The Herndon man accused of killing his wife and another man while having an affair with their au pair denied planning to take his wife out of the picture in court yesterday (Wednesday).
Though Brendan Banfield was forthcoming about his months-long affair with co-defendant Juliana Peres Magalhaes, he firmly rejected the idea that he had planned the killing of his wife, Christine Banfield.
Jury selection began this morning (Monday) in the postponed trial against a Herndon man accused by prosecutors of concocting a scheme with his family’s au pair to frame a stranger in the fatal stabbing of his wife.
Brendan Banfield is charged with aggravated murder in the February 2023 killings of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at the Banfields’ home in northern Virginia. He has pleaded not guilty in the case.
A 79-year-old woman was found fatally stabbed in an apartment near the Innovation Center Metro Station near Herndon yesterday (Tuesday).
Officers responded to the 2300 block of Dulles Station Blvd around 10 a.m. after a caretaker “reported that she arrived at her patient’s residence and found her unresponsive,” the Fairfax County Police Department said in a news release today.
A Maryland man is expected to be charged with murder for allegedly stabbing a woman to death in Annandale Friday night (Nov. 7).
Officers responded around 9:52 p.m. to the 3900 block of Terrence Drive for a report of an “unconscious and unresponsive” woman lying in the roadway, Fairfax County Police Department Capt. Jesse Katzman said in an initial update.
Herndon police believe they have arrested everyone involved in the stabbing of a teen late last month, a department spokesperson says.
The 15-year-old boy was reportedly stabbed by three people at a home in the 600 block of Center Street around 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 24. He was transported to a hospital with serious injuries, though his condition later stabilized.
A teen was stabbed reportedly by multiple people at a residence in Herndon this afternoon (Friday).
Police officers were dispatched to the 600 block of Center Street around 3:32 p.m. after a woman reported that her 15-year-old son had been “stabbed in the chest” by three people, according to scanner traffic.
The long-awaited trial for a Herndon man accused of orchestrating the killings of his wife and another man has been postponed once again.
Brendan Banfield’s trial is now scheduled to begin Jan. 13, with Fairfax Circuit Court Chief Judge Penney S. Azcarate granting a continuance in court yesterday (Wednesday). The trial had been been scheduled to start Oct. 20 (Monday), having been previously continued earlier this year.
Fairfax County police are now turning to the public for help with identifying a suspect in a stabbing that occurred late last month at the Build America Plaza retail center in Bailey’s Crossroads.
Officers responded to the 3800 block of South George Mason Drive at 6:03 a.m. on June 29 after a man called 911, reporting that he had been stabbed twice, according to scanner traffic.
A man has been arrested and charged with last week’s fatal stabbing at a bus stop on Richmond Highway in Groveton, police say.
Officers with the Metro Transit Police Department officers took Robert Reed, 56, into custody at the Huntington Metro Station on Sunday, June 15, ending a multi-day search for a suspect in the June 10 stabbing, the Fairfax County Police Department announced today (Monday).
Fairfax County police are investigating a fatal stabbing that occurred at a Richmond Highway bus stop earlier this afternoon (Tuesday).
Officers and medics responded to Richmond Highway at North Kings Highway in Groveton shortly before 2 p.m. for the reported stabbing, according to scanner traffic.
