Deceased/Not Found MA - Ana Walshe - Supposedly Left Home in Rideshare to Airport - Cohasset #3

[imstilla.grandma]

Judy Doane lived next to Ana and Brian Walshe and their boys in 2018. Doane sold the couple the house at 6 Edgewood Road in Marblehead, two years before they moved to Cohasset.

Doane said she has contacted the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, filling out an application to take the boys from DCF and care for them herself.

"I don't want them to be separated," Doane said. "I think the number one concern is finding Ana and finding out what happened. But, those kids right now need each other."

Doane says two other families from Cohasset, with kids the same age as the Walshes, have also reached out to DCF.

"I saw her every day," Doane said. "She was beautiful every day. I never saw her upset. I never saw him upset. I know. It was just the strangest thing. So to think that this is happening is like, what?"

Cohasset neighbors express concerns for missing mom Ana Walshe's children

Multiple families from Cohasset, with kids the same age as the Walshes, have also reached out to DCF, according to one longtime neighbor.

www.wcvb.com

 

[Cloudydiamond]

I keep listening and I don't hear anything that is suspicious about Gem's feelings and thoughts. He said appropriate person responses to B about did you call others or police? He called Police himself when B told him the police may be calling him. Even though he expressed the big impact they both had on his life for whatever reasons he experienced or help he needed, he was not shying away from feeling B was not on the up and up, saying things didn't add up. He's a sharp man.

The fact he suspected foul play immediately.

 

[WingsOverTX]

Judy Doane lived next to Ana and Brian Walshe and their boys in 2018. Doane sold the couple the house at 6 Edgewood Road in Marblehead, two years before they moved to Cohasset.

Doane said she has contacted the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, filling out an application to take the boys from DCF and care for them herself.

"I don't want them to be separated," Doane said. "I think the number one concern is finding Ana and finding out what happened. But, those kids right now need each other."

Doane says two other families from Cohasset, with kids the same age as the Walshes, have also reached out to DCF.

"I saw her every day," Doane said. "She was beautiful every day. I never saw her upset. I never saw him upset. I know. It was just the strangest thing. So to think that this is happening is like, what?"

Cohasset neighbors express concerns for missing mom Ana Walshe's children

Multiple families from Cohasset, with kids the same age as the Walshes, have also reached out to DCF, according to one longtime neighbor.

www.wcvb.com

Wow - such good-hearted people willing to step in for Ana's kids! This is such good news. Those little fellows need to be with someone who knew their mom.

MOO

 

[keek]

Wow - such good-hearted people willing to step in for Ana's kids! This is such good news. Those little fellows need to be with someone who knew their mom.

MOO

They need to be together, their own little world of what's left of what they know. Their dog is not with them, their mother and father are not with them. They are not in their home/ bedrooms/ toys. nothing is familiar.. Terrified, and need SOLID STABILITY and assurance and routine. It's beyond painful to think of this of course and separating those brothers is a disgusting and inhumane thought at all.

 

[keek]

The fact he suspected foul play immediately.

He sounded like the timeline to him regarding the cell and not acting asap the next day set off alarms, things were not adding up he said. He could mean 'foul play regarding B involved, or someone else bad got to her. I believe he meant B and his instinct kicked in, regardless of how close he was to B, being a realist I'd say.

 

[waldojabba]

Judy Doane lived next to Ana and Brian Walshe and their boys in 2018. Doane sold the couple the house at 6 Edgewood Road in Marblehead, two years before they moved to Cohasset.

Doane said she has contacted the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, filling out an application to take the boys from DCF and care for them herself.

"I don't want them to be separated," Doane said. "I think the number one concern is finding Ana and finding out what happened. But, those kids right now need each other."

Doane says two other families from Cohasset, with kids the same age as the Walshes, have also reached out to DCF.

"I saw her every day," Doane said. "She was beautiful every day. I never saw her upset. I never saw him upset. I know. It was just the strangest thing. So to think that this is happening is like, what?"

