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This week we feature a case that is ripped right from the headlines. Brian Walshe, a husband and father is accused of killing his wife Ana Walshe. This is a story out of Cohasset Massachusetts. Ana still to this day has not been found. We will take you through the events as they were in this case and the evidence that led to Brian’s arrest and court date.
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Rebecca Henderson
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Rebecca Henderson
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Co-host (Captain)
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
All right, everybody gather around. Grab a chair, grab a beer. Let's talk some true crime. A no body death investigation is a homicide case where the victim's body is never found. It's an investigation where circumstantial evidence is key. Without a body, investigators rely heavily on evidence such as digital forensics, like text calls, other communications and location data, financial activity such as unusual transactions or lack of activity from the victim. Witness statements and then later testimony are key as well. Accounts of arguments, abuse, threats, a history of violence and suspicious behavior. And physical evidence is paramount. Bullet casings, fibers, DNA, and of course, blood evidence can be the most damning. For prosecutors, it is the same, but also very necessary to establish a strong motive for the murder. Both must be able to produce enough evidence to prove that the victim is in fact, deceased and that the suspect is, in fact responsible for killing the victim. Now, this might surprise you, but no body homicide court cases, though rare, often have conviction rates around 85%. This is higher than typical murder cases because the evidence must be overwhelming for prosecutors to proceed. This success rate is a clear sign of the power of meticulous police work. This is true crime Garage. Anna Walsh, a mother of three from Cohasset, Massachusetts, was last seen on New Year's Day 2023. Her husband, Brian Walsh, was eventually charged with her murder, in fact, just shortly after she went missing. The complicated part of this, Captain, is Anna's body has never been found, and there's a lot of mystery as to what was going on and who would be responsible for this woman being missing. Brian and Anna Walsh had three children together. They lived in Cohasset, Massachusetts, a coastal suburb located 20 miles south of Boston. And Cohasset is located on the corner of South Shore, where Greater Boston harbor ends in Massachusetts Bay begins. This is an affluent seaside community with a small population of just under 9,000 people. It's a very safe community with very little violence. In fact, Police Chief William Quigley said there hasn't been a murder in town since at least 1995, when he first joined the force.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, you want to picture a setting or a city like Capeside from the hit TV show from the wb Dawson's Creek.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
And of course we already mentioned that Brian and Anna Walsh were married together. They did have kids. Another unfortunate part of this story. They have three sons, all young boys.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, all three of their kids were under the age of six years old.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
In the early 2000s, Anna immigrated from Serbia to come to this great country. When she gets here, she works various jobs. She married a chef. This couple moves to Massachusetts in early 2008. Anna meets Brian Walsh while she's working as a reservations manager. Around the Same time here, Captain Anna and her then husband relocated to Washington D.C. in 2011, Brian Walsh visits a friend who is living in South Korea. So he offers to sell his friend's art collection. Yeah, this includes two original Andy Warhol shadow paintings.
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Co-host (Captain)
If it's not the Campbell soup, I don't want it.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
I only know about three Andy Warhol paintings, so forgive me, when I see shadow paintings, I don't know exactly which ones they are talking about but, but.
