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Love Triangle - Wealthy Husband from Virginia and Nanny have been charged with Murder · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: On Tuesday, law enforcement officials in Virginia revealed a second
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  arrest related to a double murder case that occurred in
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  twenty twenty three in the picturesque suburb of Herndon near Washington,
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  d C. Early last year, the tragic double homicide of
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  Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan deeply affected our community. I
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  am pleased to inform you that, thanks to the diligent
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  efforts of law enforcement and prosecutors, the Commonwealth's Attorney's office
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  has obtained an indictment against Brendan Banfield for the murder
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  of his wife, Christine, as well as the murder of Ryan,
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  stated Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano during a press
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  conference on Tuesday. Brendan Banfield, a husband and father to
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  a then four year old daughter, along with the family's
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  twenty two year old Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhyas,
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  are alleged to have murdered Christine, who worked in the
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  nicu at Fairfax County, and Joseph Ryan, a thirty five
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  eight year old man who arrived at their residence armed
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  with a knife in February twenty twenty three. The nature
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  of Ryan's relationship with the family or their au pair
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  remains unclear. Brendan Banfield faces four counts of aggravated murder,
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  along with charges related to the use of a firearm
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  during the commission of a felony. Similarly, Magalhyas is also
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  charged with aggravated murder and the use of a firearm
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  in the commission of a felony. On February twenty fourth,
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  twenty twenty three, I was present in a cul de
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  sac in Fairfax County where I recounted the tragic deaths
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  of two individuals within a residential property. Now five hundred
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  seventy days later, it has been confirmed that the deaths
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  of Joseph Ryan and Christine Banfield are indeed classified as murders,
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  stated Fairfax County Police Department Chief Kevin Davis during a
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  press conference on Tuesday. Upon responding to a nine one
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  one call from the residence that day, law enforcement discovered
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  Christine suffering from stab wounds to her neck, while Ryan
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  had sustained fatal gunshot wounds in the upstairs bedroom. Authorities
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  subsequently transported Christine to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
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  According to Davis, investigators recovered a knife and two firearms
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  from the crime scene. On February twenty fourth, twenty twenty three,
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  Magalhyis informed the police that she had departed from the
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  Banfield's residence, located in the thirteen thousand, two hundred block
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  of stable Brook Way in Herndon, to take their young
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  daughter to the National Zoo. She recounted to authorities that
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  after starting her drive, she realized she had forgotten the
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  lunches she had prepared for their outing, and subsequently turned back.
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  Upon her return, she observed an unfamiliar vehicle parked in
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  the driveway. She then allegedly contacted Brendan, a former criminal
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  investigative agent for the IRS, who had already left for work,
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  to inform him about the unknown car. The couple agreed
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  to meet at the Banfield's home and enter together, As
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  reported by The Washington Post, Initially, Maggalhis informed the police
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  that upon entering the residence with Brendan, they encountered an
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  unfamiliar man named Ryan, who was holding Christine at knife point.
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  She reportedly characterized him as an intruder. It was noted
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  that Ryan was fully clothed while Christine was found naked
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  in the main bedroom of the house. The exact events
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  that unfolded within the home that Friday morning remain uncertain. However,
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  both Maggalhias and Brendan reportedly confessed to shooting Ryan while
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  he was threatening Christine with a knife. Prosecutors have claimed
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  that a computer located at the Banfield residence was linked
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  to an account on a sexual fetish website, as reported
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  by The Post, although the account on that computer seemingly
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  contained a photograph of Christine in a bathing suit, it
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  is not clear who was engaging with the account. Furthermore,
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  the profile reportedly did not provide one iota of evidence
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  that she was into knife play binding BDSM, as stated
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  by prosecutor Eric Klingen in court. According to The Post, Ryan,
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  the individual who threatened Christine with a knife, reportedly maintained
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  an account on the website and had been in communication
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  with users accessing the site from the Banfield computer. In
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  October twenty twenty three, authorities apprehended Magalhyas after she relocated
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  to the primary bedroom of the Banfields and positioned a
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  framed photograph of herself with Brendan on a nightstand adjacent
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  to the bed. A grand jury formally charged the twenty
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  three year old in April, with her trials set to
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  occur in November. Ryan Campbell magalhias attorney did not provide
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  a response to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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  The IRS has confirmed that Brendan is no longer with
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  the agency. We know Brendan Banfield and Juliana Magalhyas were
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  involved in a romantic relationship at the time of the murders.
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  Chief Kevin Davis prosecutors have previously disclosed that Ryan intended
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  to visit the residence accompanied by an individual who identified
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  herself as Anastasia nine on the online sexual dating platform
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  fet life. The profile depicted a slender woman in a
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  one piece swimsuit, as reported by The Washington Post,