This Side Chick is in BIG Trouble // The Juliana Peres Murder Story
5/8/20269 min
Juliana Peres Magalhães, a Brazilian former au pair, was a central figure in a sensational 2023 double-murder case in Northern Virginia, where she participated in a plot with her employer and lover, Brendan Banfield, to kill his wife, Christine Banfield. The pair orchestrated an elaborate scheme using a fetish website to lure a stranger, Joseph Ryan, to the family's home, where they fatally shot and stabbed him and Christine while attempting to stage the scene as a home invasion.
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First 90 secondsRay William Johnson· Host0:00
So this 21-year-old nanny will do anything to be with this much older man, including kill someone. Now, the nanny's name is Juliana. Juliana's around 21 when this story starts, and she wants a better life for herself. So one day in 2021, she moves from her home in Brazil all the way to the state of Virginia in the US to be an au pair. Now, an au pair is basically a live-in nanny who's on a work visa. And so that is when she starts working for this guy, Brendan. And Brendan's around 36, and he is married to this woman, Christine. And Brendan and Christine, they've been together since they were teenagers, and they have a kid together who Juliana has been hired to take care of. And so Juliana moves into their house, and she has her own room and everything to live in, and she works with this family for about a year before things start to get shady. Because that is when Juliana and Brendan start smashing behind Christine's back. Not only that, but pretty quickly Juliana starts wanting Brendan all to herself. Like, she wants him to be her boyfriend, despite the fact that he's not even single. Like, she, like, starts taking pictures of them together and posting them on her socials. But, you know, since he's, like, literally married to the unsuspecting woman down the hall, Juliana covers Brendan's face with emojis, thinking that she's being slick. So anyway, over time, Juliana