounting, and after college he opened
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  Speaker 1: a children's math tutoring center called Mathnaesium of Maurique, which
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  Speaker 1: he ran for a while, and in January of twenty
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  Speaker 1: nineteen he shifted careers entirely and he became a criminal investigator,
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  Speaker 1: actually with the Internal Revenue Services Criminal Division, which made
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  Speaker 1: him a special agent and a federal law enforcement officer,
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  Speaker 1: and the move to Virginia came that same year. Christine
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  Speaker 1: had taken the nursing position at Inova Fairfax and their
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  Speaker 1: daughter Valerie had recently been born, so they sold their
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  Speaker 1: property on Long Island and in March of twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 1: purchased a home at one three two three zero stable
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  Speaker 1: Brook Way in Herndon, Virginia, and it was located in
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  Speaker 1: the Hattontown neighborhood, described as an idyllic suburb just outside Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C. So they had a house, and they had
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  Speaker 1: their careers, and they had a daughter they both adored,
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  Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty one they brought on in aau
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  Speaker 1: pair to help for their toddler while they both worked
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  Speaker 1: their very demanding jobs. So it was a very full
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  Speaker 1: and busy life with everything exactly where it should be.
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  Speaker 1: And Valdorama, the patient Christine had cared for, struck up
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  Speaker 1: a friendship with her after his recovery and he got
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  Speaker 1: to know Brendan too and invited the family to a
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  Speaker 1: gathering at a park near d C. And when Christine
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  Speaker 1: told him she was planning to hire an O pair
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  Speaker 1: from South America. Volderemma born in Columbia, helped her find
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  Speaker 1: restaurants in the area, saying, quote that was her personality
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  Speaker 1: unquote end quote. She wanted the A pair to feel
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  Speaker 1: at home unquote. But even though they were going to
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  Speaker 1: get an A pair, the Banfields were happily married and
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  Speaker 1: doated on their daughter. They both adored just a picture
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  Speaker 1: perfect family. But there was something else, something that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: quite fit the picture. And that's a profile on fet life,
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  Speaker 1: a dating website built around BDSM, kink and fetish communities,
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  Speaker 1: and the profile belonged to Christine and the account was
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  Speaker 1: created under the name Anastagia nine. The profile photo was
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  Speaker 1: a selfie of Christine from the gym, and the content
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  Speaker 1: of the profile was explicit and it described a fantasy,
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  Speaker 1: a stranger fantasy. A man would come to the Banfield
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  Speaker 1: home while Christine was asleep and he would walk in,
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  Speaker 1: go straight upstairs to the bedroom and act out a
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  Speaker 1: violent scenario. So a sensual assault nurse examiner who had
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  Speaker 1: spent years caring for survivors was now searching for someone
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  Speaker 1: to carry out that experience with her, and there were
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  Speaker 1: conversations messages with multiple partners expressing the desire to meet,
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  Speaker 1: and finally, when the right man was found, a date
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  Speaker 1: was set and someone was invited to the Banfield home.
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  Speaker 1: And the man on the other end of those messages
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  Speaker 1: was Joseph Nathan Ryan, thirty nine years old from Springfield, Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: a complete stranger to Christine, and unbeknownst to her, he
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  Speaker 1: was supposedly a kind man. His mom even called him
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  Speaker 1: her best friend. And from Ryan's perspective, he had stumbled
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  Speaker 1: into an exciting and straightforward situation. A woman on a
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  Speaker 1: fetish website was interested in him, and she was new
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  Speaker 1: to the community, attractive, and wanted to explore a consensual
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  Speaker 1: fantasy with a stranger. And he connected with Anastasia nine
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  Speaker 1: on February nineteenth, twenty twenty three, five days before their meeting.
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  Speaker 1: The conversation moved to telegram and details were laid out clearly.
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  Speaker 1: He was to arrive at a home in Herndon, Virginia
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  Speaker 1: in the morning of February twenty fourth, and the front
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  Speaker 1: door would be unlocked and he would go straight upstairs
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  Speaker 1: to the master bedroom, and he was told to bring
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  Speaker 1: zip ties, chains and a knight and he was told
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  Speaker 1: not to stop no matter what, and he was instructed
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  Speaker 1: to leave his phone in his car, and the night
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  Speaker 1: before February twenty third, Anastasia nine wrote, quote, I'll message
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  Speaker 1: you in the morning when you can come in aim
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  Speaker 1: for seven twenty oh. I forgot to tell you I
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  Speaker 1: do have a dog. She is very nice, but she
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  Speaker 1: will be in the basement unquote. And early the next
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  Speaker 1: morning Ryan sent his reply quote leaving in tennish, won't
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  Speaker 1: show up until seven twenty seven thirty unquote, and a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes later he wrote quote leaving now seven thirty
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  Speaker 1: eta traffic quote and the last message from Anastasia nine
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  Speaker 1: came at six forty eight am, saying quote, okay, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be waiting for you unquote. So Ryan got in his
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  Speaker 1: car that morning, carrying everything he was told to bring,
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  Speaker 1: and drove to meet his new soon to be lover.
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  Speaker 1: Now Christine had the day off from work and she
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  Speaker 1: was sound asleep in her bed, and Brendan left the
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  Speaker 1: house that morning headed to work and the au pair
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  Speaker 1: left around the same time with four year old Valery,
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  Speaker 1: and at approximately seven forty am, Ryan pulled into the driveway.
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  Speaker 1: The front door was unlocked, just as the message had promised,
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  Speaker 1: and he walked inside and went upstairs to the master
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  Speaker 1: bedroom carrying his knife and restraints, and Christine was still asleep.
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  Speaker 1: And at seven forty seven am, a nine to one
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  Speaker 1: to one call was placed from the O pair's phone,
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  Speaker 1: lasting eight seconds, and the dispatcher picked up and then
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  Speaker 1: all disconnected, and two minutes later, at seven forty nine am,
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  Speaker 1: the dispatcher tried calling back, but no one answered and
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  Speaker 1: a voicemail was left and then silence. At about fifteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes passed. At eight a m. A second nine one
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  Speaker 1: one call came through again from the O pair's phone.
