LOADING ERROR LOADING After initially claiming self-defense, an au pair changed her story on Tuesday, pleading guilty to manslaughter and admitting her role in her employer’s alleged plot to kill his wife and another man. In the days leading up to the killings, Brendan Banfield instructed Peres Magalhaes to pretend to be his wife while communicating with Ryan over Telegram, …
LOADING ERROR LOADING Subscribe to HuffPost’s true crime newsletter, Suspicious Circumstances, to get captivating cases, unsolved mysteries and courtroom drama delivered straight to your inbox every week. Authorities said that Brendan Banfield and Peres Magalhaes told police that they discovered Ryan, whom they did not know, stabbing Christine Banfield. In a hearing on April 1 to determine whether Peres Magalhaes …
Her mother claims her daughter was acting to 'defend herself and her family' Juliana Magalhaes is said to have shot Joseph Ryan dead after he knifed her boss The mother of an au pair accused of shooting a man dead after he stabbed her boss to death has claimed her daughter is innocent. Ryan is believed to have stabbed 37-year-old …
