VERDICT WATCH VA - Joseph Ryan shot, Christine Banfield stabbed, both deceased, in home - Herndon 24 Feb 2023

[ryan8901]

Totally agree - it wasn't just a husband tired of his wife. He wanted to humiliate and hurt Christine both physically and emotionally in her dying moments. He wanted his side-chick to be there for it and he used his daughter in the plot (and exposed her to the violence even if she was downstairs).

Sicko.

jmo

The more I’ve studied the case the more I’m convinced he hated her. This wasn’t just him wanting to be with the side chick, he despised his wife.

 

[sunspun]

People are having conversations about it, it’s on many sites and platforms(R). It’s concerning that some people are thinking ‘reasonable doubt’ because of the prosecution.

So you mean there are people who think he won't be found guilty? (There always are!)

But if they think he's innocent (I believe he's 100% guilty!)... but if innocent, then the au pair would have to be totally fabricating her testimony, which I guess means they must think she's the one who killed CB. They must think that she's the one who did all the things she has accused BB of doing.

Is that even possible? Would that fit in with all the evidence and testimony? So she would've set up the whole Fetlife catfishing scam w/out BB's knowledge/participation, somehow managed to have access to CB's devices in ways and at the times that it would appear that CB was the user... I don't think that's possible since it required two people to do some of it, didn't it? So they could make it look like CB was the one doing it in a way that would later fool investigators, in the inevitable future investigation of her death.

Some of the tactics they used were things BB was aware of because of his job as an agent, things JM would have no way of knowing. IMO, there are multiple reasons that prove JM couldn't have accomplished all of it alone.

Besides, then on the day of the murder, what would've realistically happened if JM was the only guilty party? BB would've rushed home, with no idea what was about to happen, rushed into the house, and found what? JR stabbing his wife? Isn't that what he claimed he saw when he entered bedroom? But that makes no sense.

JM said that she saw BB stab CB, all "part of the plan". Why would BB say he saw JR stab CB? If it really was true that JM made it all up and devised and carried out the plan by herself, then he would've seen JM, not JR, stabbing CB.

There is no story that makes sense that ends up with JR stabbing CB. Even if we can accept the very dubious story that JR talked to CB online and then came to the house secretly planning to stab CB, then why does JM make up this whole story about BB's "plan"? She wouldn't. If JR was really the only guilty one, then JM would never have "made up" all this about BB's plan. She would've blamed it all on JR if he really had been the bad guy.

She had no reason to lie and blame BB if JR was really the one to blame.

If BB knew that JM was going to reveal the truth about "the plan" and that BB was the killer, then BB should have told a totally different story in which JM was the killer. He should have lied and blamed it all on her. He should've told the same story he did tell, up to the point where he says he got to the bedroom and saw JR stabbing CB. At that point, he should've said he saw JM stabbing CB. And I guess he would've said that JM had already shot JR dead before he arrived.

But that would mean he had to immediately blame JM to the cops who arrived on the scene. But he couldn't blame her, until he knew that she was blaming him. He would've had to wait to see if she was going to roll on him, before he blamed her. But by that point, he would have already told his other made-up story about JR stabbing CB, and it would be too late to say it was JM actually.

So there's no way it would have worked for him to blame JM unless it was from the start. So he had to stick to the script and blame JR. Which he did.

But then JM decides to tell everything. Too late for BB to change his story. But there's no way she would've made up her story if she could've just continued to blame JR. So hers has to be the truth. His must be the lie. And it just so happens that his lies match up with what she said he would say, according to "the plan."

There is no possible way he can be innocent. If anyone is claiming he is innocent, they just need to think it through more, because it can never make sense. In a world where JM has revealed the plan and blamed it all on BB, it can never make sense that BB really saw JR stab CB. And in this world, JM did reveal the plan and blame BB. So it must be true that BB is lying. He's lying, because he's actually the one who killed her. Could he be lying when he said JR killed her, but NOT be the killer? I don't think so. Even if he lied and blamed it on JR because JM did it, and he blamed JR to protect JM, then BB would still have to be guilty of being in on the plan. He would be the accessory, which is just as guilty. He would have had to go along with the whole plan from the start, meaning he was equally as guilty. We could obsessively explore whether it's possible that JM came up with the plan and stabbed CB herself, with BB going along with everything and blaming JR, but it would make no difference. I think if we did, we'd find proof that that also made no sense and thus was also not possible. But even if not, BB is still just as guilty in that scenario, so I think I'll quit thinking about it now!

I never thought he didn't do it, but hearing that there are people who think he didn't do it made me think I should really study it and try to find a way that he could be innocent. But I can't come up with any way that makes sense, given JM's testimony.

And it has to make sense!