Brendan purchased a second gun just weeks before the killings — the one he gave Juliana — which prosecutors argued was bought specifically to implicate her, not for home protection.
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When Brendan and Juliana entered through the basement that morning, they left his daughter downstairs as a witness prop and went upstairs together. Christine was on the floor with Joe behind her — she yelled to Brendan that the man had a knife. She had not yet been stabbed, though she had fought hard: sheets ripped, bruises everywhere. When Brendan walked in, Christine must have felt relief — her husband, a federal agent, was there to save her. That relief was the cruelest part of the plan. Brendan shot Joe in the head. Christine told them to call 911. Juliana started to dial — too soon. Brendan signaled her to hang up. He sent her to fetch a towel, then to the gun safe. And when she returned, Brendan was on top of Christine, stabbing her in the neck. After Joe stirred, Juliana shot him again. Brendan then dripped Christine's blood onto Joe's body to complete the staging. Fifteen minutes after that first 911 call, the scene was ready. As Christine lay dying from six stab wounds, she applied pressure to her own wounds using her nursing instincts — and told Brendan she loved him and was sorry.
Unlike Juliana's first police interview — which detectives said sounded rehearsed and hollow — her post-cooperation testimony was filled with visceral sensory details: Christine's warm blood on her hands, the deafening crack of the gunshot. Her account matched the physical evidence. It was the difference between a script and a memory.
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