A Brazilian au pair got the maximum 10-year sentence after confessing to scheming with her lover to kill his wife and another ...

The au pair who crafted an elaborate double murder plot with former IRS agent Brendan Banfield and later testified against ...

Juliana Peres Magalhães, 25, had cooperated with prosecutors, who sought a lenient sentence. But the judge said the woman, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, merited the state maximum.

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