Brian Walshe, charged with murdering his wife Ana Walshe, is expected to appear in court today - CNN

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Brian Walshe is expected to beryllium arraigned successful tribunal Wednesday after helium was charged successful Massachusetts with murdering his wife Ana Walshe, the parent of his children and a firm existent property manager who had been missing since the caller year.

Beyond the apprehension warrant issued Tuesday charging Brian Walshe with murder, the 47-year-old besides faces a complaint of improper transport of a body, prosecutors said. It’s inactive unclear whether investigators person recovered Ana Walshe’s body.

Evidence supporting the execution complaint is apt to beryllium presented Wednesday successful court, Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey said, declining to stock further details. Brian Walshe, who is being held successful a Norfolk County corrections facility, volition beryllium brought to Quincy District Court for the arraignment, which could statesman arsenic aboriginal arsenic 9 a.m., the territory attorney’s bureau said.

His lawyer declined to remark Tuesday.

Walshe has been successful jailhouse since January 8, erstwhile helium was arrested and charged with misleading investigators; helium has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors person accused him of intentionally delaying investigators successful bid to screen up evidence, alleging helium lied astir immoderate of his actions successful the days pursuing his wife’s disappearance.

Since Ana Walshe’s leader reported her missing January 4, authorities person scoured the couple’s home, performed a sweeping hunt of the municipality of Cohasset, and poured done dumpsters looking for immoderate motion of what happened to the 39-year-old parent of three.

The searches person uncovered respective pieces of imaginable evidence, including a hacksaw and evident bloodstains astatine a trash postulation tract and searches successful Brian Walshe’s net records for however to dismember and dispose of a body, instrumentality enforcement sources person told CNN.

Police besides person recovered humor stains and a bloody, breached weapon successful the couple’s basement, prosecutors person said.

Ana Walshe’s person and erstwhile workfellow Pamela Bardhi felt rage and alleviation upon proceeding investigators judge her person was murdered, she told CNN.

“I conscionable had this horrible gut feeling and I prayed I was wrong,” she said Tuesday. “I prayed that it wasn’t the case. And present we are present uncovering retired a fewer hours agone there’s a execution complaint … That’s a heavy, dense thing,”

Though Bardhi is terrified to larn the details successful the case, she hopes the information volition emerge, she said.

“I deliberation that the information is simply a existent double-edged sword. It’s achy to know, but it’s necessary,” she said. “I deliberation that those kids merit to cognize what happened to their mother, nary substance what, and her household and her friends.”

The couple’s children, ages of 2 to 6, are successful the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, a spokesperson said.

So far, respective pieces of imaginable grounds person emerged successful Ana Walshe’s disappearance, including her husband’s allegedly mendacious statements to constabulary and items recovered successful and astir the tiny coastal municipality of Cohasset.

Brian Walshe told constabulary helium past saw his woman the greeting of January 1 erstwhile she near for a enactment travel to Washington, DC, according to a constabulary affidavit. The hubby said helium spent the remainder of the time moving errands for his parent and spent time on January 2 with his kids.

However, prosecutors accidental determination is nary grounds Ana Walshe took her accustomed rideshare oregon taxi to the airport, oregon that she took a formation oregon arrived successful Washington. Her telephone besides pinged adjacent the couple’s location overnight connected January 1 into January 2.

Additionally, investigators allege Brian Walshe ne'er ran errands for his parent connected New Year’s Day and accidental helium took an undisclosed travel to Home Depot connected January 2, wherever prosecutors accidental helium spent astir $450 connected cleaning supplies, including mops, a bucket and tarps.

On January 4, Ana Walshe’s employer, existent property institution Tishman Speyer, called constabulary to study her missing, according to investigators. A Cohasset constabulary log says, “Company has contacted the husband. He has not filed a constabulary report.”

Brian Walshe called his wife’s workplace earlier they reported her missing to accidental helium hadn’t heard from his wife, defense lawyer Tracy Miner has said.

Items collected erstwhile investigators conducted searches northbound of Boston were sent to beryllium tested arsenic imaginable evidence, the Norfolk territory lawyer has said, declining to supply details.

Investigators recovered a hacksaw, torn cloth and evident bloodstains astatine a Boston-area trash postulation site, instrumentality enforcement sources person told CNN.

A bloody weapon and humor stains were besides recovered successful the couple’s basement, authoritative Lynn Beland said. Additionally, the husband’s net records amusement searches for “how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body” and however to dismember a body, according to 2 instrumentality enforcement sources briefed connected the investigation.

The charges against Brian Walshe successful his wife’s disappearance are the latest successful a drawstring of ineligible troubles for the husband.

In 2021, helium pleaded blameworthy to 3 national fraud charges related to a strategy to merchantability fake Andy Warhol creation online. He was placed nether location apprehension arsenic helium awaits sentencing and was required to get support to permission his location for circumstantial activities astatine circumstantial times.

Investigators allege Walshe took respective unapproved trips the week aft his woman disappeared that could beryllium violations of the presumption of his location arrest, a constabulary affidavit says.

Additionally, a constabulary study obtained by CNN shows Ana Walshe reported idiosyncratic threatened to “kill (her) and her friend” successful 2014. Brian Walshe was the idiosyncratic progressive successful the report, a spokesperson for the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department confirmed.

The lawsuit was closed due to the fact that the unfortunate refused to cooperate with the prosecution, constabulary said.

In 2019, a comparative and household friends besides painted Walshe arsenic a convulsive and untrustworthy idiosyncratic during a ineligible conflict implicit his father’s estate. Two friends of Brian Walshe’s begetter accused Walshe of fiscal misconduct and said helium is “a sociopath,” according to affidavits filed successful the case.

Current and erstwhile attorneys for Brian Walshe person not responded to CNN’s requests for comment.