TRANSCRIPTION OF INTERVIEW WITH FAMILY FRIEND (PART 2)
9TH JANUARY
Reporter - This has been a heart breaking week for all of the friends and co-workers and family members near and far. The real people who love this couple. He sat down with me today and talked about how painful this week has been. Saturday night cooking, cheers'ing, playing with the couple's children and now these very frightening new details that we learned in court today.
Friend JM - I said, 'what's wrong, is there something wrong'? and he said 'yeah buddy, Ana's missing.
Reporter - That Wednesday phone call from Brian Walshe left JM in shock. He had only just hugged the couple goodbye after leaving the Walshe's New Year's Eve party around 1:30 in the morning, Sunday.
Friend JM - It was festive. She was texting with friends and she was sitting next to me at the bar stool, at their kitchen. There was absolutely no indication that any modicum of a tragedy, of disappearance, or anything else could have happened that night.
Reporter - The middle of the night work emergency with no cell or bank activity since, never made sense for J. He met Ana through Brian, but despite their friendship, his fears grew.
Friend JM - Both Ana and Brian have been, individually and together, very impactful on my life. A part of me had this suspicion all along that there may have been foul play and that, somehow.. just the story wasn't adding up.
Reporter - Those suspicions painfully confirmed by a Sunday evening arrest for misleading police and chilling evidence presented in court.
Friend JM - My biggest fear has shifted towards the children. I wondered if the children were safe.
Reporter - And fortunately, we know that those three young boys are physically safe. Our team first reported that they were in state custody. We know that there are some immediate relatives who also live in Massachusetts. But from these friends that I've been in touch with everyday, since we learned of Anna's disappearance really, right now, in all of this helplessness and fear for them, the only thing that they are finding some sense of calm or peace, if that's possible, from, is working together to try and figure out how they can financially and emotionally support these boys and keep a lot of faces who love these kids in their lives constantly.