更新于：2026年2月2日 / 美国东部时间晚上7:30 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
一名与家庭巴西互惠生有染的弗吉尼亚州男子周一被判谋杀其妻子及另一名男子罪名成立。检察官称，另一名男子被引诱至家中充当替罪羊。
前美国国税局（IRS）执法人员布伦丹·班菲尔德（Brendan Banfield）告诉警方，2023年2月24日清晨，他撞见约瑟夫·瑞安（Joseph Ryan）持刀袭击其妻子克里斯汀·班菲尔德（Christine Banfield）。他开枪击毙了瑞安，而互惠生朱莉安娜·马加良斯（Juliana Magalhães）也向他开枪。
但官员在法庭上表示，这个说法好得令人难以置信，称班菲尔德设局陷害瑞安以摆脱妻子。后来查明，布伦丹·班菲尔德与马加良斯一直有染。
40岁的班菲尔德在宣判时身体微微晃动，神情几乎没有变化。他对谋杀妻子和瑞安的重罪指控拒不认罪，并亲自出庭为自己辩护。陪审团经过两天近9小时的审议后做出裁决。班菲尔德的量刑听证会定于5月8日举行，他可能面临终身监禁。
布伦丹·班菲尔德在弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯县巡回法院的双重谋杀审判中旁听，2026年1月14日，星期三，弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯。汤姆·布伦纳/美联社
马加良斯于2024年承认过失杀人罪，并在审判中作证指控其前情人。她说，两人曾在一个性癖好网站上冒充儿科重症监护护士克里斯汀·班菲尔德。他们利用该网站引诱瑞安到家中进行一场涉及刀具的性接触，伪造现场看起来像是他们开枪射击了袭击妻子的闯入者。
辩护律师约翰·卡罗尔（John Carroll）辩称，马加良斯的证词不可信，因为她正与检察官合作以避免长期监禁。班菲尔德在自己的证词中称，这一证词”完全是疯狂的”。
卡罗尔还出示证据表明，警方内部对马加良斯和布伦丹·班菲尔德在社交媒体上冒充克里斯汀·班菲尔德进行”钓鱼”计划的说法存在分歧。一名根据数字证据得出克里斯汀·班菲尔德是社交媒体账号幕后黑手的警官后来被调职，卡罗尔称这是对其不认同部门高层青睐理论的惩罚。
在最后陈述中，检察官珍娜·桑兹（Jenna Sands）告诉陪审团，他们不必完全依赖马加良斯的证词，称有”大量证据”。其中包括专家证词称，瑞安手上的血迹表明克里斯汀·班菲尔德的血液是从上方滴到他手上的。
马加良斯的量刑听证会安排在班菲尔德审判之后。律师表示，如果她被判处已服刑时间，可能会被允许当庭释放。
Virginia man who had affair with au pair found guilty of murdering wife, another man
Updated on: February 2, 2026 / 7:30 PM EST / CBS/AP
A Virginia man having an affair with the family’s Brazilian au pair was found guilty Monday of murdering his wife and another man that prosecutors say was lured to the house as a fall guy.
Brendan Banfield, a former IRS law enforcement officer, told police he came across Joseph Ryan attacking his wife, Christine Banfield, with a knife on the morning of Feb. 24, 2023. He shot Ryan and then Juliana Magalhães, the au pair, shot him, too.
But officials argued in court that the story was too good to be true, telling jurors that Banfield set Ryan up in a scheme to get rid of his wife. It later came out that Brendan Banfield and Magalhães had been having an affair.
Banfield, 40, shifted slightly and showed little emotion on Monday as the verdict was read in court. He had pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder in the killings of his wife and Ryan, and had taken the stand in his own defense. The jury had deliberated for nearly nine hours across two days before reaching a verdict. Banfield faces the possibility of life in prison at his sentencing, which is scheduled for May 8.
Brendan Banfield looks on during the double murder trial for Brendan Banfield in Fairfax County Circuit Court, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Fairfax, Virginia. Tom Brenner / AP
Magalhães pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2024 and testified against her former lover at trial. She said they had impersonated Christine Banfield, a pediatric intensive care nurse, on a website for sexual fetishes. She said they used the site to lure Ryan to the house for a sexual encounter involving a knife, staging the scene to look as though they had shot an intruder who was attacking the wife.
Defense attorney John Carroll argued that Magalhães’ testimony could not be trusted because she was cooperating with prosecutors to try to avoid a long prison sentence. In his own testimony, Banfield said that the testimony was “absolutely crazy.”
Carroll also introduced evidence showing that there was dissent within the police department over the theory that Magalhães and Brendan Banfield impersonated Christine Banfield on social media in a “catfishing” scheme. An officer who concluded from digital evidence that Christine Banfield was behind the social media account was later transferred in what Carroll said was punishment for disagreeing with a theory favored by the department’s higher-ups.
In closing arguments, prosecutor Jenna Sands told the jury they did not have to rely solely on Magalhães’ testimony, pointing to what she called a “plethora of evidence.” That included expert testimony that blood stains on Ryan’s hands suggested Christine Banfield’s blood had been dripped onto him from above.
Magalhães was scheduled to be sentenced after Banfield’s trial. Attorneys have said she could be allowed to walk free if she is sentenced to time served.
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