MA ANA WALSHE: Missing from Cohasset, MA- 1 Jan 2023 - Age 39 *ARREST*

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Missing Cohasset woman Ana Walshe last seen on New Year's Day​

Cohasset police are looking for Ana Walshe, a missing woman who was last seen early in the morning on New Year's Day.


Walshe lives in Cohasset with her family, but she spends the workweeks in Washington DC. Her husband was not able to speak with WBZ-TV as he cares for their three young children, but family and friends near and far are growing desperate for her safe return.

"We're doing anything and everything, turning the world over to find her," said Alissa Kirby, Ana's friend in Washington DC.

Concern is growing, from Cohasset to the nation's capital, over her whereabouts and well-being. She works as a commercial real estate executive in DC, but her greatest passion and priority - her young sons in Massachusetts.

Police say the 39-year-old was last seen at her home in Cohasset shortly after midnight Sunday. Happy New Year messages were never returned.
 
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Apparent ransom note revealed in Ana Walshe murder investigation documents​

Police have released the records from the investigation into the murder of Ana Walshe, including what appears to be a ransom note sent to police.

Over 800 pages of details have been made public in the investigation of Ana Walshe's murder and one piece stands out from the rest.
A Cohasset detective said he received an email from a Richard Walker on January 7 — days after Ana disappeared — asking for money.

"We have the so named Ana Walshe with us here," the note said. "We had a deal worth $127,000.. she messed up.. we have her here with us and if she doesn't pay the money…then she'll never be back, and we know that the police and the FBI are involved.. good luck finding us."

Police said they immediately thought the email was suspicious because it had no instructions on how or when to respond.

Also in the investigation paperwork were details of an interview with Brian Walshe inside his home when police say one of his kids came into the room holding Ana's sunglasses.

Walshe then asked the kid where they found the sunglasses.

Following the interview, police searched the home again. The only things inside that seemed to belong to Ana were some clothes and the sunglasses.
 
Prosecutor: Brian Walshe killed, dismembered wife Ana Walshe 'rather than divorce' her
Major developments came this week in the case of a missing Massachusetts mom, who prosecutors now say was killed by her husband and her body disposed of.

Explosive allegations were laid out in a Quincy District Court courtroom Wednesday when the prosecution said that Brian Walshe murdered his wife, Ana Walshe because he wanted to end their marriage.

“Rather than divorce, it is believed that Brian Walshe dismembered Ana Walshe and discarded her body,” the prosecutor said.
The prosecution alleged that Brian Walshe took her remains to multiple places and showed surveillance video of him throwing trash bags into at least two dumpsters.

Investigators said in the 10 trash bags they recovered from a landfill in Peabody, they found a hacksaw, a hatchet, towels, rags and slippers with stains consistent with blood, as well as cleaning agents. They also found some of Ana Walshe’s personal items, including the boots she was last seen wearing and a purse with her COVID-19 vaccination card inside.

Key evidence, including blood and a knife, were found in the basement of the couple's home after investigators executed a search warrant late last week, according to authorities.

Officials said of the numerous materials collected during the investigation, both Brian and Ana Walshe’s DNA were found on them.

“The state crime lab performed testing on certain selected items that were recovered from those trash bags," the prosecutor said. "There was human blood found on them and then sent for DNA testing. The findings are as follows: On the slippers, in the interior, Brian and Ana Walshe were contributors to the DNA on those slippers with blood on them.”
Legal experts say this evidence could become a major part of the criminal trial since a body still hasn't been found.


Brian Walshe has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bond. He is expected to appear back in court next month.
 
Prosecutor: Brian Walshe killed, dismembered wife Ana Walshe 'rather than divorce' her
Major developments came this week in the case of a missing Massachusetts mom, who prosecutors now say was killed by her husband and her body disposed of.

Explosive allegations were laid out in a Quincy District Court courtroom Wednesday when the prosecution said that Brian Walshe murdered his wife, Ana Walshe because he wanted to end their marriage.


