Jan. 20, 2026

"UVALDE ANIMATION SHOWS COP DROVE PAST SHOOTER, AU PAIR'S NETFLIX DEAL & REAL ESTATE RAPISTS' TRIAL BEGINS"

"UVALDE ANIMATION SHOWS COP DROVE PAST SHOOTER, AU PAIR'S NETFLIX DEAL & REAL ESTATE RAPISTS' TRIAL BEGINS"

Reid Carter covers explosive developments as the Uvalde trial enters week three with damning 3D animation showing officer Adrian Gonzales drove directly past the gunman in the parking lot. Surviving teacher Arnulfo Reyes testified he waited 77 minutes with 11 dead children. In Virginia, the au pair affair murder trial revealed Juliana Magalhães was negotiating a Netflix documentary deal while writing love letters vowing to protect the man she now accuses of masterminding the killings. And jury selection begins next week for the Alexander brothers - three Miami luxury real estate brokers accused of raping over 60 women across two decades using wealth and dating apps.

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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.

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In other words, getting married doesn't mean you stopped being

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a rapist. The ruling also prohibits Alon from introducing evidence

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of his engagement and marriage at trial. No wedding photos,

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no social media posts, no testimony from the rabbi. The

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brother's defense strategy is taking shape. Attack the credibility of accusers,

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question their motives, suggest the women are lying for money

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or attention. But sixty plus women over two decades with

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digital evidence on dating sites and phones. This is the

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next Diddy trial. Wealthy men alleged sexual predation victims who

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were afraid to come forward until others did first. The

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difference Diddy got fifty months. The Alexander brothers are facing

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federal sex trafficking charges minimum fifteen years if convicted. Trial

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begins with jury selection next week. Opening statements likely the

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week after. Court TV will have gavel to gavel coverage.

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I'll have predictions once we see the evidence, but sixty

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victims is a lot of reasonable doubt to overcome. That's

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Celebrity Trials. From Monday, January nineteenth, twenty twenty six. Uvalde

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Trial Week two, three D animation showed Adrian Gonzalez drove

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past the shooter, surviving teacher Arnulfo Reis waited seventy seven

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minutes with eleven dead children. Trial resumes tomorrow. Au Pair

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murder trial Week one. Juliana Maggilehys testified Brendan Banfield masterminded

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the killings. Defense revealed her jail love letters and Netflix negotiations.

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Trial continues this week and the out Alexander brothers. Jury

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selection begins next week for three luxury real estate brokers

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accused of raping over sixty women across two decades. Tomorrow

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Uvaldi trial Day eleven and Opeir Trial Day four. We'll

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have all the updates. I'm read, Carter, this is celebrity trials.