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  Speaker 1: This time two people were on the line, and the
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  Speaker 1: pair spoke first, stuttering basically gasping emergency.
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  Speaker 2: I I need help.
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  Speaker 1: There is my friends.
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  Speaker 2: He was the night and now he's doing a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do anymore. And then Brendan
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  Speaker 1: took the phone, identified himself by name and as a
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  Speaker 1: federal agent, and his voice was shakenfield.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a federal agent. This is my house for somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Here's somebody here. I shot him, several of them, several
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  Speaker 2: marks on her neck.
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  Speaker 1: Fairfax County police officers arrived at the home shortly afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: and what they walked into was described as quote an
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  Speaker 1: unappealing scene unquote because Christine lay unclothed on the floor
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  Speaker 1: with seventh wounds to her neck and her torn pajamas
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  Speaker 1: lay on the floor beside blood soaked carpet and blankets,
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  Speaker 1: and nearby Ryan was dead. Christine's supposed new lover, with
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  Speaker 1: wounds to the head, keft and he was still fully clothed,
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  Speaker 1: and a bloody knife was found underneath a blanket near
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  Speaker 1: his body, and a bag nearby was filled with spicy
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  Speaker 1: accessories and restraints. So Christine was rushed to the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: but she would be pronounced dead a short time later,
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  Speaker 1: and Ryan was pronounced dead at the scene, and at
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  Speaker 1: the basement officers found Valerie on arm. The story was horrifying.
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  Speaker 1: A stranger had entered the home to complete some sort
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  Speaker 1: of little situation which ultimately ended with violence. Christine was
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  Speaker 1: attacked with the knight. Brendan came home, found the attacker
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  Speaker 1: on top of his wife, and shot him, and at
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  Speaker 1: Brendan's account to the scene matched exactly what the police
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  Speaker 1: had found at the scene. He had left work that
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  Speaker 1: morning and was nearby when the au pair called to
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  Speaker 1: alert him that she'd seen a strange man enter the house.
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  Speaker 1: He rushed home, but he was too late. Christine was
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  Speaker 1: already nine and police confirmed that all parties involved had
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  Speaker 1: been accounted for and at this point there was no
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  Speaker 1: ongoing threat to the community and no active search for
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  Speaker 1: suspect because the suspect was dead. So when police arrived
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  Speaker 1: at the Banfield home that morning, they found Brendan kneeling
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  Speaker 1: on the bedroom floor beside his wife and he was
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  Speaker 1: pressing his hands against the wounds on her neck, trying
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  Speaker 1: to stop bleeding. And he rode with Christine in the
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  Speaker 1: ambulance to the hospital and a police officer followed body
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  Speaker 1: camera recording. So you're not heard anywhere? Is that not
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  Speaker 1: your blood? Correct? I think it's because you want to
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  Speaker 1: slip this jacket off for me so we can evaluate
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  Speaker 1: your herpoot. And at the hospital, a doctor pulled Brendon
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  Speaker 1: aside to tell him how serious Christine's injuries were. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they go for enormous wounds, and you know, there were
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  Speaker 1: so many injuries. And he would ask about his daughter,
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  Speaker 1: and he would wash his hands, and he asked to
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  Speaker 1: see the hospital chaplain, requesting to say a prayer for
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  Speaker 1: his wife, and then the doctor came back and Christine
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  Speaker 1: was dead, and Brendan just broke down, and the body
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  Speaker 1: camera footage captured him sobbing, his voice racking as he
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  Speaker 1: repeated the same thing over and over, as if saying
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  Speaker 1: it again might change some just absolutely heartbreak. And in
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  Speaker 1: the days that followed, the story reached the public, and
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  Speaker 1: the headlines were themselves. A woman stabbed to death inside
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  Speaker 1: her home in an affluent Washington, d C. Suburb, a
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  Speaker 1: husband who told nine one one dispatchers he had shot
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  Speaker 1: the man responsible, a federal agent who did what anyone
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  Speaker 1: in his position would have done. And Christine's online obituary
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  Speaker 1: filled up with tributes from fellow nurses, relatives, and friends,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone said the same kind of things. What a
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  Speaker 1: dedicated mother she was, how much she gave to her patients,
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  Speaker 1: how unfair all of this was. And Brendan was the
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  Speaker 1: grieving husband, just heartbroken and left to raise his daughter alone,
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  Speaker 1: a single father, a man who had done everything he
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  Speaker 1: could but still lost the woman. And then there was
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  Speaker 1: the o pair Julianne Perez Magaulins, and she was twenty
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  Speaker 1: two years old, a young woman from Brazil who had
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  Speaker 1: come to the United States on a work visa as
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  Speaker 1: part of an O Pair exchange program. She arrived at
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  Speaker 1: the Banfield home in October of twenty twenty one. A
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  Speaker 1: friend from Brazil described how excited Juliana had been about
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity. Quote Juliana wanted to travel and learn English.
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  Speaker 1: She was excited because she just graduated from nursing class
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  Speaker 1: and was coming to live with a nurse, so they
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  Speaker 1: had so much in common unquote. And Christine herself had
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  Speaker 1: been thrilled about the arrangement, and in an Instagram post
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  Speaker 1: from September of twenty twenty one about the family's previous
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  Speaker 1: A pair, she had written about what the program meant
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  Speaker 1: to her, and she called that O pair her daughter's
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote best friend, her sister, her third parent for everything,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't understand the O Pair program,
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  Speaker 1: but this is it right here. It is opening your
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  Speaker 1: home and your heart up to someone with big dreams
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  Speaker 1: of changing their life while in America, and in the
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  Speaker 1: process they changed your life more than you could measure.
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  Speaker 1: And that was the spirit Christine brought to the program,
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  Speaker 1: just open arms and open home. She wanted these young
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  Speaker 1: women to feel like family, and Julianna's mother Marina said
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  Speaker 1: her daughter quote wouldn't hurt a fly on quote, And
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  Speaker 1: on the morning of the murder's body camera footage from
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  Speaker 1: the scene showed Juliana outside the home on her knees
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  Speaker 1: in driveway, pyper ventilating, unable to catch her ret I.
