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Brian Walshe pleads not guilty to killing and dismembering DC realtor wife, Ana Walshe, for ‘$2.7million life insurance payout’ – Including a $2.2M policy taken out Jan 1, the day she was last seen

&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;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1616&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Murder suspect Brian Walshe claimed in court that the victim&comma; his wife Ana Walshe&comma; was having an affair before her death <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1616&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He pled not guilty to murdering and dismembering Ana for &&num;8216&semi;&dollar;2&period;7million life insurance payout&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1616&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The defendant is accused of murdering his wife of seven years&comma; DC based realtor Ana Walshe&comma; on New Year&&num;8217&semi;s Day<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1616&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>On January 1&comma; after she was last seen alive&comma; a &dollar;2&period;2million life insurance policy was taken out in Ana&&num;8217&semi;s name&comma; listing Brian as the sole beneficiary <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1616&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Supplementing another policy&comma; it totaled amount &dollar;2&period;7million benefiting Brian Walshe if his wife died while they were still married <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1616&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Police say Brian Walshe killed Ana with whom she shares three young sons&comma; <strong>at their home in Cohasset&comma; Massachusetts<&sol;strong><&sol;strong>&comma;<strong> in the early hours of January 1 <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1616&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>It&&num;8217&semi;s believed that he beat her to death before hacking her bones apart with a hatchet and hacksaw   <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1616&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Missing but presumed dead&comma; her remains have never been found&comma; as police say they were incinerated <&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;04&sol;Brian-Walshe-in-court-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-438706" width&equals;"838" height&equals;"645"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Murder suspect Brian Walshe in Norfolk Superior Court&comma; Boston on Thursday&comma; pleading not guilty to murdering his wife&comma; Ana Walshe&comma; on January 1 &&num;8211&semi; &&num;8216&semi;for &dollar;2&period;7million life insurance payout&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8211&semi; while claiming she was having an affair <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A Massachusetts man on trial for killing his high flying realtor wife accused the deceased of infidelity&period;<br>Brian Walshe of Cohasset&comma; claimed in court today that his wife Ana was having an affair before her death&comma; as he pled not guilty to killing her and dismembering her body in what prosecutors have suggested was a desperate attempt to salvage a &dollar;2&period;7million life insurance payout&period; <br>The defendant appeared in court this morning in Boston&comma; Massachusetts&comma; charged with first-degree murder in the death of the mother-of-three who vanished on January 1&comma; and has not been seen since&period;<br>Walshe was seen arriving clean-shaven&comma; with a new haircut and in a smart shirt and sweater &&num;8211&semi; a stark contrast from his scruffy appearance during past hearings&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;Ana-Walshe-10&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-427054" width&equals;"767" height&equals;"878"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>DC realtor Ana Walshe &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; was last seen at a New Year&&num;8217&semi;s Day party hosted in the home she shared with her husband and three sons in <strong>Cohasset<&sol;strong><&sol;strong>&comma;<strong> Massachusetts&period; Her remains have not been recovered&comma; but she is presumed dead<&sol;strong><&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;03&sol;Walshe-home-in-Massachusetts-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-435869" width&equals;"835" height&equals;"1211"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Police say Brain Walshe killed his wife Ana in their Cohasset home &lbrack;back view&rsqb;&comma; in the early hours of New Year&&num;8217&semi;s Day then disposed of her body in a garbage dumpster&period; Blood evidence believed related to the murder has been recovered from a nearby garbage processing station<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Police say Brian Walshe killed Ana in their Cohasset home in the early hours of New Year&&num;8217&semi;s Day&comma; beating her to death then later hacking her bones apart with a hatchet and hacksaw&period; <br>Today&comma; prosecutors alleged his motive &&num;8211&semi; he suspected his wife&comma; who&&num;8217&semi;d launched a successful real estate career in a different state&comma; was cheating on him&period; <br>They say he had hired an investigator to follow Ana in the months before her death&comma; though it&&num;8217&semi;s unclear what that investigator discovered&period; <br>Walshe denied those allegations through his attorney&period; <br>They admitted that his mother had hired a private investigator&comma; but that