MA MA - Ana Walshe - Supposedly Left Home in Rideshare to Airport - Cohasset #2

[Seattle1]

Gosh, I feel like I've missed so much. Do we know any more about this torn-up cloth material?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/us/ana-walshe-missing-massachusetts-mother-husband-tuesday/index.html

Law enforcement sources told CNN on Tuesday that materials found included a hacksaw, torn-up cloth material and what appears to be bloodstains.

*****

And OMG...

Law enforcement sources told CNN that investigators hope to collect blood samples from Ana Walshe’s sons so they have a “direct bloodline” sample to compare against traces of blood found in the couple’s basement. Those results could give investigators a result that makes an almost certain match to blood and a bloodied knife found in the basement and apparent bloodstains at the refuse processing plant.

I dunno -- some networks are reporting bloody towels.

 

[Petunia83]

Looking at the US District of MA federal docket where the last entry is dated June 17, 2022 -- I don't think it was so much that Ana was "rushing to get rid of assets" as it was that she was likely trying to liquidate equity assets in a feeble attempt to fund another plea agreement, praying for support from the federal court, all before the state could indictment BW for yet another fraud, against his father's estate!

I think the couple believed the 2018 wire fraud case was a done deal in April 2021 when BW entered a plea agreement with the Govt-- a deal that came to an immediate halt prior to sentencing when the Court learned that BK violated the terms of his federal agreement after withholding information about his (illegal) gain from his dad's estate, a case still under criminal investigation.

BK's federal plea agreement already included making restitution of about $500k, agreeing to a $225K Order of Forfeiture (Money Judgement), and forfeiting the Warhol pieces and/or substitute assets given paintings are mysteriously unavailable.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ana had been working around the clock-- trying to pull together a financial rescue for her husband's criminal woes by year-end, and BK's own plan was to make claim on spousal life insurance. He clearly didn't think this past breakfast.

I'm so saddened to think of those three young children in the care of DFS tonight. MOO

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Hey Seattle…
I think you’ve been tirelessly toggling back-and-forth between Idaho and Massachusetts b/c you called BW “BK” all up above… hehehehe… truth be told, I did the exact same thing yesterday Everything you wrote is spot on in the rest of your post though, and thanks for sharing tons of great content!

 

[NeverPersonal]

version of previously discussed article that isnt blocked:
Ana Walshe’s husband has a history of chasing the good life — with other people’s money (msn.com)

 

[RetiredEE]

Trying to catch up. This is a confusing case. Apparently they purchased a house in Bethesda for ~$1.3(?) Million, but he was unable to move there due to court agreements and to care for his ailing mother. There is a strange history with his parents:

Who is Brian Walshe, Part I? A clash over his father’s estate

Brian Walshe’s lopsided grin first entered Boston media in 2018, a photo pulled from a federal complaint laying out the details on an art-world fraud that had at minimum two victims — first the fri…

www.bostonherald.com

<modsnip - sleuthing a person not named POI by LE>

Terrible for the wife & children, and presumably his mother who may haven't any relatives to take care of her, although a nephew of the 3lder Walshe was mentioned as executor of her (ex? estranged?) husband's estate.

The guy looks like a total fraud and creep and, if charged and convicted, deserves the worst Massachusetts law permits. Imo.

 

[NeverPersonal]

After reading countless news articles & court records, this guy makes my skin crawl. Manipulative as it gets, completely self-centered (very interesting notes on THAT in the court records that I'd highly recommend reading), and living a total life of fraud. How did he meet and court and marry Ana? She is beautiful and successful. Was she successful when she met him? Perhaps not, and he offered her a life of means, and then perhaps she realized the circus of a facade Brian was putting up (all speculation) and she perhaps felt in too deep (children and all) to leave him? I am lost at how she ended up with this skeevy dude. ALL IMO.

 

[al66pine]

DID BRIAN MAKE GIFT of MASERATI to ANA? WHEN?
IIRC, someone here (sorry, forgot who, but TY) posted that Ana posted on her FB or Insta, a selfie in car, w caption to the effect --- great Valentine Day gift from my husband, a Maserati. ----
$100,000 or $120,000 figure was mentioned. Link to Ana's post, anyone?
I don't recall the YEAR of Ana's post or year of car.

So, any CONNECTION btwn ^ V-Day MASERTI and the Maserati from Brian's Father's estate, described below.* Anyone pls?

