The Au Pair Affair Murder Trial Of Brendon Banfield: Juliana Peres Magalhaes Testifies: Part 4
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
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Summary
Juliana Peres Magalhaes, former Banfield au pair, continued to be cross-examined on the stand today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Banfield, a former IRS Criminal Investigation agent, faces four counts of aggravated murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and child abuse charges in the February 24, 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan. Prosecutors allege Banfield and the family's Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, were having an affair and conspired to lure Ryan to their Herndon home using a fake profile on a sexual fetish website — then killed both victims and staged it as a home invasion.
Magalhães has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is cooperating with prosecutors in exchange for a recommendation of time served. The defense maintains that digital forensic evidence shows Christine Banfield controlled her own devices and that investigators who contradicted the catfishing theory were reassigned.
If convicted on all counts, Banfield faces life in prison without parole plus 13 additional years. The trial is expected to last four weeks.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Aupair Affair Murder Trial of Bratton Vanfield from True Crying |
| 0:05.3 | Today on the Hidden Killers podcast. Now, back to the courtroom. |
| 0:10.6 | All right. Your next question, Mr. Kerr. Thank you. Good afternoon again. |
| 0:31.6 | Did you or Brendan access any of Christine's actual accounts during the scheme, |
| 0:36.3 | or did you pretend to be Christine on all accounts that you created and controlled, |
| 0:37.8 | like FetLife and Telegram? |
| 0:41.4 | They were on the two of them. |
| 0:42.7 | Just two? |
| 0:45.9 | The Telegram account and the FetLife account. |
| 0:46.6 | Okay. |
| 0:55.0 | And that's all the messaging that you were part of? Yes. |
| 0:56.0 | Telegram and FedLife. |
| 0:57.0 | Yes. |
| 0:58.0 | Okay. |
| 0:59.0 | The email account that came first, |
| 1:06.0 | do you remember having any involvement other than being next to Brendan and setting it up? |
| 1:13.7 | No. |
| 1:14.7 | Did you have any involvement in that email account after it was set up? |
| 1:21.1 | No. |
| 1:24.1 | Who maintained, for example, empty in the inbox or emailing someone? |
| 1:33.3 | Brendan? |
| 1:34.3 | Okay, so that was Brendan? |
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