Virginia man convicted in wife’s murder linked to au pair plot

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Brendan Banfield, a Virginia man, was found guilty of aggravated murder in the 2023 killings of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan after a jury rejected his account of events; prosecutors said he plotted with the family’s au pair to impersonate his wife on a sexual fetish site to frame a stranger as her killer.
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- Brendan Banfield convicted of double murder in au pair affair trial CNN
- ‘Whose story does the evidence support?’: Jury resumes deliberations in ‘au pair affair’ murders trial WTOP
- Virginia man having affair with au pair found guilty of murdering wife and another man The Guardian
- Brendan Banfield double murder trial: Man found guilty in elaborate plot to get rid of his wife ABC News
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