Former Au Pair’s Credibility Challenged in Brendan Banfield Murder Trial | Closing Arguments Podcast
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🗓️ 16 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. |
| 0:17.3 | The Virginia trial at Brendan Banfield, a former IRS special agent, centers on an alleged murder plot. |
| 0:24.3 | Prosecutors describe as calculated and grotesque. |
| 0:28.1 | Banfield is charged with aggravated murder in the February 23 killings of his wife, Christine, and Joseph Ryan, inside their Herndon Virginia home. |
| 0:39.0 | Prosecutors alleged Banfield orchestrated the killings to conceal an affair with the family's |
| 0:44.7 | Brazilian opair, Giuliana Magalise. |
| 0:47.8 | They say Banfield impersonated his wife on a fetish website, luring Ryan to the home under the guise of a sexual encounter. |
| 0:58.8 | According to Magalese's testimony, Bantfield shot Ryan and stabbed Christine while staging the scene as a home invasion. |
| 1:07.7 | Banfield has pleaded not guilty. |
| 1:09.8 | Magalese, who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, |
| 1:13.7 | is testifying for the prosecution and today faced cross-examination, and tonight you will see |
| 1:21.6 | all the big moments. I'm Vinipolitan. Thank you for joining us tonight here on closing arguments. |
| 1:28.9 | Great to have you with us as we continue our coverage of this case out of Virginia |
| 1:34.6 | involving the brutal murders of two people, Christine Banfield, and a man she never met |
| 1:42.0 | until he died right in front of her eyes. His name is Joseph Ryan |
| 1:46.6 | just before she was killed, stabbed to death. Now, this trial of Brendan Banfield, IRS agent, |
| 1:57.2 | armed IRS agent, really comes down to and it's all about one person, the opair. |
| 2:04.3 | And let me tell you, before the murders, Brendan Banfield and the O'Pair, they were kind of tight, |
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