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Hey there folks. It is Thursday, December 4th and day four of the Brian Walsh trial is in the books and I believe Robes this possibly was one of the most highly anticipated days of the trial with one of the most highly anticipated witnesses of the trial with that. Welcome to this episode of Amy and tj. Sorry about my ringtone there on my phone. Just going off. But robes. This, this was a big deal of a day because Brian Walsh, on trial for murdering his wife Anna Walsh, was involved in an affair with a man by the name of William Fastow. He was on the stand today.
Amy Robach
He was. And it was eye opening, fascinating and uncomfortable at times because, yes, he. Can you imagine he is sitting there in the trial of the man.
Who police say murdered his lover, a man who he. He was sleeping with his wife. I mean, I can't even imagine what was going through his head as he sat there answering questions, not just from, obviously the prosecution, but the cross examination was fairly intense. And the defense did a pretty dang good job following up on a couple of items that certainly played into motive.
TJ Holmes
Look, they, they did a good job all day. Look, again, we have been talking to some legal experts on this case and all of them say this is a shitter of a case. For any defense attorney that's just. This is almost impossible. But they keep giving credit to this defense team. And robes, just as a casual observer, putting yourself in the position of the jury, they made some points today that I set up and said, okay, you're making me now question motive. And the point today, a lot of it was about whether or not Brian Walsh knew his wife was having an affair, because that goes to what the prosecution would say is motive. Motive for wanting to get out of the marriage, motive for possibly wanting to kill her. Ropes. Today the defense made some points that made me question whether or not Brian Walsh knew.
Amy Robach
Yeah. Listening to William Fastow say that he never once heard Anna say that she thought her husband knew about them, knew about the affair. And maybe even more interesting to me was that he acknowledged he was not ready to go public or be in a open relationship with her, given his situation. He was in the middle of a divorce. He has young sons. They weren't ready for him to introduce anyone into their lives. So he wasn't pushing for that. And he even said that he knew Ana loved her husband and wasn't necessarily looking to leave him or not be with him. And he testified to that. I thought that was incredibly compelling.
TJ Holmes
Again, he gave us more insights into her, her thinking and her thinking about her marriage today than I ever imagined we would have. Like, today was a, a very busy day, quite frankly. On the stand, there were a Number of witnesses up and down, A lot of experts dealing with cell phone data. A general manager of the hotel, excuse me, our apartment complex where the dumpsters were. There was a lot just established who Anna Walsh was, where she was, where she was not and things like that. So there was a lot of that stuff. But certainly the star witness of the day was William Fast out robes. It struck me, I did not realize again, as we're watching the trial of Brian Walsh, accused of first degree murder for killing his wife, he says, and he has admitted to cutting her up and disposing of her body. He actually has pled guilty to those charges but says he did not kill her. So this is where we are. But ropes. I was struck listening to William Fastow at just how involved they were and how much they seem to actually care about each other. Even to the point of talking about a potential future.
Amy Robach
Correct. And we learned, I didn't know this, how they even met, how they even became involved romantically. But basically he what he knew Brian Walsh and Anna Walsh because he sold them the townhome that she used because she was working in D.C. while her family and Brian lived and worked in Boston. She would commute, so she had regular plane tickets back and forth to D.C. so she needed a place to live while she worked there. There. And so William Fastow sold the Walshes this town home. And that is how they became connected. But yes, they started out as friends and it developed from there. But clearly they cared about each other and clearly they thought, they said, he said they didn't get specific about a future but that it was absolutely on the table.
TJ Holmes
So as we are as he's counting all of this, folks, if you haven't been watching, sitting 30ft away from him is Brian Walsh, the man who is accused of killing and chopping up the woman that he cared about. Right. And then you have Brian WALSH Sitting about 30ft away from the man who, who was involved in a very intimate, personal, loving, even relationship with his wife. The point is, that was a very tense courtroom today.
Amy Robach
Yeah, I was trying to imagine being in either of those shoes. And it's fairly unthinkable because I was really surprised at the cross examination of Fast out and what.
Brian Walsh's defense team was able to get from him. And basically my takeaway, I walked away believing that Brian Walsh didn't necessarily know or have any reason to believe that William Fastow was involved romantically with his wife. Now there were some searches and some other evidence that came out that might that could make me Question it. But hearing directly from Fastow himself, he did not believe that Brian knew anything about their relationship.
TJ Holmes
And why is that important, Robes? Because you have, you're trying to get this jury to believe this man killed a woman in a way you can't explain and put her body somewhere that you can't find. So, okay, so you have a high bar. And so I need to believe he had a good reason for killing this woman. One of those reasons is because she was having an affair. You've just put doubt in my mind about whether or not he knew this was legit today.
