{"id":687201,"date":"2026-06-06T03:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687201\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T03:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:10:07","slug":"man-who-plotted-with-au-pair-to-kill-his-wife-receives-life-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687201\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who plotted with au pair to kill his wife receives life sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"R45A2MGLRJBTZNOZBBYH4V6MNM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Brendan Banfield, a former IRS agent who plotted with his Brazilian au pair to kill his wife and a man lured to the family\u2019s Northern Virginia home, was sentenced to life in prison Friday. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MOPWFD3VQBG5RHT6JIVV4757U4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cThe level of cruelty, calculation and inhumanity in this case reflects something far deeper than anger or impulse,\u201d Chief Judge Penney Azcarate told Banfield. \u201cIt reflects evil.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Banfield, a former IRS agent who plotted with his Brazilian au pair to kill his wife and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-687201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}