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Co-host (Captain)
Andy Warhol was, he's an icon of course he's not just an artiste my friend, he's an icon as far as I'd put him as an icon in what, late 70s to the 80s.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
So Walsh sells these shadow paintings, the authentic shadow paintings we should say, for his friend, sells them to a US gallery. These paintings are then resold several times. Eventually my understanding is they end up outside of the United States. Right, but selling off the friends art collection gives Brian Walsh this brilliant idea to have some replicas made of the famous shadow paintings, some forgeries. That's right. So he can sell them off, but he wants to pass them off of course as the originals because they would be very, very valuable. I believe one of them was valued at over $200,000. In 2013, Anna and Brian Walsh, they start dating. Now it's not until sometime the following year that her divorce to the chef is finalized. So in 2014 her divorce is finalized. And sometime in 2014, Anna text a friend of Brian's stating that Brian is a violent person. And she later reports to police that her boyfriend from Boston threatened to kill her and her friends. But in this report, in this complaint, she does not name Brian Walsh in this complaint. So there's going to be no charges that will be brought forward from this police report. In 2015, Brian Walsh sells the fake shadow paintings. Success. They sold him to a buyer in France. In December of 2015, Anna and Brian get married. The couple moves in with Brian's mother at 225 Beacon street in Boston.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, and just a little heads up, if you have a Boyfriend that threatens to kill you and your friends. That's. That's a deal breaker. You should move on with your life. Dump the loser, move on with your life. But she didn't. She ends up marrying him.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
In July of 2016, their first son is born. This is when the couple begins flipping properties. And I have here, I question this statement, but. But I seen at least one report that they were also renting out properties. At some point, her profession changes. She transitions from the hospitality industry to real estate. And Anna joins this firm that specializes in listing luxury homes back to the fake paintings, the fake artwork. The buyer discovers two Andy Warhol shadow paintings for. So the way that this went down, Brian lists these air quote, famous paintings or the fakes, the knockoffs on ebay. He finds this buyer and the two decide that, hey, we're going to do this offline. Brian Walsh includes in the listing of this sale a picture of an invoice showing the purchase of the Warhol foundation paintings in the Warhol foundation numbers that accompany those. So he has legitimate paperwork. Right, because he originally had the real legitimate paperwork paintings in his possession. Yeah, so he made forgeries of the legitimate paperwork, too, to go along with the fake paintings that he's selling. He's trying to move these fast because he lists them, as we said, the. They're worth over $200,000. He's listing them for only 100,000. So if you're a buyer and you see a deal like that, remember a lot of times if it seems too good to be true, it is, right? So this buyer and him agree to do this offline, outside of ebay, and the agreed price is $80,000. And we know that because they end up signing a contract together. And then the buyer gives Brian Walsh a cashier's check for $80,000. Brian Walsh deposits the check into his bank account, and then he starts withdrawing money from this bank account using that money from the forgeries.
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Co-host (Captain)
Right.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Almost immediately. And he uses, I think, over $30,000 of it in the first two weeks. Now, at some point, this buyer will discover that, hey, these things, they're not real.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, see, I always wondered too about this. Was there something in the paintings or some kind of research that was done to the paintings to figure out that there are forgeries or was it the paperwork?
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
It's a couple of things. So he, the, the buyer decides to remove the paintings from the frames that they came in. And that's when they start to put together that, hey, these things don't look quite right. So that for one, the canvas looked too new to be authentic. There were staples that were found, and there were no Warhol foundation authentication stamps on the actual artwork. So there's a discrepancy, basically between what he purchased and the photos he could see on ebay on the original listing. It's not until October of 2018 that Brian Walsh is arrested for selling these fake Andy Warhol paintings.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, I'm guessing this is a felony because of the. The price he was scamming this individual out of. What, $160,000?
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
80,000.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, but I thought there was two paintings.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
There are, but I think that they were sold as a. As a pair. I believe I may have misspoke, but. But, yeah, you're right. Regardless, it's going to be a substantial amount of money.
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Co-host (Captain)
Wouldn't it be funny if they opened up the paintings? It was just. It just looked like the painting was Xeroxed. I think there's something wrong here, Sherlock.