A Look into the Case of Ana Walshe

Ana and Brian Walshe (Photo via Facebook).

On January 1st, Ana Walshe, Massachusetts native, and mother of three went missing on New Year’s Day. Her husband, Brian was charged with her murder this week.

Article by Tessa Peloso, Senior Correspondent

COHASSET, Mass. - Brian Walshe, 47, husband to Ana Walshe, was convicted of her murder this week. He pleaded not guilty to killing his wife in the basement of their Cohasset home during the early hours of January 1st. 

Wales’s iPad belonging to one of his sons was confiscated and search histories contained gruesome searches. “Ten ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to”, “Can you throw away body parts”, “How long before a body starts to smell”, “ How long does DNA lasts”, “ What happens when you put body parts in ammonia”, and more disturbing searches. 

Prosecutors have stated that they have a case again Brian Walshe, although a murder conviction without a body is nearly impossible.

Walshe’s defense attorney Tracy Miner said in a statement “It is easy to charge a crime and even easier to say a person committed that crime. It is a much more difficult thing to prove it, which we will see if the prosecution can do”.

Criminologist Casey Jordan told CNN Newsroom last Wednesday, “A murder conviction without a body can be relatively easy to prove when circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. 

Brian Walshe’s search history has sparked major concern to prosecutors who found his search history. 

Walshe’s data and history on his phone showed law enforcement that he traveled to a nearby town to multiple apartment complexes, where they are accusing him of disposing evidence. 

There were ten trash bags of evidence found at these locations. Within these trash bags, there were blood stains, a hatchet, towels, rags, and a hazmat suit. Also found was Ana Walshe’s Covid-19 Vaccination card, a Prada purse, and a piece of a necklace she had been seen wearing in photos. 

Walshe has not given a confession, defense attorney Misty Marris told CNN Newsroom  “a map of forensic evidence and placing Brian Walshe in the locations where that forensic evidence was found”.