Au pair charged in bizarre love-triangle slay whines shes tired of jail
A 24-year-old Brazilian au pair charged in a brutal love-triangle double slaying at a Virginia mansion whined to her mommy that she’s tired of jail.“I am tired of this place, this situation,” Juliana Peres Magalhaes wrote in a recent e-mail to her mom from Fairfax County Jail, according to the Washington Post.“I am unhappy, and nothing makes me happy,” she said in the June e-mail.
“I just want to get out of here and go back home to be with you guys.We will be together soon, with God’s grace, mommy.”The missive was the latest turn in a bizarre murder case that has captivated true-crime buffs worldwide.Magalhaes, who prosecutors said was involved in a steamy affair with her 39-year-old employer, IRS investigator Brendan Banfield, is accused of fatally shooting fetish-seeking stranger Joseph Ryan as he allegedly stabbed Banfield’s wife to death at the married couple’s home Feb.
24, 2023.Ryan was allegedly summoned to the million-dollar home through a sexual fetish online site and was attacking a naked Christine Banfield when Magalhaes walked in with her lover, Christine’s husband Brendan.Brendan allegedly fired at and wounded Ryan — but it was the au pair who then unleashed the fatal shots at Ryan after grabbing another gun stashed in the house, the Washington Post said.Magalhaes is claiming self-defense.But prosecutors allege that the entire episode was a ruse orchestrated by Magalhaes to get rid of Christine.
They maintain that Ryan was a dupe lured into the sordid plot.Investigators have not determined who created an account on the sick-sex dating app allegedly linked to Christine under the name Annastasia9, which lured Ryan to the house.Prosecutors also question the circumstances that had Magalhaes leave the house shortly after 7 a.m.for a day at the zoo with the Banfields’ young child — only to return after allegedly forgetting their lunches.Brendan had left the house at 7:10 a.m.
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