Husband of missing Massachusetts mom-of-three Ana Walshe will appear in court TODAY
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The husband of missing Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe will appear in court today charged with her murder, nearly three weeks after she went missing on New Year’s Day.
Brian Walshe will appear in Quincy District Court in Norfolk County today where more details will emerge about Ana’s shocking disappearance, after she was set on $500,000 bond yesterday.
Prosecutors have been building a case for weeks against Brian, who bought hundreds of dollars worth of cleaning supplies after his wife went missing, and evidence is also said to include blood found in the couple’s basement and a bloody axe. .
Ana’s body has yet to be found, despite intensive searches in and around the family home in Cohasset, where she lived with her husband and three children.
Brian Walshe is already in custody on charges of misleading the police. Shown on January 9th.
Friends say the couple’s marriage was strained as a result of Ana’s grueling work schedule, which meant they spent much of their time living apart, with Ana in Washington DC and Brian and the children in Massachusetts.
Ana was also pictured without her wedding ring in some of the final photos taken before she went missing on January 1, when she was seen hugging British gin businessman Paul Walker at a book signing in DC.
In a statement on Tuesday, Norfolk District Attorney Michael W Morrissey said: “The ongoing investigation has now enabled police to obtain an arrest warrant charging Brian Walshe with the murder of his wife.”
‘Mister. Walshe will be transported to court on the murder charge.
“Additional details of the investigation and evidence in support of those charges will likely be presented at the arraignment, but will not be released at this time.”
A person who answered the phone at the office of Walshe’s attorney, Tracy Miner, said Miner would not comment on the murder charge.
Miner received an email seeking comment. He previously said his client cooperated with the investigation.
Walshe has so far denied misleading police about his wife’s disappearance.
Ana was last seen at 1:30 a.m. on January 1, when she and her husband invited friends to a New Year’s Eve party that one guest said was filled with celebratory toasts.
Cem Mutlu, who attended the party, said: ‘Brian had cooked an elaborate meal for us.
“We hug and celebrate and toast and just what you do on New Years. I was really looking forward to the New Year.
Ana, pictured with her husband Brian, has been missing since New Year’s Day.
The next day, he says that Brian called him on the phone to ask if he had “seen Ana” and that she was missing.
He was supposed to travel to Washington DC on January 1 for work, but he didn’t show up for his flight or get on his carpool to the airport.
Tishman Speyer, the real estate company she worked for, reported her missing on January 4.
A man who identified himself as the company’s head of security in Washington DC called Cohasset police to request a welfare check for her.
That man told police that he had informed Ana’s husband, Brian, that she was missing.
It contradicted Brian’s lawyer’s claim in court that he had notified her work that she was missing.
Their cell phone has not been used and there has been no activity on their credit or debit cards, police said.
The friends said there was ‘strain’ in the marriage due to their work schedule and they are now appealing to care for their children.
Ana (pictured with Paul Wharton on December 13) had stopped wearing her wedding ring weeks before she disappeared.
The Cohasset home that Ana shared with her husband, Brian, and their three children
Walshe was enjoying her work life in Washington DC and was excited for the year ahead.
Walshe is no stranger to legal trouble.
In 2018, he was convicted of fraud for stealing and attempting to sell two fake Andy Warhol paintings that he advertised as genuine.
Walshe searched for ‘how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body’ online at the time of his wife’s disappearance, investigators say, and was also caught on surveillance cameras near a dumpster next to Walshe’s home. his mother.
Prosecutors said in court that Brian Walshe was seen on surveillance video buying $450 worth of cleaning supplies at a home improvement store the day after his wife was last seen.
Walshe on his mugshot after being arrested for misleading the police
Police also found a broken knife and blood in the basement of the couple’s home, prosecutors said, though they did not say whose blood it was.
The police wanted to analyze a sample of the blood found in the bag of Ana’s three children.
Brian and Ana met in 2008 while she was working at a hotel in the Berkshires. She was the ambitious daughter of a Serbian couple who had come to the United States in search of a better life.
He was the son of a wealthy family, from which he is now separated. In court documents, his family accused him of stealing millions from his elderly father after the man suffered a stroke.
Family friends called him a “sociopath” and said that all he cared about was his father’s money.
The couple got married in Serbia in 2015 and later had three children together.
Ana joined Tishman Speyer in February of last year and accepted the position of General Manager of the company’s Washington DC office.
He had previously worked for The Mutlu Group, a real estate company near his home, run by the friend who spent New Year’s Eve with the couple. Before that, her work experience was in hotels and cleaning.