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It is Tuesday, January the 13th, and a man had an affair with his Brazilian au pair.

And then his wife ends up dead in a double murder premeditated sexual fantasy plot.

And that trial gets underway today.

And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robe.

Did I kind of get close to getting it right?

Because this has so many cliches wrapped up in it.

And this is absolutely a true crime episode or a movie in the making.

Yes.

If you want to look up sensational murder trial, Exhibit A will be in a

Virginia courtroom today starting at 10 a.m. That is when opening statements are scheduled to begin.

Yes, for a Virginia man who is accused of conspiring with his Brazilian O'Pair to murder his wife

and a stranger that prosecutors say they lured to his home

to make it look like some sexual fantasy gone bad and he rush in as the hero to save his wife

and it all unraveled because prosecutors say they figured out pretty quickly what happened

with the help of the opair so brendon banfield is the man's name but you're the the plot is that

he's having an affair and he tries to kill his wife and have someone else take responsibility and take the fall for it. So then he could be with his Brazilian au pair. How old was the au pair? He's 40, right? I don't know how old she was. They're usually not mid-50s. I'm thinking in her 20s. Yes, that's probably a safe bet. Okay, so we go back to 2003 i believe in february of when this

all happened and we set this up in that brendan banfield and his wife christine banfield did they have

they had a kid or two well he had a four-year-old daughter yeah who was in the house at the time

that's the part of the charges but well that's not the big selling point here but what we're

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