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Now, this next part, it makes it a little bit complicated. And for our timeline anyway, he's going to eventually plead guilty to this, but that won't take place until April of 2021. And when he does plead guilty to this, he is. He gets house arrest while he's awaiting sentencing for this. It's. It's a complicated matter. We'll circle back to it here in a bit. But from my understanding here, Captain, he. There's four counts that he's originally charged with, and he'll ultimately plead guilty to three of those four counts. And the punishment for this, there's going to be a term of incarceration, supervised release, so some kind of parole, fines, restitution, that will need to be paid as well. So at this time, Brian Walsh, he's then 46, he would ultimately plead guilty to one count of wire fraud, one count of interstate transportation for a scheme to defraud, one count of possession of converted goods, an unlawful monetary transaction. The charge of wire fraud, you could serve up to 20 years in prison for that. My guess is that probably most people don't, but you could serve up to 20 years in prison for that, three years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000. The charge of interstate transportation for a scheme to defraud comes with up to 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000. And then the charge of possession of converted Goods is another 10 year in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, but a lot of times in these Cases where there's no victim as far as nobody was attacked, nobody was beat up, nobody was killed. That normally if you make a plea deal, that your sentences are going to be dramatically reduced from what the maximum penalty normally is.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yes. So ultimately, what he's going to get is he's sentenced to 37 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and order to pay restitution of $475,000. As said that that portion of the story is kind of dragging on right from. From 2000 and what did we say, 18, all the way up to 2021. And it's still lingering when this next stuff is. Starts to happen. Okay, so In February of 2022, Anna is working as in a new role. This is. She's the regional general manager for a company called Tishman spare in Washington, D.C. so she's. They still live in Massachusetts and she's commuting every week to and from D.C. so she'll go and stay in D.C. where her work is for the week, and then come home basically on the weekends.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah. Tough situation when you have three sons under the age of six.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yes. And Brian and the sons are in Cohasset living in a rental property at this time. And as said, Anna's splitting her time between Washington, D.C. and Cohasset on the weekend in November of that year. Anna Walsh is having an affair with a man who lives in D.C. she spends Thanksgiving 2022 with him outside of the country.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah. I believe at some point she tells her husband Brian that she has a crush on this individual. But I don't think she admits to him at the time that she's having an affair.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yes. And so In December of 2022, Brian's mother hires a private investigator, his name is Jeremy Dozer, to conduct surveillance on Anna Walsh. They want to catch her in the act.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, it seems like Brian comes from a little bit of money. I mean, it also makes sense with this whole art deal, this fraudulent art deal. But to me, he seems like a somewhat smart, but doesn't know how to follow through. But for the most part, he's. He's a moron.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Well, and I don't think that they had a lot of. Look, we know that there was an affair going on, but it doesn't sound like the private investigator was able to come up with a whole bunch of incriminating evidence of the affair. Now let's go to Christmas Eve, 2022, December 24, 2022. And again, it seems like she's spending this day, or at least a portion of this day with the boyfriend, then eventually spends part of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. It's Christmas Day when she goes back to Massachusetts. Of course, Brian and others are upset that she missed Christmas Eve and most of Christmas Day with her family.
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Co-host (Captain)
Right. And a lot of these individuals that are having affairs, look, if you're married and your marriage sucks and you got some crush on this guy, fine. You know, that happens. But when you have kids involved, grow the up, right? And it's like if you don't want to be with their father and you want to be with this other guy, then, then break it off, get a divorce, and then go start a new life. But when they're doing this, there's a, there is a selfishness aspect of this situation. And you just feel bad for these three young children because they have to deal with the mom doing this. But you have then the, the ultimate fallout of what their horrible douchebag father is going to do.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yes. And there's a lot of back and forth between Massachusetts and Washington D.C. in the story. So I apologize for the complexity of it, but it is as it is here now. Speaking of divorce, Captain, on December 27, Brian Walsh Google searched what's the best state to divorce for a man.
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Co-host (Captain)
But also this is probably why his mother gets a private investigator, because this is all roads are leading to them getting a divorce. So by getting the private investigator, and again, you have some states there that are at fault states. So that's what he's trying to do. Oh, well, if she's at fault, then maybe I get custody. Maybe she ends up having to pay me a bunch of money. But what's insane to me is like if, if I sold some fake paintings, which I'm not saying I'm going to, but if I did and I was caught and I was going to have to spend three years in prison. Yeah, I probably could do three years in prison, but he's, he has to pay back almost $500,000. Like at that point, I'm just jumping off a goddamn bridge.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Well, and I'm not trying to defend anybody having an affair, but we also should keep in mind too, on her end, she's got to be thinking, like, pretty soon this guy's going to go away to prison for three years.
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Co-host (Captain)
Right.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
And it doesn't seem like their relationship was that great outside of the children to begin with. So now we are at December 20th 8th during a dinner with a friend. She's now in Washington D.C. and the friend would later report that they believe that Anna became uncharacteristically upset. She was talking to her friend about Brian Walsh, who is going to be incarcerated as a result of that federal case. She has been preparing to leave him and she tells his friend that she wants to take the children to Washington D.C. once the split happens. Now, three days later, the happy couple, they're hosting a New Year's Eve dinner with a friend of theirs.
