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So both Andy and I are traveling this week. So this episode

is brought to you by just me, Jesse. Today we kick off with an update in the Banfield

murder we've been covering. In February of 2023, pediatric ICU nurse Christine Banfield

and a stranger named Joseph Ryan were killed inside the Banfield family home in Herndon, Virginia.

Investigators discovered that Christine's husband, former IRS agent Brendan Banfield,

and the family's Brazilian opair, Juliana Perez, Magallonias, had been having an affair

and had orchestrated the murders together. They created a fake profile in Christine's

name on the fetish site, FetLife, lured Ryan to the home under the pretense of a sexual encounter,

and then killed both him and Christine and staged the scene as a home invasion. Juliana pleaded

guilty to manslaughter and testified against Banfield, who was convicted of aggravated murder on February 2nd.

On February 13th of this year, Juliana returned to court expecting leniency.

It looked like she was maybe even going to potentially just be deported.

Prosecutors had recommended time served roughly two years in exchange for her

cooperation. Judge Penny as Karate rejected that outright, calling it the most serious

manslaughter scenario she had ever seen and handing down the maximum 10-year sentence.

She told Juliana she deserved nothing but incarceration and reflection.

Ryan's mother delivered a devastating victim impact statement, describing the urn of her son's ashes

in front of a Christmas tree she still can't take down. Juliana will serve roughly four more

years with credit for time served and good behavior and then be deported to

Brazil. Honestly, I think it's a very fitting punishment. It was a horrific crime that she was a big

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