Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Vanfield and this is Drop Dead Serious at day six and I still sound weird, but at least I have a voice.

I don't know what this crud is that all of America is getting, but it is something fierce.

I hope you stay healthy. Do whatever you can.

Because, look, a broadcaster can't lose their voice and six days of losing my voice. It's crazy.

Anyway, I am going to get through this podcast a lot better than the other ones because I can

actually speak. Again, I just apologize for sounding weird. and I'm going to have to stop every so often

and drink my root beer, which I know you know is my secret. But listen, I have something I have got

to say to you. There's a true crime story out there that I've kind of been avoiding a little bit,

but I can't because it's such an incredible story, but the defendant's name is Banfield.

And I've had a few people ask me, any relation?

No, no, zero, no relation.

Brendan Banfield on trial for murdering his wife and conspiring with his mistress, who was the nanny to do it.

No relation.

They're from Virginia and from Canada.

Not to say that there probably isn't some potential long-lost connection through 23 and me.

I don't know.

But I do not know these people.

Thank God.

And I don't have any crime like this in my family that I know of. But this is one wild, wild story. A couple of things you should know

before I get into how incredibly in depth the planning in this is, allegedly. But the courtroom

itself, it's in the Commonwealth of Virginia, right?

We always say the Commonwealth, because they call themselves a Commonwealth, not the state,

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