MA MA - Ana Walshe, 39, Cohasset, 1 Jan 2023 *MEDIA, MAPS, & TIMELINES - NO DISCUSSION*

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APR 27, 2023

Brian Walshe thought wife Ana was having an affair

Attorneys for Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts husband charged with murdering his wife Ana on New Year's Day, claimed in court today that she was having an affair before she vanished, and that she may have wanted to 'disappear'.

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Today, prosecutors alleged his motive - he suspected his wife, who'd launched a successful real estate career in a different state, was cheating on him.

When she vanished, Brian stood to gain $2.7million in life insurance payouts and was fearful that his wife was going to leave him.

They say he had hired an investigator to follow Ana in the months before her death, though it's unclear what that investigator discovered.

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Walshe denied those allegations through his attorney Tracy Miner.

She admitted his mother had hired a private investigator, but claimed she did so independently.

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Prosecutors say he had been obsessively looking at the Instagram page of a 'male friend'.

Ana was particularly close with Abdulla Almutairi - a married colleague who frequently refers to her as his best friend.
 
APR 27, 2023
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Norfolk Assistant District Attorney Greg Connor claimed that Brian Walshe’s mother hired a private investigator "with his input and direction" on Dec. 26 to follow Ana Walshe in Washington, D.C., where she lived during the week for her job at Tishman Speyer, a real estate company. That month, Brian Walshe had been "routinely visiting the Instagram page of one of her male friends," Connor said.

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Prosecutors also said that Brian Walshe was motivated to claim his wife's more than $2.7 million life insurance policy, for which he was the sole beneficiary.

Brian Walshe's attorney, Tracy Miner, denied that charge, saying that his client's mother is wealthy and that "there’s no evidence he was in the least bit needing of money." Miner also said Brian Walshe told his mother she was "crazy" for hiring a private investigator and that he never suspected his wife was having an affair.

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Connor said that the day after Brian Walshe's mother hired the private investigator, someone using his oldest son's iPad made Google searches including "best states to get divorced in" and "worst states to get divorced in."

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Connor added that on Jan. 1, Brian Walshe also searched for "how long someone must go missing in order to collect" and visited a website for luxury watches.

In the early morning hours of Jan. 2, Connor said, Brian Walshe used his oldest son's iPad to make additional, previously unreported searches about a company that cleans up crime scenes and how to remove blood from concrete, which is the surface of the couple's basement floor.

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APR 27, 2023

Prosecutors: Man charged with killing wife suspected affair

Prosecutors say the husband of a Massachusetts woman who has been missing since New Year’s Day suspected she was having an affair and persuaded his mother to hire a private investigator to prove it.

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In December, Brian Walshe “would repeatedly access the Instagram page” of one of Ana Walshe's male friends from Washington, D.C., where she was working, prosecutors said. His mother hired the investigator on Dec. 26 “with his input and direction” to conduct surveillance and, the next day, his oldest child’s iPad was used for an internet search on “divorce."

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Brian Walshe said she was called back to Washington on New Year's Day for a work emergency. He didn't contact her employer until Jan. 4, saying she was missing. The company — the first to notify police Ana Walshe was missing — said there was no emergency, prosecutors said.

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Ana Walshe went out with a friend in Washington on Dec. 28 and became “uncharacteristically emotional and extremely upset,” prosecutors said.

“Ana believed Mr. Walshe was going to be incarcerated on his pending criminal case. Ana told her friend that she intended to relocate her three children to Washington, D.C., and was prepared to leave Mr. Walshe," the document said.

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Investigators said they found Jan. 3 surveillance video of a man resembling Brian Walshe throwing what appeared to be heavy trash bags into a dumpster at an apartment complex in Abington, not far from Cohasset.

A Jan. 8 search of a trash processing facility not far from Brian Walshe’s mother’s home, uncovered trash bags that contained a hatchet, hacksaw, towels and a protective Tyvek suit, cleaning agents, a Prada purse, boots like the ones Ana Walshe was last seen wearing and a COVID-19 vaccination card with her name, authorities said.

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APR 28, 2023

Apparent ransom note revealed in Ana Walshe murder investigation documents

A Cohasset detective said he received an email from a Richard Walker on January 7 — days after Ana disappeared — asking for money.

"We have the so named Ana Walshe with us here," the note said. "We had a deal worth $127,000.. she messed up.. we have her here with us and if she doesn't pay the money…then she'll never be back, and we know that the police and the FBI are involved.. good luck finding us."

