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True Crime with Kendall Rae

Au Pair & Husband’s Affair Leads To Double Homicide? The Christine Banfield & Joseph Ryan Case

True Crime with Kendall Rae

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In 2023, Brendan Banfield and his au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães–whom he was having an affair with–planned and went through with the murder of Banfield's wife, Christine, and another man, Joe Ryan. And they had tried to make it look like a pre-arranged fetish sex meetup gone wrong at the Banfield house.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to True Crime with Kendall Ray.

0:09.8

Thank you so much for joining me today.

0:11.7

And if you're new to the show, then welcome.

0:13.6

I'm so happy to have you all here today.

0:15.5

So you guys, today's case, oh my God.

0:19.7

Okay, I started seeing this popping up on my feed over the last couple of months.

0:24.6

And when I really looked into the details of this one, let me tell you my jaw was on the floor.

0:31.0

Today we're going to be diving into what we know about an ongoing case.

0:34.6

It has yet to go to trial, I will explain.

0:37.2

But we're going to be talking about

0:38.9

Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan. And you may have heard this referred to in the media or social

0:46.2

media as the au pair murders or also the au pair love triangle murders. I've seen a couple

0:53.1

different names for it.

0:54.6

But it is truly, I can't even put into words.

0:57.9

It's just nuts.

0:59.1

And it's incredibly sad.

1:00.5

I mean, these victims and the way that they have been smeared or were attempted to be smeared to damage their image, their character has just been so awful. I swear as long as I have been

1:13.8

covering cases, to this day it never ceases to just blow me away what some people are willing to

1:20.6

do to try and get what they want and how they think they're actually going to get away with it.

1:26.4

But oftentimes, these people who commit these crimes are stupid.

1:30.6

And we sort of love that, right?

1:32.3

Because stupid people get caught, and that's what happened here.

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