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Calarugus Shark Media. Good morning, I'm reed Carter. Tuesday, January twentieth,
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twenty twenty six, the courts reopen after the Martin Luther
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King Junior Day long weekend. Let me tell you what
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happened last week In Corpus Christi, the Uvaldi trial entered
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its second week with the most damning evidence yet. A
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three D animation reconstructing the shooting second by second showed
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former school officer Adrian Gonzalez driving directly past the gunman
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in the parking lot. Two shots had already been fired,
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shell casings littered the ground, the shooter was visible, and
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Gonzalez kept driving. Surviving teacher Arnulfo Reyus took the stand
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shot multiple times, pretended to be dead, waited seventy seven
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minutes for rescue while lying next to eleven dead children.
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Every student in his classroom was killed. He's the only
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survivor from Room one point one. In Virginia, the operha
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Fair murder trial took a turn when defense attorneys revealed
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Juliana Magilhyes was negotiating with Netflix producers for a documentary
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while still writing love letters to the man she now
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accuses of masterminding a double murder. She wrote to his mother,
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I would give up my life for his. I will
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take the blame for both of us. Now she's the
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prosecution's star witness, and next week jury selection begins in
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Manhattan Federal Court for the Alexander Brothers, three Miami luxury
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real estate brokers. Over sixty women have told investigators they
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were raped. Two decades of alleged assaults, dating, apps, drugs,
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wealth weaponized against victims. I'm read Carter today. The week
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that was the trials shaking the nation, and what's coming
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next this is celebrity trials. Let's start in Corpus Cres.
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The trial of Adrian Gonzalez, former Uvaldi CISD. Police officer,
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has now completed ten days of testimony. Trial resumes today
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after the holiday weekend, and the evidence presented last week
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was devastating. Monday Day six, teacher Arnolfo Rayes took the stand.
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He was teaching in Room one eleven on May twenty fourth,
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twenty twenty two, one of the two adjoining classrooms where
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most of the victims died. Reyes told the jury what
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he saw when the gunman appeared. I looked at my door,
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and that's where I saw him a black shadow. The
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black shadow was holding a gun, and I know that
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he was holding a gun because I just saw the
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fire come out of the gun. Rayes held up his
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left forearm for prosecutors, scars clearly visible beneath his short
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sleeve shirt. He was shot multiple times arm back. He
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pretended to be dead to survive. Then came the detail
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that haunts me. A student in the connected classroom called out, officer,
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come in here. We're in here. Reys testified. I heard
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the gunmen walk over there and then I heard more shooting.
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That child thought help had arrived, called out to what
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they thought was a rescuer. Instead, they summoned the killer. Arnofo.
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Raya spent seventy seven minutes trapped in that class room,
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lying next to the bodies of eleven children. All of
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his students who were present during the attack were killed.
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He's the only survivor from Room one one one seventy
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seven minutes, while nearly four hundred officers gathered outside while
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children called nine one one begging for help, while parents
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screamed at police to do something. Tuesday, Day seven, medical
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examiner testimony about the wounds sustained by the children for
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the first time in the trial. Adrian Gonzalez showed visible emotion,
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appeared to wipe away tears, but the court room wasn't
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just moved by sadness. The sister of a victim made
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an emotional outburst had to be escorted from the building.
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Judge Harll threatened mistrial if it happened again. The families
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are watching every moment of this trial, reliving the worst
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day of their lives, and their patience with legal process
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is wearing thin. Wednesday and Thursday brought more forensic evidence.
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Retired Uvaldi police Sergeant Daniel Coronado testified with his bodycam
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footage from that day. Thursday court recessed early when a
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juror had a family emergency, but Friday was the day
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that may define this trial. Texas Ranger Nick Hill took
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the stand. He'd spent nearly a year creating a three
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D animation reconstructing the first ten minutes of the shooting,
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second by second, bullet by bullet, movement by movement. Special
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Prosecutor Bill Turner had Hill narrate the animation as red
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and blue icons moved around the screen, red for the shooter,
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blue for responding officers, and here's what the animation should
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At eleven thirty one am, Adrian Gonzalez's vehicle pulls up
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to the school. Two shots have already been fired. Shell
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casings are on the ground, The gunman is visible in
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the parking lot, and Gonzalez drives right past him. According
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to the prosecution, the shooter actually appeared to stop in
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the parking lot as Gonzales drove by. Gonzalez previously said
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he had tunnel vision focused on a school employee who
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had fallen near the South Lawn tunnel vision on an
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employee who fell while a gunman was firing a rifle
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at an elementary school. Defense attorney Nico la Hood brought
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a neon orange foam handgun to court. During cross examination,
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stepped behind an eight foot foam board peaked his fake
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weapon out while asking the witness about appropriate police response.
