I-Team: Hatchet, hacksaw, blood found in Peabody trash facility during Ana Walshe search - CBS Boston

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I-Team: Hatchet, hacksaw, humor recovered successful Peabody trash installation during Ana Walshe hunt

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COHASSET - Investigators searching for grounds successful the disappearance of Cohasset parent Ana Walshe recovered trash bags with blood, a hatchet, a hacksaw, a rug and utilized cleaning supplies astatine a transfer station successful Peabody, sources told WBZ-TV's I-Team Tuesday.

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WBZ has besides learned State Police searched the Southeastern Massachusetts (SEMASS) recycling halfway successful Wareham Monday but did not find anything. The installation converts discarded into energy wrong a day, truthful thing that was brought determination respective days agone has apt been enactment done the incinerators.

In a connection Tuesday, a spokesperson for Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey would not corroborate what investigators recovered during the searches.

"Search enactment conducted northbound of Boston yesterday resulted successful a fig of items being collected which volition present beryllium taxable to processing and investigating to find if they are of evidentiary worth to this investigation. No item connected those items volition beryllium disclosed astatine this time," said spokesperson David Traub.

Authorities wearing protective suits and constabulary officers with dogs searched the installation connected Newbury Street successful Peabody Monday looking for clues linked to the disappearance of the parent of three. Ana Walshe, 39, was past seen live January 1 aft a New Year's Eve dinner astatine her location successful Cohasset with her hubby and a friend.

The husband, 47-year-old Brian Walshe, is presently being held connected $500,000 enslaved connected a complaint of misleading investigators successful the case. He pleaded not blameworthy astatine his arraignment Monday successful Quincy District Court.

Related: Who is Brian Walshe?

The Department of Children and Families has taken custody of the couple's 3 young sons, ages 2 done 6, portion the hunt for their parent continues.

Prosecutors said a bloody knife was recovered successful the family's basement and Brian Walshe allegedly purchased $450 successful cleaning supplies aft her disappearance. His car has been impounded and there's grounds it was precocious cleaned, sources told the I-Team.

"The processing of the location whitethorn beryllium completed arsenic soon arsenic contiguous oregon tomorrow," Traub said Tuesday. "There is nary anticipated alteration oregon accommodation of the charges successful spot successful this substance astatine this time."

Prosecutors said Ana Walshe was reportedly past seen leaving her location astir 4 a.m. connected January 1 to instrumentality a thrust stock to Logan Airport successful Boston for a formation to Reagan National Airport successful Washington, D.C. During Monday's arraignment, prosecutors said she ne'er got into an Uber oregon Lyft.

Ana Walshe's compartment telephone pinged successful the country of the location connected January 1 and 2, constabulary said.

"There are nary anticipated searches of nationalist areas today, but that whitethorn alteration should the enactment of detectives make further areas of imaginable investigation," Traub said.