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  Speaker 1: So she was a young and now traumatized nanny who
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  Speaker 1: had witnessed something terrible in the home of the family
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  Speaker 1: she lived with. So from the very first day, Fairfax
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  Speaker 1: County Police Chief Kevin Davis didn't seem fully convinced that
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  Speaker 1: the story had actually played out as it was current presented, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I think the person or persons responsible for this are
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  Speaker 1: already known to us unquote, he would tell reporters, and
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  Speaker 1: he would continue, quote, we just have to sort out
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  Speaker 1: who was responsible for what, and we have to sort
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  Speaker 1: out the exact nature of mister Ryan's presence in the home.
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  Speaker 1: And we're sorting through all of that right now. We
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  Speaker 1: are characterizing the husband and the au pair for now
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  Speaker 1: as present and involved. We're working to determine exactly what
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  Speaker 1: that means unquote, because at this point the police did
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  Speaker 1: not know about the account that Christine used to get
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  Speaker 1: mister Ryan there. But the red flags were starting to
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  Speaker 1: pop up around the time, and the first one was obvious.
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  Speaker 1: There was no forced entry at the Banfield home. The
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  Speaker 1: front door had been unlocked, and Ryan, as we know,
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  Speaker 1: walked right in tho this was a random home invasion?
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  Speaker 1: How did he know the door would open? And the
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  Speaker 1: chief would make this known publicly, that this was not
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  Speaker 1: a home invasion. And then there was Brendan's silence, because
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  Speaker 1: in the days that followed the murder, Fairfax County detectives
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  Speaker 1: gave Brandan the opportunity to sit down and talk, but
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  Speaker 1: he would decline. A man whose wife had just been
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: murdered in their own bedroom and who claimed to have
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: walked in on the attack and shot the killer himself,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: did not want to answer any more questions, and obviously
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: he was grieving his wife had just been murdered. But
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: he was also a federal law enforcement officer, so he
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: knew how these investigations worked and what cooperation looked like,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: but he chose not to do those interviews. Investigators turned
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: their attention to the fetlife profile and the Anastasia nine
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: account had appeared out of nowhere just five weeks before
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the murders. The one detectives pulled Christine Banfield's complete digital history,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: even going all the way back to the mid two thousands,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: they came up with nothing. In nearly twenty years of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: internet activity, Christine had never once visited a free website,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: and never used a dating app, and never searched for
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: fetish content, and never communicated with any other men online
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: besides this one time. But another detail that nagged at
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: investigators was that on two separate occasions in the weeks
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: before the murders, both Brendan and Juliana had been away
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: from the house for thirty six to forty eight hours
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: at a time, and during both of those windows, there
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: was zero activity on the fetlife account, the associated Gmail,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: or the telegram messages. So if Christine was the one
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: running those accounts, why did all the activities stop the
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: moment they wouldn't that be prime time to use them.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So the digital forensic investigation became complicated and the lead
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: digital forensics examiners on the case, Brendan Miller, ran his
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: analysis and reached a conclusion the fet life and Telegram
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: activity had originated from Christine's cell phone and laptop, and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: in his assessment, there was no evidence that Christine had
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: lost control of her devices. His findings were sent to
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the University of Alabama for peer review, where they confirmed
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: his conclusions, but Miller's supervisors strongly disagreed, and they argued
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: he had made a critical error in his logic that
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: tracing activity to Christine's devices was not the same thing
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: as proving Christine was the person using those devices, because
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: anyone in the household with access to her laptop would
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: have created and operated those accounts. Miller was eventually pulled
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: off the case and transferred out of the division, and
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: he said he never requested the move and called it
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: retaliation for his conclusions, and his supervisors, in turn to
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: described it as a quote to performance management decision. The
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Deputy Chief Patrick Brush acknowledged making statements that he never
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: wanted Miller handling digital evidence investigations again. And then there
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: was the body camera. So when officers had first arrived
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: at the home that morning, they found Brendan on the
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: bedroom floor with his hands pressed against Christine's neck and
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: blood was visible on both sides of his hands as
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: he was applying pressure to her wounds in an attempt
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: to stop the bleeding. And if you recall at the hospital,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the footage showed him washing his hands there, and this
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: was before investigators had the chance to test fully. But again,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: he is a grieving husband who has his wife's blood
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: on his hands. I feel like any normal person would
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: have the instinct to just wash that off. So still,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: no charge was filed and the case would go quiet publicly,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: leaving online communities following the story restless. But behind the scenes,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Fairfax County detectives were pulling apart every single thread and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the investigation phone was shifting in a way that the
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: public couldn't quite see yet. So as the investigation deepened,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: one piece of evidence began to rise above everything else,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and that was the blood. Blood Stained pattern analysis became
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the centerpiece of this case, and what forensic analysts found
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: on Ryan's body didn't seem to match the story Brendan
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: bold because blood behaves differently depending on how it arrives
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: on a surface. A drop that falls from a height
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: leaves a different mark than one that sprays through the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: air during its struggle, and blood that transfers through direct contact,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: like a hand pressing against skin or a finger dragging
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: across fabric, looks nothing like blood that splatters during a
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: vital pack, and those distinctions matter a lot. That's why
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: they based a whole show off of Dexter. I mean,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I know he was a serial killer, but he was
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: a blood analyst and all that stuff is extremely interesting
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and extremely important in these types of cases. And it's
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: because they can tell you whether blood ended up where
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: it was found naturally or whether someone put it there
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: on purpose. Because Brian had foreseen Banfield seven times in
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the neck, as Brenda described, his body should have been
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: covered in blood as it comes from wielding a knife
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: in a frantic, violent pack, an airborne spray, impact splatter,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the chaotic patterns that an active struggle leaves behind. That
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: evidence wasn't there, and what forensic analysts found instead were
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: transfer stains blood that had been pressed onto Ryan's skin
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: by a surface or hand that was already wet with it.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Not the mark of a man in the middle of
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: an attack. It was the mark of something placed and
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: on Ryan's forearm. Analysts identified droplets that had fallen from above,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and they landed on skin that was completely still and flat,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and that trip pattern ran from his wrist toward his elbow,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: meaning his arm was lying motionless when the blood hid
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: it and blood on his face had flowed in multiple directions,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: and that told annalists his body had been re positioned
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: while the blood was still wet, and that he had
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: been moved after he was already down. And on his hand,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: forensic examiners found a blood stain with gaps between the fingers,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: spaces where the fingers had been slightly apart when the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: blood was pressed onto the pond. And that doesn't match