Cohasset neighbors express concerns for missing mom Ana Walshe's children

Multiple families from Cohasset, with kids the same age as the Walshes, have also reached out to DCF, according to one longtime neighbor.

www.wcvb.com

IMO there is no shortage of wonderful families in the greater Boston area availabe to take the three boys together. If Anna's family cannot accomodate the kids ( understandable due to circumstances etc ) I am sure there will find a loving family. DCF will do the right thing - especially with such a spotlight on this case. JUST IMO

 

[Snoopster]

New article with nothing new, but there's a timeline here, @Snoopster, from 1/5 through today.

JAN 15, 2023

Missing Cohasset mother: Timeline of events related to disappearance of Ana Walshe​

www.boston25news.com

Updated timeline:

Brian Walshe Timeline

Jan/75 - Brian Reza Walshe born

Apr/83 - Ana Ljubicic born in Serbia

1983? - BW’s father ‘abandons’ family [per BW statement]

2003 - BW’s parent divorce

Summer 2005 - AW works in Little Washington VA

Summer 2006 - AW works in Little Washington VA

Summer 2007 - AW works in NYC

Prior to 2008 - Ana marries Mark Knipp; becomes Ana Knipp

May’08 – 2010 - AW works in Lennox MA

2008 - BW meets Ana Knipp at Wheatleigh Hotel in Lennox, MA

Sep/10 – Feb15 - AW works at Willard ICH in Boston [Ana’s LinkedIn]

Prior to 2011 - BW steals > $500k from father in temporary borrowing deal re house flip [source: FP affidavit]

Aug 2/14 - AW files report with DC police that BW threatened to kill her and friends [Files police report

2014 - Ana divorces MK. [Knipp marriage/divorce]

Feb/15-Mar/17 - AW director of Front Office, InterContinental, Boston area

Jun 2015 - BW reported address is 425 Massachusetts Ave NW, DC. [per Cavalry debt collection complaint]

Dec 21,2015 - BW & AW get married in Boston [source: Warhol fraud complaint at link Thread 2 #10]

Apr 2016 - AW purchased residence. (Residence later connected to Warhol fraud.)

May 1/16 - TW will dated May 1 2016 which disinherits BW. [per JO affidavit]

2016 - BW & AW have first child, Thomas

2016/17? - BW’s father, TW, has stroke

Nov 2016 - BW commits Warhol fraud

Mar/17 - ?/19 - AW works as Head of Front Office, Taj Hotels

May 9/18 - BW arrested re Warhol fraud.

Sep 21/18 - BW’s father dies in India

Oct/18 - BW indicted on federal wire fraud charges re Warhol paintings.

Nov/18 - BW pleads not guilty to fraud charges re Warhol paintings

Late 2018 - BW destroys father’s (TW) will

Dec/18 - BW gets himself appointed as Personal Representative for TW’s estate [Supplemental Sentencing Memo]

2018/19?? - BW posts TW estate assets for sale

Feb/19 - BW gives AW Maserati as Valentine’s gift

Jul 2019 - Andrew W appointed by courts as Special Personal Rep for TW’s estate, and obligates BW to account for what happened to the assets.

Sep 2019 - BW objects to appointment of Andrew W re father’s estate

Oct 2019 - 2nd child born

Nov/19-Apr/20 - AW Director with Newbury Boston

Feb 2020 - cell phone copy of TW’s will admitted into probate [source: supplemental sentencing memo]

Dec/20 - 3rd child born

Aug/20–Feb/22 - AW Director Ops with Mutlu Group. (Note that G Mutlu was at NYE w BW/AW day she went missing.

Apr 2021 - BW pleads guilty re Warhol fraud. Gets non-imprisonment sentence w conditions.

Sep 7/21 - AW writes letter to judge praising BW, with goal of BW avoiding prison time [AW Letter mentioned]

Oct/21 - court about to file home confinement sentence on BW when bank raised issue. Sentence agreement suspended as a result.

Nov/21 - AW posts on her LinkedIn/IG that BW is hosting a ‘Money is Emotional’ workshop

Dec/21 - AW’s mother visiting AW/BW. Has medical emergency. BW takes her to emerg. Helps her with her recovery.

