Au Pair Affair Murders Trial: Prosecution Rests, Defense Begins
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This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human. Hey there, everybody. Welcome to Amy and TJ Presents. We have been following one of the most salacious murder trials we have ever witnessed. It has been dubbed the Au Pair Affair Murders Trial. It sounds catchy and maybe even a little cutesy, but there is nothing about this trial that is any of those things. This is as salacious as they get.
Yes. And so, folks, yes, we will focus on this. Amy and TJ presents with the Brendan Banfield trial at a Fairfax County, Virginia.
What are the details of the Au Pair Affair Murders Trial?
This is one in which it's it's exactly what it sounds like. There was an affair involving an au pair. It's almost a cliche at this point. Au pair comes from Brazil, ends up in an affair with the guy, and now two people are dead. One of those is the wife of Brendan Banfield. The other is an unsuspecting stranger who was lured to the house that Brendan Banfield, according to authorities' robes, wanted to frame him for the murder of the wife. Now, that's the short and quick and clean version. The details are what make this thing unbelievable.
Yes, according to prosecutors, Brendan Banfield, who, by the way, is a former IRS agent, but they claim he, along with his au pair, her name is Juliana Perez-Majales. She was only 20, 21 at the time. Wow. The prosecutors say that they conspired because they had started this affair. They wanted to live happily ever after together, but he needed to get rid of his wife. Prosecution said that for Brendan Banfield, divorce was not an option because of money and because of custody of his young daughter. And so. According to them, they came up with a plan of going on to a fetish website called... FetLife. FetLife.com.
I finally remember it. That's why I jumped in.
You got excited. Did you check it out like you said you were going to? I'm nervous too. I don't want it on my... I'm nervous for you. I wouldn't want it on my computer either. Just one of those like, let's not even go there. But I am a little curious. We've been talking about it a lot. We've heard a lot about this website. But the plan was, according to prosecutors, that they posed as Brendan's wife, Christine, and said that she was looking for a violent sexual experience where she wanted a man to come to her home while she was pretend sleeping and come into the home with a knife, cut her clothes off, rape her at knife point, and no matter how much she said to stop or screamed, he should just keep going.
And they found a taker.
Uh, so those are just deep. Look, people are into their thing. They do their thing and knock yourself out for them. I think it's fair to say, generally speaking, most people can't relate to something like this and wanting something like this, but Hey, this guy, Joseph Ryan, Joe Ryan, we've been hearing a lot about had nothing to do with any of these people. Wasn't connected to the family in any way. He answered an ad on a website and, and ends up dead and a part of the scheme, as they say. Now, ropes, a big part of this, which is what's an interesting factor here, according to the au pair who has testified, is that it took them a little while to find a taker.
Yes, because we are learning about how these fetish websites or even just the fetish lifestyle works, but there is safety and trust involved. Obviously, if you're asking someone to violently do something to you to satisfy sexual needs, most people have understandings that they meet in person first. They establish trust, basically connect and say yes. even over coffee or a drink, yeah, here's what I want.
It sounds crazy, but it was explained to us by an attorney who has dealt with a bunch of these cases in her defense attorney career. She said, there's a code to this. There are rules to this that people in that community respect.
Yes. So unfortunately for Joseph Ryan, according to prosecutors, he agreed to participate in this sexual fantasy without meeting in person. Because every other person, according to the au pair's testimony, who they tried to reach out to, they were basically going on email and trying to set up this...
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