GLAM AU PAIR, 23, PLOTS STAB DEATH OF BOSS’ WIFE?
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 8 June 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Brazilian Au Pair, Juliana Peres Magalhaes and her charge leave the Banfields' Fairfax County, Virginia home but turn around when Peres Magalhaes realizes she forgot their bagged lunches.
Arriving at the house, the au pair sees a car she doesn't recognize and a man she doesn't know entering the house. Confused, she calls her employer, Brendan Banfield, who tells her to stay in the car, that he will be right there. Banfield is at the house in minutes, and they enter the house together. The au pair takes her 4-year-old charge to the basement. Brendan Banfield goes upstairs to find his wife.
Banfield finds his wife, Christine, nude, and a man he doesn't know, holding a knife to her throat. Banfield tells the man to put the knife down, but he starts stabbing the 37-year-old mother. Brendan Banfield carries a gun as an IRS Special Agent, and he draws his service revolver shooting the man in the head. The intruder is wounded and down on the ground. Banfield calls for Peres Magalhaes telling her to get his personal gun, a Glock, out of the bathroom safe. At Banfield's direction, shoots Joseph Ryan in the heart as he is lying on the ground.
Police say it appeared that Christine Banfield had been posted on an adult fetish website., but investigators say they believe it was all a ruse. Someone else created the profile on the Adult Fetish website, pretending to be Christine Banfield.
In fact, investigators believe Ryan's murder was part of an elaborate plan to kill Christine Banfield so her husband, Brendan, and their Brazilian live-in Au Pair, could be together. Investigators found pictures of Banfield and the au pair together in the Banfield bedroom, and Peres Magalhaes' clothes were found hanging in Banfield's closet, not her own.
Joining Nancy Grace:
- Amanda Rieman - Virginia Attorney, AC RIEMAN LAW; IG: @acriemanlaw
- Barry Golden– Former Senior Inspector for the U.S. Marshals Service, Owner of Golden Consulting and Investigations
- Dr. Heidi Green – Clinical Psychologist, Trauma Specialist, and Author: ‘The Path to Self-Love and World Domination; IG: @drheidigreen
- Dr. Jan Gorniak – Medical Examiner, Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner (Las Vegas, NV), Board Certified Forensic Pathologist
- Alexis Tereszcuk – CrimeOnline.com Investigative Reporter, Writer/Fact Checker for Lead Stories; X: @swimmie2009
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stores with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:06.0 | Breaking news tonight did a glamorous opere, just 23, scheme and elaborate murder plot where her boss turned lover's wife is found |
| 0:20.4 | stabbed dead and just how did a complete stranger who happens to be a bondage and disciplined fetishist |
| 0:30.0 | end up shot dead on the floor beside the wife. |
| 0:35.0 | Good evening. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories and I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:41.0 | This morning at 749 a.m. we received a cell phone 911 call that was an open line hang-up. |
| 0:50.7 | That call was captured and noted and 13 minutes later at 802 a.m. we received a cell phone 911 call from the very same cell phone and two persons communicated with our 911 call |
| 1:06.8 | taker. The husband of this home who I am not going to identify beyond |
| 1:12.4 | identifying him as a husband and the O-Pare who resides in this home who I am not going to identify beyond describing her as an O-Pare. |
| 1:22.0 | At that 802- cell phone call, |
| 1:25.0 | the husband and the opere communicate with the 911 call taker. |
| 1:30.0 | The husband tells the 911 call taker |
| 1:32.0 | that he just shot a man inside of his home and the |
| 1:36.6 | husband tells the 911 call taker that the man who he had just shot had stabbed his life. |
| 1:43.5 | Okay, I've got so many questions just based on what I just heard. |
| 1:47.8 | So how did this loving and faithful wife that we know of end up stabbed dead in the family home and then a |
| 1:59.1 | complete stranger who happens to be into bondage and discipline, what's he doing in the home? |
| 2:08.0 | And he's dead. |
| 2:10.0 | Now another thing I find highly curious and let me just go straight out to Barry Golden, former senior |
| 2:18.7 | inspector for the U.S. Marshall Service, owner of Golden Consulting Investigations, Barry, when you've got a double homicide, typically |
| 2:30.1 | sheriffs, and you were just hearing the chief of the Fairfax County police |
| 2:35.4 | Kevin Davis speaking normally they give you more information and you really |
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