"WEST WING STAR'S 20-YEAR PATTERN, DANCES WITH WOLVES CULT LEADER ON TRIAL & AU PAIR'S EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY"

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Red Carter. Friday, January sixteenth, twenty twenty sixth Three stories today involving people who used positions of trust to allegedly pray on the vulnerable. Let me tell you where we are. Timothy Busfield, we told you a few days ago. The Emmy winning actor turned himself in on child sex abuse charges in New Mexico. Wednesday. He appeared in court via video link from jail, orange jumpsuit, shackles, held without bond. But it gets worse. Same day he surrendered, a new accuser came forward. Father of a sixteen year old girl says Busfield kissed and inappropriately touched his daughter years ago at an audition in Sacramento. Prosecutors are now citing what they call a documented pattern of sexual misconduct, abuse of authority, and grooming behavior spanning two decades. Nathan Chasing Horse Remember Him played smiles a lot in Dances with Wolves back in nineteen ninety. Tuesday, his trial finally began in Las Vegas twenty one felony charges sexual assault, sexual assault of a miner, kidnapping of a miner, child pornography.

1:23 Prosecutors say he ran a cult called The Circle with up to three hundred fifty followers, proclaimed himself a medicine man, used Native American healing ceremonies to gain access to vulnerable women and girls, then allegedly told them the spirits demanded their virginity and the O Pair affair murder trial in Virginia Brendan Banfield, former IRS agent, accused of killing his wife Christine and a stranger named Joseph Ryan in February twenty twenty three. The family's Brazilian ou pair, Juliana Paris Magalas, took the stand this week, testified Banfield spent months planning the murders, created a fake profile on a BDSM fetish website posing as his wife, lured Ryan to the house for what Ryan thought was consensual role play, then shot him in the head and stabbed his wife to death, all to avoid paying for a divorce. I'm reed Carter Today.

2:21 Predators and positions of power, an actor, director, a self proclaimed holy man, a federal agent, and the people they allegedly destroyed. This is celebrity trials. Let's start with the update on Timothy Busfield. Wednesday, January fourteenth, Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Timothy Busfield, sixty eight years old, appeared via video link from the Metropolitan Detention Center Orange Prison, jumpsuit shackles, silent and expressionless while his defense attorney spoke. Judge Felicia ble Rivera ordered him held without bond. Detention hearing scheduled within five business days. Preliminary hearing deadline set for January twenty ninth. Quick recap for those just joining US. Albuquerque police issued an arrest warrant last week two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor, one count of child abuse.

3:24 The allegations stem from incidents on the set of the Fox series The Cleaning Lady, which filmed in Albuquerque between twenty twenty two and twenty twenty four. Busfield directed multiple episodes. According to the criminal complaint, twin boys who were child actors on the show told police Busfield touched them inappropriately. One boy said he was seven years old when Busfield first touched him on his private areas over his clothing. Happened again when he was eight. The boy was afraid to tell anyone because Busfield was the director and he feared getting in trouble. Busfield turned himself in Tuesday after driving from New York reliefs of video to TMZ before surrendering, calling the allegations lies. His attorney, Larry Stein told reporters Busfield submitted to an independent polygraph examination and passed, but prosecutors aren't buying it. In a motion filed Wednesday seeking pre trial detention, Deputy District Attorney Savannah Brandenburg Koch dropped a bombshell. A new allegation emerged the same day Busfield surrendered.

4:24 A father came forward claiming Busfield kissed and inappropriately touched his sixteen year old daughter years ago at B Street Theater in Sacramento. B Street Theater Busfield and his brother founded it. The father, who's a therapist himself, said the incident occurred when his daughter was auditioning for a role. According to prosecutors, Busfield allegedly begged the family not to report to law enforcement if he received therapy. The father agreed at the time, thinking it was the best course of action. The theater has since distanced itself, issued a statement saying while Busfield is the founder, he hasn't had an active role in operation since two thousand and one. But here's what prosecutors are really focused on. Pattern. The motion describes what they call a documented pattern of sexual misconduct, abusive authority, and grooming behavior by Busfield over two decades twenty years, multiple alleged victims, using his position as a director to access children on set. Prosecutors also took issue with Busfield releasing that video to TMZ before surrendering. Said he was prioritizing personal narrative control and public relations over compliance with the court process. Translation, he cared more about his image than facing the charges. Busfield's defense points to an independent investigation by Warner Brothers that was unable to corroborate the allegations, But prosecutors argue that investigator failed to talk to key witnesses, and they note that witnesses have

5:55 expressed fear of retaliation and professional harm if they come forward. Here's the defense theory. The boy's mother is seeking revenge because her children weren't asked to return for the show's final season. Busfield told Investigator's Last Fall that an actor on set mentioned the mother was upset about that. Maybe, or maybe a pattern spanning two decades suggests something else entirely. Timothy Busfield Emmy winner for thirty something memorable roles in the West Wing Field of Dreams. Married to Melissa Gilbert from Little House on the Prairie, built a career in Hollywood, built a theater company, built a reputation. Now sitting in an Albuquerque jail cell, facing child sex abuse charges and prosecutors alleging this has been going on for twenty years.

