The prosecution's entire case rests on one witness: Juliana Peres Magalhães. She's the only person alive who was in that bedroom when Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan were killed. She testified that she watched Brendan Banfield stab his wife to death. She admitted firing the second shot into Ryan's chest. But for over a year, she lied. She wrote letters from jail promising to "take the blame." She told Banfield's mother she would "give my life for his." She only flipped after his arrest, after hospitalization from stress, and after his family stopped paying her legal bills. Now she's negotiating with Netflix. Media producers fund her commissary. She wrote her mother: "We do deserve something."

Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who headed the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—joins us live to analyze Juliana's credibility. How do you evaluate someone who lied for a year and then flipped? What does her behavior on the stand reveal? Does the Netflix deal destroy her credibility—or is it irrelevant to whether she's telling the truth?

The prosecution rested with their most damaging forensic evidence. Blood stain pattern analyst Iris Dalley Graff spent hours walking jurors through crime scene photographs, testifying that Joseph Ryan's body was moved after death and Christine's blood was deliberately placed on Ryan to frame him for her murder. Transfer patterns were "finger-like in shape." Blood droplets on his forearm suggested dripping from above. This directly supports Juliana's testimony that Banfield staged the scene.

Defense attorney John Carroll pointed to body camera footage showing Banfield pressing on his wife's neck when police arrived—the behavior, he argued, of a husband trying to save his wife. The defense now presents their case.

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