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Investigators looking into the disappearance of a Massachusetts woman found a bloody knife in the basement of the home she shares with her husband and accused him of misleading police, a prosecutor with the Norfolk District Attorney’s office said in court Monday.
Brian Walshe, 47, was arraigned in Quincy District Court on Monday on a charge of misleading investigators who are searching for Ana Walshe, a 39-year-old mother of three. Her workplace reported her missing on January 4 after she did not show up to her job, Beland said.
Investigators looking into her disappearance found search queries on his internet records for “how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body” and how to dismember a body, according to two law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation. Investigators turned their focus from a missing persons case to suspicion she may have been killed, after receiving new information in the last three days, the sources told CNN.
On Monday, prosecutor Lynn Beland and a criminal affidavit offered details of the investigation, calling into question Brian Walshe’s statements to police about his actions and movements last week.
He had told police he last saw his wife at their home in Cohasset early on January 1 when she took an Uber or Lyft to the airport to fly to Washington, DC, for work. He also told authorities he went to a Whole Foods and CVS in Swampscott, a 40-mile drive from Cohasset, on January 1 and took his child to get ice cream the following day, the affidavit states.
However, a police investigation found there was not an Uber or Lyft ride on New Year’s Day, Ana Walshe did not arrive for her flight or to DC, and her cell phone pinged at her home later in the day, Beland said. Further, investigators reviewed surveillance video of Whole Foods and CVS in the same time period, and did not observe him there, according to the affidavit…
