A Virginia man charged in a double murder plot had gone on a sex-fetish dating website to lure one of the victims, according to the suspect’s co-defendant.
Last September, Brandon Banfield was indicted for murder after his wife, Christine Banfield, 37, was found stabbed in the upper body and another man, Joseph Ryan, 39, was found with gunshot wounds to his upper body inside his home in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Herndon in February 2023.