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the hand of a man who gripped a bloody knife.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: It matches a hand that had been still while someone
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: placed blood onto it. And on his right leg, the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: analyst revealed transfer marks that were finger like in shape,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: side by side, parallel patterns consistent with someone again pressing
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: bloody fingers against his skin deliberately, and additionally, finger shaped
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: transferring stains carrying Christine Banfield's DNA were found on Ryan's jeans.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: So taken together, the blood told a story that contradicted
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: basically everything Brendan had said on the night one call.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: This wasn't a home invasion gone wrong. This was a
• 25:56
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• 26:00
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  Speaker 1: to it. So every examined thread pointed in the same direction,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and that's when the relationship came into focus. Brendan and
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Juliana had been sleeping together, and investigators determined the affair
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: had begun in August of twenty twenty two, roughly ten
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: months after she first moved into the home and around
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: six months before Christine was killed. And the evidence wasn't
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: subtle either. These detectives covered photographs Juliana had posted on
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: social media, the two of them in what appeared to
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: be a hot tub and his hand resting on her
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: leg at what looked like a restaurant, and another image
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: of them together in a casual setting. Yet in every
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: single photo, Brendan's face was hidden. He knew what he
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: was doing, and police Chief Davis confirmed the story for
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the public, saying, quote, we know Brendan Manfield and Juliana
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: were involved in a romantic relationship at the time of
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the murdersot and on October thirteenth, twenty twenty three, nearly
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: eight months after Christine's death, investigators returned to the Banfield
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: home with the search warrant and the master bedroom that
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: once belonged to Christine had completely transformed. Juliana had moved in,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: her clothes were hanging in the closet. Er laningerie was
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: scattered around the room, and on the nightstand sat a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: framed photograph of Brendan and Juliana together and a second
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: framed photo of the was found on a dresser. This
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: is the same woman that had been on her knees
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: in the driveway, hyperventilating, gasping to officers that there was
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of blood and now she was living as
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Brendan's girlfriend in the room where his wife had been murdered.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: And six days later, on October nineteenth, Fairfax County Police
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: arrested Juliana and the charge was second degree murderer in
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the death of Joseph Ryan, and the reasoning was that
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Ryan had been shot twice by two different firearms. Brendan's
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: shot had struck Ryan at the head, but she had
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: fired second bullet from a different gun and that shot
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: hit Ryan in the chest and tore through his heart,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and the medical examiner confirmed it was the second shot
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: that killed him. Ryan had already been inapacitated, so there
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: was no justifiable reason for her to pull the trigger,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: and the purpose of the second bullet was put in
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: blunt terms. The gun was used to quote unquote eliminate
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the old, only living witness, and at her bond hearing,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: a judge denied bail and Juliana had obtained a new
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: passport after police had seized her original one, but she
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: wasn't going anywhere, and for a year after her arrest
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: she said nothing but behind jail walls things were unraveling.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: She wrote letters to family complaining about her lawyer, and
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: she wrote to friends about her complicated relationship with Brendan,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: who she claimed still wanted to move to Brazil with her,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and authorities were monitoring her calls, and in one recorded conversation,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Brendan's mother, Teresa, who was paying for Juliana's legal defense
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: by the way, which has picked up, discussed what happened
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: to snitches in jail and in another call, Juliana said
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: to Brendan directly, quote, I hope you are not just
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: staying with me because you are afraid I'm going to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: turn against you unquote, And Brendan told her to keep
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: her wealth shut because remember he's a federal agent and
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: he knows exactly what to say. But she would, and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: after a ten day hospital stay in October of twenty
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: twenty four, something inside her broke, and on October twenty fifth,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: she sat down with investigators and gave a detailed record interview,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: and she told them everything, and when asked why she
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: finally decided to cooperate, she simply said, quote the thought
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: of being the right thing to do. I guess the
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: world deserved to know what really happened, and I just
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: couldn't hold it. I just couldn't keep it to myself.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: The feeling of shame and guilt and sadness and all
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: those feelings, and what she told investigators changed everything. Because
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Brendan did not rush home to save his wife, as
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: we know, and he did not stumble upon a stranger
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: attacking Christine in their bedroom. He was not a hero.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: He was the architect of the entire thing. It was
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: all Brendan's design, but as we know, the truth was out.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: The affair between Brendan and Juliana indeed began in August
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two. She had been living in the
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Banfield home for ten months at that point, caring for
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Valerie and sharing the same roof as Brendan and Christine
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: every day. But what started simply as a professional arrangement
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: turned into something else. It moved fast, and according to Juliana,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: within weeks of the relationship becoming syftable, Brendan began talking
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: about a future together. But there was a problem. Divorce
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: would cost money and it would mean splitting custody and Valerie,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and Brendan didn't want either of those things. He wanted
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Christine gone, and according to Juliana's account, Brendan first proposed
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the idea of hiring a hitman, but decided it was
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: too risky, too many variables, so he designed something else
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: highly and the plan was this, create a fake profile
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: of a fetish website using Christine's identity, lure a stranger
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to the house under the pretense of consensuous stol encounter,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: have that stranger walk into the bedroom carrying weapons, then
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: killed a stranger and Christine both afterwards staging the scene
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: so it looked like a home invasion gone wrong, and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the stranger would take the blame for Christine's debt and
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: would be the grieving husband to arrived too late to
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: save her, but just in time to shoot the intruder.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: The two murders with zerial suspects, and the preparation was
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: methodical in the work of a man who understood how
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: criminal investigations operate and what they look for on a
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: professional level. Except for the bloodstains, you an idiot monster.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: So Brendan took Juliana to the Silver Eagle Group Shooting
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Range in ashburd Virginia, where he taught her how to
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: handle a firearm. Range records confirmed they visited together twice
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: in the months leading up to the murders, and on
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: January twenty eighth, twenty twenty three, Brendan went back to
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the Silver Eagle alone and he purchased a glock pistol
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: for five hundred and fifty eight dollars, and the serial
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: number on the receipt matched the firearm recovered from the
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: crime scene that Juliana used to fire the fatal shot,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and in the days before February twenty fourth, Brendan had
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: all the windows in the house replaced with soundproof glass.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: You know, he's supposed to be like this really smart
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: federal officer that like the amount of just like I
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: absolutely murdered my wife or like prepped to murder my
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: wife evidence is insane, Like I could have solved this
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: just looking at Oh they did you know? You removed
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: them with soundproof windows, and you went to the gun
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: range with Juliana, which you haven't ever done before, and
