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Brazilian au pair faces sentencing in scheme to kill lover's wife and another man
Juliana Peres Magalhães admitted manslaughter in a double killing plot with her lover, aiding prosecution of Brendan Banfield, convicted of aggravated murder in the case.
- On Friday, Juliana Peres Magalhães will be sentenced at the Fairfax County courthouse for the February 2023 killing of Joseph Ryan after pleading guilty to downgraded manslaughter and cooperating in Brendan Banfield's case.
- Investigators say a social-media account on a fetish-focused platform in Banfield's wife's name was used to lure the victim, as Magalhães testified.
- Testifying, Magalhães described taking the couple's 4-year-old child to the basement, then entering the bedroom where Banfield stabbed his wife while she fired a second shot that killed Ryan when he moved.
- A plea deal would end Magalhães' jail time at sentencing, prosecutors and defense agreed, but Chief Judge Penney Azcarate could still reject it; manslaughter carries up to 10 years in Virginia.
- She wasn't arrested until eight months later and stayed silent for over a year, then changed her mind as her trial approached; Magalhães said she confessed to 'do good', but Banfield's attorney questioned this motive.
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