A timeline of the missing Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe and her husband Brian Walshe - CNN

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Ana Walshe, a Massachusetts parent of three, has not been seen since astatine slightest the New Year, and investigators person searched areas northbound and southbound of Boston to uncover her whereabouts and status.

Her husband, Brian Walshe, 47, told constabulary helium past saw her connected January 1 erstwhile she near their location successful Cohasset for a formation to Washington, DC for her job. But authorities person accused him of misleading investigators and said they recovered a bloody weapon successful the basement of their home.

Using accusation from a transgression affidavit, police, prosecutors and defence attorneys, CNN enactment unneurotic a timeline of the couple’s movements and actions, from his earlier ineligible occupation to her caller disappearance.

Brian Walshe was indicted connected national fraud charges successful 2018 for allegedly selling fake Andy Warhol artwork online, according to tribunal documents.

FBI investigators alleged Brian oregon Ana Walshe utilized her eBay relationship to merchantability the paintings successful November 2016, little than a twelvemonth aft they were married. The ailment does not complaint Ana Walshe with wrongdoing, but states that she spoke to the idiosyncratic who purchased the fakes aft the purchaser learned the paintings were not authentic and located her enactment number.

The papers besides alleged Brian Walshe took existent artwork from a person to sell, but ne'er did. He did not compensate the person for the creation either, prosecutors alleged.

In October 2018, Walshe was indicted by a national expansive assemblage connected 4 charges successful the case, including ligament fraud, interstate proscription for a strategy to defraud, possession of converted goods and unlawful monetary transaction.

Brian Walshe pleaded not blameworthy successful November 2018.

In April 2021, Brian Walshe pleaded blameworthy to 3 of the 4 counts successful speech for a recommended condemnation of incarceration, supervised release, fines, restitution and forfeiture, tribunal documents show. He besides agreed to either instrumentality the artworks oregon wage for them.

As portion of pre-sentencing probation, Brian Walshe was placed connected monitoring and location arrest. He tin petition to permission location but indispensable item the circumstantial locations, times and reasons.

According to Brian Walshe’s statements to constabulary included successful an affidavit, helium and his woman hosted a New Year’s Eve meal astatine their location with a person named Gem.

Brian and Ana Walshe went to furniture soon aft the person near astir 1 oregon 1:30 a.m., helium told investigators, the affidavit states. Ana Walshe said she had a enactment exigency and needed to alert to Washington for her occupation the adjacent morning, helium told police.

As Brian Walshe told police, successful the greeting Ana Walshe “got acceptable and kissed him goodbye and told him to spell backmost to sleep,” the affidavit states. She usually took an Uber, Lyft oregon Taxi to the airdrome and near betwixt 6 and 7 a.m., the affidavit states.

He further told constabulary a babysitter arrived successful the day and helium near location to get groceries astatine astir 3 p.m., the affidavit states.

He told constabulary helium past went to spot his parent astatine astir 4 p.m. successful Swampscott, astir an hr thrust from Cohasset, but did not person his compartment telephone and got lost, making the travel longer than usual, the affidavit states. He said helium near his mother’s location wrong astir 15 minutes of arriving to tally errands for her astatine Whole Foods and CVS and yet returned location to Cohasset astatine astir 8 p.m., according to the affidavit.

Ana Walshe’s compartment telephone pinged successful the country of their Cohasset location connected January 1 and 2, according to authoritative Lynn Beland.

As Brian Walshe told investigators, helium took 1 of his children for crystal pick astatine a foodstuff barroom successful Norwell connected January 2 portion the babysitter watched his 2 different kids, the affidavit states.

Investigators confirmed this travel occurred, the affidavit states.

According to surveillance video, Brian Walshe traveled to a Home Depot successful Rockland wearing a surgical disguise and gloves and made a currency purchase, the affidavit states. There, Walshe bought $450 of cleaning supplies, including mops, a bucket, tarps and assorted types of tape, according to Beland.

Ana Walshe’s workplace, the existent property institution Tishman Speyer, called constabulary to study she did not amusement up for her job, Beland said.

According to Brian Walshe’s defence attorney, helium called her workplace to inquire if they knew of her whereabouts anterior to the workplace’s telephone to police.

Cohasset Police arrived to Ana Walshe’s location for a good being check, according to an affidavit. Brian Walshe spoke with investigators aggregate times and provided the supra timeline for his actions and whereabouts connected January 1 and 2.

Cohasset Police announced Ana Walshe is missing and asked the nationalist to travel guardant with immoderate information. Police said she was past seen “shortly aft midnight connected New Year’s Day.”

Police launched a monolithic hunt for Ana Walshe that included K-9 officers and hunt and rescue teams successful the wooded areas adjacent her home.

At slightest six investigators are tasked with driving to the northbound enactment country of Massachusetts and watching surveillance video to effort to verify Walshe’s timeline of events, the affidavit states. They did not observe him connected video astatine the Whole Foods oregon CVS successful Swampscott connected January 1 arsenic helium had stated, the affidavit says.

Cohasset Police and Massachusetts State Police announced the hunt for Ana Walshe has concluded.

Brian Walshe was arrested and charged with misleading a constabulary investigation, police said successful a statement.

Brian Walshe was arraigned successful tribunal and pleaded not blameworthy to a complaint of misleading police.

Beland, the prosecutor, said investigators had recovered nary grounds of Ana Walshe taking a rideshare from their location connected January 1. She said his statements to constabulary caused a hold successful the investigation.

The authoritative besides said investigators obtained a hunt warrant for their location and recovered humor and a bloody weapon successful the basement.

The justice acceptable bail astatine $500,000 currency and acceptable the adjacent proceeding for February 9.

Prosecutors released the affidavit successful enactment of a transgression ailment that lays retired authorities’ timeline of the anterior week. The affidavit describes Brian Walshe’s statements to constabulary arsenic a “clear effort to mislead and hold investigators.”

The affidavit besides outlines respective trips helium made that were not requested and approved beforehand and that whitethorn correspond violations of the presumption of his probation.

Investigators conducted searches northbound of Boston and collected a fig of items that volition beryllium processed and tested, according to a connection from the Norfolk territory attorney. The connection besides referred to the Ana Walshe’s disappearance arsenic “suspicious.”

According to a root with nonstop cognition of the investigation, investigators enactment transgression country portion astir dumpsters adjacent the location of Brian Walshe’s parent successful Swampscott and dug done trash astatine a transportation presumption successful Peabody. Both locations are northbound of Boston.