she did so independently&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;04&sol;Ana-Walshe-11&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-438717" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"457"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Ana Walshe who worked for a blue chip Washington Dc based real estate firm had a home in highbrow Chevy Chase and commuted to DC during the week to work&comma; while Brain remained in Cohasset with the boys <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8216&semi;He told her she was crazy and that Ana was a good girl&period; He only discovered the affair as part of the discovery of this case&comma;&&num;8217&semi; his attorney said&period; <br>They did not name the man he believes his wife was cheating on him with&period; <br>Prosecutors say he had been obsessively looking at the Instagram page of a &&num;8216&semi;male friend&&num;8217&semi;&period; <br>Ana was particularly close with Abdulla Almutairi &&num;8211&semi; a married colleague who frequently refers to her as his best friend&period; <br>Neither Mr&period; Almutairi nor his wife have yet responded to Brian&&num;8217&semi;s suggestion that Ana was cheating on him&period; <br>Today&comma; a judge denied Walshe&&num;8217&semi;s bail and ordered him to return to court in August for a pre-trial conference&period;<br>Prosecutors laid out again why they believe he killed his wife&comma; pointing to surveillance footage that showed him buying gallon-cylinders&comma; hydrogen peroxide&comma; baking soda&comma; plastic sheets and weapons at various stores after her death&comma; and Google searches about how to remove blood from concrete floors&period; <br>His attorney conceded that the Google searches&comma; which were conducted on their son&&num;8217&semi;s iPad&comma; were &&num;8216&semi;problematic&&num;8217&semi;&comma; but claimed they didn&&num;8217&semi;t prove murder&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;04&sol;Brian-Walshe-in-court-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-438707" width&equals;"836" height&equals;"856"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Walshe could be seen shaking his head as the charges were read aloud&period; His attorney has rejected the notion that the life insurance policies motivated the murder of his wife  <&sol;strong><&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;Ana-Walshe-and-her-three-children-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-426929" width&equals;"842" height&equals;"751"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Ana and Brian Walshe shared three young sons&period; Following the timeline&comma; the children were home when their mom was killed<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She also claims another person&&num;8217&semi;s DNA was found on an HVAC suit along with Ana&&num;8217&semi;s&period; <br>On January 1&comma; after she was last seen alive&comma; a &dollar;2&period;2million life insurance policy was taken out in Ana&&num;8217&semi;s name&comma; listing Brian as the sole beneficiary&period; <br>Coupled with her &dollar;400&comma;000 Tishman Speyer life insurance policy&comma; Brian stood to gain &dollar;2&period;7million in total if his wife died while they were still married&period; <br>Prosecutors say Ana was considering a divorce when she vanished suddenly in January&period; <br>Walshe had previously been indicted on fraud charges for allegedly selling counterfeit paintings&period; He was on bail&comma; and was unable to leave the state of Massachusetts&period;   <br>To keep the family afloat&comma; Ana moved to Washington DC full-time to focus on her real estate career&period;  She spent the working week there&comma; returning home to Massachusetts on the weekends to spend time with her husband and their three young kids&period; <br>According to prosecutors today&comma; days before she was last seen alive&comma; Ana broke down during a dinner with a friend in DC&colon; &&num;8216&semi;She became uncharacteristically upset and told her friend he was going to be incarcerated&&num;8230&semi; she was prepared to leave him and take the kids to Washington DC&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Connor said&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;"833" height&equals;"611"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Brian and Ana Walshe in happier times tied&period; The couple had been married for seven years&period; Lately they appeared estranged  <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>On Thursday Walshe&&num;8217&semi;s attorney suggested Ana was either killed either by someone else&comma; or she simply chose to disappear&period;  She rejected the notion that the life insurance policies were motive for him to kill&colon; &&num;8216&semi;He doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have a need for money&comma;&&num;8217&semi; they said&comma; pointing to his mother&&num;8217&semi;s wealth and the fact she had &&num;8216&semi;given Ana tens of thousands of dollars&&num;8217&semi; in the past&period;  <br>The missing woman&&num;8217&semi;s remains have never been found&comma; but traces of her blood were found in a dumpster along with the clothes she was last seen wearing&period; Police who believe they were collected by trash services and incinerated before they could be retrieved&comma; spent time scouring a local garbage processing station close to Brian&&num;8217&semi;s mother&&num;8217&semi;s residence&period; <br>He will remain in custody until then&comma; but is scheduled to return to court in August for a pretrial conference <br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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