Brian Walshe news — latest: Ana Walshe’s remains thrown in trash bags and incinerated, prosecutors say

Brian Walshe allegedly searched ‘how long before a body starts to smell?’ and what ammonia’ does to a body on his son’s iPad.

Brian Walshe arrives in court to face charges of murdering his wife Ana

Horrifying new details have emerged about the case of missing Cohasset mother Ana Walshe as her husband Brian Walshe appeared in court on Wednesday charged with her murder.

Brian Walshe was arraigned in Quincy District Court on Wednesday morning where he pleaded not guilty to murder and improper transport of a body.

Prosecutors laid out some of the evidence against him revealing that Mr Walshe made several chilling internet searches on his son’s iPad after his wife was last seen alive.

Among the searches were “10 ways to dump a body”, “how long before a body starts to smell?” and what “ammonia” and “baking soda” does to a body.

Prosecutors believe Ms Walshe’s remains were thrown into a dumpster in Abington before being shredded and incinerated.

“It is believed that Brian Walshe dismembered Ana Walshe and discarded her body,” Norfolk County District Attorney Lynn Beland said.

Ms Walshe, 39, was last seen in the early hours of 1 January at her home in Cohasset, Massachusetts and was reported missing on 4 January.

Mr Walshe, a convicted arts fraudster, was arrested on 8 January and pleaded not guilty to hindering the police investigation into her disappearance.

Key Points

• Brian Walshe pleads not guilty to murder charges
• Brian Walshe’s disturbing online searches about a ‘body smelling’ revealed
• Ana Walshe’s Covid-19 vaccination card, clothing found at mother-n-law’s apartment
• Ana Walshe was first reported missing by employer – not conman husband
• Walshe Googled: ‘What’s the best state to divorce for a man?’

[19 January 2023 01:30 · Bevan Hurley]

Brian Walshe’s horrifying body disposal searches revealed

The husband of missing Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe allegedly made multiple horrifying internet searches on the day of her disappearance - including “10 ways to dispose of a body”, “how long before a body starts to smell” and “can you identify a body with broken teeth?”.

New details about Brian Walshe’s Google search history were revealed in a criminal complaint on Wednesday as he faced arraignment on murder charges in Quincy District Court. The 47-year-old convicted art fraudster entered a not guilty plea.

An internet search history from his son’s iPad also showed Mr Walshe had looked up “how to stop a body from decomposing”, “dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body” and “what happens when you put body parts in ammonia”, in the hours after his wife was last seen alive on 1 January, according to prosecutor Lynn Beland.

[19 January 2023 02:30 · Bevan Hurley]

Ana Walshe’s remains were thrown in a dumpster before being shredded and incinerated, prosecutors say

Prosecutors believe Ana Walshe’s remains were thrown into a dumpster before being shredded and incinerated.

The gruesome revelation came during Brian Walshe’s arraignment for his wife’s murder on Wednesday morning

Norfolk County District Attorney Lynn Beland said Mr Walshe had been seen on surveillance footage tossing a heavy garbage bag into a dumpster near an apartment in Abington, on 3 January, according to WHDH.

When investigators reached the dumpster several day later, the contents had been picked up, and shredded and incinerated at another facility.

“It is believed that Brian Walshe dismembered Ana Walshe and discarded her body,” Ms Beland said.

A spokesperson for the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office told The Independent that they believed this was how they believe Mr Walshe had allegedly disposed of his wife’s body.

[19 January 2023 03:30 · Bevan Hurley]

Investigators find Ana Walshe’s Covid-19 vaccination card, clothing at mother-n-law’s apartment

Prosecutors revealed they had recovered Ana Walshe’s Prada purse, rain boots and her Covid-19 vaccination card from trash cans at an apartment where Brian Walshe’s mother lives.

It’s alleged Brian Walshe disposed of several trash bags in a dumpster at his mother’s address in Swampscott, including blood-stained towels and rags, and cleaning products.

Some of the items are consistent with the cleaning products purchased by Mr Walshe at a Home Depot store on 2 January.

Lynn Beland, the Norfolk County district attorney, said DNA testing by the Massachusetts Crime Lab was consistent with Ana Walshe’s.

Ana’s DNA was also found on a Tyvek suit that investigators recovered, that Brian had allegedly purchased on 2 January.

A Tyvek suit, also referred to as a hazmat suit, similar to the one that prosecutors say Brian Walshe purchased on 2 January (Home Depot)

[19 January 2023 04:30 · Bevan Hurley]

Brian Walshe shook his head as prosecutor revealed search history on son’s iPad

Brian Walshe appeared mostly unmoved in court as a prosecutor read out the evidence that had led them to charge him with the murder of his wife Ana.

