Brendan Banfield Takes the Stand in His Defense | Closing Arguments Podcast
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4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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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. |
| 0:17.4 | Christine Banfield was stabbed to death in her own bedroom. There were three other people in the room. |
| 0:24.8 | Her husband and the father of her young daughter, Brendan, her opair, Juliana Magalise, who was sleeping with her husband, Brendan, and a man who brought the knife, Joseph Ryan. |
| 0:36.3 | Brendan is an armed IRS agent agent and he shot Joseph Ryan. |
| 0:40.3 | Juliana also had a gun that Brendan bought for her |
| 0:43.3 | and she also shot Joseph Ryan. |
| 0:46.3 | The question is, who stabbed Christine? |
| 0:49.3 | Prosecutors say it was Brendan. |
| 0:51.3 | The O'Pair says it was Brendan. |
| 1:05.1 | But now Brendan Banfield is telling his story to the jury about what happened as he faces murder charges and a potential life behind bars. Tonight, we are live from Virginia with all the big moments as the defendant takes the stand in the O'Pair Affair murder trial. |
| 1:16.1 | What a big day inside of the courtroom. Wow. I'm Vinipolitan. Great to have you with us here on closing arguments. |
| 1:24.7 | Big, big hour coming up in the Auper affair murder trial. Let's begin |
| 1:30.7 | with the victim, Christine Banfield. She was betrayed. And prosecutors say betrayed in two different |
| 1:37.2 | ways. One way, an affair. Two of the people who are living under her roof in her own home are sleeping |
| 1:48.3 | together. One is her husband, the other is the opair, right? So you've got Christine Bannfield, |
| 1:57.6 | mother of this little girl, wife to Brendan Bant Banfield working 12 and a half hour shifts |
| 2:03.6 | as a nurse doing work as a sexual assault nurse as well and the woman that she hired |
| 2:10.6 | from Brazil is sleeping with her husband and her husband's taking the opair into their bed. |
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