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Crime House has the perfect new show for spooky season Twisted Tales. Hosted by Heidi Wong, each episode of Twisted Tales is perfect for late night scares and daytime frights, revealing the disturbing real life events that inspired the world's most terrifying blockbusters and the ones too twisted to make it to screen. Twisted Tales is a Crime House original powered by Pave Studios. Listen wherever you get your podcasts New episodes out every Monday. This is Crime House. These details are just coming in to us all the way from Washington, dc. It is our first record that Anna Walsh felt threatened by Brian Walsh. It's a police report, guys, from eight years ago before the couple was even married.
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And we have breaking news as we come on the air. We have learned murder suspect Brian Walsh was involved in a stabbing incident at Norfolk County Jail. Ana Walsh's body has never been found.
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A missing mother, a suspicious husband, and a trail of evidence left behind so jaw droppingly idiotic it could serve as a checklist of what not to do if you're trying to get away with murder. Foreign hi, I'm Katie Ring, a true crime analyst, self defense instructor and fierce advocate for victims. And this is Crime House Daily, your essential true crime companion. Every weekday morning and night here at Crime House Daily, we dig into the true crime stories making headlines right now, where justice is still unfolding, arrests are happening, and new evidence is emerging. Every morning, First Watch gets you up to speed on the biggest cases, and every night Nightwatch takes you deeper. If you want to follow a case from the first 911 call to the final verdict, this is the place for you. Follow Crime House Daily wherever you get your podcasts, leave a Review and for ad free listening. Subscribe to Crime House plus on Apple Podcasts. For video, check out our YouTube channel, CrimeHouse Daily. This episode discusses active criminal cases and breaking news. The information we share is based on what's publicly available at the time of recording and may change as new evidence comes to light. We aim to inform, not to decide guilt or innocence. So everyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Tonight's case is the story of Anna Walsh, a loving mother of three sons from Cohasset, Massachusetts. She mysteriously disappeared on New Year's Day in 2023, and authorities think her husband, Ryan Walsh is responsible. We covered this story in a previous First Watch episode, so make sure to check that out if you want more. But on today's episode we're focusing on Ana and the life that was taken from her. We also just found out new information about Brian, who was recently stabbed in jail with a makeshift weapon. There's new jailhouse footage of the entire incident, and authorities are still left wondering what led up to the attack.
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Story is about the January 2023 murder of Ana Walsh. Her husband, Brian Walsh, is accused of killing and dismembering Ana in their Massachusetts home. Since his arrest, Brian has been at the Norfolk County Jail awaiting trial, which is slated to begin in the next coming days. This is a case that has made a lot of headlines, and one of the most recent developments occurred around 10pm on September 11th when Brian was stabbed by a fellow inmate. He survived the incident and was in the hospital for less than a day before being sent back to jail. And as of this recording, the scheduling of Brian's trial hasn't been affected. So soon he will be facing a jury and his ultimate fate will be in their hands. Let's get into it Ana Walsh was a loving wife and mother to three beautiful boys. She was smart, beautiful and driven and could charm anyone that would talk to her, According to the Serbian consulate, Ana was born in Belgrade, Serbia, and was a dual citizen of both Serbia and the United States. Her mother, sister and closest friends were still in Serbia. Ana worked incredibly hard and was her family's main breadwinner. In 2008, Ana met Brian Walsh at the Wheatley Hotel in Lenox. At the time, she was a reservations manager and was a married woman, so the timing wasn't right, but they stayed in touch. Eventually, Ana and her husband separated and she started dating Brian in 2013, shortly before the divorce was finalized. She was head over heels for Brian, says Anna's longtime friend from Washington, D.C. carrie Westbrook. Brian was flashy and showy, and that's what Anna liked about him. He appeared to embody the things she wanted. It was almost like she had a mental vision board for the house, cars, family and the lifestyle she wanted, and she thought he could provide it. After traveling the world and living a lavish lifestyle, they got married in Boston in 2015 and welcomed their first child. Soon after, while her family was growing, so was Ana's career. She left the world of hotel hospitality and went into real estate where she was selling high end homes. But while Ana was dreaming about a glamorous future, Brian was trying to run from his past. In 2021, Brian pleaded guilty to three charges of fraud in connection with a 2018 scheme he devised to sell counterfeit Andy Warhol paintings on the Internet. As part of his sentence, he was held under house arrest with an ankle monitor and was only allowed to leave for things like doctor's appointments and grocery shopping. Through all of this, Ana started to miss living in Washington, D.C. and longed to leave Massachusetts. So Ana took a job in D.C. at Tishman Spire, an international property management company, sold their home in Massachusetts for over asking and bought a beautiful home in the nation's capital. Since Brian was on house arrest, he and the boys moved into a rental home in Massachusetts. But the plan was that once Brian sorted out his legal issues, he, he and the boys would come join her in D.C. in the meantime, she would stay in her D.C. home on the weekdays and then fly back to Boston to be with her family on the weekends. But despite how much she loved her job and career, the long commute and being away from her family wore on Ana. Brian and Ana continued to project the appearance of a loving partnership, even though Brian's legal troubles and her job out of town were both massively disruptive. Ana's mother, Malonka Yubichik, told Fox Digital News about a week before Ana's disappearance that she had sent her mother a text reading please Mama, come tomorrow. Malanka lived in another country and told her daughter that she had to sort out all of her medications and trip details, but that she would come as soon as she could. However, Ana didn't press the issue so so her mom didn't think any more of it. After all, the message was vague and didn't specify that there was anything particularly wrong. On December 31, 2022, the Walsh family had a friend over for dinner who later said Ana was all smiles for the New Year's Eve festivities. But near midnight on December 31, Ana called her mom again. Unfortunately, Malonka missed that call and according to her mom, Ana then called her older sister and one of her best friends. But none of them answered because they were either asleep because of the time difference or didn't hear the phone over their New Year celebrations. This missed phone call is one of Malonka's greatest regrets because just four days later on January 4th ANA was reported missing.
