It took months for the first charges to come down, but in October 2023, the authorities charged the au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, 24, with second-degree murder in the shooting death of the man found in the home, Joseph Ryan, 38.

More than a year and a half after the shocking deaths of Christine Banfield, 37, and a man named Joseph Ryan, 38, Banfield's husband has been charged with both of their murders.

Inside a Fairfax County home, a woman was stabbed to death and a man fatally shot in February 2023 in a complicated double homicide involving an alleged affair and a

Hearings for Brendan Banfield and his former au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, were held Thursday in the same Fairfax County courtroom.

The trial for Brendan Banfield, a Virginia man accused of killing his wife and another man at the married couple's Fairfax County home, has been scheduled for February 3 of next year.

A Virginia man indicted for the murder of his wife and another man has been arraigned for the charges, nearly a year after the family’s au pair was also charged in the case.

The trial date has been set for a man who was charged for his alleged involvement in killing his wife and another man in their Reston home when the couple's au pair was previously charged.