The Brendan Banfield Trial (Part 1)
Court Junkie
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4.8 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
After 37-year-old Christine Banfield was murdered in her home alongside a man she had never met, investigators focused on Christine’s husband and their nanny.
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| 0:00.0 | A couple in Virginia wanted to hire an au pair to watch their three and a half-year-old daughter, Valerie. |
| 0:07.6 | 38-year-old Brendan Banfield and his wife, 37-year-old Christine Banfield, had a busy life. |
| 0:15.3 | Christine was a registered nurse, and Brendan was an IRS investigator. |
| 0:20.2 | They had been together their entire adult lives. |
| 0:23.5 | The Banfields had met at age 18 and were now nearing their 20th wedding anniversary. |
| 0:29.8 | The Banfields found the right candidate, 21-year-old Juliana Perez-Magalyais, who traveled from Brazil to live with the family in Virginia. |
| 0:40.5 | They paid her $200 a week. |
| 0:43.8 | Juliana arrived in October 2021 and stayed on the job for a year. |
| 0:49.2 | Everything went so smoothly, she then signed on for a second year. |
| 0:54.1 | What were your life like with them? |
| 0:56.5 | With the family? |
| 0:57.5 | Yeah, when you first got there. |
| 0:58.8 | What was it like? |
| 1:00.1 | It was kind of a period for me to adapt to the family, to my job, to the country. |
| 1:08.9 | But it was very, I was very welcome, yes. And what was Brendan like when you |
| 1:16.7 | first came to live with the family and be there a pair? We barely spoke like. My relationship |
| 1:23.8 | was mostly with Christine and Valerie. |
| 1:30.2 | Brenda and I barely spoke at all. |
| 1:32.4 | Then things changed. |
| 1:38.6 | Juliana and Brendan began having a secret affair in August 2022. |
| 1:43.1 | Initially, it was just sex when Christine was at work or asleep, |
| 1:45.7 | but eventually it developed into a relationship. |
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