Their murders, the subject of the April 3 episode of NBC’s long-running Dateline, dissect how Banfield’s husband, Brendan Banfield, and the family’s au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhaes, orchestrated the brutal deaths of the ICU pediatric nurse and a man falsely accused of murder.
Initially, Brendan told police that after his au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhaes, called him just after he left for work to tell him that an unfamiliar car was in the driveway, he raced home to find Ryan kneeling over his wife after he had fatally stabbed her. In response, Brenden said he shot and killed Ryan, and Peres Magalhaes admitted to shooting him as well.
As months passed, Brendan and Peres Magalhaes’ accounts of what happened in the bedroom that February morning didn’t add up.
“A person was in an injured state, and yet it still took 13 minutes” for the other call to be placed, the prosecutor in the case said. “It made no sense.”
Eight months later, Peres Magalhaes, who confessed to her role in shooting Ryan, was arrested and charged with murder in October 2023. Close to a year later, and due to the completion of a blood pattern analysis that determined he held the knife inside the bedroom, Brendan was also arrested.
During a four-hour statement, Peres Magalhaes revealed that she and Brendan were having an affair. While they were in a relationship, he told her he wanted to kill his wife, referring to her as “lazy” and “not a good mother,” according to Peres Magalhaes.
The two created a fake profile on FetLife.com by using Christine’s laptop and posing as “Annastasia9,” a fake persona who wanted to act out violent sexual fantasies with a stranger.
Through her cooperation, Peres Magalaes pled guilty to the lesser crime of manslaughter and agreed to testify against Brendan, receiving 10 years in prison.
He will be sentenced in May 2026, where prosecutors are seeking life in prison.
Dateline airs Fridays on NBC and is available to stream on Hulu.
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