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Juliana Peres Magalhaes, Brendan Banfield, Christine Banfield

Juliana Peres Magalhaes and Brendan Banfield in a photo together next to his bed (NBC Washington via Fairfax County Police), Christine Banfield (via her Facebook)

When police in Fairfax County, Virginia, first started investigating a February 2023 stabbing and shooting that took the lives a woman and another man at a Herndon home, they were certain a “vicious and brutal attack” had taken place in the presence of a 4-year-old girl, but they weren’t at all sure why. On Monday, a judge reportedly found probable cause in the murder case against a family au pair whom prosecutors have accused of carrying on an affair with IRS special agent Brendan Banfield, the husband of victim Christine Banfield, a slain 37-year-old nurse and mother.

Juliana Peres Magalhaes, now 24 and from Reston, is accused of shooting and killing 39-year-old Springfield resident Joseph Nathan Ryan before calling 911 early on the morning of Feb. 24, 2023. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said the au pair and Brendan Banfield was also on the line. Brendan allegedly said that he shot Ryan in self-defense with his service weapon because the man had “stabbed” Christine Banfield in the neck repeatedly.

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