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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who were thinking CB actually made the account to lure JR, nope:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/10/29/au-pair-manslaughter-plea-banfield-herndon-slaying/

"Clingan told a new, more detailed version to Chief Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Penney S. Azcarate after Magalhães quietly pleaded guilty to the reduced charge. Clingan said that after Magalhães and Brendan Banfield entered into a relationship, “Brendan Banfield told Peres Magalhães he desired to be rid of his wife” and “began planning to kill his wife and Joseph Ryan.

Clingan said Banfield opened an account on FetLife, a website for devotees of sexual fetishes, began communicating with others on the site and “settled on Joseph Ryan, and lured him to the Banfield home” on the morning of the double homicide.

After chatting with Ryan online, Brendan Banfield “directed Peres Magalhães to participate in a call with Joseph Ryan using the Telegram app” a few days before the shootings, to persuade Ryan to come to the house, Clingan said. He said that Banfield had bought a pistol and given it to Magalhães and that she would later use it to shoot Ryan.

Brendan Banfield’s plan for the slaying, Clingan said, was for Magalhães to call him when she saw Ryan enter the house. Then both Magalhães and Brendan Banfield were to call Christine Banfield, supposedly to alert her, the prosecutor said. But Brendan Banfield had turned his wife’s phone off and placed it in a kitchen drawer, Clingan said. So when Magalhães called Brendan Banfield, and he called his wife, that purported alert went unanswered, too, “as he knew it would,” the prosecutor said.

Brendan Banfield and Magalhães entered the house with his young daughter and placed the child in the basement, the prosecutor said. Clingan said both Banfield and Magalhães held guns; Magalhães had not retrieved one later, as she told police.

“Brendan Banfield called out ‘Police officer!’” Clingan said, “and shot Joseph Ryan in the head.” Magalhães called 911, and Ryan can be heard moaning in the background, Clingan said.

Then “Brendan Banfield stabbed Christine Banfield,” Clingan said. Soon after, Magalhães saw Ryan moving in the bedroom “and shot him,” Clingan said. “Joseph Ryan died in the Banfields’ bedroom.” "

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I don't understand the point of planning to call CB to "alert"her - why?[/quote]

So it could look like he tried to warn her that there was an intruder, thus making himself look innocent. [/quote]

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