APR 27, updated APR 28, 2023
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A babysitter, who the couple had hired because they had planned a brunch together, arrived at 2 p.m. and was told by Brian Walshe that his wife had a “work emergency,” prosecutors said, but that he would spend the day in Swampscott to visit his mother.
Instead, prosecutors say, cell phone data and video surveillance shows he made numerous shopping trips to Lowes, Home Depot and CVS where items including buckets, a Tyvek suit, shoe guards, mops, disposable rags, soap and other cleaning products and jugs of ammonia.
The next day, prosecutors say, internet searches continued, as did additional purchases for the likes of 24 pounds of baking soda, a hatchet and a new Tyvek suit.
He also took trips to dumpsters around the region, prosecutors say. By the time investigators learned of this, almost all of the dumpsters had been emptied and their contents shredded and incinerated.
But in one dumpster in Swampscott, police on Jan. 8
recovered items that included Ana Walshe’s car keys, her COVID vaccination card, a Hermes watch that matched the one she was known to wear, and the boots, purse and short black coat identical to those Brian Walshe had told police his wife was wearing when she left for D.C. — a trip police confirmed she never made.
Alongside those, investigators found items identical to things the defendant had purchased in the preceding days, including a hacksaw, a hammer, a hatchet and a Tyvek suit with stains that tested positive for Ana Walshe’s DNA. The hacksaw also had red-brown staining and “a small bone fragment,” items which are being tested for DNA.
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