The prosecution alleged that Brian Walshe took her remains to multiple places and showed surveillance video of him throwing trash bags into at least two dumpsters.

Investigators said in the 10 trash bags they recovered from a landfill in Peabody, they found a hacksaw, a hatchet, towels, rags and slippers with stains consistent with blood, as well as cleaning agents. They also found some of Ana Walshe’s personal items, including the boots she was last seen wearing and a purse with her COVID-19 vaccination card inside.

Key evidence, including blood and a knife, were found in the basement of the couple's home after investigators executed a search warrant late last week, according to authorities.

Officials said of the numerous materials collected during the investigation, both Brian and Ana Walshe’s DNA were found on them.


Legal experts say this evidence could become a major part of the criminal trial since a body still hasn't been found.


Brian Walshe has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bond. He is expected to appear back in court next month.
Nice guy. Not. Real smart. Not.
 

Feds want Cohasset murder suspect Brian Walshe to forfeit more money in art fraud case​

Federal prosecutors have seized two bank accounts linked to Brian Walshe and are asking a judge to forfeit a relatively small amount of cash from them — a little less than $9,000 — according to recently filed court documents.

The filings come in the federal criminal case against Walshe involving his selling counterfeit Andy Warhol art. He pled guilty in the case in 2021 and is still awaiting sentencing. His victims included a college friend, his own dentist, and a Beverly Hills art dealer who owned the largest Warhol gallery in the world.

In the federal case, a judge had already approved a forfeiture order requiring Walshe to forfeit $225,000 in cash and turn over the original Warhol paintings.

In the new filing, federal prosecutors are asking the judge to add the cash from the newly-revealed accounts to the forfeiture order.


It's not just the federal government that is after Walshe for money. The estate of his late father is also pursuing Walshe over claims that he stole from the estate.

And separately, Walshe is behind bars awaiting trial for murder.

Walshe's attorney did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
 

Published July 7, 2023 1:51pm EDT
By Chris Eberhart | Fox News

A foreclosure notice has been taped on Ana Walshe's Washington, D.C., home as federal prosecutors seized two bank accounts from her husband, who is charged with her murder in Massachusetts.

Winter Hill Bank filed legal action in June to foreclose on unit 104 at 20 Vine St. (also known as 20 Huss Court) in Lynn, Massachusetts, which is in Ana Walshe's name.

No payments were made in March, April, May and June, and there is an outstanding balance of $2,615.39 from a July 2018 loan, according to letter from the bank addressed to Walshe at her Washington, D.C., residence.

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Meanwhile, federal prosecutors seized two of Brian's bank accounts totaling about $7,842 as part of a separate federal case for selling counterfeit Andy Warhol paintings, according to a June 23 filing in Massachusetts federal court.

The judge presiding over that case ordered Brian Walshe to forfeit $225,000 in cash and turn over the original Warhol paintings.

At the time of the alleged murder, Brian Walshe was on house arrest as part of his pre-sentencing probation, which was an underlying issue in Brian and Ana's marriage, court to court filings in the murder case.
 

Lawyers ask court to delay accused murderer's Warhol art fraud case as suspect awaits trial in Ana Walshe murder​

The case of a Cohasset man accused of selling two phony Andy Warhol paintings returned to court Tuesday as he awaits trial in the murder of his wife Ana Walshe.


Brian Walshe is awaiting sentencing in a federal case after he agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud, interstate transportation for a scheme to defraud and unlawful monetary transaction.

The federal charges related to a criminal case that began in 2018 when Walshe was accused of selling two fake Andy Warhol paintings on eBay to a buyer in Los Angeles for $80,000. In a forfeiture order last summer, Walshe was ordered to turn over those paintings along with $225,000.

The prosecution and the defense asked the court to delay the case because of the pending murder charge against Brian Walshe.