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Experian On January 4, 2023, Anna Walsh was reported missing. No one had seen or heard from her since New Year's. Anna would sometimes go jet setting overseas, but she was supposed to be at work doing a job she truly loved. On January 6, 2023. In a press conference with Cohasset Police Chief William Quigley, it was stated that two days prior, Anna was simultaneously reported missing by her husband Brian and her fellow employees at Tishman Spire. According to the police, Ana was last seen at her home on January 1st. Brian claimed that she took a ride share to Boston's Logan International Airport to fly to DC. However, there is no evidence of her getting onto the plane or even getting picked up by a ride share driver. Ana had disappeared without a trace and her husband, Brian Walsh, was the last person to see Ana alive. Friends and neighbors thought of Brian as a fun, loving guy. He projected wealth and status, ordering lavishly at restaurants all around Boston. He'd rack up dinner tabs in the thousands, or sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars. He became known amongst the city's restaurant operators as a whale, a big spender who'd find the most expensive things on the menu and order them without even hesitating. This created a myth and mystery around Brian, and to add to this, he was also constantly taking trips to Europe or Latin America, but no one seemed to know where his money came from. Brian would sometimes claim he sold an airline ticketing app to Expedia, or he'd declare he had made his fortune in the oil industry. There was also talk of Brian working as a high End art dealer. Whatever questions existed about Brian's backstory, that didn't stop people from wanting to be around him. But reality would soon shatter Brian's facade of extravagance. In 2021, he was convicted of art forgery for selling two fake Andy Warhol paintings that he'd hired someone to create. Brian actually did own the original copies, but after he found a buyer for them, he sent the forgeries instead. The buyer quickly realized they'd been duped and tried to get their money back. But Brian wouldn't pick up the phone. The buyer was persistent and eventually got in touch with Brian, but he was only able to pay back about a third of what they had paid, so the buyer notified law enforcement. According to Assistant U.S. attorney Timothy Moran, Brian's motivation was to sustain his lavish lifestyle. But the selling of the forgeries wasn't Brian's only illegal endeavor. U.S. district Judge Douglas Woodlock was ready to give Brian a no jail deal in October, when prosecutors brought up a totally different issue. The alleged fraud and embezzlement of Brian's father's estate. Brian and his father, Dr. Thomas Walsh, did not have a good relationship. Brian had told Anna and his friends that his father was abusive both physically and emotionally, and he claimed the trauma of it still affected him into his adulthood. But Dr. Walsh's friends described another version of events, one that wasn't exactly flattering for Brian. Dr. Fred Pescator, who is close with Dr. Walsh, once wrote, Brian was and is only interested in getting his father's money. Brian had, in fact, been accused of stealing a million dollars from his father in a real estate scheme gone wrong, which drove an even bigger wedge between them and led to Dr. Walsh removing Brian from his will. But Brian wasn't going to let that stop him. After his art forgery scam was discovered, Brian needed a new source of income. And when Brian's father died In September of 2018, he thought he'd finally found it. Brian took Anna with him when he traveled out to his father's Nantasket beach home to claim his fortune. But Dr. Walsh's final wishes were clear. On his last will and testament, he he had reportedly written, I hereby bequeath to Brian R. Walsh my best wishes, but nothing else from my estate. Only there was no official record of that will because Brian allegedly destroyed it. Without any documentation, Brian was able to petition the courts and become the full representative of his father's estate. Brian immediately drained Dr. Walsh's bank account, then had a whole estate sale for his father's. Items and even sold his car. According to CBS News, he collected tens of thousands of dollars from it. His actions raised a lot of red flags because everyone in Dr. Walsh's social circle knew how much he resented Brian and how little he trusted his son. One of Dr. Walsh's friends, Jeffrey Ornstein, had even seen the will on the desk before Brian got into town and took a photo of it just in case Brian tried to do something unsavory. Ornstein used that photo to challenge Brian's right to his father's estate, claiming that Brian must have destroyed the will. A judge accepted the photo as proof and voided Brian's authority over Dr. Walsh's remaining possessions. Ornstein would later say Brian had been a long term patient at Austin Riggs Center Psychiatric Hospital where he was diagnosed as a sociopath and this would never change. It was Dr. Fred Pescatora that wrote in the 2019 affidavit filed for Dr. Walsh's will and estate who said Brian is not only a sociopath, but also a very angry and fear physically violent person. He recalled an incident in China when Brian tried to steal something and injured several people. Brian's past had shown the fraud, stealing, lying and overall bad behavior was nothing new. But did that make him capable of murder? Remember, Brian was on house arrest for the selling of the fake Andy Warhol paintings and Anna was working and living in dead D.C. during the weeks before returning home for the weekends with her family. The plan was for the family to join her after a few months once Brian's legal issues with the paintings had been sorted out. Friends and neighbors had always liked Ana Moore and multiple fraud charges against him didn't help one bit. And when Anna went missing, all eyes turned to her husband.
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