Au Pair Affair Trial Day 1: Juliana Magalhães Testifies — "I Saw Him Stabbing Her"
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Juliana Peres Magalhães took the stand on Day 1 of the Brendan Banfield murder trial, describing in detail how Banfield allegedly executed the killings of his wife Christine and Joseph Ryan in their Herndon, Virginia home in February 2023.
Magalhães testified that Banfield shot Ryan in the head, then stabbed Christine repeatedly while she watched. Prosecutors allege the couple lured Ryan through a fake fetish website profile. The defense claims digital evidence shows Christine was communicating with Ryan herself — and that investigators who disagreed were reassigned.
Banfield has pleaded not guilty to four counts of aggravated murder. Magalhães pleaded guilty to manslaughter in exchange for her testimony.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.1 | The trial of Brennan Banfield, the Auper Affair Murder trial, |
| 0:12.0 | it's gotten off to pretty much a breakneck speed. |
| 0:15.7 | We already had the beginning of the au pair on the stand. And there's there is more to come as of this |
| 0:25.6 | recording. We're going to break down what happened on day one of this trial. And I want to get |
| 0:30.9 | your thoughts on all of this crazy case because there's there's so many possibilities and |
| 0:37.2 | directions. The jury has their work |
| 0:39.6 | cut out for them that is for sure but give me your thoughts in the comment section on youtube as |
| 0:44.9 | we go through this or on our substack channel you can interact directly with us here in the studio |
| 0:49.1 | in substack meeting your messages go right to me so i will see them you can check it out the link |
| 0:53.9 | is in the description hitting killers dot substack dot comments on the bottom of your screen right now |
| 0:57.9 | if you're watching on youtube so two ways to interact and give us your thoughts all right you're ready |
| 1:03.1 | you're ready to get into this into the day one breakdown of the uh the trial of brandon banfield |
| 1:10.3 | there's a lot according to prosecutors these are the instructions breakdown of the trial of Brandon Banfield. |
| 1:11.8 | There's a lot. |
| 1:19.3 | According to prosecutors, these are the instructions Brendan Banfield sent to Joseph Ryan, posing as his wife, weeks before Ryan's death. |
| 1:25.8 | Quote, the door will be unlocked. |
| 1:28.5 | Christine will be asleep in bed, come straight upstairs, cut off the clothing, tie her, essay her. |
| 1:37.1 | Simple and fun. |
| 1:39.3 | It's how it was worded. |
| 1:41.6 | Simple and fun. |
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