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As a law enforcement officer, you should never rush into
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a situation without assessing it, LaHood asked, the defense argument
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other officers had better weapons and better opportunity to confro
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front the shooter. Gonzalez had a handgun, other officers arriving
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around the same time had AR fifteen style rifles. When
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you get into a gun battle. You want a rifle,
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LaHood said. The witness agreed, But here's the problem with
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that defense. Active shooter training doesn't say wait for someone
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with a better gun. It says go to the gunfire, engage, distract,
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delay by time for children to survive. As Special Prosecutor
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Bill Turner put it in opening statements, We're not asking
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Adrian Gonzalez to commit suicide. He was trained to go
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to the corner of a building and distract, delay, and
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impede the gunman while help is arriving. The families of
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victims left court Friday feeling increasingly confident. Jesse Rizo, uncle
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of nine year old Jackie Kazarus, said he failed a community.
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He failed the children, He failed the survivors. He failed
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the teachers. They sacrificed their lives to protect those children.
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For me, I'm optimistic that the jury's going to see
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through all the smoke and mirrors. Trial resumes tomorrow, expected
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to last at least one more week. Then the jury
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decides is failing to act during a school shooting a crime.
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This is only the second prosecution of a police officer
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for actions during a school shooting. The first Scott Peterson
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in Parkland was acquitted. If Gonzales is convicted, it sends
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a message to every school resource officer in America. You
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don't get to hide while children die. You don't get
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to claim confusion while students call nine to one one.
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You don't get to drive past the shooter and say
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you didn't see him. Your tax dollars at work. Finally
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being held accountable. We'll be right back with the o
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pah Affair murder trial love letters to Netflix deals. How
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Juliana Maggilehyes went from I'll take the blame for both
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of us to star witness for the prosecution. Welcome back
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to celebrity trials. I'm reed, Carter, Fairfax, Virginia. The trial
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of Brendan Banfield for the murders of his wife Christine
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and Joseph Ryan completed its first week, and the star
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witness is the woman who helped plan it all. Juliana
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Paris Magalas, twenty somethingter Brazilian O pair, took the stand
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Monday and described exactly how her lover allegedly orchestrated a
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double murder to avoid divorce. The plan, according to Maggle Hines,
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Brendan created a profile on fet life, a fetish dating
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website posing as his wife Christine username Anastasia nine. He
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used Christine's laptop to create it. The profile sought men
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willing to come to their Herndon, Virginia home and act
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out a rape fantasy bondage gagging, aggressive sex. The candidates
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were specifically told to bring restraints. Those who wanted to
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meet in public first were excluded. Joseph Ryan answered thought
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he was meeting Christine for consensual violent role play, brought
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a knife in restraints as requested. February twenty fourth, twenty
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twenty three, the day Brendan allegedly chose because Christine would
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be home. According to Maggalhins, the plan was for Brendan
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to wait at a nearby MacDonald's while she pretended to
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take their four year old daughter to the zoo. When
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Ryan arrived, she'd call Brendan. He'd return home, find a
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stranger raping his wife, and kill Ryan in self defense.
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But that wasn't the real plan. The real plan, Magalay's testified,
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was for Brendan to kill both of them. Ryan would
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take the blame for Christine's murder. Brendan would be the
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grieving husband who heroically defended his wife. Magalhey said she
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returned to the house with Brendan while Ryan was upstairs
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with Christine. She saw Ryan on top of Christine, heard
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Christine say he has a knife. Then Brendan allegedly shot
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Ryan in the head and use the knife Ryan brought
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to stab his wife multiple times in the neck. Both
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victims died rapidly. Medical examiner testified they would have been
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dead within seconds to minutes. Maggal Hines admitted she shot
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Ryan in the chest when she noticed he was still moving.
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Her testimony in court differs slightly from what she told
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police on bodycam that day, when she claimed Brendan told
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her to shoot Ryan. But here's where the defense went
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after her credibility. Tuesday, Day two, defense attorney John Carroll
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spent hours grilling maggal High's about letters she wrote from
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jail over the past two years. In the early letters,
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Magalaes was effusive about her love for Brendan, vowed to
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stand by him. Wrote to his mother Tess, who was
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paying for her defense. I would give up my life
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for his. I will take the blame for both of us.