Police said they immediately thought the email was suspicious because it had no instructions on how or when to respond.

Also in the investigation paperwork were details of an interview with Brian Walshe inside his home when police say one of his kids came into the room holding Ana's sunglasses.
 
APR 27, updated APR 28, 2023

Brian Walshe suspected his wife was cheating on him: DA

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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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APR 28, 2023

What new documents reveal about Ana Walshe's alleged affair, photos of Brian Walshe

5 Investigates has obtained new information in documents unsealed Thursday that shed new light on the investigation into the murder of Ana Walshe. ...

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As early as their first visit to the Walshe's home on January 4, detectives noticed a piece of plastic lining the trunk of Brian Walshe's SUV. In court on Thursday, prosecutors said investigators had found blood in different areas of the SUV, including the trunk.

The arrest warrant application also includes surveillance photos of Walshe. One shows him wearing a mask and gloves, with a full shopping cart inside the Home Depot in Rockland. Police say he bought multiple mops, buckets and brushes, two large clear tarps, tape, a Tyvek suit with a hood and shoe coverings, two pairs of splash-resistance goggles. a utility knife, a hatchet, and two 12-pound bags of baking soda.

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Other new details from the documents include information about an interview detectives conducted with a man in Washington, D.C. who said he had been dating Ana for months, saying they had spent Thanksgiving together in Dublin. A friend of Ana's said she had given Brian Walshe an "ultimatum" about his impending sentencing on federal art fraud charges and was planning on moving her children down to D.C. to live with her.

The warrant also reveals that state crime lab analysts "conducted testing on various surfaces and floors" within the couple's Cohasset home, and "multiple locations" in the basement and stairwell leading down to the basement tested positive for blood. Investigators also found a knife inside a cabinet above the refrigerator, which was next to "multiple bottles of hydrogen peroxide." The knife later tested positive for blood.

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What newly unveiled court documents in Walshe case reveal​

  • GPS tracking devices on vehicles used by Brian Walshe and his mother
  • The email police received the day before BW was arrested
  • The man who said he and Ana were in a dating relationship which had become more serious over the past several months
 
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4/30/23

A bone fragment was found on a hacksaw that investigators say was tossed in a dumpster by Brian Walshe after he allegedly killed and dismembered his wife, Ana.

Brian, 47, appeared in Norfolk County Superior Court Thursday where he pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, misleading police, obstruction of justice and improper conveyance of a human body.

He is accused of killing the mother of three, Ana, 39, on New Year's Day. Her body has not yet been found. However, investigators say they have evidence that links Brian to the murde
 
APR 30, 2023

The Google searches​

Prosecutors had previously released a list of 21 Google searches Walshe made on one of his children’s tablets, beginning just before 5 a.m. on January 1:

Jan. 1, 2022​

  • 4:55 a.m. — “How long before a body starts to smell?”
  • 4:58 a.m. — “How to stop a body from decomposing?”
  • 5:20 a.m. — “How to embalm a body?”
  • 5:47 a.m. — “10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to”
  • 6:25 a.m. — “How long for someone to be missing to inherit?”
  • 6:34 a.m. — “Can you throw away body parts?”
  • 9:29 a.m. — “What does formaldehyde do?”
  • 9:34 a.m. — “How long does DNA last?”
  • 9:59 a.m. — “Can an identification be made with partial remans?”
  • 11:34 a.m. — “Dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body”
  • 11: 44 a.m. — “How to remove blood from a wooden floor?”
  • 11:56 a.m. — “Luminol to detect blood”
  • 1:08 p.m. — “What happens when you put body parts in ammonia?”
  • 1:29 p.m. — “Is it better to throw crime scene clothes away or wash them?”

Jan. 2, 2022​

  • 12:45 p.m. — “Hacksaw best tool to dismember”
  • 1:10 p.m. — “Can you be charged with murder without a body?”
  • 1:14 p.m. — “Can you identify a body with broken teeth?”

Jan. 3, 2022​

  • 1:02 p.m. — “What happens to hair on a dead body?”
  • 1:13 p.m. — “What is the rate of decomposition of a body found in a plastic bag compared to on a surface in the woods?”
  • 1:20 p.m. — “Can baking soda make a body smell good?”
The tablet also showed a visit to Aftermath.com, a crime scene cleaning company, and searches asking how long Lowe’s retains surveillance videos.
 
