MA Grand Jury Indicts Walshe On Murder Charge

COHASSET, MA — A Cohasset man has been indicted in the January death of his wife, according to WCVB-5. Brian Walshe, 48, is facing charges for murder, for misleading a police investigation/obstruction of justice, and for improper conveyance of a human body.

Walshe pleaded not guilty to the murder charge in Quincy District Court in January. The indictment moves the case to Norfolk Superior Court, where he will be arraigned in the coming weeks, WCVB-5 reported.

Walshe's wife, Ana Walshe, 39, was last seen at her Cohasset home shortly after midnight on New Year's Day. Her body has not yet been found, but prosecutors said a bloody knife was found in the basement of the home that the couple shared.

Prosecutors claimed that Brian Walshe purchased $450 worth of cleaning supplies before Ana Walshe was reported missing. Prosecutors also said that DNA evidence on a pair of slippers, clothes, and a Tyvek disposable suit led investigators to believe "Brian Walshe dismembered and later discarded" his wife's body.

Brian Walshe allegedly made several suspicious searches on his son's iPad hours after Ana Walshe went missing, including "10 ways to dispose of a body if you really need to," "How long before a body starts to smell?", "how long for someone to be missing to inherit," and "can you throw away body parts?"

Walshe's attorney has previously issued a statement, which in part reads: "It is easy to charge a crime and even easier to say a person committed that crime. It is a much more difficult thing to prove it, which we will see if the prosecution can do. I am not going to comment on the evidence, first because I am going to try this case in the court and not in the media. Second, because I haven’t been provided with any evidence by the prosecution."

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