6:42 His wife released a statement through her representative, Melissa stands with and supports her husband, says she'll address the public at an appropriate time. Detention hearing coming within five business days. We'll find out if Busfield stays behind bars or gets released pending trial. But those allegations keep mounting seven and eight year old boys on a TV set, a sixteen year old girl at a theater audition, two decades of alleged behavior, prosecutors connecting dots across the country, make it make sense. We'll be right back with the Las Vegas trial of Dances with Wolves actor Nathan Chasing Horse. Prosecutors say he ran a cult, proclaimed himself a medicine man, and told young girls the spirits demanded their virginity in exchange for healing their mothers. Welcome back to celebrity trials.

7:40 I'm reed Carter, Las Vegas, Nevada. Clark County District Court Judge Jessica Peterson, presiding the jury trial of Nathan Chasing Horse, finally began this week after years of delays, appeals, and legal maneuvering. You might remember Nathan Chasing Horse from Dances with Wolves, the nineteen ninety Kevin Costs film that won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Chasing Horse played smiles a lot. He was just a teenager born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Sekangu Sioux, one of the seven tribes of the Lakota Nation. After the film, Chasing Horse didn't become a Hollywood star. Instead, he proclaimed himself a Lakota medicine man, traveled across North America performing healing ceremonies, built a following. Prosecutors say that following became a cult called The Circle, with up to three hundred and fifty members at its peak. January twenty twenty three, North Las Vegas police raided a home where Chasing Horse was living with five women he considered his wives, arrested him. The case sent shockwaves across Indian country now forty nine years old. Chasing Horse faces twenty one felony charges sexual assault, sexual assault with a miner under sixteen, first degree kidnapping of a miner, open and gross life udness, use of a minor under fourteen, in producing pornography, possession of child pornography. He's pleaded not guilty to all charges.

9:08 Jury selection began Tuesday, expected to take multiple days. Given the high profile nature of the case. Judge Peterson asked potential jurors if they could be fair and impartial after hearing the charges. Several spoke up about past experiences with sexual assault and said they'd be biased. The trial could last four weeks, with prosecutors planning to call eighteen witnesses. Here's the prosecution's theory. Chasing Horse used his status as a self proclaimed medicine man to gain access to vulnerable Indigenous women and girls. His followers believed he could speak with spirits. People came to him for healing, and, according to prosecutors, he exploited that trust in the most horrific ways.

9:53 Grand jury testimony offers a window into what alleged victims will tell the jury. One woman testified she met Chasing Horse, said a ceremony When she was six or seven years old. He helped her with breathing issues, developed a close relationship, called her his granddaughter. When she was fourteen, her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She went to Chasing Horse for help. According to her testimony, Chasing Horse told her the spirits wanted her virginity in exchange for her mother's health, then allegedly had sex with her though she didn't want to. He allegedly warned her that her mother would die if she told anyone think about that. A fourteen year old girl desperate to save her mother told by a man she trusted as a spiritual leader that the spirits demanded her virginity raped under the guise of sacred healing, then threatened with her mother's death if she spoke. Another alleged victim testified she met Chasing Horse when she was three or four saw him as a father figure a spiritual guide.

10:52 When she was about seventeen, one of Chasing Horse's helpers started talking to her about sex the importance of losing virginity to the right person. Then Chasing Horse allegedly had sex with her. She didn't want it, said she was screaming internally, but couldn't get the words out. Felt powerless. He allegedly told her the grandfathers the spirits demanded it. I was thinking, why would the grandfathers or the spirits want this to happen? She told the grand jury. The original indictment was dismissed in twenty twenty four after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled prosecutors abused the grand jury process. They'd provided a definition of grooming as evidence without expert testimony, but the court left open the possibility of refiling charges, making clear the dismissal had nothing to do with Chasing Horse's innocence or guilt. October twenty twenty four, prosecutors refiled with new allegations. Charges now include that Chasing Horse filmed himself sexually abusing a girl younger than fourteen. The recordings, made in twenty ten or twenty eleven, were allegedly found on cell phones in a locked safe inside that North Las Vegas home where he lived with his five wives, including prosecutors say the girl in the videos. A week before trial, Chasing Horse tried to fire his defense attorney, Craig Muller, said his lawyer hadn't come to visit him.

