Fairfax County Double Murder

[Anonymous]

So how did the au pair get the gun without BB's involvement? No way. There's a picture on C's Instagram of daughter playing in an empty box in which an approximately 3' x 2' safe was shipped. The exact type of safe one would use to store a firearm in a house with a child. So the Banfield's took gun safety seriously at the time of the picture--ergo, the au pair gained access only through his collusion as well as instruction on using the firearm.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, she tried to call Christine. I still find it bizarre the husband was returning home simply because there was someone's car there. They don't live in some remote area with no people around.

Agree, this is strange.

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How in the world did the IRS agent husband think he was going to lie about this and get away with it?

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Anonymous wrote:How in the world did the IRS agent husband think he was going to lie about this and get away with it?

He'd moved on to the FBI (reason for move to DC area). So even the more baffling. Overly cocky thinking he would be the first to get away with the perfect murder?

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Anonymous wrote:How in the world did the IRS agent husband think he was going to lie about this and get away with it?

Good question. I have major doubts about his intelligence. What was he thinking when he said he shot Joe, considering he wasn't even in the house? Of course the police were going to figure that part out. The only logical outcome is that this and everything else was going to backfire on him in a big way.

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Devils advocate, could he have been in shock and said the wrong thing?

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone link to the other thread?

I did, a page or 2 back. Or search Banfield in the search function.

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Anonymous wrote:Devils advocate, could he have been in shock and said the wrong thing?

Possible, but combine that with not cooperating with LE.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Devils advocate, could he have been in shock and said the wrong thing?

Possible, but combine that with not cooperating with LE.

AT first. They have not said if he has spoken to them since then. LE was at the house Friday evening.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone link to the other thread?

I did, a page or 2 back. Or search Banfield in the search function.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/780/1115264.page

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Anonymous wrote:How in the world did the IRS agent husband think he was going to lie about this and get away with it?

He'd moved on to the FBI (reason for move to DC area). So even the more baffling. Overly cocky thinking he would be the first to get away with the perfect murder?

I think he thought he would not cooperate and they would not have enough to charge and convict him. He wasn't baseless, they are trying to flip the au pair for a reason.

There was another case with almost this fact pattern but regular affair partner, not au pair. It was staged that a 2nd man was killed supposedly in the act of sa on wife when the plot was all about wife out of picture. It took years/decades? but was ultimately solved. That one was documented too. Maybe he thought he could improve on it? The name may have been on the first, archived, Reddit thread, will try to find it later.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if that's true, but one of the latest articles says the au pair came to the house and called the husband when she saw Ryan's car parked. Why would you assume smth has happened if you simply see a car in your driveway? She didn't enter the house yet, nor did she try to call Christine to ask her about it.

Where did you see that? The au pair lived at the house, where was she coming from that time of morning? The daughter was in the house so who was watching her?

Found it:
"The au pair told police after the shooting that she and the husband were gone, and when she came back to the home, she saw a car she didn't recognize. She then called Christine Banfield, who she believed was alone inside, police said.

When the wife didn't answer, she called the husband, who came home, she told police.

Then, she told police she went up to the bedroom and saw Ryan with a knife, and that Banfield had been stabbed. Police said she told them that the husband shot Ryan.

Police say there's no evidence that Ryan broke into the house.

"The connection that we've been able to locate through the investigation is that he was known to the victim, Christine Banfield," Weeks said."

This story is so nuts that I can't tell what is bad reporting and what are inconsistencies in the AP's story?

Do you have a link to the source of these quotes? Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if that's true, but one of the latest articles says the au pair came to the house and called the husband when she saw Ryan's car parked. Why would you assume smth has happened if you simply see a car in your driveway? She didn't enter the house yet, nor did she try to call Christine to ask her about it.

Where did you see that? The au pair lived at the house, where was she coming from that time of morning? The daughter was in the house so who was watching her?

Found it:
"The au pair told police after the shooting that she and the husband were gone, and when she came back to the home, she saw a car she didn't recognize. She then called Christine Banfield, who she believed was alone inside, police said.

When the wife didn't answer, she called the husband, who came home, she told police.

Then, she told police she went up to the bedroom and saw Ryan with a knife, and that Banfield had been stabbed. Police said she told them that the husband shot Ryan.

Police say there's no evidence that Ryan broke into the house.

"The connection that we've been able to locate through the investigation is that he was known to the victim, Christine Banfield," Weeks said."

This story is so nuts that I can't tell what is bad reporting and what are inconsistencies in the AP's story?

Do you have a link to the source of these quotes? Thanks.

Yep, sorry: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/au-pair-charged-in-killing-at-northern-virginia-home/3448799/

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Where was the little kid in all of this? She was not taking her to preschool, LE said she was in the house.

And the big husky that is all over Brendan's socials, where was it? Didn't bark like there was an intruder.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if that's true, but one of the latest articles says the au pair came to the house and called the husband when she saw Ryan's car parked. Why would you assume smth has happened if you simply see a car in your driveway? She didn't enter the house yet, nor did she try to call Christine to ask her about it.

Where did you see that? The au pair lived at the house, where was she coming from that time of morning? The daughter was in the house so who was watching her?

Found it:
"The au pair told police after the shooting that she and the husband were gone, and when she came back to the home, she saw a car she didn't recognize. She then called Christine Banfield, who she believed was alone inside, police said.

When the wife didn't answer, she called the husband, who came home, she told police.

Then, she told police she went up to the bedroom and saw Ryan with a knife, and that Banfield had been stabbed. Police said she told them that the husband shot Ryan.

Police say there's no evidence that Ryan broke into the house.

"The connection that we've been able to locate through the investigation is that he was known to the victim, Christine Banfield," Weeks said."

This story is so nuts that I can't tell what is bad reporting and what are inconsistencies in the AP's story?

Do you have a link to the source of these quotes? Thanks.

Yep, sorry: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/au-pair-charged-in-killing-at-northern-virginia-home/3448799/

Thanks. None of the stories make sense. Maybe that is on purpose.