Source: The Boston Globe
- Ana Walshe, a mother of three, has been missing since the New Year.
- Ana’s husband, Brian told police she left their home for a flight to Washington, DC for her work but authorities have now accused him of misleading investigators.
- In 2018, Brian Walshe was indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly selling fake artwork online.
Ana Walshe has been missing since the New Year
According to an affidavit containing Brian Walshe’s comments to police, he and his wife held a New Year’s Eve supper at their residence for a friend named Gem.
According to the affidavit, Brian and Ana Walshe went to bed shortly after the buddy left, either at 1 or 1:30 a.m. He informed authorities Ana Walshe claimed she had a work emergency and had to fly to Washington for work the following morning.
She typically left between 6 and 7 a.m. in an Uber, Lyft, or taxi for the airport. The affidavit also indicates that he informed police that a babysitter came in the afternoon and that he left the house to acquire groceries at around three o’clock.
The days after her disappearance
When Ana Walshe failed to arrive for work, her employer, Tishman Speyer, reported her absence to the police. The defense lawyer for Brian Walshe claims that he called her place of employment to find out if anyone knew of her whereabouts.
Ana Walshe’s residence was visited by Cohasset Police on January 4 to assess her well-being. On January 5, Cohasset Police made the announcement that Ana Walshe was missing and requested assistance from the public. She was last seen “shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day,” according to the police.
K-9 cops and search and rescue teams joined a major police hunt for Walshe on January 6 in the wooded regions close to her home. A day later, the Cohasset Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police declared that the search was concluded.
Brian Walshe was arrested by the police and charged with misleading the investigation
According to a statement from the police, Brian Walshe was detained on January 8 and accused of misrepresenting an investigation. When Brian Walshe was charged with misleading police, he entered a not-guilty plea in court.
The prosecution said that there was no proof that Ana Walshe left their home on January 1 to take a rideshare. Additionally, the prosecutor claimed that after obtaining a search warrant for their house, detectives discovered blood and a bloody knife in the basement.
The next hearing was scheduled for February 9 and the judge set the bail amount at $500k cash. Brian Walshe’s statements to police were a “clear attempt to mislead and delay investigators,” according to the affidavit.
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The latest update on Ana Walshe’s disappearance
According to two law enforcement sources, investigators discovered search terms like “how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body” and “how to dismember a body” on Brian Walshe’s internet data.
After receiving fresh information in the last three days, investigators shifted their attention from a missing persons case to a suspect she may have been murdered, the sources told CNN.
According to a source with firsthand knowledge of the case, on Monday night, investigators looking for Ana Walshe’s potential remains were searching through trash at a transfer station in Peabody, a town approximately an hour’s drive north of Cohasset.
Early last week, according to the source, sanitation workers carried the rubbish to the station.
In the town of Swampscott, some 15 miles north of Boston, close to the residence of Brian Walshe’s mother, crime scene tape was additionally applied outside and around dumpsters.
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Brian Walshe, the husband of Ana Walshe pleaded guilty to fraud last year
Brian Walshe was charged with wire fraud in May 2018 in US District Court in Massachusetts after the FBI alleged that he had sold two phony Warhol paintings there, per a criminal complaint.
According to the FBI’s agents, less than a year after their marriage, in November 2016, Brian or Ana allegedly utilized her eBay account to sell the artworks.
Although Ana is not accused of guilt in the complaint, it does indicate that she got in touch with the buyer of the counterfeit paintings when the latter discovered her work number and realized the paintings weren’t real.
The report also claims that Brian Walshe stole genuine artwork from a friend with the intention of selling it, but never did. Prosecutors claim that he did not pay the friend for the artwork.
A federal grand jury indicted him in October 2018 on four offenses related to the case, including wire fraud, interstate transportation for a fraud scheme, possession of converted commodities, and illegal financial transactions.
He entered a plea guilty to three of the four offenses last year in exchange for the prosecution’s suggested sentence of imprisonment, supervised release, fines, restitution, and forfeiture. He also consented to pay for the artworks or have them returned.
The case is still pending as the judge has not yet officially sentenced Brian because the US Attorney’s Office is looking into his financial situation.
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