Juliana Peres Magalhães, former Banfield au pair, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home. Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted Read more…
Juliana Peres Magalhaes is the prosecution’s star witness against Brendan Banfield. She’s also a woman who wrote from jail that she was “heartbroken” for what she was doing to him — and that she still loved him. But she wanted to go home to her mother. So she took a Read more…
Alicia Dale, Custodian of Records in Fairfax County, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home. Prosecutors allege Banfield Read more…
“Mark my word, I work with predators.” That’s what a Washington State University professor told her colleagues about Bryan Kohberger in the fall of 2022. She warned them. She urged them to remove him from the program. They didn’t. Now, the families of all four Idaho murder victims — Kaylee Read more…
Justin Hugh, Detective with the Fairfax County PD, testified today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home. Prosecutors allege Banfield Read more…
The Prosecution & Defense gave opening statements today in the Brendan Banfield murder trial. Banfield, a former IRS agent, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the February 2023 deaths of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan at their Herndon, Virginia home. Prosecutors allege Banfield plotted the Read more…
When your own forensic expert contradicts your murder theory, what do you do? According to court testimony in the Brendan Banfield case, Fairfax County Police transferred him out of the unit. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Hidden Killers to break down an investigation that raises more questions than Read more…
Arnulfo Reyes heard a child in the next classroom call out for help. “Officer, come in here. We’re in here.” Then he heard more gunshots. He never heard that voice again. On January 12, 2026, Reyes — the only teacher to survive the massacre inside Robb Elementary’s connected classrooms — Read more…
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what Nick Reiner’s reported “conspiracy” beliefs actually mean from a behavioral analysis standpoint. Sources say Nick admits to killing his parents Rob and Michele Reiner but doesn’t understand why he’s incarcerated—claiming those who put him behind bars are conspiring against him. Is Read more…
Brianna Aguilera was a 19-year-old Texas A&M student who fell 17 stories from a West Campus apartment in Austin on November 29, 2025. Austin Police ruled her death a suicide just five days later — before the autopsy was completed, before toxicology came back, and before a rape kit was Read more…