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Brian Walshe, 46, husband of missing DC realtor Ana Walshe, 39, charged with her murder – Friends say couple were estranged, fighting over her work schedule before she vanished on Jan. 1

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362228&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Husband of Search for missing Massachusetts mom Ana Walshe is charged to homicide case <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362228&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Ana Walshe&comma; 39&comma; vanished at 1&period;30am on January 1 after a New Year&&num;8217&semi;s Eve party <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362228&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Her husband Brian Walshe&comma; 46&comma; will be arraigned in court on January 18&comma; for murder <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362228&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Prosecutors are expected to share their new evidence against him then <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362228&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Brian was already in custody charged with misleading police investigating of his wife&&num;8217&semi;s disappearance<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362228&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Investigators said they found blood in the basement of the couple&&num;8217&semi;s home in Cohasset&comma; Massachusetts <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362228&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Police also found trash bags filled with bloody items&comma; a hatchet and a hacksaw in a trash center near his mother&&num;8217&semi;s home<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362228&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Friends say Brian and Ana Walshe had started living apart after fighting over her work in Washington DC <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362228&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Instagram photos show she had stopped wearing her wedding ring<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Brian-Walshe-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-427058" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"734"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Ana&&num;8217&semi;s husband&comma; Brian Walshe&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; is already in custody on charges of misleading police investigating his wife&&num;8217&semi;s disappearance&period; The charges have been upgraded to murder<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The husband of missing Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe has been charged with her murder&comma; nearly three weeks after she vanished on New Year&&num;8217&semi;s Day&period; <br>Brian Walshe is being held in lieu of a &dollar;500&comma;000 bond in cash after he was charged with misleading police&period; For weeks&comma; police have been piecing together a case against him that is believed to include evidence such as blood found in the couple&&num;8217&semi;s basement&comma; and a bloody hatchet&period; <br>Her body has not been found&comma; despite searches of the family home&comma; backyard and other areas of Cohasset&comma; where she lived with her husband and three sons&period; <br>Ana started working for Tishman Speyer in February last year&comma; accepting a role as the general manager of the company&&num;8217&semi;s Washington DC office&period; <br>She had previously worked for The Mutlu Group&comma; a real estate company near their home&period;<br>Friends say the couple&&num;8217&semi;s marriage was strained as a result of Ana&&num;8217&semi;s grueling work schedule&comma; which meant they spent much of their time living apart&comma; with Ana in DC and Brian and the boys in Massachusetts&period; <br>Ana was also photographed without her wedding ring in some of the final photos taken before she vanished on January 1&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Brian-Walshe-and-Ana-Walshe-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-426931" width&equals;"843" height&equals;"618"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Ana Walshe&comma; seen here with her husband Brian&comma; vanished on New Year&&num;8217&semi;s Day&period; Brian has been charged with her murder <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"wp-block-list"><&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Walshe will appear in court on January 18&comma; on the fresh murder charge&period; The evidence used to obtain the murder warrant is likely to be presented then&period; <br>In a statement on Tuesday&comma; Norfolk District Attorney Michael W Morrissey said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;The continued investigation has now allowed police to obtain an arrest warrant charging Brian Walshe with murder of his wife&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;Mr&period; Walshe will be transported to the court for the charge of murder&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>Walshe is expected in court tomorrow morning&period; <br>So far&comma; he has denied misleading police in his wife&&num;8217&semi;s disappearance&period; <br>Ana was last seen at 1&period;30am on the morning of January 1&period;<br>She and her husband hosted friends for  a New Year&&num;8217&semi;s Eve party that their guests say was filled with toasts and fun&period; <br>Cem Mutlu&comma; one of the friends who attended the party&comma; said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Brian had cooked an elaborate meal for us&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;We hugged and celebrated and toasted and just what you do over New Year&&num;8217&semi;s&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;There was a lot of looking forward to the New Year&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;image-42&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-427969" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"748"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong> Ana Walshe friends said&comma; was enjoying her work life in Washington DC and was excited about the year ahead&period; She had stopped wearing her wedding ring in the weeks before she vanished<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The next day&comma; he says Brian phoned him asking if he&&num;8217&semi;d &&num;8216&semi;seen Ana&&num;8217&semi; and that she was missing&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>She was due to travel to Washington DC on January 1 for work&comma; but failed to show up for her flight or get in her rideshare to the airport&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>Ana was reported missing by Tishman Speyer&comma; the real estate company she worked for&comma; on January 4&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>A man who identified himself as the firm&&num;8217&semi;s head of security in Washington DC called police in Cohasset to request a welfare check for her&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>That man told police that he had informed Ana&&num;8217&semi;s husband&comma; Brian&comma; that she was missing&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Cops-scour-dumpster-station-after-removing-a-container-from-Brian-Walshes-mothers-property-in-Swampscott-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-427113" width&equals;"836" height&equals;"480"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Police scoured a nearby dumpster station after removing a container from Brian Walshe’s mother’s property in Swampscott&period; Norfolk County DA’s office confirmed that a &OpenCurlyQuote;number of items’ were recovered from the Peabody transfer station after they sifted through the trash for hours <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Massachussets-cops-search-home-of-Brian-Walshe-and-Ana-Walshe-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-426940" width&equals;"843" height&equals;"585"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Investigators furiously combed through debris that had gathered at her home’s pool of the home in Cohasset&comma; MA&comma; that Ana Walshe shared with her husband and their three sons<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"wp-block-list"><&sol;ul>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">It contradicted Brian&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer&&num;8217&semi;s claim in court that he had notified her work that she was missing&period; <br>In the weeks before her disappearance&comma; Ana had stopped wearing her wedding ring&period; <br>Friends said there was &&num;8216&semi;tension&&num;8217&semi; in the marriage because of her work schedule&period; <br>Her friends are now appealing for care of her children&period;  Walshe is no stranger to legal trouble&period; <br>In 2018&comma; he was convicted of fraud for stealing and attempting to sell two fake Andy Warhol paintings that he advertised as being genuine&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;image-41&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-427964" width&equals;"844" height&equals;"455"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>The judge on Jan 9&comma; set bail at &dollar;500&comma;000 cash for Brian Walshe who was arraigned for misleading police over the disappearance of his wife&period; Police searched the couple’s home&comma; finding blood in an area of the basement before finding a &OpenCurlyQuote;damaged’ knife with blood on it<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Walshe looked up &&num;8216&semi;how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body&&num;8217&semi; online around the time of his wife&&num;8217&semi;s disappearance&comma; according to investigators&comma; and was also caught on surveillance cameras near a trash dumpster next to his mother&&num;8217&semi;s house&period; <br>The hacksaw and bloodied clothes were found at a trash transfer station&period; <br>Police wanted to test a sample of the blood found in the bag to Ana&&num;8217&semi;s three sons&comma; before filing the murder charge&period; Subsequently&comma; Brian Walshe is arrested for murder on January 17&period;<br><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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