Did he actually make gift? Or just lead her to believe so? Or just let her take it for a spin?
Would Ana have known if it was SAME CAR?

(BTW, If same car and if actual gift, gee, heartwarming to receive car as V-Day gift stolen from spouse's Father's estate??? Not.) imo jmo moo
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* From The Salem News, Jan 11 (w BBM, actually CAPS)
"The estate included a home on Nantasket Avenue in Hull, an extensive collection of art, antiques and rugs, as well as a MASERATI and jewelry. In a filing with the Plymouth County Probate and Family Court, Walshe said his father died without a will.*

Husband of missing woman had business, personal ties to North Shore

MARBLEHEAD — Investigators searching for a missing Cohasset woman have spent several days searching and attempting to re-trace the movements of her husband, Brian R. Walshe, after he allegedly told

www.salemnews.com

 

[Seattle1]

Lots of interesting info in this article

Ana Walshe’s husband has a history of chasing the good life — with other people’s money - The Boston Globe

What made Brian Walshe so believable? “His likability, communication, his reassurance,” prosecutors said. Walshe was a skilled con man.

www.bostonglobe.com

From the quoted link:

His father, Thomas M. Walshe, was a prominent neurologist who headed the neurology department at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston from 2005 through 2018. He taught at Harvard Medical School, wrote books, and translated ancient Greek texts. He also dabbled in art.

Brian Walshe's mother, educated in science and engineering, came from a family with generational wealth, but that also experienced despair and tragedy that would carry through to her son.

Brian Walshe's childhood was beset by emotional abuse from a reclusive mother and a father who partied, Walshe's attorney wrote in a court memo. Brian Walshe was left “neglected, unloved, and emotionally damaged,” his psychiatrist reported, according to a court filing. His parents divorced in 2003, records show.


OK, considering BK was born in 1975, this negates what I've read here that his parents divorced when BW was 8 years old.

 

[Seattle1]

When I went to that site and looked under superior court for suffolk county there was a case against Brian from the Austen Riggs Center dated 1999. So has Brian been admitted there more than once?

After attending boarding school in Rhode Island, he enrolled briefly at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh before checking himself into Austen Riggs, a high-end mental health facility in the Berkshires.

He had to leave prematurely, however, when his parents fought over who should pay for his treatment. Eventually, the treatment facility sued the Walshes for payment, records show.

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[Seattle1]

I believe so? It's hard to tell what the issue was, but it shows BW was admitted before Oct of 99. Trying to figure out if he was admitted more than once to this facility for mental health issues.
This article states he was admitted while in college, which would probably fit with the pre 99 admission. Brian Walshe: Court docs reveal struggles with mental health, relationship between Ana & his mother
But there was another article that inferred he had been in that facility much later, and possibly up to the time he first met Ana.

IMO, the 1999 suit could have been filed years after the date of treatment. It appears that Blue Cross of MA was also part of the suit where they probably were covering the cost for a period of time and the facility filed suit against BK for the balance.

Boston Globe also reported that the parents battled over who was going to pay for the treatment:


After attending boarding school in Rhode Island, he enrolled briefly at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh before checking himself into Austen Riggs, a high-end mental health facility in the Berkshires.

He had to leave prematurely, however, when his parents fought over who should pay for his treatment. Eventually, the treatment facility sued the Walshes for payment, records show.

 

[Amster]

I can’t figure out why Ana purchased an expensive home in DC if she knew he couldn’t move there. Unless….she figured he’d be in prison. I expect his mother was not happy at all about her golden boy going to prison & her grands moving to DC with the unliked daughter in law……how long had Ana been doing the gone during the week job? The youngest is only 2.

 

[amaraya]

I can’t figure out why Ana purchased an expensive home in DC if she knew he couldn’t move there. Unless….she figured he’d be in prison. I expect his mother was not happy at all about her golden boy going to prison & her grands moving to DC with the unliked daughter in law……how long had Ana been doing the gone during the week job? The youngest is only 2.

she is a broker and that is a great investment, seems like a pretty good idea to me. especially if there is the possibility of eventually moving the children down and maybe him, too.

 

[zinaje]

I have been baffled by this whole situation. Did AW know her husband was in long term treatment at a psychiatric facility? Did she know about the situation with BW dad's will? These things are in the public domain in court documents.