"The parties are considering whether they might agree on a proposal for the court's consideration, which might resolve the federal case while the state case is proceeding," the court document read.https://www.wcvb.com/article/cohasset-murder-suspect-brian-walshe-money-art-fraud/44402931
 

Search yields no new info in Ana Walshe case; DNA evidence expected soon​

Investigators renewed the search for the body of Ana Walshe, a missing mother from Cohasset, Massachusetts, on Tuesday as police descended on Peabody, prosecutors said.

The search, by the Massachusetts State Police Special Emergency Response Team, didn't yield any information, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office.

It was prompted by two people "in the Peabody community unconnected to the prosecution of Brian Walshe" who'd contacted investigators to say that the area could be of interest to them.

Also Tuesday, prosecutors in the Walshe case submitted a memo saying they are "awaiting DNA analysis from an independent laboratory and [are] expected to have those results in approximately two weeks," The Boston Globe reported, though they didn't elaborate on what DNA was being tested.
 

Search yields no new info in Ana Walshe case; DNA evidence expected soon​

Investigators renewed the search for the body of Ana Walshe, a missing mother from Cohasset, Massachusetts, on Tuesday as police descended on Peabody, prosecutors said.

The search, by the Massachusetts State Police Special Emergency Response Team, didn't yield any information, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office.

It was prompted by two people "in the Peabody community unconnected to the prosecution of Brian Walshe" who'd contacted investigators to say that the area could be of interest to them.

Also Tuesday, prosecutors in the Walshe case submitted a memo saying they are "awaiting DNA analysis from an independent laboratory and [are] expected to have those results in approximately two weeks," The Boston Globe reported, though they didn't elaborate on what DNA was being tested.
What kind of Greek or mumbo jumo is that?

Two people in the Peabody community unconnected to the prosecution of Walshe contacted investigators to say an area could be of interest to them...? Bad reporting or wording or deliberately cryptic from LE or something.

Do they mean prosecutors didn't call for the Special Emergency Response Team or the area to be seached? But even more specifically the prosecutors of Brian Walsh didn't call for it. Or does it mean two people in teh community called for an area they felt could be of interest to be searched but it did not relate to this case? HUH? If not related to his case then why would they have someone searching there for Ana Walshe? WHAT???

It makes no flipping sense. Only thing I can think of is someone to exonerate him, two people called about where she might be but it doesn't relate to the prosecution of him or those prosecutors because it wasn't him? Doesn't say that but WTH does it say or mean?

I'm tired, done with my sixth work day in a row. Maybe I'm missing something. It's entirely possible.
 

New DNA evidence expected to be discussed in Ana Walshe murder case​

Attorneys discussed their progress in sharing evidence but revealed little new information to the public on Thursday during a pre-trial hearing in the case of Brian Walshe, a Cohasset, Massachusetts, man who is accused of murdering his wife, Ana Walshe, and dismembering her body.

Items from the high-profile case were sent to an independent laboratory for DNA analysis in August. In court, attorneys said some of the testing at that lab was paused pending a visit from an expert.

They also said a state crime lab has finished its report but that wasn't provided to both parties yet.

Attorneys said they were "cooperatively" exchanging discovery materials and predicted that phase of preparation for trial could be completed by the end of the year.

Other evidence previously revealed by the prosecution includes a lengthy list of internet searches and precisely when each was entered, starting in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, the day Ana Walshe was last seen alive. Norfolk Assistant District Attorney Lynn Beland said the searches were conducted on Brian Walshe's phone and an iPad belonging to one of the couple's sons.

Searches included:
  • How long before a body starts to smell?" at 4:55 a.m.
  • "How to stop a body from decomposing?" at 4:58 a.m.
  • "10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to," at 5:47 a.m.
Prosecutors also have video of Brian Walshe straining to place large trash bags into dumpsters, the purchase of three rugs at a Home Goods store in Norwell and a large purchase of cleaning supplies at a hardware store.https://www.wcvb.com/article/brian-...dence-of-dismemberment-of-ana-walshe/42552030
 

Peter Blandino
The Patriot Ledger
November 9, 2023

DEDHAM − The state's crime lab has finished analyzing evidence in the death of Cohasset's Ana Walshe, lawyers said during a hearing in Superior Court, where Walshe's husband, Brian, is scheduled to be tried on murder charges.