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Co-host (Captain)
This makes no sense to me.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
We have a report of Anna being last seen at 1:00am or maybe even 1:30am okay, so let's go to New Year's Day, January 1, 2023. Let's say 1:30am Brian and Anna went to bed shortly after that friend left. This seems to be the agreed upon time that that she's last seen one or 1:30 that night when police come knocking and asking about where Anna may be. Brian Walsh is going to tell police that his wife Anna had to leave for some kind of work emergency and had to fly to Washington D.C. for her job and that she actually left on January 1, 2023. Cold Mornings Holiday Plans this is when you need your wardrobe to just work. Stuff that looks sharp, stuff that feels good. Quince makes gifting easy when everything's worth keeping for yourself. By partnering directly with trusted factories that maintain high standards for craftsmanship and ethical practices, Quince cuts out the middlemen and the markups. That means premium quality at half the cost of the other high end brands so you can give luxury pieces without the luxury price tag. I absolutely love quints. Look at my closet and you can tell that I love Quince. Their denim fits right and feels good. Their pants and chinos, same thing. They're great. The outerwear is solid too. I love the jackets. I love the wool. I love the leather coats. I'm keeping warm and looking good this fall and winter with quints. Get your wardrobe sorted and your gift list handled with quints. Don't wait. Go to Quince.com Garage for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada too. That's Q-U-I-N-C-E.com Garage free shipping and 365 day returns. Quince.com Garage Sling is changing the way live TV works by putting viewers in charge of their entertainment. Sports, entertainment and news can all be tailored without unnecessary extras. Pay only for the months when TV is actually needed and skip the ones when it's not. I love only paying for stuff when I want it and when I need it. With tv, I'm a big football guy. I absolutely need access to my favorite sports channels during the football season, but I don't even really need a TV when football is out of season. Sling gives me that option. And then once in a while maybe I want to dive in and binge watch something and it's not during football season. I can sign up for the day pass or maybe the weekend pass for three day viewing. Choose and customize your channel lineup or pause and watch for free. Sling lets you do that. Visit sling.com to learn more.
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Co-host (Captain)
All right, we are back you filthy animals. Tall cans in the air. Cheers to you Colonel.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Cheers to you my friend.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, so it's, it's weird because it seems like she was reported missing by her job and not anybody in the family. Which red flag there.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yeah. So she's first reported missing by the co workers and then later he's going to say oh yeah, she, you know, she is missing. This is when I last saw her. So she's not reported missing for a couple of days and we talked about this I, I feel like a dozen times on this show. But anytime we have these cases that seem to take place around Christmas or New Year's, the holidays really kind of jam things up for people reporting things quickly. People go, people get busy and it's just the natural state of things. If you don't have to work, if you're off for the holidays, nobody really knows that you're missing for a period of time because we now know she's been missing since January 1st. Not reported until the 4th he tells police. Brian tells the police eventually on the 4th that his wife left sometime between 4 and 6am that she got a ride share to the airport and she was going to have to go to Washington D.C. that's about the window of time that he says that she leaves. What we also know that's going on between from 4:55am up until 1:20pm Brian Walsh conducts 20 graphic Google searches about disposing a body. Cleaning up blood dismemberment, body decomposition, embalming. So at 4:55am the search was how long before a body starts to smell three minutes later how to stop a body from decomposing less than an hour later. This is just before 6am 10 Ways to Dispose of a dead body if you really need to. If you really need to is the strange part of that. 6:25am how long for someone to be missing to inherit? 6:34 can you throw away body parts. 9:29am what does formaldehyde do? 9:34. How long does DNA last? One minute before 10am can identification be made on partial remains? 11:34am Dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body 10 minutes later. How to clean blood from wooden floor 4 minutes before noon. Luminol to detect blood. 1:08pm what happens when you put body parts in ammonia? 1:21pm Is it better to put crime scene clothes away or wash them? 5:30pm Surveillance video shows Brian Walsh and his vehicle going to a dumpster. This is in the parking lot of a liquor store, and he's throwing something in that dumpster. He can be seen throwing something in that dumpster before he goes back and gets in his car and drives away.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, and that's one surveillance footage. There's going to be more that tracks Brian's movements, but I'm guessing that there's possibly multiple other stops that he made that we don't have surveillance footage of.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yeah, so there's between 5:30pm that night and about 8pm that night. We don't know exactly where he was or what he was up to, but we know he returns home at approximately 8pm that night. So we have two and a half hours of. I mean, he could be. I hate to say it, but I. My guess is he's driving around and disposing of items around in several different parts of town.
