FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — Brendan Banfield’s defense team has filed a motion to set aside the guilty verdict in the “au pair affair” double murder trial, a little more than a week before his ...

Christine and Brendan Banfield were busy parents. She was a nurse and he was an I.R.S. agent. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. They ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the name of Joseph Ryan’s mother. FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (WDCW) — The Brazilian au pair who assisted Brendan Banfield in an elaborate double murder ...

The Brazilian au pair who admitted to playing a role in Brendan Banfield's plans to murder his wife and a stranger was sentenced to 10 years in prison in a Virginia court Friday. Subscribe to read ...

Juliana Peres Magalhães, 25, had cooperated with prosecutors, who sought a lenient sentence. But the judge said the woman, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, merited the state maximum. By Billy Witz ...

Former CNN and NewsNation host Ashleigh Banfield isn’t backing down from her report that Nancy Guthrie’s son-in-law, Tommaso Cioni, is an alleged “prime suspect” in the 84-year-old’s disappearance. At ...

Eric Clingan, the former lead prosecutor who secured indictments for Brendan Banfield and Juliana Peres Magalhães in the 2023 “au pair affair” murders in Fairfax County, Virginia, is telling his side ...

Despite recently ending her NewsNation show, Ashleigh Banfield is continuing to dig into the biggest true-crime stories, which, most recently, includes the disappearance and apparent kidnapping or ...

Brendan Banfield, a former IRS agent accused of conspiring with his child’s au pair to kill his wife and frame another man, has been found guilty. A Virginia jury on Monday convicted Banfield, 40, on ...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — After two days of deliberations, a jury has found Brendan Banfield guilty of killing his wife, Christine Banfield, and Joseph Ryan, a man he set up to make it look like ...