00:00In the early hours of February 24, 2023, emergency services received several calls from the family residence of a couple.
00:10A man named Brendan Banfield and the Brazilian au pair named Juliana Pérez Magajaes informed the emergency service operator that
00:19they had shot an intruder who had broken into their home.
00:24Juliana was the first to speak, saying that someone had entered the house, but Brendan quickly took the phone and
00:30explained that this unknown man had attacked his wife with a knife and that he was forced to shoot him
00:35in self-defense.
00:37When the police arrived at the residence, they found a scene much more serious than what was initially believed.
00:45On the second floor of the house were the bodies of Christine Ann Banfield, 37 years old with multiple stab
00:52wounds.
00:53And that of a man with gunshot wounds to the torso.
00:56Christine was rushed to the hospital but was declared dead shortly after, according to what Brendan and Juliana stated.
01:03That morning, the au pair left early with Brendan's daughter to take her to the zoo.
01:08Then she realized she had forgotten the lunches she had prepared for both of them at the house and went
01:13back.
01:14It was at that moment that she saw a strange man entering the house without permission and first called Christine's
01:20cell phone.
01:21And when she didn't answer, she ended up calling Brendan to let him know.
01:25But as more evidence was gathered, inconsistencies began to appear.
01:31The wounds on Christine, for example, showed a precision and severity that didn't match an impulsive attack.
01:39Additionally, the blood from both Christine and the intruder was strangely distributed and the intruder's body had been moved, which
01:46indicated that the scene had been altered.
01:48When reviewing electronic communications, the police discovered that Brendan Banfield and Juliana Perez had a romantic relationship that they had
01:56not disclosed.
01:57They were in constant contact and seemed extremely coordinated.
02:02With all this piling up, suspicion began to focus on Brendan and Juliana.
02:08The investigators stopped seeing them as witnesses and began to suspect that there was a plan between them to kill
02:13those two people.
02:15It was also confirmed that both of them bought disposable phones a few days later and deleted everything they had
02:22in their bags.
02:25This evidence led to the belief that everything was planned to bring Ryan to the house, with Juliana pretending to
02:31be Christine in the communications with Ryan.
02:35And that the man was not at the Banfield house by chance, but was manipulated, only to end up in
02:40the middle of a tragedy planned by others.
02:44Thanks to this evidence, Juliana was arrested in October 2023.
02:48According to her, Brendan was the one who came up with the plan to have her kill Christine and make
02:53it look like they both shot in self-defense against a stranger.
02:56That way, both of them would have gotten away with it.
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