Brendan Banfield

Boom.

That's what it seemed to be, or at least according to him, that is what happened.

It was maybe the first time Christine and Valerie were both out of the house.

Maybe it was the first time they were alone because she started working there in October of 2021.

And he says this happened in August of 2022.

And that's really, really important because then it's,

he's able to address very effectively, in my opinion, this notion that really, are you serious?

So I'm in a relationship.

And by the way, he said he set it up from the beginning that this was just an affair, that he loved his wife, he was going to stay with his wife, that he had had multiple affairs, and that Christine had had affairs, and that they had made it through, and this was just going to be an affair.

That, I think, might have been one of the most effective lines for me today, at least narratives, I should say, to hear that the two of them had worked through affairs.

set off a question of, well, why was this one so special that in six weeks you want to kill your wife?

Yes, and that is exactly what he said.

He said, I think it's an absurd line of questioning for something that is not serious, that a plan was made to get rid of my wife.

He said, I was with her for six to eight weeks.

And why would that be all of a sudden the moment in which I say, I want to kill my wife and run off into the sunset with you?

That resonated.

It took off a lot of...

motive, if you will, because Robes, is he worried about his wife finding out?

She's going to say, oh, you're at it again, versus oh my God, my whole life is going to blow up.

He would think he could survive another.