Feb 2022 - AW takes new job in DC at Tishman Speyer as a regional property manager.

Mar 2022 - BW & AW sell Jerusalem Rd home in Cohasset

Apr 2022 - FBI raid on DC apartment building where AW had recently become property manager on behalf of her employer. [FBI raid in DC]

Jun 2022 - Ana submits 2nd supportive letter to the sentencing court for BW, mentioning her mother’s medical incident. Ana’s mother and sister also file supportive letters. [see attached exhibits here: BW supplemental sentencing exhibits]

Jun 2022 - gov’t file supplemental sentencing memo re B’s Warhol fraud (repeats original request for 30 month sentence, based on perjury and non-compliance w conditions). [Supplemental Sentencing Memo]

Nov 2022 - AW visits Serbia

Dec 2022 - rush to sell off assets for cash (Dec 28/29) – car, apartment

Dec 26/22 - AW asks mother to come the next day. Mother says she can’t.

Dec 27/22 - AW was supposed to visit her friend ‘CW’. AW cancels. [thread 1, #494]

Dec 29/22 - a deed of sale of a Revere condo owned by AW is recorded by Suffolk County Registry of Deeds. [Boston25 News timeline]

Dec 31/22 - GEM joins AW and BW for NY Eve celebration

Jan 1/23 - Gem leaves between 1-1:30 am.

Jan 1/23 - AW reported to have left between 4-5 am via rideshare for airport. BW says AW said she had a work emergency and had to go to DC. AW did not have a flight booked and did not fly to DC.

Jan 1/23 - BW says he drives to mother’s home to Swampscott. “gets lost”. unaccounted time.

Jan 2/23 - AW’s phone connected to a cellphone tower for last time at 3:14 a.m. within a quarter-mile of the area of Reservoir Road (0.7 miles from family's home. [Police log]

Jan 2/23 - BW caught on cctv at Home Depot buying tarps, cleaning supplies, etc. On cctv at juice

bar.

Jan 3/23 - AW had a scheduled flight from MA to DC for work. She didn’t make this flight.

Jan 4/23 - AW’s employer calls BW saying AW didn’t show up at work.

-AW’s employer contacts LE to report LE missing

Jan 6/23 - LE tells media AW is missing. Statel and local regional police commence search around AW’s home and surrounding area (including woods by Stop & Shop)

Jan 6/23 - fire breaks out at former Jerusalem Rd home of BW/AW. LE reports unconnected to case.

Jan 7/23 - LE continues search. Drains pool at BW/AW rental home on Chief Justice Cushing Hwy in Cohasset.

Jan 8/23 - Search expands to DC

Jan 8/23 - BW arrested and charged with misleading an investigation into Ana’s disappearance.

Jan 9/23 - BW arraigned. Prosecutors announce that bloody knife found in basement of home.

Jan 9/23 - LE remove dumpsters from BW’s mother’s apartment complex in Swampscott. Search trash transfer station in Peabody MA, where trash from BW’s mother’s apartment complex gets taken.

Jan 10/23 - Norfolk DA’s office announce discovery of a number of items following the search of the transfer station in Peabody. Sources say items are linked to AW. Multiple sources tell media that a hacksaw and a rug were recovered by LE investigating the disappearance. [Boston25 News timeline]

Jan 10/23 - LE complete search of BW/AW Cohasset home.

Jan 11/23 - media report that State police collected surveillance video of BW near a Swampscott liquor store dumpster on day of AW’s disappearance.

Jan 13/23 - search warrants related to AW’s disappearance are returned to Quincy District Court.

 

[WingsOverTX]

IMO there is no shortage of wonderful families in the greater Boston area availabe to take the three boys together. If Anna's family cannot accomodate the kids ( understandable due to circumstances etc ) I am sure there will find a loving family. DCF will do the right thing - especially with such a spotlight on this case. JUST IMO

I never will trust DCF anywhere ever again after the continued abuse suffered in foster care by the Turpin children in CA. Luckily the Walshe children have advocates. That was missing for the Turpins AFAIK. CASA or some other oversight is critical in all placements.

