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Police say this was not a crime of passion, not a botched home invasion, and not a jealous husband snapping in the moment, but a meticulously planned double murder allegedly orchestrated by a federal agent who was living a secret double life with his family’s au pair. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the shocking prosecution theory against Brendan Banfield, a Virginia IRS agent accused of catfishing an unsuspecting man through BDSM websites, luring him into the Banfield home under false pretenses, and then staging a brutal scene that left his wife, Christine Banfield, stabbed to death and Joseph Ryan shot and killed inside their million-dollar Fairfax County home. Prosecutors allege Banfield and his young Brazilian au pair, Juliana Perez Magalhães, carried out an elaborate plot involving fake online identities, Telegram calls, decoy 911 calls, McDonald’s drive-through alibis, sound-dampening windows, gun-range training, and a plan to make Banfield look like the hero who stopped a violent intruder.
Pretty Lies & Alibis:
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Police say this was not a crime of passion, not a botched home invasion, and not a jealous husband snapping in the moment, but a meticulously planned double murder allegedly orchestrated by a federal agent who was living a secret double life with his family’s au pair. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the shocking prosecution theory against Brendan Banfield, a Virginia IRS agent accused of catfishing an unsuspecting man through BDSM websites, luring him into the Banfield home under false pretenses, and then staging a brutal scene that left his wife, Christine Banfield, stabbed to death and Joseph Ryan shot and killed inside their million-dollar Fairfax County home. Prosecutors allege Banfield and his young Brazilian au pair, Juliana Perez Magalhães, carried out an elaborate plot involving fake online identities, Telegram calls, decoy 911 calls, McDonald’s drive-through alibis, sound-dampening windows, gun-range training, and a plan to make Banfield look like the hero who stopped a violent intruder.
Pretty Lies & Alibis:
https://www.youtube.com/@PrettyLiesAndAlibis
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pretty-lies-and-alibis/id1519114534
Watch on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@DropDeadSerious
Check out the Merch!
https://shop.dropdeadserious.com/
Follow Ashleigh on Social Media
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/ashleighbanfield
https://www.instagram.com/DropDeadSeriousPodcast
TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@tvashleigh
https://www.tiktok.com/@DropDeadSeriousPodcast
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/AshleighBanfield
Website:
https://www.dropdeadserious.com/

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