12:18 Judge Peterson removed Chasing Horse from the courtroom when he tried to interrupt her denied his request to switch attorneys. Crystal Lee, CEO of the organization United Natives, which offers services to victims of sexual abuse, said, this case forces hard conversations. Violence within Native communities isn't just something committed by outsiders. Sometimes the perpetrators are people who hold positions of sacred trust. How do we hold them accountable, she asked. Here's what Chasing Horse allegedly did. He took Native American spiritual traditions, used them to build trust with vulnerable people, convince them he could communicate with spirits, could heal their illnesses, could save their loved ones, then allegedly told them the spirits demanded sex in exchange for healing raped children, while claiming divine mandate. Some people are just evil. Some people weaponize faith itself to pray on the vulnerable. Nathan Chasing Horse from dances with wolves to accused cult leader from playing smiles a lot to allegedly running a group called The Circle where the price of healing was your body.

13:28 Trial continues in Las Vegas four weeks expected eighteen witnesses for the prosecution will follow it. The victims were Indigenous women and girls. Many came to him seeking help for themselves or their families, cancer illness, spiritual guidance. They trusted him because their culture taught them to trust medicine men, and he allegedly betrayed that trust in the most predatory way imaginable. Someone has to say their names. Someone has to remember they were people seeking help who allegedly found a monster in Stace Dead. Coming up the O Pair affair murder trial, a former IRS agent accused of plotting with his family's nanny to kill his wife and frame a stranger from a BDSM website. The O Pair took the stand this week. What she said will shock you.

14:23 Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm Reed Carter, Fairfax County, Virginia, one of the wealthiest suburbs of Washington, d c Herndon, specifically nice houses, good schools, families with O pairs. February twenty fourth, twenty twenty three, seven forty seven am a nine to one to one call from the Banfield residence. Someone hung up before saying anything. Dispatcher called back, left a message. Nobody answered. A second nine to one to one call came in shortly after. Brendan Banfield, forty years old, told dispatchers he'd shot a man who stabbed his wife. Police arrived No. Four entry in an upstairs bedroom, they found Christine Banfield, thirty seven, with multiple stab wounds. Joseph Ryan, thirty nine, dead of gunshot wounds nearby. Christine was rushed to the hospital, later pronounced dead. The initial story a stranger broke in, attacked Christine, Brendan shot him in self defense.

15:23 Tragic home invasion in an affluent suburb. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis didn't buy it. I knew, I suspected. I had a feeling that there was a lot more to what met the eye that morning, he later said. Eight months of investigation, October twenty twenty three, police arrested Juliana Perez Magalas, twenty five years old, the Banfield's Brazilian au pair, charged with second degree murder. When police searched the home, they found a framed photo of Brendan Banfield and Juliana smiling together on his bedside table, not a photo of his wife, a photo of the nanny. September twenty twenty four, Brendan Banfield was indicted on aggravated murder charges. Finally, the pieces came together. This week, the trial began and Juliana Paris Magalhays took the stand. She's pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in exchange for testifying against Banfield. If she cooperates fully, prosecutors recommend time served. She's been in custody since October twenty twenty three. Her testimony was explosive. She started working for the Banfields in October twenty twenty one, cared for their daughter. Her relationship was mostly with Christine and the child. She and Brendan barely spoke. August twenty twenty two. That changed, She testified they became intimate. An affair began with the husband of the woman she worked for in the house where she lived October twenty twenty two.

16:56 Two months into the affair, Juliana testified band Field mentioned his plan to get rid of his wife. Initially, he didn't know how, said he'd think about it and let her know. Divorce wasn't an option. According to Juliana's testimony, Banfield didn't want to pay, didn't want to share, custody of their daughter. Thought Christine was a poor mother, he wanted to be with Juliana instead without losing anything, so he allegedly hatched a plan. January twenty twenty three, Juliana testified they used Christine's laptop to create a fake email address and an account on fetlife dot com, a BDSM and kink community website. Christine, an ICU nurse, would throw her backpack containing the laptop by the door when she came home easy access. Banfield was careful, Juliana testified he made sure to log into the account when Christine was home so investigators would see the account activity corresponded to times she was in the house. Meticulous planning digital alibi.

17:54 They sought someone specific, a man willing to act out a rape fantasy, someone who would come to the house, restrain a sleeping woman, and assault her, someone they could frame for Christine's murder. They found Joseph Ryan, a man from Springfield, Virginia. Exchanged messages, set the terms. Prosecutors laid out the alleged instructions Banfield gave Ryan while posing as his wife. The door will be unlocked, Christine will be asleep in bed, come straight upstairs, cut off the clothing, tie her, rape her simple and fun. Ryan was told not to stop even if she called for help. It was all supposed to be consensual role play, except Christine Banfield had no idea any of this was happening. Someone was using her identity to lure a stranger to rape her.

