A former prosecutor says there is “more than enough evidence” to convict Brian Walshe after he was charged with murder in the disappearance of his wife Ana Walshe, even without a body.
The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that Brian Walshe is being charged with the murder of Ana Walshe after she went missing on New Year’s Day.
“Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey [announced] the issuance of a murder warrant in the death of Ana Walshe, 39, who has been missing from Cohasset since or about New Year’s Day,” said a statement from the district attorney’s office.
Brian Walshe is also being charged with improper transportation of a body, according to a spokesman for the district attorney’s office.
BRIAN WALSHE CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF ANA WALSHE IN MASSACHUSETTS
Brian and Ana Walshe seen in September 2016.
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Brian Walshe was previously charged with misleading a police investigation after he allegedly lied about where he had been.
According to investigators, Brian Walshe told them that he traveled to stores like CVS and Whole Foods, but may not have actually been there.
Brian Walshe also did not say that he used $450 in cash to buy cleaning supplies at a Home Depot store in Rockland, Massachusetts.
Ana Walshe on her wedding day at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Newbury St., Boston, Massachusetts, Monday, December 21, 2015.
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Court documents indicate he was seen on surveillance video “wearing a black surgical mask, blue surgical gloves and making a cash purchase” to purchase items such as mops, duct tape and cloths.
According to investigators, a bloody and damaged knife was found in the basement of the couple’s Cohasset home.
Two law enforcement officers also told CNN that Brian Walshe searched online for “how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body” and how to dismember a body.
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Brian and Ana Walshe pose for a photo in Boston Public Gardens, Boston, Massachusetts on their wedding day Monday December 21, 2015
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“I’m glad they finally arrested him because there is more than enough evidence,” former Assistant US Attorney Neama Rahmani told Fox News Digital. “I know they’re looking at different dump sites and they found like a hacksaw, some other tools that they think were used to dismember the body.”
He said police are likely to press Brian Walshe and ask him for the location of a potential body, but said authorities likely have a large amount of evidence.
“I’m not saying that the police and prosecutors need a body in this case because there is a lot of other evidence, direct, circumstantial,” Rahmani said.
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Mugshot of Brian Walshe.
(Cohasset Police Department)
Searching a waste facility near the home of Brian Walshe’s mother, investigators recovered a hacksaw, hatchet, rug and a bloody garbage bag, according to WBZ.
Criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos told Fox News Digital that authorities probably have DNA evidence that is consistent with Ana Walshe.
“So they feel safe enough based on what they found there, at the transfer station or in the house itself,” Geragos said, adding that “one of the worst facts is how do you dispose of a 115-pound body if you that, in fact, is in the search bar of your computer.”
Geragos said Brian Walshe’s “big concern now is not improving his sentence, his big concern is what evidence do they have and how are you going to explain it.”
Iris Eytan, a criminal defense lawyer who has represented clients like Barry Morphew, whose murder charges were dismissed after his wife went missing in 2020, said the public should be careful about jumping to conclusions.
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“I think it’s very important that the media and the public be extremely cautious about jumping to conclusions,” Eytan said. “We know maybe 1% of what the prosecution knows and the prosecution knows maybe 20% about, you know, what events, you know, led to her disappearance.”