This is a far out theory...but is it possible that this whole thing was staged in order to allow her to escape their legal troubles knowing he may be able to use insanity defense? So she escapes and he gets life in psychiatric hospital? I mean they could even plant her DNA/blood. The whole thing seems TOO obvious for a crime. I mean he literally googled how to dismember a body! And bought supplies to get rid of a body. All while in a prisoner anklet. It's just too obvious. And the smile after being arrested.

Or ... He's just really really dumb and evil.

Fully MOO.

I don't think that Ana knew about him being in hospital or issues with his father. And if she knew something it would be the version she got told by her husband & MIL.

I have been baffled by this whole situation. Did AW know her husband was in long term treatment at a psychiatric facility? Did she know about the situation with BW dad's will? These things are in the public domain in court documents.

This is a far out theory...but is it possible that this whole thing was staged in order to allow her to escape their legal troubles knowing he may be able to use insanity defense? So she escapes and he gets life in psychiatric hospital? I mean they could even plant her DNA/blood. The whole thing seems TOO obvious for a crime. I mean he literally googled how to dismember a body! And bought supplies to get rid of a body. All while in a prisoner anklet. It's just too obvious. And the smile after being arrested.

Or ... He's just really really dumb and evil.

Fully MOO.

 

[katydid23]

I don't think that Ana knew about him being in hospital or issues with his father. And if she knew something it would be the version she got told by her husband & MIL.

I'd like to believe that but we do know she knew all about what he did in the art fraud case. The man he sold the fake Warhol paintings to contacted Ana many times, trying to get his money back. And eventually she helped him get some of it back but less than half. So she saw firsthand what her husband had done, to his good friend that he stole the paintings from and to the man he swindled. JMO

Also, it is likely she did know about his issues with his father and how he stole from him and sold and looted his home after his death. He couldn't have kept it a secret as his family was arguing and trying to get the items and money returned for quite awhile. She would have known about it and would have known that he suddenly had an influx of cash. JMO

 

[Megnut]

I just looked up the property records online… As well as GIS.

http://www.mapsonline.net/peoplefor...6,5195553.948851,-7882970.44168,5195778.18404 - put in the address as 516 C J Cushing Hwy, or just enter the parcel ID - D7-41-117 to look it up if the parcel doesn’t come up automatically. Here’s a SS of the shed location (I added the arrow).

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Summary — put in the address as 516 C J Cushing Hwy, or just enter the parcel ID - D7-41-117 to look it up and then you can click around to retrieve various bits of info. The page should look like this:

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Actually, in the early 80’s, and even in a lot of new construction today, it was common to place the laundry room on whichever floor the master bedroom was on. According to this, there is 984 SF of completely unfinished basement space… which means no major mechs (HVAC, electrical, or plumbing - at least that’s what it means in terms of reading a property record anyway — I work in RE, so while I certainly don’t know everything, I do know a thing or two about this particular subject). I worry the only reason BW would have her in the basement would be a menacing one.

I think Ana didn't go to the basement of her own volition. I'm reminded of a different murder case -- "Mommy in the rug." I won't be surprised if the staircase lit up something fierce, with Luminol.

JMO

 

[zinaje]

WT actual F?? WHY on earth was Ana ever with this guy? Come on. JMO

Ana came to America in 2005 on working visa and was back & forth to Serbia for some years as her friends said. She said that they ( BW) met in 2008 & it was a love on first sight. I doubt that they start dating right away. She had a big dreams about America like many other East European women do. She was under impression that this rich man, only son of Dr is interested in her and her American dream can became true one. Meanwhile he was winning her over with his charm as sociopath and money too. AW didn't know and wouldn't believe anyone even if she was told bad things about him. She was in love. After having 3 children and especially after last one she probably start seeing through his lies. And when she got a great job and saw how lazy and incompatible he is she probably told him that he has to change. It was a dangerous field as by his pics he looked depressed, put on weight and he didn't want to lose her. That's way the coward ended her life. Sorry

 

[Seattle1]

The reason BW couldn't move to DC was he was under house arrest and couldn't leave the state of MA. Also, there was an upcoming sentencing hearing for his fraud case.
I'm wondering if Ana's friend actually knew about Brian's legal status?

