EDINBURGH, Scotland — Dr. Lori Beth Bisbey recently appeared on the Court TV series "Vinnie Politan Investigates."
In the episode, “The Au Pair Affair Murder Trial,” Bisbey speaks with Politan about the Brendan Banfield murder case as it moves toward trial in Fairfax County, Virginia. Prosecutors allege Banfield and his au pair were involved in an affair and, then, in a plot tied to the 2023 deaths of Banfield’s wife, Christine, and Joseph Ryan. Bisbey frames the alleged relationship through the lens of influence and dependency and points to unanswered questions beneath the surface of the marriage and Banfield’s own thinking.
“I think there were things going on in his relationship with his wife before all of this," she said. "He had some knowledge of the BDSM world, he had some knowledge of what people did with these sorts of meet-ups, so I really have to wonder what was going on in their marriage prior to Juliana even being there.”
The episode is streaming on CourtTV.
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