If there is a placement with friend of Ana's with visitation permitted by her sister & mother, they will suffer less. It will be terrible if the three are separated & DCF might find keeping them together difficult.

I hope AW had some legal docs in place to direct her affairs in the event of her death.

MOO

 

[imstilla.grandma]

COHASSET, Mass. – EXCLUSIVE: Ana Walshe, the Massachusetts real estate bossmissing over two weeks, was making plans for the future and was selling some of her assets with the intention of reinvesting the profits into a property she was intending to buy, a well-placed source confirmed to Fox News Digital.

Walshe, the 39-year-old real estate manager who regularly commuted to Washington, D.C. for work, had owned an apartment in Revere, Massachusetts, for years before she finalized the sale just days before her disappearance. Walshe lived with her family in the seaside, South Shore town of Cohasset, but owned investment properties, including the apartment in Revere.

Her longtime Revere tenants previously told Fox News Digital Walshe's behavior had changed in recent months, when she suddenly sprung on them the news of the property sale and grew "pushy" – different from the friend they once considered her.

Ana Walshe was making plans for future, buying more property before disappearance: source

Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., real estate executive Ana Walshe, 39, was last seen in the early morning hours of Jan. 1 and has been missing ever since.

www.foxnews.com

 

[di anna]

I didn't realize Ana was so well educated. Quite impressive.

 

[thebedbug]

One thing to keep in mind is the housing market - in particular in the Boston area. It's not a great time to be a seller and most predictions are it will be even worse in the spring/summer.

* this may have played a part in her urgency to unload property.

 

[CuriousQuiet1]

"Brajan je dodirivao žene u restoranu, gađao me hlebom" Ekskluzivni intervju s konobarom Brajana i Ane Volš

Entoni je konobar koji je radio u bostonskom restoranu koji je Brajan Volš iznajmljivao nekoliko puta nedeljno

www.telegraf.rs

Article from a Serbian newspaper. Hopefully this google translate link works.

"Anthony is a guy who worked in a Boston restaurant that Brian Walsh rented several times a week to organize private dinners where he contracted jobs. For the last eight years, Brian has hired Anthony to be his personal waiter at such dinners."
...
"Mr. Walsh came with his clients, friends and family to celebrate some private events several times a week."
...
After the Warhol art scandal broke "he didn't come that often anymore. He was no longer considered a respectable man in Boston. When you're a prominent person in Boston, you don't want to be in the company of swindlers anymore, so they rejected him too."
...
"They were always nice to each other. They behaved normally."
...
"he was rude all the time, disrespectful to employees and not nice to us. Nobody was happy to have to serve him."
...
"he was touching female staff members in the restaurant. He behaved strangely in this sense, he put his arm around women's waists and grabbed their hands. He did this in front of everyone. He flirted with them."

 

[Erutan]

"Brajan je dodirivao žene u restoranu, gađao me hlebom" Ekskluzivni intervju s konobarom Brajana i Ane Volš

Entoni je konobar koji je radio u bostonskom restoranu koji je Brajan Volš iznajmljivao nekoliko puta nedeljno

www.telegraf.rs

Article from a Serbian newspaper. Hopefully this google translate link works.

"Anthony is a guy who worked in a Boston restaurant that Brian Walsh rented several times a week to organize private dinners where he contracted jobs. For the last eight years, Brian has hired Anthony to be his personal waiter at such dinners."
...
"Mr. Walsh came with his clients, friends and family to celebrate some private events several times a week."
...
After the Warhol art scandal broke "he didn't come that often anymore. He was no longer considered a respectable man in Boston. When you're a prominent person in Boston, you don't want to be in the company of swindlers anymore, so they rejected him too."
...
"They were always nice to each other. They behaved normally."
...
"he was rude all the time, disrespectful to employees and not nice to us. Nobody was happy to have to serve him."
...
"he was touching female staff members in the restaurant. He behaved strangely in this sense, he put his arm around women's waists and grabbed their hands. He did this in front of everyone. He flirted with them."

bbm
How disrespectful !
I might have smacked his hands away.
Seriously.
M00.