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Co-host (Captain)
So the shopping spree that he went on is actually before this? Correct.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Well, so no. So he. January 2nd, the following day is when he's seen at a Home Depot store, and he's wearing gloves and he's wearing, like, a surgical mask. The mask that we were wearing during COVID Right. And this is when he's seen purchasing over $400 worth of cleaning supplies.
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Co-host (Captain)
Wasn't this a Lowe's?
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
I have Home Depot in my notes here, but.
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Co-host (Captain)
Because what I have is that he went to Lowe's, he went to cvs, and he went to Home Goods.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yes.
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Co-host (Captain)
I could be wrong. He could have went Home Depot as well.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Forgive me, because you. We were. We both are. Right. He's doing these shopping trips on two days. Okay, so actually, before he goes to that dumpster. You're absolutely right. He went to. He claims that he spent the day visiting his mother on January 1st.
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Co-host (Captain)
His mother's a trip.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
And that he's running errands for her. Okay, so we don't have any surveillance for this, but it's believed that he went to A CVS and a Whole Foods. The Lowe's trip captain happens on the fourth. Whatever he's doing, he's not doing it very quickly. The shopping trip on January 2nd is Home Depot in Rockland. And he purchases tarps, mops, tape, hatchet, A hatchet and gloves. And he purchased this with cash. These are a cash buy here. And yeah, I think all of his.
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Co-host (Captain)
Transactions are going to be cash except for one that I think he made.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
With a gift card later that day. His search searches, Internet searches include Hacksaw, best tool to dismember. Can you be charged with murder without a body? And can you identify a body with broken teeth?
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Co-host (Captain)
Some very incriminating searches.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
January 3rd, there was supposed to be a flight. Anna was supposed to have a flight. She never boards this plane. And on the same day we have more Internet searches. One at 1pm that says what happens to hair on a dead body 11 minutes later? What is the rate of decomposition on a body found in a plastic bag compared to on a surface in the woods? Also searched, can baking soda mask or make a body smell good? And then at 4:27pm surveillance shows Brian disposing of heavy trash bags at 3 apartment complex dumpsters.
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Co-host (Captain)
Dumpsters, yeah. And on one of the trips, one of the shopping trips, we, we see Brian on surveillance footage, but he's with his six year old son.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Classy move.
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Co-host (Captain)
And he does one of those self checkout and as he's doing the self checkout, so we have him on the camera of the self checkout but he has his son help him scan the items that he's purchasing. It's printed. Pretty haunting when you think of that image.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Well, and later on that third, he's, he goes to several apartment complexes and it's believed that he's disposing of items in the dumpsters at these different apartment complexes. On January 4th, it's when he visited a HomeGoods and a TJ Maxx to buy towels and bath mats and then visited the Lowe's, which is the one that if anybody's caught pieces of this story on the news, it's been on the news a lot lately. This is the picture that you're seeing here. This part in the timeline is where he can be seen at the Lowe's and he's buying a squeegee or squeegees and a trash can and some other items now on the same day. Key here is this is when Anna is reported missing by her coworkers. Remember Brian Walsh claims to police that. Yeah, I last Saw her early on January 1st and she had to take a ride share to Boston Logan International Airport.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah. But even if you're having troubles in your marriage, you're still married, you're responsible for the children. How many times is he trying to contact her within that period? And I think it would be reasonable if he has nothing to do with her disappearance, it's reasonable for him to call cops as soon as January 2nd when he goes, hey, I'm calling her phone. And yeah, I saw her leave and she took this ride share and she was going to jump on a plane because she had this emergency at her work. Well, I can't get a hold of her. But that never happens. He never reports her missing. Ever.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
When they go to do this welfare check and they talk to him, they notice that there's a plastic liner inside his vehicle.
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Co-host (Captain)
Not good.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yeah, this is going to give them probable cause here. And then the topper is going to be. Well, she, he says that she left for emergency work. Problem on the first. Right. Well, when they ping her phone, they track her phone. Her phone is pinging as it's still inside their home.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
On January 2nd.