Amy Robach
There was doubt.
TJ Holmes
There is doubt.
Amy Robach
There's absolute doubt that he knew. And I thought it was like when Brian Walsh's defense attorney was following up and following through, he said, or she said, excuse me, when she was cross examining Fastow. He has a couple defense attorneys, one of them a female, one of them a male. But she asked him.
Did you believe that Ana might end up staying with Brian? And he said very much so. And he even went so far as to say she made it very clear that she did not want Brian to find out about this relationship with him and that if there ever came a point in which he needed to find out because she wanted to leave him and she wanted to spend her life with William Bastow, she, she said very clearly that she wanted to be the one who told him. And he, he made it very clear that she not only loved her husband, but cared about him and cared about how he felt about what she was doing and the relationship she was having. That was really remarkable to me. This didn't seem like some broken marriage where she hated her husband or he hated her or he hated her and she was wanting to do anything to get away from him. Look, you could have painted that picture because Brian Walsh, her husband was about to go to prison. He was on house arrest for doing something he would. He was convicted of selling off this fake art, trying to pawn it off as, what was it?
TJ Holmes
Warhol.
Amy Robach
Right, Andy Warhol. He was convicted. He was, he, it cost them financially significantly. He was owing upwards of almost half a million dollars in, in restitution. So this was crippling them financially. He was potentially about to go away to prison for several years, leaving her alone with two, three young rambunctious boys. We heard them on the audio tape. So I can say that with pretty decent amount of confidence. This was a, they were a handful as three young boys might be at 2, 4 and 6, that is, I, my brother and my sister in law dealt with that I saw it from afar. That is not easy. She was a hardworking, full time working woman who had a very important job that was in a different city. So you could see where she might have checked out from her life, checked out from her husband, checked out from her family, wanted a new life. That was not the picture that William Fastow painted. He painted a picture of a woman who loved her children, who loved her husband. But maybe she was lonely. Maybe this was, I don't know, it was very different than what I thought it might be given how it ended, given how she ended up sadly dismembered, discarded in trash bags and it seems like by a monster of a husband. And you could absolutely buy into this narrative that he hated her, she hated him, they had no way out. And this is how it ended. That's not the picture her lover painted. And that was very shocking to me.
TJ Holmes
And there is no better in this trial insight we're going to get into what Anna Walsh was thinking than this guy. He knew her. I won't say better, but at least in a different and more intimate way than even her closest friends because she was confiding in him. She had a secret. They had a life together. And if anybody was going to know that she had any inclination that her husband thought she was having an affair, it would be William Fast out to hear him say so emphatically. Nope, she never. Not a peep of maybe he knew. That is convincing today, Robes, to put enough doubt. So that's one check for the defense. At least. I can take this off the table as a possible motive. This is just a step by step thing. And Robes, I don't know. I look forward to talking to our next legal expert because how could you not say that the defense scored today.
Amy Robach
They did. Because my other as a juror, as a human again, the judge asked these jurors, as they often do, to use their common sense. I'm thinking to myself here, listening to William Fastow on the stand, thinking he must be angry. I'm thinking he must be pissed that this man took away this woman who he, I don't know, that he loved her, but he cared deeply for her. He was potentially planning a future with her. He was already divorced, like he was in the throes of a divorce. So he had been separated. He had been separated from his wife before they actually became romantic for at least a couple of months, I believe. So he was technically free to do as he pleased, free to be in a relationship with someone else. So to be staring down the man who has been accused of violently taking her life and violently disposing of her body. You would think that even just out of anger he would not do anything to help his defense. And yet I would say today William Fastow's testimony absolutely helped Brian Walsh's defense. And that's surprising to me.
TJ Holmes
Well, he was a prosecution witness. Look, that he was there to do his thing for them. But the defense, look, we have been impressed. Look, I don't know what to say. It's a low bar. But I'm saying it was such a difficult case that any little nugget or score that the defense has seems maybe really impressive. But so I am really amazed because on day two we were like, how is he going to get past these messages, these Internet searches? And now I'm sitting here looking and they have raised if it raised it to us. There is some genuine doubt about this. One very important point. But yes, we've talked about robes in this case. So much has happened while testimony in the actual trial is going on. But also a lot has happened when the jury is out of the room. And it happened again today. A very important moment. And the judge making a decision on about sentencing for Brian Walsh that could impact this case. Stay here.
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All right folks, we continue now talking day four of the Brian Ross trial. Robes a big question in this trial or hanging over? I mean, he's on trial for first degree murder. He was supposed to be on trial for first degree murder, dismemberment and lying to police. He pled guilty to dismembering or however the conveyance of a body or however.