 

[BeckyF]

Judy Doane lived next to Ana and Brian Walshe and their boys in 2018. Doane sold the couple the house at 6 Edgewood Road in Marblehead, two years before they moved to Cohasset.

Doane said she has contacted the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, filling out an application to take the boys from DCF and care for them herself.

"I don't want them to be separated," Doane said. "I think the number one concern is finding Ana and finding out what happened. But, those kids right now need each other."

Doane says two other families from Cohasset, with kids the same age as the Walshes, have also reached out to DCF.

"I saw her every day," Doane said. "She was beautiful every day. I never saw her upset. I never saw him upset. I know. It was just the strangest thing. So to think that this is happening is like, what?" The and

Cohasset neighbors express concerns for missing mom Ana Walshe's children

Multiple families from Cohasset, with kids the same age as the Walshes, have also reached out to DCF, according to one longtime neighbor.

www.wcvb.com

Whoever takes these children (as a unit, hopefully,) needs thorough vetting and scrutiny by the court. I don’t want them to fall through the cracks. They need their own advocate. After all, Dad didn’t seem to care about their future. This is so complicated.

 

[MissSuzie]

From article on Boston-dot-com:
Ana Walshe’s mother, Milanka Ljubicic, told Fox News Digital that her daughter asked her to travel from Serbia to Washington, D.C. in a text message sent on Christmas Day.
“She just said, ‘Please, mama. Come tomorrow,’” Ljubicic said in an interview that was conducted in Belgrade. “Which means, that clearly, there must have been some problems.”
Ljubicic said that her daughter did not give a reason for her urgent request, and Ljubicic said that she could not travel on such short notice.
“I can’t get myself together in one day. I am 69 years old, I have to get my medications and a thousand other things,” she said during the interview, which Fox translated into English.
Ljubicic suggested that she visit on Jan. 5 or 6 instead. But Ana Walshe told her mother that she and her husband, Brian, were making plans to visit Serbia in February.

(That last part doesn’t make much sense to me.)

'Please, mama. Come tomorrow.' Ana Walshe's mother speaks out on plea to visit.

Ana Walshe’s mother has broken her silence and shed light on her daughter’s mindset shortly before she went missing.

www.boston.com

 

[AmandaSkis]

From article on Boston-dot-com:
Ana Walshe’s mother, Milanka Ljubicic, told Fox News Digital that her daughter asked her to travel from Serbia to Washington, D.C. in a text message sent on Christmas Day.
“She just said, ‘Please, mama. Come tomorrow,’” Ljubicic said in an interview that was conducted in Belgrade. “Which means, that clearly, there must have been some problems.”
Ljubicic said that her daughter did not give a reason for her urgent request, and Ljubicic said that she could not travel on such short notice.
“I can’t get myself together in one day. I am 69 years old, I have to get my medications and a thousand other things,” she said during the interview, which Fox translated into English.
Ljubicic suggested that she visit on Jan. 5 or 6 instead. But Ana Walshe told her mother that she and her husband, Brian, were making plans to visit Serbia in February.

(That last part doesn’t make much sense to me.)

'Please, mama. Come tomorrow.' Ana Walshe's mother speaks out on plea to visit.

Ana Walshe’s mother has broken her silence and shed light on her daughter’s mindset shortly before she went missing.

www.boston.com

I wonder if there is any more context. For example, if my child had asked me to fly across the world in one day, I would be asking her what is wrong, what is going on. Maybe this mother did ask and police have told her to keep that part quiet.

