FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Christine Banfield’s family is speaking out for the first time in the nearly three years since she was brutally murdered by her husband, Brendan Banfield.
Brendan Banfield was convicted last week of two counts of aggravated murder, one count of child endangerment and one count of using a firearm in the commission of murder. After a three-week trial, a jury found him guilty of murdering both Christine and a stranger, Joseph Ryan, on Feb. 24, 2023, in an elaborate plot. While having an affair with their Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhaes, Brendan Banfield conspired with her to lure Ryan to the family’s house using the sexual fetish website FetLife to frame him for Christine’s death.
Christine’s family, who is from New York, has never spoken publicly about her murder or the high-profile legal proceedings. But Wednesday, they shared a statement with WUSA9, thanking the prosecutors, investigators and the jury for their work…