MAY 2, 2023
Ana Walshe, whose husband is accused of killing her, had an affair before she went missing - Erie News Now
Ana Walshe, the Massachusetts mother of three who was last seen alive in January, was having an affair with a man in Washington, DC, before she went missing and had spent Thanksgiving with him in Ireland, new court documents say.

That man told investigators he had been dating Walshe for several months and shared they also spent Christmas Eve together, according to the documents. The pair had planned to celebrate the New Year together on January 4 after she returned from Massachusetts, the documents show.

That man was also Walshe's most frequent cell phone contact, investigators said, citing phone records.

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Ana Walshe had allegedly given her husband some sort of ultimatum over the resolution of federal fraud charges he faced for selling fake Andy Warhol work online, the friend told investigators, adding Ana Walshe wanted the children to be with her.

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"When investigators viewed Ana's residence in Washington, DC, they observed it to be ready for the kids to move there with clothes and other items available," the documents say.

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MAY 3, 2023

Detective got ransom note for Ana Walshe, court documents reveal

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The last time the 39-year-old was seen alive was in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, when a friend attended a New Year’s dinner at their Cohasset home. ...

In another interview with the family friend, he mentioned Ana appeared to be a bit “tipsy” that night, while Brian was not impaired.

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The friend also told police about two other friends of Ana’s that may have information that could help. Investigators traveled to Washington, D.C., and spoke to attorneys representing a man who resides there and “is the most frequent contact with Ana on the cell phone records in possession of investigators.”

The man stated that he “was in a dating relationship with Ana and had been for several months,” and that it had recently become serious, with the couple spending holidays together.

The man claimed he and Ana were open about their relationship in Washington, where Ana worked and lived part-time. He said they had plans to celebrate the New Year on Jan. 4 when she returned from Massachusetts.

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Search Warrants

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Included in the 462 page pdf:
  • Lyft
  • Uber
  • Google - data associated with email acct richardwalker9984@gmail.com
  • Residence: 516 Chief Justice Cushing Highway
  • GPS install on Volkswagon Beetle, Red registered to DW, utilized by BW
  • GPS install on the Volvo registered to DW, utilized by BW
  • GPS install on Ford F150 registered by MPC, utilized by BW
  • Macbook A1534
  • Macbook A2159
  • Macbook A2179
  • Apple iPhone
  • Apple Iphone 13
  • Apple iPad A2603
  • Apple iPad 6
  • Apple iPad Mini 6
  • Verizon - records of phone ending 8646
  • AT&T - records for Volvo
  • Verizon - records of phone ending 8028
 
MAY 4, 2023

What happened when Brian Walshe was confronted on his alleged Google searches

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According to court documents, Walshe had little to say when investigators confronted him about the searches during a Jan. 8 interview at the home of his lawyer, Tracy Miner.

An affidavit from Massachusetts State Police Trooper Connor Keefe, filed in Quincy District Court, reads:

"Brian offered no explanation other than the iPad belonged to his son. Trooper D. DiCicco asked if his 6 year old was of average intelligence and Brian stated, ‘I’d like to think so’. When told that the searches had no misspelled words he offered no explanation. Attorney Miner offered the possibility that Ana had performed some of the searches on the iPad. I asked Brian to explain how the searches continued into the days that followed, well after he said Ana had left the home. Brian had no explanation and the interview was terminated by Attorney Miner."

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JUN 30, 2023

Feds looking to seize 2 bank accounts from Cohasset murder suspect Brian Walshe amid art fraud case

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The assets come in the form of a JPMorgan Chase Bank account, worth approximately $4,766.54, according to recently filed court documents, and a Rockland Trust Bank account, worth approximately $3,075.83, both linked to Walshe.

The filings are part of an art fraud case in 2018 where he was arrested and charged in a criminal complaint in connection with stealing and attempting to sell two fake Andy Warhol paintings on eBay.

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JUL 1, 2023

Feds want Cohasset murder suspect Brian Walshe to forfeit more money in art fraud case

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In the new filing, federal prosecutors are asking the judge to add the cash from the newly-revealed accounts to the forfeiture order.

Former Attorney General and WCVB legal analyst Martha Coakley said it's not just the bottom line that's important here: it sends a message about white-collar crime.

"It says the federal government is always going to be diligent in white-collar cases in seeking forfeiture of assets," she said in an interview. "The seeking of assets and taking of assets is really the deterrent for these white collar crimes."

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