Christine and Brendan Banfield were busy parents. She was a nurse and he was an I.R.S. agent.
They found the au pair program to be the perfect solution for childcare.
In 2021, the couple hired Juliana Peres Magalhaes from Brazil, to help with their 4-year-old daughter.
One sunny morning in February 2023, instead of a planned trip to the zoo with her au pair, the 4-year-old found herself in the family’s basement while something sinister went on upstairs.
In her parents’ bedroom, her mother Christine fought for her life and a stranger lay dead. Her father got on the phone with 911.
After police arrived, the family’s breathless au pair shared a harrowing story with them outside in the driveway.
But as investigators would soon learn, nothing was as it seemed.
To find out what happened, watch the full episode “Temptation,” available now on Peacock.
You can also watch on the NBC app or listen to the full episode on our podcast.
Plus, watch friends remember Christine as a kind and dedicated nurse and mother.
Watch one of Christine’s COVID patients talk about how she cared for him while he was in a coma, and later became a friend.
Then listen to this week’s episode of Talking Dateline, in which Andrea Canning and Blayne Alexander take you behind the scenes of the episode.