Brendan Banfield created an elaborate plot to murder his wife and a stranger in 2023 Alyssa Modos is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously ...

A northern Virginia man has been sentenced to life in prison in a double murder plot that prosecutors say he hatched with the family's au pair. Brendan Banfield was sentenced on June 5 for the murders ...

A judge slammed ex-IRS special agent Brendan Banfield as pure “evil” as she sentenced him to life behind bars without parole Friday for killing his wife and a sex-seeking stranger in a twisted plot he ...

FAIRFAX, Va. — Brendan Banfield will spend the rest of his life in prison, Chief Judge Penney Azcarate decided Friday. More than three years after Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan were murdered, the ...

The former IRS agent convicted in a deadly catfishing scheme targeting his wife and a stranger was sentenced Friday to a mandatory life term in prison. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

A judge in Fairfax County, Virginia, has sentenced Brendan Banfield to life in prison with no chance of parole in the 2023 “au pair affair” murders of his wife and another man. Prosecutors said ...

HERNDON, Va. — As Brendan Banfield prepares to learn his fate in Friday's sentence in the killing of his wife, Christine Banfield. The couple's former au pair, who became one of Christine's closest ...

Brendan Banfield spoke at his sentencing hearing after being found guilty of the murders of his wife, Christine, and another man inside their home in February 2023. He said that he was greatly ...

Attorneys for convicted double murderer Brendan Banfield failed their longshot attempt to have the jury's guilty verdict thrown out one day before he is set to be sentenced to life in prison for ...

Brendan Banfield is set to be sentenced Friday as the Fairfax County chief judge denied a motion to set aside his convictions in the so-called ‘au pair affair’ murders. Banfield faces life in prison ...