Disturbing & Damning: Raw Look At Evidence Inside Catfish Murder Scheme Couple | Brendan Banfield

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. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield examines the evidence at the center of the murder trial of Brendan Banfield. What jurors have now seen and heard raises troubling questions about what really happened inside the Banfield home and how an outsider became entangled in a deadly situation. As deliberations begin, the case comes down to whether the evidence supports the story Banfield has told since police first arrived, or whether it points to something far more calculated. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield walks through the evidence prosecutors say reveals the truth behind the alleged catfish murder scheme.

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