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: you bought a gun like I don't know, I think
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: is the dumbest, idiot, just piece of shit husband. I
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: just it's just insane, how obviously disgusting these people are,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: but just how stupid they are as well, which thank god,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: you know, thank god, but this case just infuriates me.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: But to continue. Then he would test those windows by
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: standing in the master bedroom and screaming while Juliana went
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: outside to listen. Yeah, And he walked the neighbor hood
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: on foot, checking whether any of his neighbors had surveillance
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: cameras that could capture activity at the house, and four
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: days before the murder, Brendan and Juliana traded in their
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: cell phones, four new ones and created fresh Apple Idea accounts,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: wiping their communication trail clean. The evidence is screaming at us,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you know, like what did they think was? Could they
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: just weren't Ah, I guess they just assumed that the
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: police would be like open, open and close case. It
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: looks like he he's a this is a crazy scull
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: violence guy. And she made an account and that's it,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Like that's you murdered. So she was murdered. They're gonna
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: look a little deeper anyway. But he would completely change
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: his morning routine leading up to that day as well,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: establishing a new pattern. He wanted to make sure his
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: movements on the morning of the murders would look normal
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: to anyone reviewing them later. And at various points during
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: the planning and Juliana told Brendan she didn't want to
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: go through with it. She said she wanted it out,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: but he told her it was too late to back out,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and on January ninth, twenty twenty three, it using Christine's
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: own laptop while she was a home they created a
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Gmail account and on January seventeenth, they used that account
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: to build the Anastasia nine feed life profile and they
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: uploaded one of Christine's jim selfies as the profile photo,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: which Christine had sent to Brendan over Facebook Messenger that
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: same day. These evil, evil people like his beautiful, caring,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: just angel of a wife is just out there saving lives,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: making everybody else's lives better and taking the time to
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: send photos to her husband that she adores, and they
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: just do this.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: It's just.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Divorce is an option. But he would download and edit
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: that photo before posting, and they used Christine's devices deliberately
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: so that everything would trace back to her laptop, her
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: phone's location, and her digital footprints if investigators ever came looking,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the trail would lead straight to the dead woman. And
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: through the profile, they communicated with multiple men through the
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: sight shopping for a very specific kind of person, someone
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: willing to play out in aggressive scenario and bring weapons
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: to the house, and Joseph Ryan unfortunately hit the roll
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and he connected with Anastasia nine on February nineteenth. Brendan
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: directed Juliana to handle the telegram conversations with Ryan in
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the following days to finalize details. She said that Ryan
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: quote made Brendan feel confident enough that he would be
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the person to play the role that he needed a
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: person to play, which means being aggressive and hold her
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: down and come over to the house and bring stuff.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Ryan had no clue who he was actually talking to
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and no clue of the horrors in store for him.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Everything moved on schedule that morning, and Brendan Juliana woke early,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: using Christine's laptop to send the final message with Ryan.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Brendan unlocked the front door and he checked Christine's phone
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: and then powered it off and tucked it inside a
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: drawer in a kitchen bar cart, and he handed Juliana
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the clock and she put it in her pocket, and
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Brendan kept his IRS issued service weapon on him, and
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Juliana left the house with Valerie and drove to a
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: nearby cul de sac where she parked and waited, and
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Brendan drove to a McDonald's down road, and surveillance footage
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: captured him ordering food at the drive through at seven
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: eighteen am. This guy had the audacity to get a
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: McMuffin before murdering his wife, and then he parked, walked
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: inside and entered the bathroom at seven twenty nine am,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: and Christine was still asleep upstairs, and at about seven
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: forty am, Ryan pulled into the driveway and Juliana saw
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: his car arrive, so she set the cover story in motion,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: and she called Christine's phone first and it went straight
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: to voicemail, exactly as planned, and then she called Brendan,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: and on paper, both calls would look like a panicked
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: au pair trying to alert the family that a strange
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: man had just walked into their home. And at seven
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: thirty seven am, Brendan walked out of the McDonald's bathroom
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: with his phone pressed to his ear and call Oggs
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: confirm it was Juliana on the line, and he walked
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: to his car and drove away. Back at the house,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Brendan arrived and entered through the basement door, and Juliana
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: followed him inside, and they left Valerie in the basement,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: then they went upstairs. They left their baby daughter in
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: the basement to murder her mother. The level of evil
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: and just the level I just it makes me sick
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: to my stomach. But in the bedroom Ryan was with
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Stein and he was fully clothed and she was unclothed,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and he had a knife and restraints that he had
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: been told to bring for a consensual that he thought
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: encounter with a willing woman, and Brendan burst through the door,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: yelling police officer, and Christine screamed, saying, quote unquote, Brendan,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: he has a knife, but she had no idea he
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: was the reason the stranger was standing in her bedroom
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: with a blade. And Ryan looked up, shocked and confused.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: But Brendan fire and the shot struck Ryan in the
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: head and he went down immediately. And then Brendan asked
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Juliana to get him a towel, and when she came back,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: she saw him on top of Christine, her in the
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: neck with the knife that Ryan had carried it to
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: the house. Quote. When I was bringing him the towel,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: he got on top of her, and that's when I
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: first saw him stap her with a knife. Julianna Rahm,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: and she described crouching on the other side of the bed,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: covering her ears and covering her eyes. Oh isn't that
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: convenient for you, Juliana, You get to just cover your
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: eyes and your ears. Well, an innocent woman is being murdered.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I just again rotting in hell. I hope these people
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: rot and burn and hell. Quote A few times I
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: looked and I was able to see him stepping her quote,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: and then Brendan told Juliana to shoot Ryan, so she
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: pulled the glock from her pocket and fired into Ryan's chest.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: With both of them down, the staging began and Brendan
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: moved Ryan's body and he took Christine's blood and transferred
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: it onto Ryan, dripping it onto his forums, pressing it
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: onto his hands and smearing it onto his genes, making
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: it look like Ryan had been the one wielding the knife.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: And then came the finishing catches, the final nine to
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: one one call. At seven forty seven am, the first
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: call went out from Juliana's phone, lasting eight seconds and
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: only groans were heard on the line and then a disconnect,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: and at seven forty nine the dispatcher called back no answer,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: and at eight am the second call, Juliana stuttering and gasping,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Brendan taking the phone and identifying himself as a.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Federal AGENTFIELM Federal AGENC. This is my house for somebody.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: There's somebody here. I shot him bleeding to get several
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: of them, several mark on her neck. Do what do
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: I do?
