COHASSET, Mass. – Missing mother Ana Walshe disappeared on New Year’s Day, and now her husband, Brian, has been accused of misleading investigators investigating the case.
Prosecutors revealed at the 47-year-old man’s arraignment Monday that blood and a damaged knife were found in the basement of the family’s Cohasset home.
After Ana Walshe, 39, failed to report for work as a regional manager at real estate firm Tishman Speyer on Jan. 4, the company notified police, prosecutors said.
Here’s what we know about Brian Walshe:
MISSES ANA WALSHE: THE ROMANCE WITH BRIAN WALSHE WAS ‘LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT’
Ana Walshe disappeared on New Year’s Day and her husband, Brian Walshe, was arrested on January 8, 2023 for misleading investigators.
(Anna Walshe/Facebook/Ana Walshe/Instagram)
What does Brian Walshe do for a living?
Brian Walshe was under house arrest awaiting sentencing for selling fake Andy Warhol paintings when his wife went missing.
On Walshe’s LinkedIn profile, he lists three jobs, including LETS CFO: Effective Teamwork and Leadership Strategies and Capital Letter Consulting. None of the alleged companies appear to have a website.
Brian and Ana Walshe seen in September 2016.
(Anna Walshe/Facebook)
Court documents in his federal arts fraud case say he graduated from boarding school and attended Carnegie Mellon University, but did not graduate.
SCHEDULE OF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ANA WALSHE AND THE ARREST OF BRIAN WALSHE
Marriage
Brian Walshe married Ana on December 21, 2015, at a church in Boston in front of a few dozen family and friends, according to a witness.
The couple met in 2008, and Ana described their chemistry as “love at first sight” in federal court documents.
Brian and Ana Walshe toast their wedding day in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday, December 21, 2015.
(Obtained by Fox News Digital)
The couple had three children who are now 2, 4 and 6 years old, and Ana Walshe described her husband as a doting father.
Is Brian Walshe a Sociopath?
Friends of Walshe’s late neurologist father, Dr Thomas Morecroft Walshe, characterized his son as a troubled sociopath in affidavits filed in Plymouth Probate Court.
Jeffrey Ornstein said the esteemed doctor confided in him that his son had been a long-term patient at the Austen Riggs Center mental hospital, where he was “diagnosed as a sociopath.”
ANA WALSHE’S HUSBAND, BRIAN WALSHE, IS A ‘SOCIOPATH’ AND ‘PHYSICALLY VIOLENT:’ COURT DOCUMENTS
Ana and Brian Walshe blow out the candles on a birthday cake with their children in an April 2020 Instagram post.
(Anna Walshe/Instagram)
Dr. Fred Pescatore, another close friend of the elder Walshe, described his son as a “sociopath” who was also a “very angry and physically violent person.”
In 2014, Ana Walshe called 911 about her future husband and reported that he had threatened to kill her and her friends. The case was closed after she refused to cooperate with prosecutors.
The Andy Warhol scam
Brian Walshe pleaded guilty in April 2021 to selling fake Andy Warhol paintings from 1978 to an art dealer in California and a buyer in France.
He had stolen the originals from a college friend and then made copies that he tried to pass off as authentic.
The fake Andy Warhols that Brian Walshe allegedly sold to an art dealer in California.
(Justice Department)
A Boston judge was about to sentence him out of jail for the brazen art scam until it emerged he may have embezzled money from his late father’s estate.
Father’s will: ‘My best wishes but nothing more’
After allegedly destroying a signed will that left him “my best wishes, but nothing more,” Brian Walshe had himself appointed representative of his father’s estate and sold his belongings, according to court documents.
He allegedly ended up with more than $100,000 from his father’s bank accounts and made additional money from the sale of valuable household items, including paintings by Joan Miro and Salvador Dali, oriental rugs and even a car.
A copy of the will turned up, and Brian Walshe was removed as executor before he could sell his father’s real estate.
Walshe allegedly stole $1 million from his father more than a decade before his death in 2018, leading to their estrangement, according to court documents.
Brian’s Story Doesn’t Add Up: State Prosecutors
Brian Walshe was arraigned Monday in Quincy District Court for misleading investigators about his whereabouts after the disappearance of his wife and ordered to withhold $500,000 cash bail.
Brian Walshe arrives at Quincy District Court in Massachusetts on Monday, January 9, 2023 for his arraignment on a charge that he misled investigators.
(David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)
He allegedly told police his wife had an emergency work meeting in Washington, DC, and left their Cohasset home on a carpool early on New Year’s Day to catch a flight.
MISSING MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN, ANA WALSHE’S MOTHER BREAKS SILENCE: ‘CLEARLY, THERE MUST BE SOME PROBLEMS’
But prosecutors said there was no record of her taking a carpool and that his cellphone rang twice at a tower near his home on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2 after he said he left for the airport.
He claimed he ran errands for his mother at Whole Foods and CVS the next day, but police said he did not appear on any surveillance video at the stores.
Ana Walshe holds her three children in an Instagram post from October 2022.
(Anna Walshe/Instagram)
Brian Walshe did not tell investigators that he traveled to Home Depot on January 2 and paid $450 in cash for cleaning supplies. The trip was in violation of the conditions of his house arrest, according to police.
CNN reported that Brian Walshe had conducted Internet searches on how to dispose of a 115-pound woman and how to dismember a body, citing law enforcement sources.
high powered lawyer
Brian Walshe has retained attorney Tracey Miner to represent him in the latest charge of misleading investigators.
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Miner, a prominent lawyer in Boston, also represented Gordon “Gordie” Ernst in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal and a former FBI agent who was convicted of aiding crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger.
She did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