Hard to say. While I can't imagine Ana didn't mention that, it's not apparent from what her friend describes. MOO

In the video interview, the friend does say that Ana believed BW's legal issues were due to bad choices but he was a good person so I think she was partially aware.

I say partially aware because I think it likely Ana did share the plea deal, which dates back to April 2021, and how BW would do the right thing and make restitution but wasn't going to have to serve prison time.

But I'm not so sure that friends knew that the "deal" was on hold because he's being investigated for committing another fraud against his dad's estate! The estate incident doesn't really fit the bad choices excuse. JMO

 

[Seattle1]

Looking at the US District of MA federal docket where the last entry is dated June 17, 2022 -- I don't think it was so much that Ana was "rushing to get rid of assets" as it was that she was likely trying to liquidate equity assets in a feeble attempt to fund another plea agreement, praying for support from the federal court, all before the state could indictment BW for yet another fraud, against his father's estate!

I think the couple believed the 2018 wire fraud case was a done deal in April 2021 when BW entered a plea agreement with the Govt-- a deal that came to an immediate halt prior to sentencing when the Court learned that BK BW violated the terms of his federal agreement after withholding information about his (illegal) gain from his dad's estate, a case still under criminal investigation.

BK' BW's federal plea agreement already included making restitution of about $500k, agreeing to a $225K Order of Forfeiture (Money Judgement), and forfeiting the Warhol pieces and/or substitute assets given paintings are mysteriously unavailable.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ana had been working around the clock-- trying to pull together a financial rescue for her husband's criminal woes by year-end, and BK' BWs own plan was to make claim on spousal life insurance. He clearly didn't think this past breakfast.

I'm so saddened to think of those three young children in the care of DFS tonight. MOO

United States v. Walshe, 1:18-cr-10399 - CourtListener.com

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Thanks, @Petunia83 ! ^^Edited by me.

 

[scriabina]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/us/ana-walshe-missing-massachusetts-mother-husband-tuesday/index.html

Good grief! Could it get any worse? LEO found a hacksaw, blood stained rags in dumpster. I wonder if that hacksaw was purchased from Home Depot.

And he googled “how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body”?!?!

Investigators recently uncovered new information that turned their focus from a missing persons search to suspicions that Ana Walshe may have been killed, including her husband’s internet record showing searches about dismemberment and “how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body,” according to two law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation.

 

[Deleted member 287549]

I think this guy has a massive control issue, he needs to be on top of things. All the gaslighting, the pretense, using people including family and friends) for his own gratification and needs.
If he's questioned or confronted, how dare he be, he loses it.

Here is an example where he violently attacked a number of guards in China, because they questioned him.

part Dr Pescatore's statements in the affidavits:

"He also went on to say that on a trip to China he witnessed Brian try to smuggle antiquities out of the country, and then tried to murder four or five guards with a stanchion when they tried to question him. He described Brian as a “very angry and physically violent person.”

Suspicious Character Letters From Ana Walshe’s Mother Kept Brian Walshe Out Of Jail, Probate Court Docs Call Brian A Sociopath Who Tried Killing 5 Men In China – TB Daily News

tbdailynews.com

(lots to go through here in this link)

Re: the above: This guy was obviously a powder-keg, and should have been in prison a long time ago. I'm slightly surprised (but not really) that he was able to get out of what he did in China. As we all know, there have been cases of Americans being convicted of non-violent crimes in other countries and being put in prison for an extremely long time. In this case - the attempted theft & also attacking the guards definitely sounds like something that would cause the authorities to arrest him.

I strongly suspect that BW's money bought him out of a lot of these situations. I.e., I don't see someone poor/destitute still walking the streets after the above crime(s) & all of the others he's committed (prior to his wife vanishing).

And, if he had been put in prison for good a long time ago, I strongly believe his wife wouldn't have vanished.

 

[Seattle1]

A couple of observations from Ana's Instagram: appears her dad was also a physician (Nov 2022), and the Maserati was a white, 2015 Q4 which was only a memory in Aug 2022. I doubt this was the elder Walshe's vehicle.

Ana Walshe on Instagram: "This was a sweet ride. Miss it. #maserati #quattroporte #twinturbo #italiandesign"

Ana Walshe shared a post on Instagram: "This was a sweet ride. Miss it. #maserati #quattroporte #twinturbo #italiandesign". Follow their account to see 212 posts.

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