Fairfax County Double Murder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I knew the couple and I feel sure Brendan is guilty. I'm wondering about those on the outside. To a completely neutral person, is there reasonable doubt? And what would the source of the doubt be?

I’m a neutral third party. No connection to the case, just learned about it and followed the trial out of curiosity.

After the CW’s case, I was sure of his guilt because their evidence, and Juliana’s testimony, just fit. It was logical and made sense.

But Brendan’s testimony reminded me that I don’t know these people. We have these preconceived notions about a marriage but maybe the Banfields were different. Maybe in their world, affairs made sense and a 730 rendezvous with a stranger was normal.

But, he was not able to explain many things, like the first 911 call or why he’d rush home if it was just his wife having an affair. Why he was wearing running shoes and jeans if he had a big meeting.

Under his version of events, everyone else had to be acting irrationally:

Christine having a rendezvous at 730 am while her family is around - and putting her phone in a drawer (I have kids and a nanny, plans can and do change and they come home unexpectedly)

Juliana disregarding instruction to stay in the car and bringing a child into a one with a suspected intruder inside

Juliana using a weapon despite being young and inexperienced instead of simply staying with the child into the safety of the basement

Joe. When someone is pointing a gun at you, the LAST thing I would think you would do is stab someone in front of them! Especially when you’ve not done anything wrong - you thought you were meeting up for a hook up. So under this version, Joe has to just completely lose his mind at that moment and act irrationally.

Then there’s the fact that Brandon lied on the stand about his meeting. It makes you wonder, hmmm what else are you lying about? All the stuff he said about Christine, he brought zero proof. And after realizing he lied about his meeting, you realize you can’t take everything he said at face value.

So for me, I’d vote guilty. I don’t see where the reasonable doubt is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone help me understand the whole deal about the dog and the 911 call?

the defense tried to attribute the sound on the first 911 call to a dog whining. the likely sound on the first 911 call was joe in a terrible state.

first call is significant because it was placed 13 (or 15) minutes before the ultimate 911 call.

Was the dog dying too? That’s why she made that noise? What a joke!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone help me understand the whole deal about the dog and the 911 call?

the defense tried to attribute the sound on the first 911 call to a dog whining. the likely sound on the first 911 call was joe in a terrible state.

first call is significant because it was placed 13 (or 15) minutes before the ultimate 911 call.

Was the dog dying too? That’s why she made that noise? What a joke!

If only Lily the dog could talk...or the daughter, but I'm sure she's been thoroughly brainwashed by now.

[Anonymous]

Why no Waterfall?

[Anonymous]

Good job keeping the sensitive exhibits sealed Judge! I saw the media's motion on the docket last night and wondered what they wanted.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]Did Brendan cut his hand? How about Joe? I watched a documentary once and the detective was saying that it’s almost impossible to stab someone and not get yourself hurt too due to the blood. It makes the knife slippery.[/quote]JR’s hand was injured. The CW blood expert testified that only JR’s and CB’s blood and DNA were on the knife. Also, only JR’s and CB’s DNA were on JR’s zipper. Pay attention to the testimony.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did Brendan cut his hand? How about Joe? I watched a documentary once and the detective was saying that it’s almost impossible to stab someone and not get yourself hurt too due to the blood. It makes the knife slippery.[/quote]JR’s hand was injured. The CW blood expert testified that only JR’s and CB’s blood and DNA were on the knife. Also, only JR’s and CB’s DNA were on JR’s zipper. Pay attention to the testimony. [/quote]

I wondered about this too, but JPM said that Brendan dripped CB's blood onto JR and the blood lady seemed to agree. Was CB bound at all?

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did Brendan cut his hand? How about Joe? I watched a documentary once and the detective was saying that it’s almost impossible to stab someone and not get yourself hurt too due to the blood. It makes the knife slippery.[/quote]JR’s hand was injured. The CW blood expert testified that only JR’s and CB’s blood and DNA were on the knife. Also, only JR’s and CB’s DNA were on JR’s zipper. Pay attention to the testimony. [/quote]

Tess?

[Anonymous]

Full courtroom today!

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]JR’s hand was injured. The CW blood expert testified that only JR’s and CB’s blood and DNA were on the knife. Also, only JR’s and CB’s DNA were on JR’s zipper. Pay attention to the testimony. [/quote]

Actually there was testimony that Brendan’s fingerprints couldn’t be excluded from the knife (he wasn’t bleeding so the only dna option would probably be touch dna which is difficult especially when there’s a lot of other blood at the scene). Joe and Christine were both bleeding a lot, and you would expect that in the CW/Juliana’s version of the events that morning, that their blood and dna would be all over the scene. Don’t worry, we are all paying attention.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/true-crime/brendan-banfield-murder-trial/fingerprints-knife-analyst-testifies-brendan-banfield-murder-trial-au-pair-affair/65-790f14aa-af69-4349-a2db-acaefde71b9a

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bb said he didn’t know about the first 911 call claimed JPM could have been in the basement. Then JPM called second time because of all the events, he never called because he had his gun in his hand or worse his hands were bloody because he was rendering aid to Christine. Would be interesting to see an expert testimony if CB tried to stop her own wounds how blood was on her hands.

I really hope Dateline or someone does an extended show about this case so we can see/hear things that may not have been admissable.

Trust me the Dateline team is hard at work. It wouldn’t surprise me if the had something within a week.

[Anonymous]

Blood evidence closing is perfect.

[Anonymous]

Prosecution closing is done.

Here comes the bumbling defense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the guy that posted here saying he brought cookies to BB on his birthday. I’d like to publicly apologize. I did not believe in you at the time.

Me too I didn’t believe him, but I’m not apologizing cause I still think it’s weird AF especially since he said he’s just an acquaintance. My theory is he’s the parent of one of the kids Brendan coached or something like that. I could see bringing my kids coach cookies, but not some random Dad who is an acquaintance in the neighborhood.

Don’t call doing something nice for a friend or acquaintance weird AF. It’s nice. You’re weird AF for thinking that.

What PP said. I sometimes wonder about the people posting here. People calling/stopping by on your birthday is completely normal. OP, I hope you have someone in your life you thinks of you on your birthday.

[Anonymous]

Strong close by the prosecution pointing out that the defense could provide no explanation for the blood evidence.