FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Fingerprints found on the knife that killed Christine Banfield could have belonged to her husband, Brendan Banfield, an analyst testified Thursday.
The former IRS agent is accused of murdering Christine Banfield and a stranger, Joseph Ryan, back on Feb. 24, 2023. Brendan Banfield had an affair with the family’s Brazilian live-in nanny, Juliana Peres Magalhaes, and allegedly conspired with her to lure Ryan to the house on the sexual fetish website Fetlife to frame him for his wife’s death.
On Thursday, fingerprint examiner Douglas Gudakunst said prints lifted from the knife were found to be inconclusive matches to both Brendan Banfield and Ryan. The prints definitively did not match Christine nor Peres Magalhaes…