Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendan Banfield: Juliana Peres Magalhaes Continues Her Testimony in Cross Examination
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Juliana Peres Magalhaes, former Banfield au pair, 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 Auper Affair Murder Trial of Bratton Vanfield from True Crime Today on the Hidden Killers podcast. Now, back to the courtroom. All right. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Again, thank you for being punctual today. I do appreciate it. As you may recall, we were in the middle of the direct testimony of Ms. Maglis. And, ma'am, I just want to remind you that you are still under oath. |
| 0:21.6 | Okay, ma'am? |
| 0:23.0 | You're still under oath. |
| 0:24.6 | Okay? |
| 0:25.8 | All right. |
| 0:32.1 | Thank you, Judge. |
| 0:33.6 | Good morning. |
| 0:34.6 | No worry. |
| 0:53.3 | When we ended yesterday, I had asked you if you had told the police that you spoke to on the day that this happened, what you told us yesterday. I told the version that Brennan had told me. |
| 0:56.7 | And why did you do that? |
| 0:59.3 | Because that's what he had told me all along |
| 1:01.7 | if I ever was going to speak with the lawyer |
| 1:03.8 | or I should have told that version. |
| 1:07.8 | Okay. And were you ever arrested on, for the events that happened that day? |
| 1:15.0 | Yes. And when were you arrested? October, 2023. And I'm going to show you |
| 1:32.3 | I'm going to show you Commonwealth 79 |
| 1:34.3 | and I'm going to ask for it to be displayed |
| 1:36.3 | to the witness and council only at this point. |
| 1:38.3 | All right. |
| 1:39.3 | Do you have a document on your screen? |
| 1:50.0 | No. |
| 1:51.0 | It would be on your screen too. |
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