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Annie Elise (1:02)
Hey true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serial Asleep. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serial Asleep with me. Annie Elise. Bonus episode edition. Happy Friday. I hope you are, you know, ready to kick off your weekend. Hope you had a great week. Hoping you are ready to hear about this freaking douche canoe, Brian Walsh, because I'm back. I'm here with you for another bonus episode outside of the regular release schedule because so many of you last week appreciated the coverage and wanted to continue following the trial and the story. So here I am again with a recap for not only the second week, but what appears to be the final week. Actually, the trial was originally supposed. I can't talk. Hello. The trial was originally supposed to be four to six weeks. Then we heard that it might be two to three weeks. Now it's like almost a wrap and done. And don't worry, I'm going to explain why and we're going to get into all of that. So I have my notes next to me, I have my big freaking jug of water here. Let me move the microphone a little bit away from my mouth so that you don't hear all my like disgusting noises. And let's talk about what went down this week because I would say towards the end of the week it definitely Kind of took everybody for a surprise. Now, let me just start by saying this too. If you missed last week, I will link our week one recap in the show Notes where we break down all the players, how we got here, the whole situation. I also will link the deep dive that we did on this case a while back that takes you through the entire story. But here's your like, mega, mega quick refresher. This loser, Brian Walsh is accused of murdering his wife, Anna Walsh. This was after she disappeared in January of 2023, literally, like new Year's Day. Now, the prosecution has already shown some pretty wild evidence, in my opinion, that Brian absolutely dismembered her body, lied to the police about it. And in my opinion, I do believe that they have illustrated that he murdered her. Now, shockingly, if you missed last week, let me just tell you this. The defense isn't even denying the part of him dismembering his wife Anna. They're kind of like, well, yeah, he, he did. He panicked. He had no other choice. He didn't know what to do. He woke up, she was dead and in a blind panic, he thought he had to get rid of her body because he was scared he was going to be charged with her murder. So, yeah, he dismembered her. Yep, yep, yep. That's right. I mean, again, their whole argument is that he did this in a, like, frenzied panic after coming to bed New Year's Eve or waking up, I should say, or in the middle of the night or whenever it was, and then finding Anna dead next to him, which actually, that's something I do want to just quickly clarify and touch on really quickly from last week's episode. I did mention it in the comments on the episode, but last week when we had talked about the defense and their explanation of Ana's death, I had mentioned that he had nudged her and that she fell off the bed. And so he said, oh, she had this unexplained medical incident and she died. And I think the way I explained it definitely made it sound like, or could have, I guess, made it sound like the fall is what killed her. But let me just clarify. What he is saying is that he nudged her a couple of times in the bed and that she wasn't moving and then she basically like fell off the bed so that she was already deceased in the bed. And that was from the unexplained medical incident. So basically what they're trying to say, or I should say, what the defense is trying to lay out is that this beautiful, healthy 39 year old woman who had a regular New Year's Eve dinner that with, with him, with friends, then went to bed, just had this, you know, crazy unexplained medical situation that left her dead. And then Brian was nudging her, trying to move her, to wake her up, to do whatever he was doing. She, you know, fell off the bed. He realized she was dead. And then he said, you know what? Rather than calling 911, rather than hoping someone can come and save her and resuscitate her, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go to Home Depot and I'm going to buy myself a hatchet and a hacksaw and cleaning supplies and I'm going to get to work and dismember her. Yep, that's what I'm going to do. I'm not going to call 911. And you know what, before I do that, let me just make some searches on how to get away with this. How, how to cover up a murder, how to get rid of the smell of decomposition, how to properly dismember a body. Let me get some education, then go buy the supplies and let me get rid of my wife. Yeah, I just don't think I should call 91 1. Like, are you out of your mind? Is this the best that the defense could come up with? Honestly, Honestly, I'm kind of surprised that they went with something so bizarre. But look, I'm not a defense attorney, so maybe there's a strategy here and I'm just the loser idiot who is too dumb to keep up. I don't know. But now that we've got all that straight, week two of the trial opened up at the top of this week with Trooper Connor Keefe back on the stand and. Sorry, I'm just gonna grab some water too, really quick. And he was showing text messages between Brian and Anna. Now last week. God, I can't get this off. Sorry, one second. Pause. Sometimes that happens. I'm talking a million miles an hour. I'm a fast talker by nature. And then I just am like dehydrated and you know, dying of thirst like my mouth is the Sahara desert. So anyway, he's talking about these text messages between Brian and Anna. And last week we learned that just days before Anna died, Brian had searched William Fasto. Now this is the guy that his wife Anna was having an affair with. He also searched Anna Walsh, found dead. Not, you know, very normal searches, I would argue. Now around that same time, he also Searched the names of two buildings that were managed by Ana's real estate company, which to me, that sounds like a lot of motive. That sounds maybe like some premeditation. It sounds to me like Brian was basically deep diving into his own wife, Anna also looking into the man that she was cheating with their company, their buildings. I mean, the whole kitten caboodle. God, that really, really just aged me. Now that I said, my mom and dad used to say that to me, whatever that feels like, it aged me. But who cares? We're all in this together. So he has these searches into the guy she's having an affair with, her buildings. A search that says very explicitly, Anna Walsh dead before she even goes missing. Which the defense had a totally and almost kind of endearing explanation for why Brian made those searches. Okay, so let me break that down. They claim that after Anna was late getting back to Massachusetts on Christmas, because, remember, she would go back and forth from D.C. to Massachusetts. They say that Brian got worried that something serious had happened to her. So to back up that point, they looked and pointed out during cross examination that Brian also had searched Xmas Day plane crash, meaning Christmas Day plane crash. And he also had searched around the same time that he had searched William. This was also searched around the same time he had searched William's name. And the search, Anna Walsh found dead. So they were saying basically, and arguing that he was searching for her name and for her boyfriend's name because he was scared something happened. He was also searching for a plane crash, wondering if maybe she got in a plane crash on her way back to Massachusetts on Christmas. And as for Brian searching the company buildings, they pointed out that those two specific buildings had recently been tied to an outbreak of severe upper respiratory disease. So according to them, all of these searches really were just an illustration of Brian being this very loving, very thoughtful, very worried husband, just researching what Ana may have been exposed to in these buildings. And a plane crash on her way back from Massachusetts. Was her boyfriend hurt too? Which it kind of made me wonder if by laying that foundation, if they were going to try and connect that mysterious illness in those buildings to the whole unexplained medical incident theory that they claim caused Ana's death. Which, again, if you're new to this, the. The cause of death can't be determined because Ana's body has not been recovered. So I thought that maybe they would try and tie those things together, but they didn't, which. Not really. Which I'll explain here in a minute. So during Trooper Keefe's Cross examination, the defense also pointed out that Brian and Ana regularly were texting with each other about plans to buy a new property, even plans to buy a new Porsche. So according to the defense, if Ana was talking about buying another home with Brian, that completely disproves the prosecution's theory that she was planning to leave him. And if Brian was talking about buying her a Porsche, then according to the defense, obviously he wasn't planning her murder. He loved her. He wanted to buy her lavish gifts. They were looking for property. You know, nobody ever is buying somebody luxury gifts or pretending that they're going to if they're planning a murder. Which if you are not seeing me right now and you're only listening, you see my face and how I think that is complete bullshit. How many times do we hear the voicemail to and I'm thinking of Scott Peterson.