18:42 Before the murders, Banfield bought a gun in January twenty twenty three and gave it to Juliana, took her to shooting ranges in the fall and winter of twenty twenty two, trained her how to fire it. She testified she was hesitant about the plan at various points, but Banfield insisted it was too long to back out. The morning of February twenty fourth, twenty twenty three, Banfield allegedly turned off his wife's phone, put it in a kitchen drawer, left the house and waited at a nearby McDonald's. Juliana was supposed to signal when Ryan arrived. Ryan entered the home, went upstairs to the bedroom where Christine was sleeping. He had a knife for the role play, began holding Christine down.

19:24 Banfield returned quickly, entered through the basement with Juliana and their four year old daughter left the child in the basement with an iPad, then went upstairs. According to Juliana's testimony, Christine yelled Juliana call nine one one, first time she heard Christine say anything. Then Christine yelled to Brendan, Brendan, he has a knife. Banfield yelled police officer, then shot Ryan in the head. Juliana testified she made the nine one one call, but hung up before saying anything at Banfield's direction. Then Banfield allegedly picked up the n Ryan brought and stabbed his wife repeatedly in the neck. Juliana testified she saw him doing it. Was crouching behind the bed, covering her ears, covering her eyes, but looked up at times and saw him stabbing Christine. Ryan was still moving.

20:16 Juliana testified she shot him again with the gun Banfield had given her, this time in the chest. Then they called nine to one one again reported Ryan as an intruder who attacked Christine. The cover story the frame job. Christine Banfield died at the hospital. Joseph Ryan was pronounced dead at the scene. A four year old girl was in the basement with an iPad while her father allegedly murdered her mother upstairs. Defense attorney John Carroll argues Juliana is lying, says digital forensics will show Christine Banfield herself engaged with Ryan on the BDSM site, that the prosecution pressured a vulnerable young immigrant into testifying against his client.

20:58 That she's saying whatever prosecuted want to hear in exchange for her freedom. Juliana admitted on the stand she can't remember specific details or dates. On cross examination. Defense noted letters she wrote to family complaining about her lawyer, a letter where her mother appeared to encourage her to blame Brendan, but Juliana pushed back, I can tell you that the fact that I do not remember some specific details does not mean it's a lie. She testified. She decided to cooperate because she couldn't carry the guilt anymore. The world deserved to know what really happened. I just couldn't hold it the feeling of shame and guilt and sadness. Joseph Ryan's mother, Deirdre Fischer, spoke to reporters before the trial, said her son was into consensual BDSM role play. It wasn't violent, it wasn't criminal. He was a consenting adult.

21:51 But he wasn't a violent man who hurt women. He didn't need to apologize for that, and he didn't need to die for that. Ryan was lured to that house believing he was meeting a woman for a consensual encounter. Instead, he was allegedly set up as a patsy, shot in the head, then framed for a murder he didn't commit. Christine Banfield was thirty seven years old I see you nurse mother. Her husband allegedly hired a hitman from the internet disguised as a sexual role play partner, then stabbed her to death. Brendan Banfield faces life in prison if convicted on the aggravated murder charges. Also faces child abuse charges because his daughter was home during the killings. Trial continues in Fairfax County will follow it. Two victims who didn't know each other, brought together by one man's alleged plan to avoid a divorce, smart enough to plan murders, too stupid to realize his o pair would eventually flip your tax dollars. At work, he was an IRS agent that celebrity trials. For Friday, January sixteenth, twenty twenty six, Timothy Bussfield held without bond. In New Mexico, new accuser emerges claiming he kissed her teenage daughter at a Sacramento theater audition. Prosecutors cite twenty years of alleged grooming behavior.

23:11 Detention hearing coming within five business days. Nathan Chasing Horse's trial begins in Las Vegas. Former Dances with Wolves actor facing twenty one charges. Prosecutors say he ran a cult called The Circle, proclaimed himself a medicine man, and allegedly told young girls the spirits demanded their virginity. Trial expected to last four weeks, and the O Pah Affair murder trial continues in Virginia. Brazilian o pair Juliana Paris Maglais testified Brendan Banfield spent months planning to kill his wife and frame a stranger from a BDSM website. Said she couldn't carry the guilt anymore. Defense says she's lying to save herself. Christine Banfield was thirty seven years old, Joseph Ryan was thirty nine. They should both be alive today, instead their dead because a man allegedly didn't want to pay for a divorce. I'm reed, Carter, have a safe weekend.

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