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: And the almost fifteen minutes between those two calls were
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: what it took to build this line fifteen minutes to
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: stage a crime scene. All right, let's pause the video
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• 42:35
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• 42:40
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• 42:42
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• 42:44
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• 43:08
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• 44:11
  Speaker 1: And let's get back to it. So, for five hundred
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: and seventy days after the murders, Brendan was a free man,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: and he continued living in the same house where his
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: wife had been stepped debt, and he was no longer
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: employed by the IRS, as confirmed by the agency, but
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: he had not been charged with anything, and the case
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: appeared stalled. Weeks turned into months, and months turned into
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: a ear and then longer, but prosecutors were waiting for
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: something specific. Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Desano would later explain, quote,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: we did not authorize charges against Brendan Banfield until after
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: we got the blood analysis done. That is what we
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: were waiting for. Quote. The blood analysis was the drip patterns,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: the transfer marks, and stage placement of Christine's blood onto
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Ryan's body. Without it, they suspicion digital inconsistencies and a
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: circumstance rail. But with it, they had physical evidence that
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: the crime scene had been manufactured, and on September seventeenth,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, Fairfax County police arrived at Brandon's home
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: and arrested him, and he was indicted on multiple counts
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: of aggravated murder and the use of a firearm in
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: the commission of a felony, and officials described new evidence
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: uncovered during the investigation as quote unquote instrumental in securing
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Margins and Police Chief Davis stood in front of cameras
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: and reflected on the road that brought them here, saying quote,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: I knew, I suspected, I had a feeling that there
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: was a lot more to what met the eye that morning,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: and certainly it has taken a road five hundred and
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: seventy days later where we are finally in a position
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: to announce that two persons are being charged and held
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: responsible and introduced to our criminal justice system for these
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: two murders. He had also made clear they weren't done,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: saying quote, this isn't over. We're not spiking the football
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: or not celebrating. Weeks after Brendan's arrest, Juliana formalized her
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: plea deal, and on October twenty ninth, twenty twenty four,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: she pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, which I this was planned.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: This is first degree murder. She was in on the plan.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: So that's I hate that that's an option, Like I
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: understand it because we want Brendan in jail, but I
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: hate that plea deals are a thing. So because she
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: helped plan this murder, and she should be in jail
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: until she's dead, but I digress. Prosecutors would recommend time
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: served in exchange for her full testimony against Brandon, and
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: then in December of twenty twenty four, a grand jury
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: returned additional indictments against him in one count of felony
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: childhoods and neglect and one count of felony child cruelty,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: and the charges stemmed from the fact that Brendan had
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: deliberately placed his own young daughter in the basement of
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: the home while he went upstairs to murder her mother,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: and it's full charge. She now read four counts of
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: aggravated murder, one count of using a firearm and the
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: commission of a felony, two counts of childs with disregard
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: for life, one count of child cruelty, and he pleaded
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: not guilty to all of them, and the road to
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: trial was not a smooth one. The eternal conflict within
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: the Fairfax County Police Department over the digital evidence caused
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: some trouble. Detective Brendan Miller's transfer off of the case
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: and the disagreements between investigators over who was really behind
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: the fed life profile remained a source of tension and
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: homicide Detective Leah Smith revealed that within the first week
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: of the investigation, a supervisor had called a meeting and
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: told the squad quote there were two theories and they
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: needed to get behind the right one quote, and Smith
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: pushed back and said, quote, at this point in time,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: nobody should have a theory in this case. That we
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: are still at the very beginning and we should still
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: be investigating and gathering facts and information. Investigators had also
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: conducted a thirty minute forensic interview the Banfield's daughter after
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: the murders, but a judge blocked her statements from being
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: used as evidence. Nearly three years after Christine and Joseph
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Ryan were killed, the case was finally headed to court
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: in Commonwealth attorney Dissano reflected on the long wait to saying, quote,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: my hope is with this is that he realizes he
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: didn't get away with it. And I know that sounds cliche,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: but I think through the evidence you can see a
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: lot of things that he set up trying to get
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: away with it, thinking that he was going to beat
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: the system. So on January twelfth, twenty twenty six, the
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: trial of Brendan Banfield began in Fairfax County Circuit Court
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: and judge Penny asked Rate presided, and the same judge
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: who had overseen the famous Depth versus Herd defamation trial.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: From a pool of eighty potential jurors, nine men and
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: seven women were selected, twelve durers and four alternates. But
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: that point the case had drawn so much attention in
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: the area that during jury selection, durors were warned to
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: avoid all media cover. The trial was expected to last
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: four weeks. The prosecution called approximately twenty witnesses over four days,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: plus two additional beatle witnesses, and the defense had brought
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: their own, including law enforcement officers, a digital forensic analysis
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: and a bloodstain expert. But in the end, the trial
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: came down to two people, Juliana and Brendan himself. Juliana
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: took the stand as the prosecution star witness. She told
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: the jury the affair, the planning, the months of preparation,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the morning choreography, and then all the gruesome details of
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: the murders in the bedroom. The defense did everything it
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: could to tear her heart. An attorney, John Carroll, spent
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: hours on cross examination, and his most effective weapon was
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Juliana's own words that she had written from inside the
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Fairfax County jail. In letters to Brendan after her October
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three arrest, she had promised she would never
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: co operate. She wrote to Brendan's mother, Theresa, describing the
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: separation from Brendan as torture, and she wrote that she
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: would rather die than live like this and cannot bear
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: living without him. And then Carol produced the Netflix letter.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: In a letter to her family and her cell, she
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: had claimed that Netflix offered her ten thousand dollars for
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: exclusive rights to her story, and she wrote, quote, I
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: want to hire amount, especially since my whole life will
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: be exposed to everyone, right and they're going to be
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: making a lot of money off of it. We deserve
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: something unquote. Carol went straight at her, saying, quote, you
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: were charged with murder because you shot someone? Am I wrong?
