SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. – Police investigating the disappearance of Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe found bloody garbage bags, an ax and a hacksaw at a disposal facility about an hour from the family’s home, according to a new report.
Her husband, Brian Walshe, 47, is being held on $500,000 bond on one count of misleading investigators.
Sources told WBZ-TV that a used rug and cleaning supplies were also among the items recovered for the test.
The grisly find was made at a Peabody garbage transfer station on Newbury Street, about 45 miles north of the missing mother’s Cohasset home, according to the report.
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Brian Walshe appeared in Quincy District Court on January 9, 2023, in his arraignment for allegedly misleading investigators about his whereabouts after his wife, Ana Walshe, went missing on New Year’s Day in Cohasset, Massachusetts.
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The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office issued a press release Tuesday about the evidence that had been collected.
“Search activity conducted north of Boston yesterday resulted in the collection of a number of items, which will now be subject to processing and testing to determine if they have probative value to this investigation,” the statement said.
A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, David Traub, would not confirm the items obtained from the trash or reveal where they were found.
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The local television station reported that investigators in protective suits and police officers with dogs were seen searching the facility on Monday.
Ana Walshe, left, has been missing since New Year’s Day. Her husband, Brian Walshe, right, was seen leaving his home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2023, as police returned to search the property.
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Ana Walshe, 39, a mother of three, was last seen on New Year’s Day but was not reported missing until January 4 when she failed to report to work at real estate development firm Tishman Speyer in Washington, DC.
Prosecutors revealed in court Monday at Brian Walshe’s arraignment that they found blood in the basement of the family’s home and a damaged knife.
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Brian Walshe allegedly also went shopping at Home Depot on January 2 and paid $450 in cash for cleaning supplies.
General view of the Home Depot at 1149 Hingham St. in Rockland, Massachusetts on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. According to an affidavit, Brian Walshe may have picked up cleaning supplies here after his wife was last seen.
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The art con man’s trip to the home improvement store violated the conditions of his house arrest.
He is awaiting sentencing for selling a pair of fake Andy Warhol paintings for $80,000 and is not allowed to leave the family home without court permission.
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The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said in the news release that investigators would not search public areas Tuesday.
The couple’s three children, ages 2, 4 and 6, are in state custody, a law enforcement source told Boston 25 News.
CNN reported that Brian Walshe had conducted Internet searches on how to dispose of the body of a 115-pound woman and how to dismember a body, citing law enforcement sources.
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Brian Walshe’s attorney, Tracy Miner, declined to comment.
“I am not giving press interviews or responding to inquiries as my focus at this time is to defend my client in court,” he told Fox News on Monday.