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Co-host (Captain)
And again, if you had a concerned husband that was trying to call her, chances are he would have found her phone and then that would be again reason to call the police and say, hey, my, my wife went to this emergency work thing, but she left her phone. I can't get a hold of her. Nobody's heard from her. But none of this happens.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yeah. And so with that, his vehicle, they later detect blood. Positively detected blood inside that vehicle.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
On January 5, 2023, there's a public appeal issued by the police. They are asking people to search their yards. The police are actively searching the wooded areas and they're collecting video evidence and hoping to figure out where she may have went or what happened to Anna Walsh, who was age 39 at the time. The public appeal is a missing person's appeal. Right. They're, they're giving out her description. She's 5 foot 2 inches tall, weighs about 115 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes, olive complexion. They're of course not getting any calls or any tips as to where she may be. The search efforts for her included canine teams and state police air units. They had 20 troopers, captain, 20 state troopers. Now let's get to January 8th here. Captain Brian Walsh is questioned by investigators about his searches on the Internet and the searches that they discovered on his six year old son's iPad. So they have him at the station conducting a thorough interview of him. And they are equipped with information saying, hey, somebody in your home, using this iPad and using your home Internet, is searching for things like, does the dishwasher remove blood from a knife?
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
How to stop a body from decomposing. And that's when Brian should have said, yeah, my son's into some weird.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, I've.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
I've confiscated the iPad.
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Co-host (Captain)
Some say he's on the spectrum of being a Jeffrey Dahmer type.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
So shortly after all of this, Captain, we have Brian, who is arrested, and he is initially charged with misleading the police in an investigation. But it was on January 8 that police revealed that they found blood in a broken knife in the family's basement, and that they had that surveillance footage of Brian Walsh wearing a medical mask and surgical gloves, purchasing those cleaning supplies at the Home Depot. And then you referenced some of the other purchases and surveillance footage of those as well.
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Co-host (Captain)
This evidence piling up goods for my aunt Hill to a giant mountain pretty quick.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
So he's wearing. This is what's difficult, though, because he's wearing this monitoring bracelet because, remember, he got caught selling the fake Andy Warhol paintings, right? So he's under house arrest. He's allowed to leave the home for things like going to doctor's appointments in the grocery store. And from my understanding, I hate when they call these monitoring bracelets. This one doesn't have GPS tracking on it, from my understanding. So how much monitoring? How much monitoring are they doing? It almost seems like this thing is no different than the watch I wear. My guess is that maybe it triggers some kind of alert if he's gone for too long. For too long. I hope there is some actual monitoring that's being done. So we do know that the police also attempted to find items in the local landfill there, as the landfill would be the obvious destination for whatever was in those dumpsters. And again, he went to multiple dumpsters. It would be 10 days later that he's eventually charged with murder. And then it would be March of 2023, when he was actually indicted by a grand jury. So this is three charges here, Captain. Murder, mislead, a police investigation, and improper transport of a human body.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, he's what you call a real.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Piece of the jury. Selection for his trial took place this November 2025. As if this story is not weird enough, look at all this evidence they have against him. At some point, Brian's going to switch from, hey, innocent to now he's got a story to tell us, right? So Brian's defense and hold on.
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Co-host (Captain)
It's a whale of a story.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yes. Brian's defense is that Anna Walsh died suddenly of some kind of unexplained death. Okay. So he says, I found her unresponsive in our bed. She wouldn't wake up. This was after we were celebrating New Year's Eve. He says he panicked and started searching the Internet how to dispose of the body. Because he's saying, and eventually his defense attorney, Larry Tipton, will be saying this as well, that no one would believe me that she just, one minute she's alive and the next minute she's dead. So I panicked and had to dispose of her.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah. She was a young, healthy woman. And because of all their problems and everybody knows they're heading. They're heading to a divorce, he's heading to prison. He's going to be responsible for all this money that he has to pay back because he's going to prison, he's going to lose probably custody of his children. So this isn't going good for him at all. But either way, this is the mother of your children. If you find her dead in your home, what do you do about it? Do you try to rescue her? Do you try to save her? Do you try to call 911 at least? Google search, how does somebody die suddenly? But that's not what the Google searches are. The Google searches are how to dismember a body and, and how to basically dispose of this body.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yes, Prosecutors, they were stating that they believe that Brian Walsh was motivated by money. He was the sole beneficiary of his wife's over $2 million life insurance policy and also motivated by the affair that she was having with the realtor in Washington D.C. now his defense team is going to say, no, not so fast. He didn't kill his wife. They called him a loving husband and father who didn't even know about the affair. The closing arguments by the prosecution state that Brian Walsh methodically cut up the body of Anna Walsh and disposed of her body parts in different dumpsters, saying, quote, he needed her dead, end quote. The jury deliberation started on Friday, December 12, in the afternoon.