Walshe is accused of killing Ana, who prosecutors say was last seen on the morning of Jan. 1, 2023.

Lawyers at Thursday's pretrial hearing discussed issues related to discovery, the process by which both parties share evidence they plan to present at trial.

Brian Walshe's defense attorney Tracy Miner said she expected discovery to be complete by the end of the year.

In April, Walshe pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, misleading a police officer and improper conveyance of a human body.

The next hearing in the high-profile case is scheduled for Jan. 23. Walshe, who did not appear in court Thursday, also waived his right to be present at the January hearing.

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More at link. ~Summer
 

Published November 8, 2023 12:58pm EST
By Chris Eberhart Fox News

One of the three court cases against suspected murderer Brian Walshe was dropped this week.

Walshe was scheduled to go to trial in probate court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, for allegedly destroying his father's will and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his estate.

But the case was dismissed on Monday "at both parties' request," according to court records.

Walshe's relatives, who filed the legal action in December 2018, said they didn't want to drain more money into the case because even if they win, they don't think they'll be able to recover the money, local news outlet WCVB 5 reported.

Walshe was accused of pillaging the will of his late father, Dr. Thomas Walshe, and selling his art, rugs, jewelry and car, according to court records, which show how Brian dragged out the trial for nearly five years.

All of his assets were seized over the summer as Walshe defends against accusations that he killed his wife, Ana Walshe, on New Year's Day, and disposed of her body in a high-profile murder case.

"It will be a useless waste of estate funds to pay legal fees in a trial," according to the motion to dismiss the probate case, which was obtained by WCVB 5.

"Even if they are successful on the petition, it will only cost the estate and not result in the return of funds taken by Brian Walshe."
 

Published November 8, 2023 12:58pm EST
By Chris Eberhart Fox News

One of the three court cases against suspected murderer Brian Walshe was dropped this week.

Walshe was scheduled to go to trial in probate court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, for allegedly destroying his father's will and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his estate.

But the case was dismissed on Monday "at both parties' request," according to court records.

Walshe's relatives, who filed the legal action in December 2018, said they didn't want to drain more money into the case because even if they win, they don't think they'll be able to recover the money, local news outlet WCVB 5 reported.

Walshe was accused of pillaging the will of his late father, Dr. Thomas Walshe, and selling his art, rugs, jewelry and car, according to court records, which show how Brian dragged out the trial for nearly five years.

All of his assets were seized over the summer as Walshe defends against accusations that he killed his wife, Ana Walshe, on New Year's Day, and disposed of her body in a high-profile murder case.

"It will be a useless waste of estate funds to pay legal fees in a trial," according to the motion to dismiss the probate case, which was obtained by WCVB 5.

"Even if they are successful on the petition, it will only cost the estate and not result in the return of funds taken by Brian Walshe."
Good logic, at least. I've seen people spend far more in litigation than they ever have a chance of recovering.
 
The thief has no pay to benefit the case. The ONLY one to come out good on this one is the attorney. It definitely would be a waste of time and money. He has nothing. How would they win anything? He's already spent it all.
No but he did wrong and got a case dropped. No one, even attorneys, pursue anything for the good of all and the principle of anything these days. Just shows the corrupt or those thinking about it they can get away with it. Where is the pro bono here? Uh-huh. Or reduced rate. JUST for what is right and to even gain attention for doing so. Nope.

It is a sad world. And when they settle, they don't help change ir or have it end up being new case law.
 
No but he did wrong and got a case dropped. No one, even attorneys, pursue anything for the good of all and the principle of anything these days. Just shows the corrupt or those thinking about it they can get away with it. Where is the pro bono here? Uh-huh. Or reduced rate. JUST for what is right and to even gain attention for doing so. Nope.

