Missing Massachusetts woman, husband were in rush to sell real estate assets, former tenants say - WCVB Boston

NewsCenter 5 is learning much astir the existent property inheritance of Ana Walshe, a missing parent of 3 from Cohasset, and her husband, Brian Walshe.Ana Walshe is employed by Washington, D.C.-based existent property institution Tishman Speyer, but has besides bought and sold respective properties crossed Massachusetts.Mike and Mandi Silva, erstwhile tenants of the Walshes, described however their narration with the Cohasset mates precocious deteriorated.Case background:Ana Walshe was reported missing connected Jan. 4, but hasn't been seen since New Year's Day.Her husband, Brian Walshe, is successful custody for the complaint of misleading a constabulary investigation.Brian Walshe is besides awaiting sentencing successful a national lawsuit involving fake Andy Warhol paintings and was expected to study his planned movements.Investigators accidental they recovered video of him making an unplanned travel to a hardware store, wherever helium bought $450 worthy of cleaning supplies successful cash.Prosecutors said humor and a weapon with humor connected it were recovered successful the basement of the location the Walshe household was renting. The DA's bureau said that hunt and processing efforts astatine the location concluded connected Tuesday afternoon.Items recovered during a hunt astatine a transportation presumption successful Peabody see a hacksaw and rug with humor connected it, 5 Investigates has learned.The Department of Children and Families has taken custody of the couple's 3 children."Over time, wrong the past six months, things started to get truly unusual with the Walshes," Mandi Silva said.The Silvas said they rented a Revere condominium owned by the Walshes, but the spot was sold retired from nether them conscionable days earlier Ana was reported missing."Ana was selling each of her assets successful the Boston area, including our unit, that they were successful a unreserved to merchantability it," Mandi Silva said. "Why are you successful specified a unreserved to merchantability our unit? It doesn't marque sense.""This was precise retired of quality for them," Mike Silva said.Mike Silva said helium has known the Walshes for 8 years, doing operation enactment connected galore of the couple's properties crossed Massachusetts, including the Jerusalem Road location successful Cohasset wherever the Walshes erstwhile lived and was precocious sold successful March 2022. That location connected Jerusalem Road caught occurrence Friday, but the adjacent day, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services — besides known arsenic the State Fire Marshal's Office — told NewsCenter 5 that Cohasset and authorities investigators determined that the occurrence was not suspicious. State constabulary and Cohasset constabulary aboriginal said the Massachusetts State Police Fire and Explosives Investigation Unit and section investigators determined the origin of the occurrence astatine the Jerusalem Road spot was accidental."They ne'er stayed astatine a spot for much than a year, truthful I figured possibly they're moving from thing oregon hiding for something," Mike Silva said. "I mean, she sold each her properties and walked distant with a batch of money."Mike Silva texted "Happy New Year" to Ana and Brian Walshe connected Jan. 1. He said helium did not person a effect from Ana, but helium did person a delayed effect from Brian."I said: 'Happy New Year' connected Jan. 1. On Jan. 2, helium said: 'Happy New Year. Sorry for the delay. I misplaced my telephone and my lad conscionable recovered it.' And past thing aft that," Mike Silva said.5 Investigates has learned, done tribunal documents, that Brian Walshe is awaiting sentencing successful a national lawsuit involving fake Andy Warhol paintings, and helium is expected to petition support to permission his location and specify the clip required for each trip.The assertion astir the mislaid telephone is precisely what Brian Walshe told investigators, saying helium got mislaid going to his mother's location successful Swampscott connected New Year's Day. Prosecutors, however, said investigators could not substantiate those claims.Brian Walshe besides told investigators that helium lone near his family's Cohasset location disconnected Route 3A connected Jan. 2 to get crystal cream, oregon a smoothie, for his lad astatine Press Juice Bar successful Norwell. Surveillance video obtained from Press by NewsCenter 5 shows Walshe wrong the foodstuff barroom the greeting of Jan. 2, but prosecutors said surveillance video astatine the Home Depot successful Rockland showed him purchasing astir $450 worthy of cleaning supplies, including mops, a bucket and driblet cloths and assorted kinds of tape. A constabulary study revealed that helium wore a surgical disguise and gloves astatine the store, and utilized currency to wage for the purchase.Brian Walshe remains successful custody aft helium was arraigned Monday successful Quincy District Court connected a complaint of misleading a constabulary probe successful transportation with Ana Walshe's disappearance.A constabulary study indicates that Brian Walshe told officers his woman was leaving for Washington, D.C., aboriginal connected the greeting of Jan. 1.Prosecutors said humor and a weapon with humor connected it were recovered successful the basement of the Cohasset location the Walshe household was renting. The Norfolk District Attorney's bureau said hunt and processing efforts astatine the location concluded Tuesday afternoon.On Monday, investigators searched a trash transportation presumption successful Peabody and a spokesperson for the territory attorney's bureau said pieces of imaginable grounds were recovered during the search, and that they would beryllium taxable to processing and testing. 5 Investigates has learned those items see a hacksaw and a rug with humor connected it.Ana and Brian Walshes' 3 sons, aged 2, 4 and 6, are successful the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.