 

[Snoop Sister]

dbm

 

[branifflady63]

From article on Boston-dot-com:
Ana Walshe’s mother, Milanka Ljubicic, told Fox News Digital that her daughter asked her to travel from Serbia to Washington, D.C. in a text message sent on Christmas Day.
“She just said, ‘Please, mama. Come tomorrow,’” Ljubicic said in an interview that was conducted in Belgrade. “Which means, that clearly, there must have been some problems.”
Ljubicic said that her daughter did not give a reason for her urgent request, and Ljubicic said that she could not travel on such short notice.
“I can’t get myself together in one day. I am 69 years old, I have to get my medications and a thousand other things,” she said during the interview, which Fox translated into English.
Ljubicic suggested that she visit on Jan. 5 or 6 instead. But Ana Walshe told her mother that she and her husband, Brian, were making plans to visit Serbia in February.

(That last part doesn’t make much sense to me.)

'Please, mama. Come tomorrow.' Ana Walshe's mother speaks out on plea to visit.

Ana Walshe’s mother has broken her silence and shed light on her daughter’s mindset shortly before she went missing.

www.boston.com

It doesn't make sense because due to a loss in translation from Serbian (?) to English. Pretty much happens to every language translated to English.

 

[Seattle1]

Ljubicic suggested that she visit on Jan. 5 or 6 instead. But Ana Walshe told her mother that she and her husband, Brian, were making plans to visit Serbia in February.

^^rsbm

Well, we know for a fact that BW wasn't leaving the country in February 2023 under his bond conditions, given the imposition of his sentence for art fraud was delayed and still pending.

And didn't Ana visit Serbia sometime in November?

ETA: Appending to my message after realizing that the communication between Ana and her mother on Christmas day was via Text message, and later on Dec 31 when Ana phoned both mom and her sister, the calls went unanswered. Here, the mother also acknowledges BWs home confinement so I think the Feb trip was in error due to translation. MOO

'Please, mama. Come tomorrow.' Ana Walshe's mother speaks out on plea to visit.

Ana Walshe’s mother has broken her silence and shed light on her daughter’s mindset shortly before she went missing.

www.boston.com

Ana Walshe’s mother, Milanka Ljubicic, told Fox News Digital that her daughter asked her to travel from Serbia to Washington, D.C. in a text message sent on Christmas Day.

[..]

Ljubicic, speaking with Fox, elaborated on Brian Walshe and his relationship with her daughter. Ljubicic said that Ana Walshe was at times “irritated” with the limitations their family had to navigate due to her husband’s home confinement. Brian Walshe pleaded guilty in 2021 to charges related to an attempt to scam a Los Angeles buyer using fake Andy Warhol paintings.

Ana Walshe reportedly told her mother that her frustrations stemmed from the fact that she “had to work in Washington living in a house by herself, while he was at home with the three kids.”

But Ljubicic said she never noticed anything suspicious about her son-in-law.

“They love each other,” Ljubicic said of Brian and Ana Walshe.

[..]

Ljubicic said that she missed an opportunity to speak with her daughter right before she went missing. Ana Walshe tried calling Ljubicic around midnight on Dec. 31, and then once again about an hour later, according to Fox.

 

[CrimeSlog]

From article on Boston-dot-com:
Ana Walshe’s mother, Milanka Ljubicic, told Fox News Digital that her daughter asked her to travel from Serbia to Washington, D.C. in a text message sent on Christmas Day.
“She just said, ‘Please, mama. Come tomorrow,’” Ljubicic said in an interview that was conducted in Belgrade. “Which means, that clearly, there must have been some problems.”
Ljubicic said that her daughter did not give a reason for her urgent request, and Ljubicic said that she could not travel on such short notice.
“I can’t get myself together in one day. I am 69 years old, I have to get my medications and a thousand other things,” she said during the interview, which Fox translated into English.
Ljubicic suggested that she visit on Jan. 5 or 6 instead. But Ana Walshe told her mother that she and her husband, Brian, were making plans to visit Serbia in February.

(That last part doesn’t make much sense to me.)

'Please, mama. Come tomorrow.' Ana Walshe's mother speaks out on plea to visit.

Ana Walshe’s mother has broken her silence and shed light on her daughter’s mindset shortly before she went missing.

www.boston.com

As a mother, this would haunt me for the rest of my life .... sooo sad!!

“She just said, ‘Please, mama. Come tomorrow,’”