Brian Walshe Update: New details on husband accused of killing missing wife

Brian Walshe, the husband accused of killing and dismembering his missing wife, is scheduled to appear in court in Massachusetts on Wednesday.

Brian Walshe, 49, reported his wife Ana Walshe, 39, missing on January 4, 2023. She was last seen by a family member at her Cohasset home between 4 and 5 o’clock on New Year’s Day.

He was arrested four days later for misleading the police. He was later charged with murder and improper transportation or transportation of a human body. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Prosecutors say Brian beat Ana to death and dismembered her, then dumped her body.

They claim that Brian Googled How long before a corpse starts to smell’, ‘Dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a corpse’ and ‘You can be charged with murder without a corpse’.

Investigators found blood, a bloody knife and tarps during a search of the Walsh home.

In a dumpster near Brian’s mother’s apartment complex, officials found trash bags containing carpeting, cleaning products, the boots Ana was last seen in, a chainsaw, her purse, a piece of a necklace that he had, towels and a COVID-19 vaccine card. her name

The authorities did not find Ana’s body.

Prosecutors also say Brian suspected his wife was cheating on him. He also reportedly searched for “Best Divorce State for a Man.”

The last hearing in the case took place on June 24. Walshe was not present at the proceedings. During the hearing, prosecutors said they would receive the DNA lab results by the end of the month.

Walshe has been held without bail at the Norfolk County Correctional Center since his arrest in January 2023. A date for his trial has not yet been set.

Norfolk Superior Court Judge Beverly Cannone is presiding over the case. Cannone is also presiding over the Karen Read murder retrial.

Read is charged with second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a fatal collision. She is accused of hitting her boyfriend John O’Keefe, who worked as a Boston police officer for 16 years, with her car and leaving him to die in 2022.

Her first trial began on April 16 and ended in a mistrial on July 1 after the jury said it was deadlocked on the fifth day of deliberations.

Read’s retrial is expected to begin on January 27.

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