Wife's Murder Connected To Elaborate Sex Fetish-based Plot, According To Au Pair

The Northern Virginia man, accused of murdering his wife, tapped into a BDSM fetish making love website to lure a patsy who'd play an unwitting domiciled successful getting his spouse "out of nan picture,” nan suspect's au brace person and co-defendant said.

Juliana Peres Magalhães, a Brazilian au brace who worked for fishy Brendan Banfield and unfortunate Christine Banfield, told prosecutors that he opted for double-murder complete divorcement arsenic they carried connected an extramarital affair.

“And past I asked him, ‘Are you gonna divorcement her?’ “ Magalhães told prosecutors connected Oct. 25, 2024, successful question and reply footage aired by NBC Washington connected Tuesday.

“And past he said, ‘That’s not what I’m reasoning about.’ And past he explained that he was reasoning astir uncovering a measurement to conscionable get free of her, retired of nan picture."

Brendan Banfield went connected to FetLife.com — a BDSM and imagination making love website — and created a clone profile, pretending to beryllium Christine Banfield and seeking a man to travel to her Fairfax County location beryllium transportation retired a rape fantasy, Magalhães told prosecutors.

That's really he allegedly snared Joseph Ryan, 39, who believed he was successful interaction pinch Christine Banfield but was really communicating pinch Brendan Banfield aliases Magalhães, prosecutors said.

They group up Ryan to travel to nan Banfield location pinch a weapon to onslaught Christine, who was location unsocial while Brendan Banfield and Magalhães were nearby, prosecutors said.

“We told him earlier that it was kinda portion of nan game, wherever nan personification gets successful nan chamber and past I would enactment for illustration scared, like, effort to tally aliases effort to shriek aliases if nan personification starts doing something, she would conscionable get kinda freaked retired and effort to defy but it was for illustration ‘part of nan game,’” Magalhães said.

The staged onslaught gave Brendan Banfield and Magalhães nan opportunity to execution Christine and past termination Ryan successful a phony enactment of self-defense, prosecutors said.

Magalhães pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter for her domiciled successful nan double-slaying.

Brendan Banfield is accused of fatally stabbing his woman and shooting Ryan.

The crippled was months successful nan making pinch Brendan Banfield going arsenic acold arsenic installing new, sound-cancelling windows astatine nan home-turned execution scene, according to Magalhães.

The au brace moreover recalled testing nan sound 1 day.

“And past I went extracurricular successful nan driveway and he went up to nan bedroom, and past he started for illustration screaming and yelling to spot if I could for illustration perceive thing outside,” she said.

"I couldn’t really hear, like, much."

Brendan Banfield is group to spell connected proceedings successful October, while Magalhães is expected to beryllium sentenced aft that.

Brendan Banfield's lawyer could not beryllium instantly reached for remark connected Wednesday.