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

[Cloudydiamond]

JAN 17

The Massachusetts convict suspected of murdering his wife on New Year’s Day while on house arrest as he was awaiting sentencing on fraud charges involving, in part, the bilking of the owner of a West Hollywood art gallery, is believed to have dismembered her in the basement of their family home before disposing of her remains at an incinerator site, sources tell LAMag.

Brian Walshe, 47, is slated to be arraigned on murder charges in a Quincy courthouse on Wednesday after what Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey called “an intensive investigation” into the disappearance of his wife. Ana Walshe, a 39-year-old mother of three, was reported missing by her employer on Jan. 4—three days after she was last seen in the tony coastal town of Cohasset.

More at https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog...smembered-by-husband-in-basement-sources-say/

Good God, as was expected, but geez. How does one become this evil.

 

[whitelilac]

Law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation said Walshe’s phone pinged at two trash and recycling centers where incinerators were used—one in Abington and another in Brockton.
“There is a large amount of physical evidence collected at various locations, but it is unlikely a body will be recovered,” a high-ranking law enforcement official tells LAMag.
BBM

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/exclusive-missing-mass-mom-dismembered-by-husband-in-basement-sources-say/

Geez, he takes his phone to two recycling centers, he shops for $450 amount of cleaning supplies in plain view, he leaves a bloody knife in the basement, he says Ana left by an invisible camera shy rideshare, he claims she took a flight with no passenger manifest, ..on and on.

All that without even considering the forensics.

This guy has no brain cells.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

Law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation said Walshe’s phone pinged at two trash and recycling centers where incinerators were used—one in Abington and another in Brockton.
“There is a large amount of physical evidence collected at various locations, but it is unlikely a body will be recovered,” a high-ranking law enforcement official tells LAMag.
BBM

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/exclusive-missing-mass-mom-dismembered-by-husband-in-basement-sources-say/

And yet he stupidly took evidence to dumpsters that possibly didn’t incinerate the contents? I’m at a loss as to how he figured out which ones didm and perhaps took her to those but left a trail elsewhere. Sigh. I’m thankful he screwed up enough to leave that trail, though.

 

[Spartygirl]

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.

Thank you for doing this timeline
And thanks to everyone contributing and helping out.

Just saw on the news tonight BW was arrested for murder. Finally.

Now, where is Ana ??

 

[AmandaSkis]

Geez, he takes his phone to two recycling centers, he shops for $450 amount of cleaning supplies in plain view, he leaves a bloody knife in the basement, he says Ana left by an invisible camera shy rideshare, he claims she took a flight with no passenger manifest, ..on and on.

All that without even considering the forensics.

This guy has no brain cells.

And yet he stupidly took evidence to dumpsters that possibly didn’t incinerate the contents? I’m at a loss as to how he figured out which ones didm and perhaps took her to those but left a trail elsewhere. Sigh. I’m thankful he screwed up enough to leave that trail, though.

I agree about the no brain cells. I also think that he is used to talking his way/buying his way out of situations. Just look at how long his fraud case has been going on.

 

[minneolo]

Law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation said Walshe’s phone pinged at two trash and recycling centers where incinerators were used—one in Abington and another in Brockton.
“There is a large amount of physical evidence collected at various locations, but it is unlikely a body will be recovered,” a high-ranking law enforcement official tells LAMag.
BBM

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/exclusive-missing-mass-mom-dismembered-by-husband-in-basement-sources-say/

How truly tragic. It is just sickening to think of what he must have done to her in order for LE to suggest her remains will not be recovered.

It does seem like LE has identified a lot of evidence and has a very good idea of what happened. All the better to try him with.

 

[Snoopster]

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.

Important update to the timeline! (Sorry, I've been busy with IRL stuff so my timing is delayed.)

Jan 17/23 - BW charged with the murder of AW.

Not unexpected but still devastating all the same. :'(

 

[annpats]

“There is a large amount of physical evidence collected at various locations, but it is unlikely a body will be recovered,” a high-ranking law enforcement official tells LAMag.

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/exclusive-missing-mass-mom-dismembered-by-husband-in-basement-sources-say/

Evidence at various locations?! Unlikely a body will be recovered?!

Reading between the lines (and there's no delicate way to say this, so forgive me), I think Ana's body may not be whole and parts have been 'scattered'.

I think LE need to be looking for more than a knife.

MOO.

 

[Zella]

I think LE need to be looking for more than a knife.

They apparently recovered a hacksaw. I have no doubt that he's dismembered her, unfortunately. MOO

 

[CrimeSlog]

Evidence at various locations?! Unlikely a body will be recovered?!

Reading between the lines (and there's no delicate way to say this, so forgive me), I think Ana's body may not be whole and parts have been 'scattered'.

I think LE need to be looking for more than a knife.