It is a sad world. And when they settle, they don't help change ir or have it end up being new case law.
but why would they waste money on a case they can't win? He's going to prison so what would it solve? It fixes nothing at all by going forward with it, except attorneys making any $$ that might have gone to his kids if there is any to have. The $$ he stole from their dad is long gone. He was down to having to rent a home, so no assets to be had. Who would win? Everybody already knows he did it.
 
but why would they waste money on a case they can't win? He's going to prison so what would it solve? It fixes nothing at all by going forward with it, except attorneys making any $$ that might have gone to his kids if there is any to have. The $$ he stole from their dad is long gone. He was down to having to rent a home, so no assets to be had. Who would win? Everybody already knows he did it.
No one and I don't disagree as usual with that thought. But am talking it shouldn't be this way. Money aside this is fraud, theft, etc. and it should be the system going after him and STOPPING it. It is just all wrong. Crime DOES pay and it shouldn't. Of course just something take years upon years and the expense is its own problem.

I guess I am also saying if money was NO issue and one had plenty that could never run out, I'd darned well pursue it relentlessly. I am not saying that is the case or almost ever the case but it shouldn't be that hard. He committed a crime. First and foremost. Kind of like in a divorce where the courts act like nothing is a crime which IS one and would be in any other world. Kind of like "domestics" too. it IS assault, why is it different because it is "in the family" just like this was with the parent's assets/ money?

Just saying a CRIME is a crime and where is LE when it comes to that? Nope, probably told it is a family matter. It shouldn't take this.

But I'm talking a bigger picture. It shouldn't cost them this to fight this anyhow in a right world. He'd be arrested and convicted and then they'd have that case to file using that fact OR the could just be happy he was convicted AND/OR then restitution could come into play.

BUT I am going on and talking about a bigger thing. It just shouldn't be this way. Lost causes and world though because it IS that way and won't change.
 

Brian Walshe, Cohasset man accused of murdering wife, Ana, gets new defense attorney​

A Massachusetts man who is accused of murdering his wife nearly a year ago and dismembering her body is getting a new lawyer.

On Tuesday, attorney Larry Tipton told 5 Investigates that he was asked to defend Brian Walshe, of Cohasset, because he needs a public defender.
 

Nobody has seen Ana Walshe alive since her New Year’s Eve dinner party one year ago.


Those charging her husband, Cohasset man Brian Walshe, with her death, said he used his son’s iPad to look up how to kill his wife, dismember her and how he could get away with it in the days before and after he killed her, then lied to police during questioning after her employer reported her missing.

A bloody knife was found in the family’s basement during an investigation, prosecutors later said. Surveillance footage was discovered of Walshe buying hundreds of dollars of cleaning supplies the day after his wife’s suspected killing, the prosecution said.

Dumpsters outside Brian Walshe’s mother’s Swampscott home were also searched and detectives found personal items of Ana’s, a hacksaw and rugs similar to ones in the family’s home, prosecutors said.

But Ana Walshe’s body has not been found.

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Recap of case at link. ~Summer
 

Nobody has seen Ana Walshe alive since her New Year’s Eve dinner party one year ago.


Those charging her husband, Cohasset man Brian Walshe, with her death, said he used his son’s iPad to look up how to kill his wife, dismember her and how he could get away with it in the days before and after he killed her, then lied to police during questioning after her employer reported her missing.

A bloody knife was found in the family’s basement during an investigation, prosecutors later said. Surveillance footage was discovered of Walshe buying hundreds of dollars of cleaning supplies the day after his wife’s suspected killing, the prosecution said.

Dumpsters outside Brian Walshe’s mother’s Swampscott home were also searched and detectives found personal items of Ana’s, a hacksaw and rugs similar to ones in the family’s home, prosecutors said.

But Ana Walshe’s body has not been found.

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Recap of case at link. ~Summer
This may be a no body case but they have imo a lot of slam dunk evidence as pointed out here. Let's get him prosecuted already!!
 

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