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: And Juliana would say, no, you're not. And the defender
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: said back, and so why would you deserve something because
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: of that? And Juliana would say not because of that.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: I didn't say I deserved something because of what I
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: did unquote. Again, Juliana is a literal disgusting monster along
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: with Brandon. But to just like the Netflix deal and
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: all this is just it again that makes me sick
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: to my stomach. But Carol hammered her memory as well,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: and she had admitted on the stand that she'd blocked
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: out some of the details of the plot and the murders, saying, quote,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: the brain has a way of protecting you unquote, she
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: told jury, and Carol sharply responded, saying, quote, so your
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: brain blocked out the details of this plan that essentially
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: your future depends upon unquote. But there was another detail
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: that surfaced during the defense's case that painted a devastating picture.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: A victim services worker testified that during a forensic interview
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: after the murders, Valerie had asked Juliana a question and said,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: quote unquote, can I call you mommy now? Like you
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: just have to assume that she was groomed to know
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: that her mom wouldn't be around anymore. But then Valerie
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: asked if the two of them would get married, and
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Juliana answered, I wish. Though it was a seemingly small moment,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: anything involving the pain and struggle that child has and
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: will have to endure going forward is heart wrenching. And
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: the critical blood evidence was sent to the jury through
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: expert testimony and the prosecution's forensic analyst, Iris daily Graph,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: spent nearly an entire day walking the jury through her findings,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: and when crime scene photographs of Joseph Ryan's body were
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: shown for the first time, a woman in the victim's
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: family seating area dropped her head and closed her eyes,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: and daily Graph laid out what the blood told her.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: They were transfer stains on Ryan's body not splatter from
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: an act of attack, and droplets on his forearm that
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: had fallen from above onto his skin that was flat still,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: and blood on his face that had flown in multiple directions,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: indicating his body had been repositioned. The blood stain on
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: his hand with gaps between his fingers signaling blood that
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: was pressed onto a motionless palm, and fingerlike transfer marks
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: on his right leg, and Christine's DNA on transfer stains
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: found on Ryan's genes at Her conclusion was that Joseph
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Ryan's body had been moved after death and Christine's blood
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: had been deliberately placed onto his hands, clothing, skin countered
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: with their own expert, Leanne Singley, who disagreed with some
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: of daily Graft's classifications, particularly for stains on Ryan's forearm,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: but under cross examination, Singly conceded she could not definitively
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: rule out the opposing experts conclusions. And then the prosecution
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: destroyed Brendan's alibi. And he had claimed on the stand
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: that the reason he left home on the morning of
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: February twenty fourth was because of an important meeting with
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: the IRS managers that potentially could have led to a promotion.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: The prosecution called his IRS supervisor and no such meeting happened.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: This guy is the dumbest human being I've ever heard of,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: for real, But there was no meetings on the books.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: In fact, every manager who would have attended was out
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: of the state that day, and one was even out
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: of the country. So this was incredibly damaging to Brendan's
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: alibi because if Brendan had made up his reason for
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: leaving the house that morning, what else could he have
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: lied about. And that's when Brendan made a risky he
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: would take the stand himself. And I feel like we
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: see this with just wint essential narcissistic, psychopathic people that
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: go on the stand or represent themselves like a Ted
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Bundy or something. It's like they think they can outsmart
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: the justice system, but they are actually stupid, but it
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: was by far the most dramatic moment of the trial,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: and he would come out swinging, and he called the
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: prosecution's theory absolutely crazy and absurd. And he told the
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: jury he loved his wife very much and that they
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: were pretty inseparable, insile. Why would you just say inseparable? Weird?
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: And he acknowledged the affair with Juliana, but waved it
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: off as just an affair, and he said he had
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: others before and this one would never have changed the marriage.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: And he claimed he Juliana broke up at different points
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: and worked together on the day of the killings. But
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: then he went even further, and he told the jury
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: that Christine had known about his last two previous affairs,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: and even claimed that Christine herself had affairs, including one
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: that involved the BDSM relationship. Even in her grave, he
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: is defiling her. And he testified that his wife, who
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: had spent years as a speople assault nurse examiner, had
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: a specific interest in people violence and had brought home
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: case documents containing graphic images. And he did everything he
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: could to show the fet life profile was Christine's, not his,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: And when it came to the bedroom scene, Brendan gave
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: his version as he had to the police. He entered
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: with his service wepon drawn, and he found Ryan over
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: his naked wife, and he announced himself as law enforcement,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: and Christine screamed, and he watched Ryan at Christine that
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: he fired. But he also added another detail now he
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: claimed that after Ryan was down, Christine spoke to him
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: and said, quote, Christine told me that she was bleeding
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: out and that she was sorry, and she loved Oh
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: isn't that a nice little little cherry on top? But
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: on cross examination, prosecutor Jenna Sands went after the map
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: scene had been seven times in the neck with an
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: eighth cutting wound. If Brendan had shot Ryan the moment
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: he began, when did the other wounds happen? Quote the
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: knife is inside of her hair unquote. Brendan answered, quote,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: I can't tell the movement unquote. Sans would describe his
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: time on the stand as dishonest and cold, saying, quote,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: he showed absolutely no human emotion that we'd expect to
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: see of someone in that position. Quote, And in closing arguments,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: she laid everything out one final time, saying, quote, he
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: executed his plan to murder his wife and an innocent stranger,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: and he was in love with Juliana. He can pretend
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: this was a fling and affair. He had them before,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: No big deal. He was in love with Juliana. He
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: was afraid of losing her. He needed to get rid
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: of his wife so that they could be together. And
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: she reminded the jury that Brendan had given quote unquote,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: zero explanation for why Christine's blood was smudged on Ryan's
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: hand with gaps between the fingers. And she asked why
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: a woman who struggled with a blood clotting disorder her
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: whole life would seek out actual knife play with a stranger.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: And she pointed to Valerie, saying, quote, he left her
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: in the basement, knowing that Joe Ryan was upstairs. He
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: left her in the basement while he shot and killed
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Joe Ryan unquote. And defense attorney John Carroll made his
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: final case to the jury, built around one question reasonable
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: quote Is it reasonable after six to eight week affair
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: that someone is going to try to get rid of
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: their companion of nineteen years her wife of twelve years?
