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Virginia man sentenced to life in prison for double murder in affair with Brazilian au pair
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A Virginia man was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday for killing his wife and a man who had been lured to the home as a fall guy. He had been involved in an affair with the family's Brazilian au pair.
So let's get straight: You do not deserve anything other than incarceration and a life of reflection on what you have done to the victim and his family. May it weigh heavily on your soul.
The level of cruelty, calculation and inhumanity in this case reflects something far deeper than anger or impulse – it reflects evil, which is why I carry no burden and find no hesitation in sentencing you to life.
The disregard of the life of your wife, someone you supposedly loved, is almost unfathomable.
But I am not responsible for her death.
I'm not trying to diminish in any way what (Christine's) life was. She truly was a caring mother, a caring wife, a loving nurse.
I will tell Valerie how much she was loved by her mother, and I will forever carry both the grief of losing her too soon and the gratitude of having loved her for 37 years and being loved by her in return.
I will be there, never to replace my sister, but to tell Valerie who her mother was, remind her of her big laugh and even bigger heart.
Since losing her, those same memories have changed. They're no longer just joyful, but layered with grief, each one a reminder of both how much I had and how much was taken.
I haven't stopped saying 'we' when I speak about my childhood after her death, except now when I do, it takes my breath away – a pause filled with love that has nowhere to go.
Brendan will remain known as an abusive father, the brutal murderer of his dedicated and compassionate, beautiful wife, and a narcissistic killer of an innocent man.
He would walk into an animal shelter and ask for the oldest, ugliest dogs, bring them home and love them for years.
Joe was a guy who believed in fighting for the underdog, and even actual neglected dogs.
I wanted longer, and we were cut short of that.
When you say you're friends with someone for 37 years, that's not long enough. It really isn't – not (with) the type of person she was.
Through life, every chapter, we were together, we were friends, and she just always made sure she was that person who was at the door, even without being asked.
Today we take back Joe and Christine's memory from the lies, from the manipulation, and from the man who thought he could control their story even after taking their lives.
