Au Pair Affair Trial Day 2: Jail Letters & Netflix Deal Rock Magalhães Testimony
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Day 2 of the Brendan Banfield trial focused entirely on cross-examination of star witness Juliana Peres Magalhães. Defense attorney John Carroll attacked her credibility using jail letters in which she promised to protect Banfield and "take the blame for both of us."
Magalhães admitted she's been in contact with Netflix and other producers about selling her story, and that media companies are now paying her jail expenses. When asked about a letter to her mother saying "we deserve something," she testified she believes her family deserves compensation.
The prosecution says blood evidence will prove Banfield's guilt regardless of credibility questions. The defense says she's a liar who flipped to save herself. Banfield has pleaded not guilty.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.7 | Optics are important. |
| 0:08.7 | Optics are important in anything you do in life. |
| 0:12.4 | Don't let anyone tell you differently. |
| 0:15.2 | It does matter how others perceive you, |
| 0:17.8 | especially if that perception is going to have anything to do with your own |
| 0:25.1 | path forward. |
| 0:27.2 | And Julianna Perez Moghaly's own path forward in the Opaire Fair Murder Trial of Brandon |
| 0:34.3 | Boudreau, of Brandon Boundro, of Brandon Banoudreau, of Brandon, not Boudreau, of Brandon Bannfield. |
| 0:41.2 | That path, it's got to go through a jury. |
| 0:46.6 | It's got to go through, you know, in some ways, a court of public opinion to a certain extent, |
| 0:55.3 | if you want people getting behind you. |
| 0:58.3 | And when things look like there might be an ulterior motive for one's actions, |
| 1:08.1 | it raises eyebrows, even if there's not, even if it's just, well, I'm going down this path anyway. |
| 1:15.0 | Might as well cash in. |
| 1:17.0 | I get it. |
| 1:19.1 | And in some ways, if you're going down this path anyways and people want to make money off of you |
| 1:24.6 | and you want to make money off of other people's ingenuity at telling |
| 1:28.8 | your story. |
| 1:30.7 | Okay. |
| 1:32.3 | But it is not going to not come without certain optics. |
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