The murder of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan | Ep 236
Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast
Allison and Mike
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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A man claims he shot an intruder who was attacking his wife, but the circumstances surrounding how that stranger ended up inside the house quickly draw scrutiny. As investigators examine messages, timelines, and the people living under the same roof, the explanation offered that morning becomes harder to accept. Allison lays out the sequence of events and the detail that made detectives start looking at the case in a completely different way.
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| 0:33.6 | Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the Crime and Coffee Couple. My name's Allison. |
| 0:38.2 | And my name's Mike. Hi, Mike. Hello. How's it going? |
| 0:41.9 | My gorgeous bride. I am just delightful. I'm so glad I finally, finally got you in this |
| 0:49.4 | freaking chair. It's hard to get me down and sitting down, folks, because I'm a busy guy. I get things done. You know, me. Allison mostly sits around all day and eat skittles. Well, no longer since she snapped her teeth, but now that she has dentures in, uh, now her thing is swig. So if she's not getting a swing for herself, oh, will you go today and get me one? I want an island time. Are your legs broken? Yes. If you have a swig near you, my favorite is island time, which is a fresca based drink and it's got like fresh orange in it. Oh, that's one you got yesterday. Yes. Oh, it is freaking awesome. Like, it's heaven. Like if there's a, I think they're a private company, but if there's a way to like invest in them, I would do it, man. |
| 1:28.9 | They're just, it's really simple, just sodas and a bunch of crap to throw in your sodas. Like it's anything that you want. I'd imagine there's probably like a billion combinations. Maybe not quite that much, but a lot. Our kids also like their pretzel bites. They have the regular pretzel bites and then the sweet ones. You know, when the kids ask for food things, food stuffs from like your Starbucks and your swigs and those things, it pains me inside because that's where they make all their money. And not that I don't want them to make money, but there's like a huge profit margin on all their foods. Like the friggin pretzel bites are like three or four bucks. I don't even know. At Swig. Yeah. Yeah, maybe $3. |
| 2:36.7 | Which to me, I don't know. That's not very bad. God forbid you go to Starbucks and get, did you like, Reese, our daughter, wanted one of those Dubai chocolate bites? I thought it was bites, like five of them. So she is convinced because this is a newer item. She thinks that whoever's picking the food up for her is eating one of them. No. So she thought her brother ate one, which is legitimate because I could potentially see him doing that, but not really. And then you picked him up. And she's like, oh, my gosh, someone else ate my Dubai bite. And I was like, Reese, I think only one comes in it. Yeah, you would think it'd be two or three or God God forbid five because it's like four bucks. And it's not big. No, it's a little tiny. If you ever eat those like Entomans, mini muffins or what I don't know. Or like a mini donuts. Yeah, like even smaller than like about that side. Yeah, mini donut, like a donut hole from Dunkin' Donuts. Not as small as a donut hole for sure. |
| 2:51.8 | Yeah, |
| 2:52.0 | it's a little bit bigger, |
| 2:52.9 | but like a mini brownie bite |
| 2:54.1 | or something like that. |
| 2:54.7 | It looks like, And like about that side. Yeah, a mini donut like a donut hole from Dunkin' Donuts. Not as small as a donut hole for sure. |
| 2:51.8 | Yeah, it's a little bit bigger, but like a mini brownie bite or something like that. |
| 2:54.8 | It looks like a brownie bite. Exactly. And it's like, yeah, four bucks. And I thought it was bites. So I opened the bag to look and see what it looks like. What am I getting for five bucks here? And it's one like turd looking thing in the bottom of this bag. |
| 3:05.5 | It's like Dubai bite. |
| 3:06.8 | Yeah, Dubai bite. |
| 3:07.8 | And it says it. |
| 3:08.1 | Dubai bite on the thing. |
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