Amy Robach
Some legal term basically acknowledging that he dismembered and disposed of his wife's body. Body.
TJ Holmes
There it is. He played guilty to that and he pled guilty to lying to investigators. Now he's supposed to be sentenced on those two charges. The judge has been debating about whether to let the jury know one, that he pled Guilty and two, whether or not to sentence him now. And she's still debating about it. And that debate was going on today after the jury left the room. And she still doesn't know what she's going to do.
Amy Robach
That's surprising to me that she doesn't.
TJ Holmes
Know if she has a rule.
Amy Robach
It's surprising to me that she doesn't know.
TJ Holmes
She claims she has.
Amy Robach
She says she hasn't because one day prior it seemed as though she was leaning towards not letting the jury know. What would be the benefit in letting the jury know? It seems as though there are only legal potential potholes where the defense could claim a mistrial or they could use it for an appeal process if somehow they could say the jury was tainted because they found out about prior bad acts or some sort of acknowledgment of another offense that swayed them into finding him guilty of first degree murder. Why would you want to.
Say yes to something that isn't necessary? It's if it could possibly taint the reasoning behind the outcome. It makes no sense to me why she's even grappling with this.
TJ Holmes
You know what? It's. You make a good point. This the prosecution is requesting and this is a debate. They're going back and forth about it. You make a very, very good point. What is the benefit? Like, is what. How is it hurting the prosecution's case that they can't tell the jury that this guy's pled guilty to these other things? You make a very good point. She's saying as well that how can I sentence him for these other things? Because they're kind of tied to this other thing, first degree murder. So depending on the outcome and the judgment of that is going to have an impact on how I rule or what the sentencing could be for this. It could negate it to some degree or could enhance it. So there is no. Yeah, enhancement is what they keep using. So it sounds like she's leaning against them knowing and leaning against them. Sentencing before the end of this trial.
Amy Robach
That would make the most sense to me. I actually don't understand the argument to do anything but that from a. Again, no legal mind here. I was not. I got my Bachelor of Arts in journalism. I am not a legal scholar in any way, shape or form, but just common sense. Again, I don't understand how that would make any sense for her to go ahead and. And sentence that sentence Brian Walsh for those two charges he pleaded guilty to and then let the jury in on that. That is going to sway the jury. You can't unhear that.
TJ Holmes
All right, well, folks, we will start up again tomorrow morning. They will be back at it. Day five of the Brian Walsh trial. Testimony starts up again at 9am if you all are interested, we'll let you know. It is. Court TV is covering this thing. If you want to, there are probably some other places. We'll tell you what we're using. Court tv, they have a live feed, it's uninterrupted, that you can watch and we'll keep an eye on. If you don't keep an eye on that, you can just on your Apple podcast app, top right corner of the screen on our show page, it says follow. Click that and you'll get our updates and we will have them every day for you in this Brian Walsh trial.
Amy Robach
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This episode dives deeply into day four of the highly publicized Brian Walshe trial, where he stands accused of murdering his wife, Ana Walshe. The day's proceedings were especially noteworthy due to the testimony of William Fastow, Ana's lover, making for an emotionally charged and pivotal moment in the trial. Amy and T.J. break down how Fastow's appearance on the witness stand not only revealed hidden dynamics of Ana’s personal life but also raised critical questions about the prosecution’s theory of motive. The hosts also discuss the defense team's unexpectedly strong performance and key legal quandaries about what the jury can know — all against a tense courtroom backdrop.
On the Defense’s Strength:
On Fastow Helping the Defense:
On Ana’s Relationship with Brian:
On the Prosecution’s Challenge:
Amy and T.J. report in a conversational, highly engaged style, alternating between sharp legal analysis and empathetic human reactions. They highlight the shocking emotional reality in the courtroom, surprise at the defense’s skilled strategy, and the vulnerability of relying on witness testimony in such high-stakes proceedings. Both hosts marvel repeatedly at how Fastow, testifying under prosecution, ended up introducing significant reasonable doubt that could aid the defense's cause.
This episode captures a turning point in the Brian Walshe trial: A day where the prosecution’s own star witness gave unexpected support to the defense’s argument, undermining the narrative of a clear-cut motive and painting a more nuanced portrait of Ana Walshe’s personal life. Listeners are left with the understanding that, despite the gruesome facts of the case, the matter of guilt — especially regarding motive — is far from settled.
For those tracking the trial, Amy and T.J. promise continuing daily summaries, ensuring listeners can keep up with every development, no matter how complicated the legal intricacies or emotionally fraught the courtroom testimony.