Brian Walshe, who searched for crime tips online, is convicted of his wife's murder
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Brian Walshe, who searched for crime tips online, is convicted of his wife's murder
""The defendant did not want anyone to find Ana's body and to know how she died,""
""So the defendant bought cutting tools at Lowe's and Home Depot and he cut up Ana's body, the woman that he claimed to love, and he threw her into dumpsters.""
""best ways to dispose of a body," "Can I use bleach to clean my wood floors from blood stains," and "can you be charged with murder without a body.""
Brian Walshe admitted disposing of his wife's body while denying that he killed her, and a Massachusetts jury convicted him of first-degree murder. Ana Walshe, 39, was reported missing in early January 2023; a search led to Brian's arrest but never produced a body. Brian pleaded guilty to misleading police and willfully disposing of a human body before trial; the trial focused on murder. Prosecutors said the killing occurred on New Year's Eve, motivated by anger over an undisclosed affair and stress from unrelated legal troubles. Evidence included store surveillance of purchases, DNA on bloodstained items recovered from dumpsters, and internet searches about body disposal and cleaning blood. The defense maintained Ana died suddenly and that Brian did not kill her. There can be no autopsy or official cause of death without a body.
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