Au Pair Affair Trial Of Brendon Banfield: Michael Gibbons Takes The Stand — Lt. With The Fairfax County Police Department
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Michael Gibbons, Fairfax County Police Lt., 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 A-Pair Affair Murder Trial of Bratton-Banfield from True Crime Today on the Hidden Killers podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, back to the courtroom. |
| 0:11.5 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:12.8 | Could you please introduce yourself by telling us your name and spelling your first and last name for the court record? |
| 0:19.3 | Yes. Michael Gibbons, M-I-C-H-A-E-L, G-I-B-B-O-N-S. |
| 0:26.4 | And how are you currently employed? |
| 0:28.4 | I am a lieutenant with the Fairfax County Police Department. |
| 0:30.8 | And how long have you been with the Police Department? |
| 0:32.8 | I've been a police officer for nine years. |
| 0:35.0 | And how were you employed on February 24th, 2023? I was the day Zay |
| 0:39.5 | sergeant of the Reston squad for the Fairfax County Police Department. Were you on duty that day? |
| 0:45.3 | I was. Were you in uniform and displaying your badge of authority that morning? I was. |
| 0:50.0 | And is your department issued uniform equipped with body worn camera? |
| 0:55.0 | It was. |
| 0:56.0 | And can you tell us how your body worn camera works? |
| 0:59.0 | Body worn cameras are activated either manually or automatically upon activation of emergency lights and sirens, |
| 1:08.0 | firearm being removed from the holster or a taser also being removed from the holster |
| 1:12.2 | or activated. And at the end of the day, what happens with your body warrant camera? They're put into a dock |
| 1:19.2 | so they can be uploaded. And Lieutenant Gibbons, drawing your attention to the morning of that date, |
| 1:24.7 | February 24th, 2023. Did you respond to a call for service that day? |
| 1:29.0 | I did. And where did you respond? I responded to 1-3-230. Stable broke away, which is in Herndon, |
| 1:36.8 | part of Fairfax County. And can you describe the neighborhood as you saw it on that day? |
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