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She was distraught about being separated from her family in Brazil.
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Anxious to be tried, believed she would be acquitted, but
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as months passed, she grew despondent, frustrated with delays, complained
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about her lawyer's lack of commitment, grew distant from Brendan, wrote,
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I don't expect much from Brendan. I'll be deported back
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to Brazil. Then came the bombshell. The defense revealed Magglhay's
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was negotiating with TV producers while still in jail. Emails
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showed discussions with producers who approached her about a documentary
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an exclusivity contract at least ten thousand dollars. She was
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holding out for more money, hoping for Netflix. So the
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defense theory Magaluns is lying. She was pressured by prosecutors
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when she was most vulnerable, thousands of miles from home
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facing deportation. She flipped on Brendan to save herself, and
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she's positioning to profit from the story. They want me
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to cooperate, Magalaans wrote. In one letter to Brendan. Carol
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suggested the threat of being cut off from her family
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and a health crisis in October pushed her to testify
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against her former lover and point the finger at him
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for planning everything on redirect, Maggalhaines insisted she's telling the truth. Wednesday,
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Day three, prosecution presented corroborating evidence, surveillance video from the
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McDonald's tracking Brendan's movements that morning, call logs matching exactly
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what Maggalhanes described. He arrived at McDonald's, waited, received her call, left.
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Crime scene Detective Terry Leech displayed evidence from the bedroom.
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The text exchange between Joseph Ryan and Anastasia nine discussed
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elements of the role play, including aggressive sex where Ryan
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would cut or tear her clothes at the scene ripped
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black underwear pajama bottoms inside out, physical evidence matching the
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digital trail. Here's the pattern. Brendan Banfield allegedly wanted out
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of his marriage without losing assets or custody of his daughter.
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Instead of divorce, he allegedly plotted murder, used a fetish
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dating site to lure an innocent man who thought he
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was engaging in consensual role play, then killed them both.
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Joseph Ryan came to that house believing he was meeting
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Christine Banfield for violent sex play they'd discussed online. He
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had no idea he was walking into a trap. No idea.
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The man who'd been texting him as Anastasia nine was
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actually the husband. No idea, he was the patsy in
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a murder scheme. And Christine Banfield, she should be raising
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her daughter, should be forty something years old, should have
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had the chance to divorce a cheating husband if that's
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what she wanted. Instead, she was allegedly murdered by that
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husband while a stranger was on top of her. Trial
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continues this week. The jury will decide if they believe
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the ou pair turned star witness, or if her jail
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letters and Netflix's negotiations destroy her credibility. Make it make
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sense and now to a case that's about to explode.
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Next week, jury selection begins in Manhattan Federal Court for
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the Alexander Brothers, three Miami luxury real estate brokers accused
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of running a two decade rape conspiracy or in Alexander
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thirty seven tal Alexander thirty eight, twins built a real
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estate empire selling high end properties in New York, Miami,
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and Los Angeles, celebrity clients luxury condos, billions in deals.
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Their brother, Ailon Alexander thirty seven, is charged two All
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three are jailed without bail, pleaded not guilty. Trial expected
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to last six weeks. Here's what prosecutors allege. From two
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thousand and two to twenty twenty one, the Alexander brothers
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use their wealth and influence to drug and rape women.
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More than sixty women have now told investigators they were
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raped by at least one of the brothers. The number
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keeps growing. Started at forty, now over sixty. The method,
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according to the indictment, the brothers troll dating websites and
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social media, approached women, use their status and money to
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impress them, then drugged them raped them. FBI is still
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extracting evidence. Eight devices have been analyzed so far, nineteen
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more are awaiting review. Investigators are trying to get past
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passwords and encryption. About ten accusers are expected to testify
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a trial. Defense attorneys say they need months to investigate
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each individual claim. Last week, Judge Valerie Caproni made a
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key pre trial ruling. She rejected Alan Alexander's attempt to
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use his twenty nineteen engagement and subsequent marriage as a defense.
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Alan's lawyers argued getting engaged and married signaled his exit
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from the single life and amounted to withdrawal from any
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alleged conspiracy. Judge Caproni's response was devastating. She wrote that
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participation in a sex trafficking conspiracy is not comparable or
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akin to participate patient in the single life, that there
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are plenty of single men who engage in sexual activity
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without trafficking, drugging, or raping women and girls. The judge said,
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there's nothing about the mere transition from single to engaged
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that clearly indicates that defendant withdrew himself from the conspiracy.