Au pair-turned-mistress made up sordid murder plot story, Brendan Banfield’s attorney tells jury before deliberations

The mistress nanny who testified against her former flame, ex-IRS agent Brendan Banfield, was lying when she told jurors he killed his wife in an elaborate kink-heavy frame job plot, the defense argued before deliberations began Friday. The jurors in a court in Fairfax, Virginia, now have to decide whether Brendan Banfield stabbed his wife Christine and shot a stranger, Joe Ryan, whom he planned to pin the slaying on. But first, the panelists...