This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels.

Brendan Banfield was an IRS criminal investigation agent, trained in interrogation, evidence analysis, and how criminals get caught.

According to prosecutors, he used that training to build a murder

plot designed to look like a home invasion. He allegedly created a fake profile on a fetish website

using his wife's identity spent a month grooming a stranger to play the role of an assaulter,

then shot that man in the head and stabbed his wife

to death while their full-year-old daughter waited in the basement, backpack on, coat zipped up,

ready to go to the zoo.

If the prosecution's theory is true, this wasn't a crime of passion.

This was a federal agent using his expertise to

commit the perfect murder and nearly getting away with it. Robin Drake, retired FBI special

agent, chief of the counterintelligence behavioral analysis program with us here to continue to break

this thing down. Robin, when you look at the prosecution's theory of the case, a federal

agent, allegedly building that months-long murder plot using the fetish website, Patsy, and a

stage crime scene. What does that level of planning tell you about the psychology of the person

behind it?

He had a lot of confidence in his, if it was him doing that, he had a lot of confidence in his ability to pull it off. And I typically, I think it's an over, if it is him, an overinflated

confidence that he could pull it off because this is not what he did for a living.

He was an investigator, but he wasn't a

homicide investigator and there's a huge difference. And we've seen it multiple times. People can't

stage garbage like this and get away with it very, very frequently anyway. It's tough to.

So I think if it is him, it's way over confidence in that.

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