# MURDERED: Christine Banfield & Joseph Ryan

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Podcast: [Crime Junkie](https://stenobird.com/podcast/crime-junkie-743411)
Published: 2026-06-29T07:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/
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## Resource

When 37-year-old Christine Banfield and 39-year-old Joseph Ryan were found fatally injured inside a Virginia home in 2023, investigators were initially told that Ryan was a violent intruder and that Christine’s husband, Brendan Banfield, a federal agent, had tried to save her. But as investigators examined digital evidence, they uncovered a different possibility: that Ryan had been lured to the home through a fake online persona and that the scene had been staged to conceal a double homicide.

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