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Co-host (Captain)
And wait, before we get to that, though, because what the jury wasn't privy to during the whole trials, that Brian ari pled guilty to certain crimes.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yes.
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Co-host (Captain)
And they were made aware of that, I believe, by the judge right before they were in deliberations to come up with a verdict. A lot of people just thought, man, this is open shut case. So the verdict's going to come back pretty quickly. It didn't. But I wonder if being hit with this very damning and crazy information right before you go into deliberations, is that part of the holdup of them coming up with a verdict?
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Well, I have that. They came up. So it was December 15, the following Monday, that he's found guilty of murder in the first degree. And it was. Yes. Nearly two weeks of testimony in Norfolk County Superior Court. And you're absolutely right, Captain. I'm with you. It's like, so this guy's whole defense is, yeah, I disposed of her body. I'm not going to tell you where I put her, and you're not going to be able to recover her. But I didn't kill her. You know, it's like one of the most bizarre defenses I've ever heard. So I'm with you. I thought two days is all, is the only test. But when you, when you have the evidence and you have the ability to do so, especially when you don't have a body, you have to lay it on pretty thick. Right. And you have to go over in detail. So the jury is made aware of how strong your case is, leaving no question about what our accusations are and that we, we believe them to be 100% true. And of course, we know that the jury agreed with that. There was no reaction in the courtroom from Brian Walsh. I don't know if you saw this, but I. There was something on Court TV where they zoomed in on his face when they were getting ready to read the verdict. After he's announced that he's guilty, he's handcuffed, shackled, and they take him out of the courtroom. Eventually we will learn that he's going to receive a life in prison sentence for killing his wife. Anna Walsh and those three young children are now in state custody. From my understanding, Brian Walsh had a.
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Co-host (Captain)
What seems to be a reputable defense team. But a lot of people that were in that courtroom were like, man, this guy seemed defeated at every pass. But the defense team did tell, everybody, tell the jury, hey, we might not have all the answers, but this. But the true story is going to come out when we put Brian on the stand. Well, Brian never went on the stand.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
So I think originally, originally he said that he was going to take the stand, or at least his defense says that he's going to. And then, then what it looks like is kind of at the 11th hour. Right. He decides not to take the stand.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah. And I think the prosecution, because you have no body, so we don't know how she was killed. I mean, you can Speculate. Well, maybe she poison, maybe he stabbed her to death. We don't know. I think you would know more if you went through those Google searches and went through them with a fine, fine tooth comb to figure out like, what was he searching first? But then when you're hit with, hey, he disposed of her body and he dismembered her, there you go. I mean, to me you go open and shut case. But again, I think some of it is confusion and I can't remember if it was on Court TV or something else, but some quote unquote expert was like he had somebody else help him because dismembering a body is normally a two person job. What, I mean, out of all the things I heard in 2025, I think that's one of the dumbest things I've heard. We, we have plenty of situations where people have dismembered their victims by themselves.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yes, we've, we've covered a lot of cases, unfortunately, where dismemberment is part of the case, part of the crimes committed, and many, many times done as a solo act. And I think what you have to look at here too is nobody's with him on these trips, right? We, these trips that he's taking to collect materials, the trips that he's taking to dispose of materials, with the exception of his son being there for one of them, he appears to be by himself. Right, on a lot of these trips. And it, unfortunately, whatever, however, he was able to get rid of the evidence that all took place inside that home, inside the family's home, very likely in the basement of that home. I mean, this is just a slimy dude. There's just something. I mean, of course the murder, of course the other crimes, but this, I just look at him and he's a slimy, slimy.