When Lynn Beland mentioned the internet search history discovered on his son’s iPad, he began shaking his head.

Among the internet searches he performed on 1 January were “how long before a body starts to smell?”, “how to stop a body from decomposing?” and “how long for someone to be missing before you inherit?”, prosecutors said.

He has pleaded not guilty to the murder charge.

After his previous appearance on charges of misleading a police investigation, Mr Walshe smiled broadly as he was led from the Quincy District Court.

Brian Walshe pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife Ana (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via AP)

[19 January 2023 05:30 · Bevan Hurley]

Timeline of Ana Walshe’s disappearance

Prosecutors have revealed chilling details of what they allege Brian Walshe was doing in the 72 hours between when his wife Ana was last seen and when she was reported missing.

Ms Walshe, 39, vanished from her home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

Her husband Brian Walshe told investigators she left to catch a flight to Washington DC to deal with a work emergency.

Concerned colleagues reported her missing on 4 January, and Mr Walshe was arrested days later for misleading the police investigation.

He appeared in court on 18 January charged with murder, where prosecutors revealed they had DNA linking Mr Walshe to his wife’s bloodied clothing, and incriminating internet searches he had made on his son’s iPad.

[19 January 2023 06:30 · Bevan Hurley]

Ana Walshe vanished on New Years. Now her fraudster husband is facing a murder charge. What happened?

From the outside, Ana Walshe seemingly had it all. A young family, a successful real estate career, and a $1m home in the exclusive coastal Massachusetts enclave of Cohasset.

After celebrating New Year’s with her husband Brian Walshe and a close friend at home, she was supposed to have commuted back to DC in the early hours of 1 January to deal with a “work emergency”.

But police now believe she was murdered and dismembered by her husband, who then disposed of her body.

When the head of security at her DC real estate firm Tishman Speyer reported her missing on 4 January, a police search was launched in and around the family’s property in Cohasset, as well as their home in Washington’s Chevy Chase neighbourhood.

Her husband, convicted art fraudster Brian Walshe, was arrested on 8 January on charges for hindering the police investigation after prosecutors say that traces of blood and a knife were found in the basement of her family home. 

On 17 January, Mr Walshe was charged with her murder.

[19 January 2023 07:30 · Bevan Hurley]

‘What’s the best state to divorce for a man?’

In the days leading up to her disappearance on 1 January, Ana Walshe had told friends of a “big surprise” in the New Year.

She sold a rental property for cash in Revere, Boston, in late December, and had liquidated cars and other expensive possessions.

In court on Wednesday, prosecutors offered a possible explanation.

A Google search history from 27 December showed that Brian Walshe looked up: “What’s the best state to divorce for a man,” according to district attorney Lynn Beland.

Then on 1 January, Mr Walshe allegedly used his son’s iPad to lookup: “How long for someone to be missing before you inherit?”

Brian Walshe’s booking photo after his arrest by Cohasset police officers (Cohasset Police Department)

[19 January 2023 08:30 · Bevan Hurley]

Ana Walshe was first reported missing by employer – not conman husband

Head of security at Ana Walshe’s DC real estate firm told police on 4 January: “Company has contacted the husband… he has not filed a missing person report”.

Full story below.

[19 January 2023 09:30 · Bevan Hurley]

Ana Walshe told police her husband was ‘going to kill her’ 8 years before she went missing

The conman husband of missing Massachusetts woman Ana Walshethreatened to kill her and a friend nearly a decade before she disappeared, according to a police report.

Ana Walshe phoned police in Washington DC in 2014 claiming that Brian Walshe had threatened to kill her and a friend, DC Metro police told The Independent.

Ms Walshe, who was then known by her maiden name Ana Knipp, reported the death threat in August that year, according to an incident report.

The case was closed after she refused to cooperate with the police investigation, a spokesperson told The Independent.

[19 January 2023 10:30 · Bevan Hurley]

Ana Walshe’s remains were thrown in a dumpster before being shredded and incinerated, prosecutors say

Prosecutors believe Ana Walshe’s remains were thrown into a dumpster before being shredded and incinerated.

The gruesome revelation came during Brian Walshe’s arraignment for his wife’s murder on Wednesday morning

Norfolk County District Attorney Lynn Beland said Mr Walshe had been seen on surveillance footage tossing a heavy garbage bag into a dumpster near an apartment in Abington, on 3 January, according to WHDH.

When investigators reached the dumpster several day later, the contents had been picked up, and shredded and incinerated at another facility.

A spokesperson for the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office told The Independent that they believed this was how Mr Walshe had allegedly disposed of his wife’s body.