Hearings for Brendan Banfield and his former au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, were held Thursday in the same Fairfax County courtroom.

It took months for the first charges to come down, but in October 2023, the authorities charged the au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, 24, with second-degree murder in the shooting death of the man found in the home, Joseph Ryan, 38.

Inside a Fairfax County home, a woman was stabbed to death and a man fatally shot in February 2023 in a complicated double homicide involving an alleged affair and a

More than a year and a half after the shocking deaths of Christine Banfield, 37, and a man named Joseph Ryan, 38, Banfield's husband has been charged with both of their murders.

The trial for Brendan Banfield, a Virginia man accused of killing his wife and another man at the married couple's Fairfax County home, has been scheduled for February 3 of next year.

Fairfax County police officers took Brendan Banfield into custody on Sept. 16, 2024. He's charged in the murders of his wife and another man that took place on Feb. 24, 2024. Police found Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan in the Banfields' home on Stable Brook Way.