Brian Walshe buys cleaning supplies after ‘murder of wife Ana’
Surveillance footage shows Massachusetts man Brian Walshe buying cleaning supplies and tossing a garbage bag into a dumpster hours after his wife Ana was killed.
The footage was made public yesterday in court documents filed as part of the murder case against Brian, who prosecutors say beat Ana to death and then dismembered her in the basement of their home.
It was also revealed that Ana, a mother of three, had been having an affair with an unknown man for several months. The man told police the pair spent Thanksgiving together in Dublin.
By the time of her death, Ana had become the family’s sole breadwinner. She worked in real estate in Washington DC while her husband remained in Massachusetts with their three young sons.
Brian Walshe is shown purchasing cleaning supplies, a hacksaw, ax and other items from Lowes on January 1, hours after he allegedly killed his wife Ana.
Walshe pushes his cart through the home improvement store. He is accused of killing and dismembering Ana around 4:30 am on January 1
January 3: Walshe is seen wearing a COVID mask as she tosses a heavy garbage bag into a dumpster outside a Massachusetts apartment complex
Brian was awaiting sentencing for a fraud conviction after stealing an Andy Warhol painting and then passing it off as real.
Friends say Ana was ready to leave him and burst into tears at a dinner in the days before she disappeared.
The new information about the affair was included in a search warrant for the house that went public yesterday.
Police say Ana was killed around 4 a.m. on January 1, three hours after she said goodbye to her friend and former boss they called in the New Year.
In the hours following her death, Brian is accused of using his son’s iPad to search Google for “how to dispose of a body” and “how long does it take for a body to start smelling.”
Yesterday his lawyer admitted that the house searches were ‘problematic’.
Ana, a mother of three, had been having an affair with an unknown man for several months. The man told police the pair spent Thanksgiving together in Dublin
By the time of her death, Ana had become the family’s sole breadwinner. She worked in real estate in Washington DC while her husband remained in Massachusetts with their three young sons after she was convicted of fraud
The next day, he visited several stores, including Home Depot, Lowes, and CVS, where he bought a combination of cleaning supplies, plastic sheets, safety suits, an ax, and a hacksaw.
Brian was seen in the days after visiting the dumpsters of apartment complexes near his mother’s house.
It is the prosecution who claims that Ana’s dismembered remains were in the bags, but that they had been removed by garbage services and incinerated by the time police searched the dumpsters.
They discovered items of clothing and jewelry — including the Prada boots, Hermes watch and Gucci necklace she was wearing when she was last seen alive — along with traces of her blood and DNA.
Today, Brian’s lawyer suggested that she was either killed by someone else or she chose to disappear. “It’s been four months since she was last seen. As your honor knows, a person is not presumed dead because they have been missing for seven years, as it is easy for a single person to disappear if they want to disappear. “No body has been found. There’s no indication if she died, how she died. There was no murder weapon. There’s no motive.’
Walshe will appear in court today. He shook his head as the charges were read
Yesterday, Brian’s lawyer admitted that his mother hired a private investigator to track down Ana in Washington DC because she suspected she was having an affair.
However, she claimed that Brian had nothing to do with it and had no reason to suspect his wife of infidelity until she disappeared.
They claimed that Ana could have ‘disappeared’ because she wanted to.
Prosecutors have also pointed to the fact that Brian would receive $2.7 million in life insurance payouts in the case of his wife’s death as a motive.
His lawyers rejected that suggestion yesterday, saying instead that he had “no need” for money because his mother was so wealthy.
Brian returns to court in August.
Today, Brian’s lawyer suggested that she was either killed by someone else or she chose to disappear. “It’s been four months since she was last seen. As your honor knows, a person is not presumed dead because they have been missing for seven years, as it is easy for a single person to disappear if they want to disappear. “No body has been found. There’s no indication if she died, how she died. There was no murder weapon. There’s no motive.’