A Virginia jury on Monday found Brendan Banfield guilty of aggravated murder in a convoluted plot hatched with his Brazilian au pair lover to kills his wife and pin it on a stranger lured from a fetish website. Banfield was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Christine Banfield and Joseph …
The Brazilian au pair at the center of an elaborate plot to kill her boss’s wife continued her testimony on Wednesday in Brendan Banfield’s murder trial. “I thought of it as being the right thing to do,” Juliana Peres Magalhães said of her decision to take a plea deal and testify against Banfield, according to …
The trial of a former IRS officer accused of killing his wife and another man got under way Tuesday with opening statements and testimony from the prosecution’s star witness — the Brazilian au pair Brendan Banfield was having an affair with at the time of the murders. Prosecutors contend that Banfield stabbed his wife to …
A Brazilian au pair pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month and agreed to cooperating with authorities against her IRS agent lover in a complicated double murder plot to frame a man for the murder of the agent’s wife. Juliana Peres Magalhães entered the guilty plea on October 29, ending the case against her that began …
A Virginia judge on Monday found the evidence compelling enough to send forward the case against a 24-year-old au pair charged with killing a man last year who had just killed her employer. But that’s about as simple as the case against Juliana Peres Magalhaes gets, and it’s not half the story. According to Magalhaes, …
A young au pair allegedly shot and killed a man in a home near Washington, D.C., earlier this year, where a woman was also stabbed to death, Fox 5 reports. On Thursday, the Fairfax County Police Department issued an update on the case, announcing that 23-year-old Juliana Peres Magalhaes has been charged with second-degree murder …
