Brian Walshe

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...

Judge Beverly Cannone, already presiding over one of Massachusetts’ most closely watched murder trials, is no longer in charge of another.

The Cohasset, Massachusetts, man accused of killing his wife made a brief appearance in court on Wednesday. Ana Walshe was reported missing in January of 2023, and a few weeks later, her husband Brian Walshe was arrested on charges including murder, misleading an investigation and improperly moving a human body. He’s now being held without bail and a trial date…

Experts say that investigator Michael Proctor’s vulgar text messages about Karen Read could spell trouble for Proctor’s credibility while testifying in other cases as well, including the pending Brian Walshe murder trial, for which he is also the designated case officer.

Pulling from our extensive archive and new reporting, we’re answering exploring that and more in our new podcast, “The Searches for Ana Walshe,” hosted by NBC10 Boston anchor Colton Bradford, and Matt Fortin. Subscribe and listen to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts for a comprehensive look back at the search, new insights on what happened and...

In this episode of our true crime podcast on the killing of Ana Walshe, allegedly by her husband, we dig into what people, including Ana, have said about Brian Walshe.

Brian Walshe was active Monday in both the major criminal cases he’s involved in — he had his first hearing in months in the murder case over the alleged killing of his wife, Ana, while his lawyer in federal court appealed a sentence recently handed down over art fraud. At the status conference at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts,…

Just over a year ago, the search for Ana Walshe of Cohasset, Massachusetts, sparked widespread curiosity, concern and eventual heartbreak when it became apparent that the missing mother of three and real estate maven was dead, allegedly murdered by her husband, Brian Walshe. Amid the search for Ana — one that took investigators all over Greater Boston, from Swampscott to…

Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man accused of killing his wife on New Year’s Day 2023 and lying about where she went, was sentenced in Boston’s federal court Tuesday in a separate art fraud case. A judge sentenced Walshe to 37 months on each art fraud, to run concurrently. The 37 months will also run concurrent to any state sentence Walshe…

Brian Walshe, the Cohasset, Massachusetts, man accused of killing his wife, Ana, on New Year’s Day, received a new lawyer at a hearing on Thursday. Walshe was charged with murder over the death of his wife, whose disappearance he reported to authorities several days later, saying she’d left home early on Jan. 1 and he hadn’t heard from her...

A pretrial conference was held Thursday morning in the murder case against Brian Walshe — the Cohasset, Massachusetts, man accused of killing his wife, Ana. Walshe did not appear during Thursday’s hearing — his appearance was waived by his attorney. The conference was a discovery hearing, where both the Commonwealth and the defense gave updates on the evidence-gathering process. A…

A scheduled court hearing for Brian Walshe, who is accused of murdering his wife Ana Walshe, has been postponed for two months as prosecutors await the results of DNA evidence.  According to a joint motion filed at Norfolk Superior Court, they are currently awaiting DNA analysis from an independent laboratory. Prosecutors expect to have the results in approximately two...

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...

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...