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Co-host (Captain)
And we've talked about this before. You have to be a certain type of person to dismember a body. And so I think somebody needs to look into his history more. You know, where did he go to university, where he worked. Is there any missing person, is there any rumors of him dating somebody that just kind of disappeared? I wouldn't put it past him because this, like I said, takes a special individual. And then you have these, these crimes with the forgery. Okay, I'm going to paint this picture. I'm not saying that this happened, but his defense team, even other people were like, well, she told him, Anna told Brian that she had a crush on this individual. It later comes out, even in the trial that this, this affair was confirmed, but they were saying, oh, well, he wasn't a jealous type. Well, he might not have been because we, we don't have a body. We don't know the motive. I actually wonder because like I said when you were saying the story how they had this, this gathering, I wonder if he tried to poison her because it, it almost seems like people are hanging out and then she disappears as far as, like, well, she's going to go to bed and then does some people leave and not say goodbye to her. And so, like, think about that. Like, oh, we have this party and I poison you, but you collapse or die while there's other people around, then they, they essentially somewhat become my alibi. So I'd wonder if, I'd wonder if there's any searches on any of these items for anything about poison a victim or not. But where my mind wonders is, did she have any involvement in these sales? I don't think that's maybe information that we could find. But is it, is it, is it something that he can't, you know, because he's a slime ball? Like you said, this guy is utterly a piece of. But did he come up with the idea and then, then explains to her the idea and she goes, oh, no, that's a good idea, and we could make a little bit of money and that could start some of our real estate endeavors and blah, blah, blah. And then because to me, it's like, again, I can see, oh, if she's having an affair and, and, and okay, everybody knows that she told her husband that she had a crush on the guy. Did she eventually tell him that they had an affair? Is that the straw that broke the camel's back? Is that the motivation for him to kill her, behead her, dismember her, dispose of her? Or is it more than that?
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
I think it's probably all of the above. And the thing that we can't, you know, the, the obvious thing to point to here is I agree with the prosecution when they're saying that we believe he was motivated not just by the affair, but also he's the sole beneficiary of Anna's $2.7 million life insurance policy. And remember one of those.
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Co-host (Captain)
Yeah, but see, that's, that's not what I have as the insurance policy. What I have as the insurance policy, or what he would have received, which he was, he would have been a, a benefactor of that, but also the three children would be, is it's $220,000. It's twice her annual annual Salary. So to me that seems like a life insurance policy that is not extreme. Right, right. And also like you have three young children, so it makes sense. I mean, I don't know where you're getting the two point some million dollars, but again, you have a guy that his life before this was crashing all around him. He's going to lose his freedom for at least, okay, he's sentenced for three. He's probably going to get out in what, a year and a half, maybe two. Unless that's just like you get three years and there's no time off for good behavior. Plus you're going to be monitored, plus you got to pay all this money back because of all these things. Because you're a slime ball. Because because of all these things now you're losing your wife, you're going to lose custody of your kids. And then if she moves away because you're in prison, you can't stop that. If you get a divorce and let's say you live in Ohio and your ex wife gets custody of the kids and she wants to move to Michigan, she has to come up with some damn good reasons why she's going to take the kids away from the father. And that's something that the father can fight for. And it's actually something that the state is like, yeah, you're going to have to work out some kind of deal, maybe even leaving the kids here and you not getting custody, hey, we'll let you move and we'll let you take this work opportunity or whatever it is, but we're not going to let the kids leave. But when you're in prison, he wouldn't be able to fight for this. Like I said, sick son of a. Is losing everything. I think on some level he wanted somebody else to suffer. I think he wanted somebody else to lose everything. And I think he took out his anger on his wife. Now, I think it was hard for the prosecution to come up with that story. And I think also the prosecution in the back of their head, they're going, well, we know he admitted to dismemberment and disposing of the body, but we can't say that. So it's. This is. This case is so weird and bizarre.
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Nick (Host of True Crime Garage)
Yeah. I was pointing to the Google search of how long someone missing to inherit. So he's, he's actively trying to figure out how long does this person have to be missing for before I can inherit the life. Because if the person's missing, they're not technically dead. Right. As far as that, that contract goes for the life insurance. Now it was NBC News that reported that it was a $2.7 million life insurance policy. At court it was testified that by an insurance agent that Anna Walsh had a one million dollar term life insurance policy and a $250,000 whole life insurance policy. Okay, Brian Walsh will not see a penny of that. What he's going to be seeing a lot of is a prison cell.
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