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

A Fairfax County husband was charged Monday with the murder of his wife and another man in a double murder case that shook a Reston community in February 2023.

A grand jury indicted Brendan Banfield on murder charges in the fatal stabbing of his wife and shooting of a stranger in the couple’s Virginia bedroom in February 2023.

A Virginia man indicted for the murder of his wife and another man has been arraigned for the charges, nearly a year after the family’s au pair was also charged in the case.

New information led to the indictment of Brendan Banfield in the 2023 killing of Christine Banfield, 37, and Joseph Ryan, 39, officials said.

His arrest comes 11 months after the couple’s au pair Juliana Peres Magalhaes, 23, was also arrested and charged in the case. Back on February 24 2023, officers responded to a 911 call from a woman claiming her friend was hurt,

A husband and an au pair accused of having an affair are now both charged with murder after Virginia police say the man’s wife and a stranger were killed at the family home. Brendan Banfield, 39, has been charged with four counts of aggravated murder and use of a firearm in commission of a felony in connection with the deaths of his wife,