Fairfax County Double Murder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/09/19/brendan-banfield-juliana-magalhes/

Super interesting details have emerged.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/trial-set-virginia-husband-indicted-double-homicide-wife-another-man

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/09/19/brendan-banfield-juliana-magalhes/

Super interesting details have emerged.

Can you elaborate what's emerged?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/09/19/brendan-banfield-juliana-magalhes/

Super interesting details have emerged.

Can you elaborate what's emerged?

It’s all in the linked news articles.

[Anonymous]

“ At issue Thursday was whether police detained Magalhães against her will on the day of the killings.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/09/19/brendan-banfield-juliana-magalhes/

Super interesting details have emerged.

Can you elaborate what's emerged?

“She was in court Thursday as defense attorneys argued she was "unlawfully seized" on the day of the murders and transported from the home to the Fairfax County Police Department without consent or legal authority.

The defense said her statements, searches and seizures of her phone and Apple Watch, along with other evidence collected should be suppressed. Prosecutors said she voluntarily went with authorities on the day of the murders, adding she was not a suspect at the time of the questioning. Rather, she was an "eye or earwitness" to a double homicide.”

If she’s innocent why hide her phone/watch 👀

[Anonymous]

They said she was gasping for breath outside the home- likely a panic attack.

[Anonymous]

Brendan also did NOT appear in court today. I guess jail is just too cozy for him to want to leave!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the other women in the jail finally talked some sense into Juliana and told her to stop protecting her "knight in shining armor" and start taking care of herself.

The other ladies in jail know that men aren't going to stick around and wait for you. Juliana is coming up on a year in jail. She's coming up on her trial which will likely lead to a guilty verdict -- and then sentencing for 10-20 yrs. It's starting to get real for Juliana. And maybe BB isn't coming to visit much at all. Maybe he isn't sending notes/letters through the attorney or the jail-mail system. He's out living his best life... while Juliana is learning how small her world is and will likely be for a decade or more to come.

The prosecutors have every reason to give her a deal if she can loop BB into the scheme. And Juliana finally wised up and put her future ahead of BB's. It's going to get really interesting in the next 2 months as the truth comes out. I still believe they have some digital evidence that puts Juliana in the chats with Joe Ryan (Juliana posing as CB). That would be the kind of evidence that would lock Juliana into premeditated murder of BOTH victims. And THAT is a lot of years in prison.

She might be able to get 5 yrs for each murder if she testifies against BB. She would still have a life after she gets out... but BB would be in prison for most/all of his natural life.

Can they add charges at this point?

Yes, of course! If they now have info that she conspired to kill CB, she could be charged with that. It wouldn't be in a Niv trial, but if she has a plea deal, it could include pleading guilty in both (prosecutors would quickly charge her in CB's murder if that was part of the evidence and the deal).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If JM did in fact turn on BB and accept some sort of plea, would BB’s trial then come first?

Great question. Any lawyers out there with insight on this? Will JM’s trial date get pushed back and BB goes first?

Typically, JM would plead guilty, and the sentencing would be delayed until after she testifies against BB...to make sure she upholds her end of the bargain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the other women in the jail finally talked some sense into Juliana and told her to stop protecting her "knight in shining armor" and start taking care of herself.

The other ladies in jail know that men aren't going to stick around and wait for you. Juliana is coming up on a year in jail. She's coming up on her trial which will likely lead to a guilty verdict -- and then sentencing for 10-20 yrs. It's starting to get real for Juliana. And maybe BB isn't coming to visit much at all. Maybe he isn't sending notes/letters through the attorney or the jail-mail system. He's out living his best life... while Juliana is learning how small her world is and will likely be for a decade or more to come.

The prosecutors have every reason to give her a deal if she can loop BB into the scheme. And Juliana finally wised up and put her future ahead of BB's. It's going to get really interesting in the next 2 months as the truth comes out. I still believe they have some digital evidence that puts Juliana in the chats with Joe Ryan (Juliana posing as CB). That would be the kind of evidence that would lock Juliana into premeditated murder of BOTH victims. And THAT is a lot of years in prison.

She might be able to get 5 yrs for each murder if she testifies against BB. She would still have a life after she gets out... but BB would be in prison for most/all of his natural life.

Can they add charges at this point?

Yes, of course! If they now have info that she conspired to kill CB, she could be charged with that. It wouldn't be in a Niv trial, but if she has a plea deal, it could include pleading guilty in both (prosecutors would quickly charge her in CB's murder if that was part of the evidence and the deal).

Thats probably why they want the phone/watch data suppressed. Proof she knew- premeditated.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if child endangerment, contributing charges will come along later

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the other women in the jail finally talked some sense into Juliana and told her to stop protecting her "knight in shining armor" and start taking care of herself.

The other ladies in jail know that men aren't going to stick around and wait for you. Juliana is coming up on a year in jail. She's coming up on her trial which will likely lead to a guilty verdict -- and then sentencing for 10-20 yrs. It's starting to get real for Juliana. And maybe BB isn't coming to visit much at all. Maybe he isn't sending notes/letters through the attorney or the jail-mail system. He's out living his best life... while Juliana is learning how small her world is and will likely be for a decade or more to come.

The prosecutors have every reason to give her a deal if she can loop BB into the scheme. And Juliana finally wised up and put her future ahead of BB's. It's going to get really interesting in the next 2 months as the truth comes out. I still believe they have some digital evidence that puts Juliana in the chats with Joe Ryan (Juliana posing as CB). That would be the kind of evidence that would lock Juliana into premeditated murder of BOTH victims. And THAT is a lot of years in prison.

She might be able to get 5 yrs for each murder if she testifies against BB. She would still have a life after she gets out... but BB would be in prison for most/all of his natural life.

Can they add charges at this point?

Yes, of course! If they now have info that she conspired to kill CB, she could be charged with that. It wouldn't be in a Niv trial, but if she has a plea deal, it could include pleading guilty in both (prosecutors would quickly charge her in CB's murder if that was part of the evidence and the deal).

Thats probably why they want the phone/watch data suppressed. Proof she knew- premeditated.

That’s also just standard lawyering. Both sides want to undercut the other as much as they can. Even if she was innocent a good lawyer would make the same motions

[Anonymous]

Hmmm wondering why they subpoenaed a neurologist for Juliana’s case?

[Anonymous]

So BB didn’t show up for the trial date hearing today. Why not? Is that unusual? Is it disrespectful?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please read to the end. It's not my intent to victim blame in any way. Perhaps CB was a participant in some way of arranging the meeting with JR. Certainly BB set up her online profile and maybe encouraged her to play around because, in his mind, it would legitimize/excuse what he was doing with AP. Why do I suggest this? I can't understand any other situation in which JR would have stayed in the house for more than a few minutes. Had he walked in on CB without her prior knowledge I can't imagine she wouldn't have resisted and raised an alarm, called the police, nor that JR would think that such a response was part of the anticipated sex scenario. Second, had he walked in on an already incapacitated if not mortally wounded CB, he would have gotten the hell out of there in seconds. I want to reiterate that if CB was at all a participant in this it was under the pressure of an abusive, cheating, conniving husband. I'd love to hear other explanations for the time JR spent in the house if CB wasn't expecting him. And, PLEASE, keep it civil. We are all speculating on the possibilities, none of us know more than the authorities, etc.

I agree that if Joe has found Christine stabbed, he would have called 911 immediately.

Agree. This is the one part of the sequence of events that I can't work out. I'm thinking there is forensic evidence that has not been presented yet