Affluent Virginia suburb rocked by love triangle murders as prosecutors highlight key evidence

Virginia prosecutors are pointing to blood-splatter analysis as one key piece of evidence that led to the arrest of a former IRS employee in connection with the 2023 murders of his wife and an unknown man in the idyllic Washington, D.C., suburb of Herndon, according to local reports.

Brendan Banfield, a husband and the father of a then-4-year-old daughter, and his family's then-22-year-old Brazilian au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhaes, are accused of killing Christine Banfield — Brendan's wife and Fairfax County NICU employee ...