Brendan Banfield Testifies in Brendan Banfield Trial — The "Au Pair Affair Murder Trial"
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Brendan Banfield, Defendant & Husband of Christine Banfield, took the stand in the murder trial of Brendan Banfield, the former IRS agent charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan. Prosecutors allege Banfield and the family's au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, lured Ryan to their Herndon home through a fetish website and staged the killings as a home invasion.
The defense argues digital forensics contradict the catfishing theory and that investigators who disagreed were reassigned. Banfield faces life without parole if convicted. The four-week trial continues in Fairfax County.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Aupair Affair Murder Trial of Bratton Vanfield from True Crime today on the Hidden Killers podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, back to the courtroom. |
| 0:10.5 | Good afternoon. How are you? |
| 0:12.4 | Okay. How are you? |
| 0:13.4 | Good. |
| 0:14.5 | So, let's understand. |
| 0:16.6 | This is the first time you've told this story or any story about what happened in the bedroom on February 24th, 2023, correct? |
| 0:24.7 | Yes. |
| 0:25.2 | Okay. |
| 0:25.8 | And you did not tell the police on that day in the bedroom. |
| 0:31.6 | You did not tell the police on that day in the hospital. |
| 0:34.4 | You did not tell them when you were back at the station, correct? |
| 0:37.4 | Judge, I'd object. |
| 0:38.9 | May we approach? |
| 0:40.0 | What do you can approach? Sorry, thank you. Let's try that again. You didn't tell the police in the house. You didn't tell them in the driveway. You didn't tell them at the hospital. You didn't tell them back at the station, correct? I said what I did on the 911 call. I was not questioned. I was not questioned by the police at the house in the driveway, in the ambulance about what had happened. |
| 1:30.2 | Okay, but you were questioned at the police station. You didn't tell them then, right? |
| 1:33.7 | Actually, I was not questioned at the police station. |
| 1:35.9 | Okay. It's been three years. You have not had an opportunity to tell the police in the last three years what happened? |
| 1:43.7 | Yes, they have requested to speak to me. |
| 1:48.0 | The police did request Detective Bryant, I believe, requested to speak to me at the hospital, |
| 1:55.0 | not at the, not at the police station. |
| 1:58.0 | And yes, they did request to speak to me through my attorney subsequently. |
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