FAIRFAX, Va. (CN) — Infatuated with the family’s Brazilian au pair, Brendan Banfield plotted to get rid of his wife and kill a stranger who had been lured to the Banfield residence as part of an alibi, prosecutors told a jury during the first day of trial in the double murder.
Dressed in a black suit, Banfield, 40, wept as prosecutors played recordings of the 911 calls he and the au pair made to authorities as his wife, Christine, 37, was in the process of dying from multiple stab wounds. He has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder, along with child abuse and endangerment charges stemming from the presence of his then 4-year-old daughter the day of the crime.
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