Ex-IRS agent sentenced to life for murders planned with Brazilian nanny

Outside Washington D.C., a former federal agent named Brendan Banfield was sentenced to life in prison for the calculated murders of his ex-wife and an innocent stranger he had lured into a trap, crimes he committed alongside a Brazilian nanny with whom he had been having an affair. The judge presiding over the case refused to frame the killings as passion or desperation, calling them instead a deliberate expression of evil — planned, staged, and carried out while a two-year-old child was present in the home. It is a story about what happens when the desire to escape consequence becomes more p