Benjamin Sifrit’s attorneys also asked for a jury trial and a postponement of his December trial while they seek the transcript of the Secret Service interview, which the defense maintains could be a key to their case.

Sifrit and his wife, Erika - a recent graduate of Mary Washington College - are charged with first-degree murder for the deaths of Martha Gene Crutchley, 51, and her boyfriend, Joshua Ford, 32, both of Fairfax City. The couple was reported missing by Crutchley’s employees after she failed to return to work after a long holiday weekend in Ocean City.

Benjamin Sifrit, 24, faces life without parole for the murders.

Public defender William C. Brennan, who is representing Benjamin Sifrit, filed the request in Worcester County Circuit Court last week.

Attorney Burton Anderson, who is also representing Benjamin Sifrit, has requested a continuance of the trial, now scheduled for Dec. 4, and asked for a pretrial motions hearing that day to address evidentiary issues.

Worcester County State’s Attorney Joel Todd said Wednesday that he will not oppose the continuance.

Anderson asked the court to provide a transcript of a Secret Service interview with Erika Sifrit, 24, in which she allegedly incriminated herself in the homicides. The report has not been previously released to Anderson because of a nondisclosure agreement between Erika Sifrit and the state.

Anderson made the request after a decision by Worcester County Circuit Court Judge Theodore Eschenburg, who ruled last month that the agreement was unenforceable.