Statements made by an au pair made to police in the wake of a high-profile double killing in Northern Virginia will not by thrown out, a judge ruled Thursday.
Attorneys for the au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhaes, had filed a motion to suppress testimony their client made to officers minutes and hours after police arrived at the crime scene in Herndon in February 2023.
Peres Magalhaes and Brendan Banfield, the father of the family for whom she worked, are accused of working together to kill Banfield’s wife, Christine Banfield, and a stranger, Joseph Ryan, inside the married couple’s home…