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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Brendan Banfield is expected to testify in his own defense as prosecutors allege he and au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães plotted the deaths of his wife, Christine Banfield, and Joseph Ryan.

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that.
0:04.8	Opinions.
0:05.8	All are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law.
0:09.8	Sensitive topics are discussed.
0:11.8	Discretion is advised.
0:16.9	Brendan and Christine Banfield owned a beautiful home in a cul-de-sac in the leafy
0:21.4	suburb of Herndon, Virginia. He was an armed IRS law enforcement agent and
0:26.9	she was a nurse. Together they had a beautiful four-year-old daughter but they
0:31.8	needed help with child care. So the Banfields hired Juliana Magalise, a
0:37.0	Brazilian au pair in October of 2021.
0:40.3	By August of 2022, Brendan was sleeping with the au pair, sometimes in the marital home, sometimes when Christine was home.
0:50.3	They also traveled together.
0:53.3	Brendan and Juliana taking a New Year's trip to New York
0:57.3	City and ringing in the New Year together. Then in February of 2023, prosecutors say they
1:03.5	conspired in a twisted plot. They allege the pair opened a fake account on a fetish website,
1:10.6	pretending to be Christine.
1:12.7	Then they catfished a man named Joseph Ryan and convinced him to come to the home early one morning to engage in a rape fantasy with a knife.
1:23.5	In the midst of the rape fantasy, prosecutors say Brendan shot Joseph Ryan and then framed him for Christine's murder by stabbing her with his knife.
1:33.8	The au pair has admitted her guilt and testified against Brendan.
1:37.8	But now Brendan has chosen to take the stand in his own defense.
1:42.2	We are live from Virginia with all the latest in the
1:46.0	O'Pair Affair Murder Trial. Wow. Jaw-dropping day in the O'Pair Affair Murder Trial. Welcome to
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