MOO.

and to think someone can do this to the mother of their children within literal hours after hosting guests at your home together. I am just so disgusted by BW and everything I'm learning about him. She and her children deserved so much better!!

 

[meatandcookies]

Evidence at various locations?! Unlikely a body will be recovered?!

Reading between the lines (and there's no delicate way to say this, so forgive me), I think Ana's body may not be whole and parts have been 'scattered'.

I think LE need to be looking for more than a knife.

MOO.

They found a hacksaw, and he did a Google search about dismembering a body. It’s so, so sad, but given that information alone, I think many of us didn’t expect her body to be found intact. MOO.
Those poor boys.

 

[blackbeary]

And yet he stupidly took evidence to dumpsters that possibly didn’t incinerate the contents? I’m at a loss as to how he figured out which ones didm and perhaps took her to those but left a trail elsewhere. Sigh. I’m thankful he screwed up enough to leave that trail, though.

I've been wondering if those sites have surveillance videos, like at his mom's place and the drugstore?
M00

 

[Auntie Cipation]

They found a hacksaw, and he did a Google search about dismembering a body. It’s so, so sad, but given that information alone, I think many of us didn’t expect her body to be found intact. MOO.
Those poor boys.

I believe the google search was about disposing of a body, not specifically about dismembering it. (I do think someone said that the google results for such a search are mostly about dismembering though). Just want to keep us on the narrow factual track.

No links at hand, though, so MOO

ETA: never mind! He DID search dismembering!

 

[Spartygirl]

Geez, he takes his phone to two recycling centers, he shops for $450 amount of cleaning supplies in plain view, he leaves a bloody knife in the basement, he says Ana left by an invisible camera shy rideshare, he claims she took a flight with no passenger manifest, ..on and on.

All that without even considering the forensics.

This guy has no brain cells.

Thank Goodness he has no brain cells.

I think we all knew he would be arrested for murder.

He is just an egotistical, entitled, spoiled person.
He did whatever he wanted to do.. what's that word they made up for the kid in Texas...oh, yeah....“affluenza ” after a psychologist suggested that growing up with money might have left him with psychological afflictions, too rich to tell right from wrong. INSERT EYE ROLL (Multiple times)
More like selfish, spoiled, entitled. IMO

RIP dear Ana... you did not deserve this and my heart breaks for your 3 little kiddos.

 

[keek]

Evidence at various locations?! Unlikely a body will be recovered?!

Reading between the lines (and there's no delicate way to say this, so forgive me), I think Ana's body may not be whole and parts have been 'scattered'.

I think LE need to be looking for more than a knife.

MOO.

Def he chopped he chopped up very well. He bought an axe, his mission was to make 'the situation' ' impossible to recover. I just am 'surprised' he knew to look up / find the trash disposal places and if they did incinerate, who would think of that? She was never going to be found was his intent, so as expected. LE somehow found 'enough' of what they need in some way of something more perhaps today than what they do have, her blood i.d. on items and the location where he did this chopping. The sad thing is, it can be hopefully taken care of in court quick as possible and not linger on for months and years. The family and children and her friends matter, mainly the little precious boys. Cannot even imagine how the specialist can explain all this somehow, to the children. The six year old will understand to a point mother will not be seen again. These people like B are out there and I just wish he had been imprisoned long ago as he should of been of course.

 

[jgarris]

Evidence at various locations?! Unlikely a body will be recovered?!

Reading between the lines (and there's no delicate way to say this, so forgive me), I think Ana's body may not be whole and parts have been 'scattered'.

I think LE need to be looking for more than a knife.

MOO.

Absolutely sickening. I wish more painful terms of confinement were allowed for this guy.

 

[meatandcookies]

I believe the google search was about disposing of a body, not specifically about dismembering it. (I do think someone said that the google results for such a search are mostly about dismembering though). Just want to keep us on the narrow factual track.

No links at hand, though, so MOO

Here you go. Per this article, he looked up both. Brian Walshe looked up how to ‘dispose of 115-pound woman’s body’ in days surrounding wife’s disappearance: report

 

[Yemelyan]

I believe the google search was about disposing of a body, not specifically about dismembering it. (I do think someone said that the google results for such a search are mostly about dismembering though). Just want to keep us on the narrow factual track.

No links at hand, though, so MOO

He searched both how to dispose of a body AND topics related to dismemberment specifically, according to this article and others: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/us/ana-walshe-missing-massachusetts-mother-husband-tuesday/index.html

 

[Auntie Cipation]

Here you go. Per this article, he looked up both. Brian Walshe looked up how to ‘dispose of 115-pound woman’s body’ in days surrounding wife’s disappearance: report

Wow!

Eek!

Yuck!

Thank you! (I edited my prior post)

 

[Seattle1]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1615562173165760514