An au pair who pleaded guilty to scheming with her employer-turned-lover to kill his wife and another man said she confessed because she wanted to do good — not out of hope that cooperating would free her from a Virginia jail so she could return home to Brazil.
On Friday, a judge will determine her fate.
Juliana Peres Magalhães will be sentenced at the Fairfax County courthouse in the February 2023 killing of Joseph Ryan. She testified that she fatally shot Ryan as Brendan Banfield was fatally stabbing his wife, Christine, in the couple’s bedroom.
