Possible scenario, IMO... Brenden and au pair conspired together...Brenden stabbed Christine and got Ryan to come over... Perhaps by sending a text and then au pair killed him. Brenden probably initially took the blame to stay in her good graces and keep her from talking. I have no doubt law enforcement will get to the bottom of this. I wonder how much digital evidence is playing a part in the investigation.
I am not sure he planned to get rid of his wife, maybe he simply wanted to cover up a smaller but scandalous situation. Agatha Christie's story.
I have certain questions,
- in what capacity was Ryan known in the community?
- is it reasonable for someone linked romantically to a married woman, with husband in LE, to enter the house in the morning, in full public view, with a child in the house and au pair to emerge? Given that no one but CB knows him?
- People having affairs usually try to hide them better, so either the initial newspaper statement, that all four people in the house knew each other, is correct (I would suppose so), or Ryan knew CB in some other way, not romantic.
- an au pair by default is a live-in position. It is a cultural exchange program. Yet JP was coming up to the house in the morning. In newspaper articles she is identified as of Reston, not Herndon. Why wasn't she living all time in the house? Where was she coming from that morning, and where did she spend the previous night, outside the house or inside? For some reason, the difference between "having a day off and returning from a friend" vs "spent the night in the house, then left in the morning to do some shopping and was coming back" appears important to me.
- was JP in a vulnerable situation because she overstayed her visa? Did she hope that BB could help her get an extension?
- Herndon has very high population density. Is it believable that Ryan was known only to CB in that neighborhood? It is an upscale community, people are usually cautious and observant.
- What do outdoor cameras show?
- surely people around saw JP walking with the child? What did they think of her as the au pair? Did she appear attached to the child? Au pair has to have previous experience with children, 200 hours or more. Would it be typical for JP not to alert the police but to calmly wait till BB would arrive? Considering that the man who entered the house was not known to her, scared her, and there was her "friend" and a baby inside - with him? How did she know he didn't come to abduct the child? She called once but the call was dropped. Why? Does it fit the narrative that she didn't know him?
- same for BB. Imagine a man getting a call about a dangerous-looking guy, not known to anyone, entering his house. Wouldn't he tell the au pair to immediately call 911 if he had no clue who the invader was? Why would he decide to take it all upon himself?
- there was a "dropped" 911 call. Was the location inside the house, or outside? Why didn't the police drive to the house anyhow?
- the scene in the house is described as "horrible". I assume they mean, many knife wounds and a lot of blood. Yet CB was alive and died in the hospital. Ryan got shot in the torso many times. It seems that the "knifer" was not too experienced, but the shooter was. It also might indicate that ultimately, it was more important to silence Ryan than CB. Either someone didn't notice that she was alive, or knew that if CB could talk, she won't say anything incriminating.
- JP is a 23-year-old woman from Brazil. I had to check gun laws in Brazil - they have become more lax since 2019, but the minimal age for gun ownership remains 25. What surprises me is that JP is a good shooter, killed him aiming at the torso, not the head. So where did she learn to shoot that well? This is probably what's so surprising, the fact that the knife attack was messy but not instantly lethal, but a young inexperienced au pair was so efficient with the gun.
It seems to me that maybe all was unplanned, or planned by a very young woman, and badly. But - she had a reason to believe that it might work. As it stands, there are no winners today in this situation. If someone thinks that BB plan was to get rid of his wife, then, in a way it went OK because he is not arrested, but on the other hand, his name is everywhere and i would be surprised if professionally it is such great news. So honestly, I am not sure he planned anything here nor that he wanted to get rid of his wife. Likely, his involvement is of another kind, and it all came as unpleasant surprise. But if "red" is the initial statement- that all four people in the house knew each other - and "black" is the most recent one, that only CB knew Ryan - I would bet on "red." JMO.
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