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Date set for Brian Walshe's murder trial as new judge takes the case
Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man accused of killing his wife Ana and dismembering her body in 2023, returned to court for a hearing on Monday where the tentative date for the trial was set. Walshe entered in a suit, in handcuffs, for the motion hearing in Norfolk Superior Court, where Judge Diane Freniere, newly assigned to oversee the proceedings, offered...
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Landlord suing Brian Walshe's mother for property damages related to Ana Walshe's murder
A landlord has filed a lawsuit against the family of a Massachusetts man accused of killing his wife last January. Brian Walshe is awaiting trial in the murder of his wife, Ana Walshe, at their Cohasset home. Off Route 3A, behind the trees, the secluded home now sits vacant and dark. The property owner is suing his own insurance company...
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Karen Read judge no longer presiding over Ana Walshe murder case
Judge Beverly Cannone, already presiding over one of Massachusetts’ most closely watched murder trials, is no longer in charge of another.
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DNA testing in Ana Walshe murder case nearing completion at state lab
Key questions in the Ana Walshe murder case could be answered in the coming weeks, with the state DNA lab expected to finish testing on about a dozen items in the case at the month’s end. Brian Walshe, Ana’s husband who is accused of dismembering and discarding her body in early 2023, had his appearance waived for a short...
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Who was Ana Walshe? New podcast explores life of Cohasset mom
Who was Ana Walshe? Her name has become a recognizable one for many following her disappearance and presumed death, allegedly at the hands of her husband, Brian Walshe, early last year. But who was Ana the person — not the tragic news story? That’s what we’re diving into with the latest episode of “The Searches for Ana Walshe” podcast....
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How Brian Walshe's years-long art fraud scheme unfolded, in episode 2 of our podcast
Brian Walshe has become best known for his now infamous alleged Google searches made on the day his wife, Ana, was last seen — New Year’s Day 2023. But, the murder charge that would follow in Ana Walshe’s disappearance was not Brian’s first run in with law. In episode 2 of “The Searches for Ana Walshe” podcast, we are diving…
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Introducing ‘The Searches for Ana Walshe'
Before he was charged with murder, before his arrest, before the manhunt for his wife in the swamps of Cohasset, Massachusetts, around Boston, and in Washington, D.C., there was another set of searches, prosecutors say, on Google — on their son’s iPad — starting early the morning when Brian Walshe would later say Ana Walshe went missing…
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How the search for Cohasset mom Ana Walshe unfolded 1 year ago
The murder case involving Ana Walshe has quickly become one of Massachusetts’ most infamous. But it didn’t seem to be a major criminal case when police in Cohasset first announced the mother of three was missing one year ago.
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Search yields no new info in Ana Walshe case; DNA evidence expected soon
Investigators renewed the search for the body of Ana Walshe, a missing mother from Cohasset, Massachusetts, on Tuesday as police descended on Peabody, prosecutors said. The search, by the Massachusetts State Police Special Emergency Response Team, didn’t yield any information, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office. It was prompted by two people “in the Peabody community unconnected...
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Brian Walshe, charged in wife's murder, has hearing in art fraud case
Brian Walshe — the Cohasset, Massachusetts, man charged in the murder of his wife, Ana — had a hearing in federal court on Tuesday in an art fraud case that predates the January killing of the 39-year-old mom. Walshe has been charged with first-degree murder as well as misleading a police investigation/obstruction of justice and improper conveyance of a human...