Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Brendan Banfield Takes The Stand — Re-Direct Showdown: Defense Works to Rebuild Banfield’s Story
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Brendan Banfield, Defendant & Husband of Christine Banfield, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home.
Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the killings with the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, with whom he was having an affair. Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is expected to testify against Banfield. The defense maintains digital evidence does not support the state's catfishing theory.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Aupair Affair Murder Trial of Bratton Vanfield from True Crime today on the Hidden Killers podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, back to the courtroom. |
| 0:10.4 | All right. |
| 0:11.0 | That's all you have, Mr. Carroll? |
| 0:12.0 | That's all I have. |
| 0:12.6 | All right? |
| 0:12.9 | I have information. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm judge. |
| 0:15.5 | During the break, a gentleman approached one of our detectives in front of two jurors and asked if it was too late to testify. |
| 0:23.6 | The detective instructed him at that moment to stop speaking and they walked away and that was the extent of it, |
| 0:28.8 | but that would have been overheard by two of the jurors. |
| 0:31.1 | All right. |
| 0:33.6 | May we approach, Judge? |
| 0:35.0 | Okay, sure. Okay. Okay. |
| 0:38.3 | Redirect. |
| 0:39.3 | Okay. |
| 0:40.3 | Redirect. |
| 0:45.3 | Redirect. Thank you, Your Honor. |
| 0:46.3 | Mr. Bainfield, you were asked on cross-examination as to your decisions relating to calling 911. |
| 0:48.3 | At what point did you feel like 911 was necessary? |
| 0:57.0 | I guess once I was in the room, I knew that 911 was going to be necessary. And at the time that you realized that, |
| 1:06.0 | were you capable of calling 911? No, my hands were on my firearm. Okay. And so when you're saying |
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