Former IRS Agent Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murdering His Wife and a Man
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
The former IRS agent convicted in a deadly identity theft scheme targeting his wife and an unknown man was sentenced on Friday to the mandatory life imprisonment. Brendan Banfield, 40, was found guilty in February of two counts of aggravated murder, one count of using a firearm in the commission of a felony, and endangering a child, for the 2023 homicides of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at the Banfield home in Herndon, Virginia. The couple's au pair involved in the scheme, Juliana Peres Magalhaes, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Peres Magalhaes initially faced second-degree murder charges but received a lesser sentence after cooperating with authorities and testifying for the prosecution in Banfield's trial in Northern Virginia. On Friday, Judge Penney Azcarate sentenced Banfield to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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