Clean-shaven Brian Walshe arrives at court to be charged with murder for the death of his wife Ana, as prosecutors reveal he suspected she had a CASE and hired a private investigator to follow her
- Walshe is accused of murdering his wife Ana on New Year’s Day
- Her remains were never found – police say they were burned
Brian Walshe suspected his wife Ana was having an affair and had hired a private investigator to follow her in the months before her murder, prosecutors said in new lawsuits today.
Walshe will appear in court this morning in Boston, Massachusetts, on charges of first-degree murder.
He was seen arriving clean-shaven, with a new haircut and in a neat shirt and sweater – a stark contrast to his scruffy appearance at previous hearings.
Police say he killed Ana at their home in Cohasset in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Today, prosecutors alleged his motive – he suspected his wife, who had started a successful real estate career in another state, was cheating on him.
They say he hired an investigator to follow Ana in the months before her death, though it’s unclear what that investigator discovered.
A clean-shaven Brian Walshe at Norfolk Superior Court on Thursday. He pleaded not guilty to the January 1 murder of his wife, missing Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe
Police say he killed Ana at their home in Cohasset in the early hours of New Year’s Day and then disposed of her body in a bin
By December 2022, it had become clear that Mr. Walshe suspected his wife of having an affair. He regularly visited the Instagram page of one of her male friends.
“On Dec. 26, his mother — with his instructions — obtained and hired a private investigator to guard Ana Walshe in Washington DC,” Assistant Norfolk County District Attorney Greg Connor said today.
Walshe had previously been charged with fraud for allegedly selling counterfeit paintings.
He was out on bail when Ana died and was unable to leave the state of Massachusetts.
To keep the family afloat, Ana moved to Washington DC full-time to focus on her real estate career.
She spent the work week there and returned to Massachusetts on weekends to spend time with her husband and their three young children.
According to prosecutors today, days before she was last seen alive, Ana collapsed while having dinner with a friend in DC.
“She became unusually upset and told her boyfriend he was going to be locked up… she was willing to leave him and take the kids to Washington DC,” Connor said.
Ana’s remains were never found – police believe they were collected by garbage services and burned before they got to them – but traces of her blood were found in a dumpster along with the clothes she was last wearing.
Walshe had also performed incriminating Google searches on their son’s iPad, according to prosecutors, including “how to dispose of a body.”
Walshe has pleaded not guilty to murdering and dismembering his wife’s body.
Walshe at the defendant’s table today. He shook his head as the charges were read
Ana with the couple’s three young sons