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: Is that reasonable? Unquote? Of course it is with the evidence.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: But he pointed to the digital forensic experts confirming the
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: fet life activity could only be traced to Christine's devices,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: and he reminded the jury of the tension and fire
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  Speaker 1: within the police department, and he attacked Juliana as a
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  Speaker 1: liar who had been handed a sweetheart deal in exchange
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  Speaker 1: for saying exactly what prosecutors wanted to say. So the
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  Speaker 1: jury received the case at twelve thirty three pm on Friday,
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: January thirtieth, twenty twenty six, and they deliberated for the
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: rest of the afternoon. With no verdict reached, they were
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: sent home for the weekend, and on Monday, February second,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: they returned at ten in the morning and picked up
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: where they left off, and the deliberation stretched through most
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: of the day, nearly nine hours of total discussion across
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: the two days, and then the final verdict came guilty
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  Speaker 1: two counts of aggravated murder, one count of using a
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  Speaker 1: firearm and the commission of a felony, and one count
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  Speaker 1: of child engagement, and Brendan Manfield showed almost nothing as
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: the verdict was read aloud. No tears, no collapse, no
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: reaction at all. He simply looked at the jury as
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: they proclaimed his guilt. The same man who had sobbed
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: at the hospital when a doctor told him Christine was dead.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: He's a man who had shaken his head and shed
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: tears while body camera footage played back in the courtroom.
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: The man stood motionless as a jury told him his
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: freedom was over, and the judge scheduled sentencing for May eighth,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. And since we are now only in March,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Brendan faces life in prison without the possibility of role,
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: plus an additional thirteen years, and prosecutors confirmed that victim
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: impact statements are planned to be read at the sentence
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: of hearing and after the verdict, Commonwealth's attorney Desano called
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Brendan's actions what they were, quote monstrous. I hope he
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: thinks about his wife in jail and about what a
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: heinous thing he did, because that's something he's rightfully going
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: to have to live with for the rest of his life.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: The details of this case attracted national attention because it
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: involved an a fair, a fetish website, and a premeditated plot.
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  Speaker 1: But beyond the spectacle, we are here today because of
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: the tragic deaths of two of our community members, Stein
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Panfield and Joseph Ryan quote, and when he was asked
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: whether the outcome might have been different without Juliana's cooperation,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: Casano said, quote, the case was about the blood. The
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: case was always going to be about the blood. We
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: knew that before we even charged this case. Quote. And
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Juliana was scheduled to be sentenced on February thirteenth, twenty
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: twenty six. Under the terms of her plea deal, she
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: faced up to ten years in prison for her manslaughter conviction,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: though prosecutors recommended I'm served and if the court agreed,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: she would be released and likely deported to her home
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: country as a Brazilian national. And the courtroom throughout the trial,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: Christine's parents sat on one side, and her father, Gary Benson,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: who testified about Christine's lifelong blood clotting disorder, watched every
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: day of proceeedings. And on the other side of the
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: aisle sat Brendan's mother, and she had paid for Juliana's
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: defense up until she turned against her son, and Ryan's mother,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Theodor Fischer, had spoken publicly long before the trial reached
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: its conclusion, and she remembered every detail of the moment
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: she learned her son was dead and saying quote I
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: remember when I got the call from the detective. I
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: could hear my own voice screaming. Quote. And when Brendan
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: was arrested in September of twenty twenty four, Fisher had said, quote,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: I was grateful they arrested my son's murderer quot and
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: her position never wavered from supporting son. Quote. Joe never,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: at thirty nine, had ever struck a woman or been
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: violent with a woman. Unquote, She told reporters, quote you
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: don't just all of the sudden wake up and decide
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: you're going to be a killer. He was a stranger
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: who walked through an unlocked door believing he was meeting
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: a willing woman. He was executed as part of someone
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: else's plan. And then there's Valerie, six years old now
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: with a custody decision that still needs to be made,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: and she'll never know her mother outside of extremely early memories,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: and she'll only know her father from the other side
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: of a jail cell, believes Chief Davis said, quote, we're
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: taking care of the child. We're working with other family
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: members to make sure that child is cared for. We're
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: going to do what's right by that child. The truest
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: victim of all is that four years the case came
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: terrifyingly close to working. Brendan used his expertise as trained
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: federal agent who understood how criminal investigations operate to meticulously
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: stage a crime. Sy If the blood hadn't told a
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: different story, if detectives hadn't noticed that the feed life
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: activity stopped every time Brendan left town, and if Juliana
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: hadn't eventually decided to turn against him, then Brendan Banfield
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: might still be living in that house on Stablebrook Way
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: with his daughter and with a new light, with no
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: one ever knowing what really happened in that bedroom. But
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: the blood did tell the story, and in the end,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: so did the person who was supposed to keep the
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: health shut. So thank god police did their due diligence.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, the investigation work is extremely detailed, and I'm
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: so grateful that they handled this case how they did,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: and by heart goes out to Valerie Banfield and the
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: rest of the family, and Ryan's family as well. It's
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: just absolutely devastating, but I'm so happy that the justice
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: system worked in this case, and I'm praying that he
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: gets the right sentencing and that he never sees the
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: outside of a prison cell and for the rest of
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: his life. But that is the end of the case.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: If you have any other cases you want me to
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: look into, please let me know down below. I always
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: read the comments, and until then I will see beautiful face.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: Stay safe out there.