Wife’s murder connected to elaborate sex fetish-based plot, according to au pair

The Northern Virginia man, Brendan Banfield, is accused of murdering his wife, Christine Banfield, orchestrating a plot involving a BDSM fetish website to lure an unwitting accomplice, Joseph Ryan, to their home for a staged attack. His au pair lover, Juliana Peres Magalhães, revealed that Banfield chose murder over divorce, ultimately leading to both Christine’s death and Ryan’s killing, with Banfield’s trial set for October.

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