Hi, everybody. Welcome to 2020 The After Show. I'm Deborah Roberts, and I'm happy that you joined us again today.

If you saw last week's show, I know you probably haven't forgotten it. And if you didn't, you're going to hear all the details.

And we're going to share some extra details, too. It is the story, kind of a twisted story of sex and secrets

and a double murder that just rocked an affluent community in Fairfax County, Virginia. The story of

an opair from Brazil by the name of Juliana Perez Magales, who fell for Brendan Banfield,

who's the father of the child that she was hired to care for.

Now, she fell for this man, but then things kind of took a dark turn when he decided that he wanted that relationship

and he wanted to get rid of his wife.

So they orchestrated this elaborate catfish scheme so that they could be together.

But guess what?

They didn't wind up together, not happily ever after. The story doesn't stop there, though. What happened inside the courtroom is something that shocked everybody, and our 2020 team was right there watching it all unfold. And today we're going to share some of the exclusive details from not only inside this investigation, but also interviews. I covered this story and I had an interview

with one of Brendan's former mistresses. Our team talked with so many people around the story.

It's called the Opaire, the Affair, and Murder. With me today is 2020 editorial producer

Christina Corbin and Gail Deutsch, a producer on this story who I worked with on so many things.

Christina, you do a lot of bookings, and this case, you know, kind of grab the headlines,

I guess in 2023, sex and sort of a fetish website and catfishing and all of that.

What did you think when you first read about this story?

Yeah, people were really interested in this case,

I think, because Christine and Brendan Vanfield are so relatable to so many people. On the outside,

they looked like this really happy couple. They worked really hard at their jobs. He for the IRS,

she, as a pediatric ICU nurse, to be able to afford this beautiful home outside Washington, D.C.

And then you have this really sort of sorted plot involving a sex fetish website, an affair

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