Brendan Banfield's murder trial starts Monday, January 12th. He's accused of killing his wife Christine and a stranger named Joseph Ryan in an elaborate plot involving the family's Brazilian au pair and a sexual fetish website. But the prosecution has a problem they can't explain away.

Their own digital forensics expert said the evidence doesn't support their theory.

Officer Brendan Miller analyzed 60 devices and concluded Christine Banfield appeared to be the one controlling the FetLife account — not her husband. His report stated there was "no indication that Christine lost control of her devices." He found she was communicating with multiple people on the site. His findings were peer-reviewed by the University of Alabama and confirmed.

Then Miller was told he would "never be doing another digital forensics case" in the major crimes bureau. He was transferred. The lead homicide detective who also disagreed was moved off the case.

Defense attorney John Carroll called it "a theory in search of facts rather than a series of facts supporting a theory."

Now the entire case depends on Juliana Peres Magalhaes — the au pair who changed her story after a year in jail and took a deal that lets her walk free if she testifies. She wrote to her mother from jail that she was "heartbroken" to be doing this to Brendan but wanted to come home.

The lead prosecutor was removed after being found drinking at 8 a.m. The child's interview was excluded as evidence. And it took nearly three years to get to trial.

Christine Banfield was a nurse who spent her career helping sexual assault survivors. Joseph Ryan was a man looking for connection who walked into a trap. Both are dead. Somebody is responsible. Starting Monday, a jury has to decide if it was Brendan Banfield.

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