Episode 39 | Ana Walshe Is Still Missing, Cohasset, Massachusetts & "No Body Conviction" cases

Ana Walshe, a 39-year-old working mother of three young boys is reported missing on January 4, 2023. But not by her husband, by her Washington, DC employer when they said she never returned to work after the New Year's holiday. A visit to her South Shore Massachusetts home in the coastal town of Cohasset sets off a string of events that leaves investigators highly suspicious of husband, Brian Walshe, and locals glued to the story. Ana was last seen in the early morning hours of January 1, 2023, after a celebratory dinner with her family and a friend. The husband's explanation of where she went, we learn pretty quickly, doesn't add up and his moves from the last time she is seen have left digital footprints that paint a very grim picture of what took place on the first day of January 2023. His criminal past takes a front seat as the story unfolds.
 
 Ana Walsh is still missing; her three small boys, her family, and her many friends miss her. They realize what the evidence is suggesting and it is terrifying.
 
 I always hold out hope that she will be found. Alive.
 
 Her husband is charged with her murder and she is presumed dead. Can someone be convicted without a body? I cite two New England cases where husbands were convicted in the deaths of their wives when a body was never recovered: The November 1986 murder of Helle Crafts of Newtown, Connecticut and the September 1998 murder of Katherine Leonard Romano of Quincy, Massachusetts.

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Photos: Ana, the family's rented home in Cohasset, with her mother, and her three boys, and with the husband who is now charged with her murder

Timeline

Boston Globe

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2019/11/01/don-call-her-ritz-she-taj-more-say-hello-newbury-boston-grand-dame-hotels/UfbCkM6aJUd5B7mh4LnkLM/story.html

Who is Brian Walshe

NBC Boston
 https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/heres-what-we-know-about-brian-walshe-husband-of-missing-cohasset-woman-ana-walshe/2939316/

Threatened

WCVB Channel 5

https://www.wcvb.com/article/missing-cohasset-woman-ana-walshe-massachusetts-husband-brian-walshe-jan-12/42461631

About The Husband
 NBC Boston

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/heres-what-we-know-about-brian-walshe-husband-of-missing-cohasset-woman-ana-walshe/2939316/

Can the case stand up in court?

WBUR

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/01/27/ana-biran-walshe-cohasset-murder-case-search-terms
 
 CNN
 https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/us/ana-walshe-brian-missing-timeline/index.html

Boston Globe
 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/20/metro/their-father-is-accused-killing-their-mother-what-happens-their-three-young-boys/
 
 The Warhol Paintings

CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/brian-walshe-stolen-warhol-paintings-ana-walshe-missing/

https://www.lvhart.co/journal/understanding-andy-warhols-shadow-paintings

https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2019/1/4/andy-warhol-in-the-city#:~:text=He%20produced%20much%20of%20his,West%20and%20finally%20860%20Broadway.&text=The%20first%20Warhol%20%E2%80%9CFactory%E2%80%9D%20was,East%2047th%20Street%2C%20until%201967.

NYPOST on Ana Walshe’s property portfolio HTTPS://NYPOST.COM/2023/01/18/ANA-WALSHE-AMASSED-3M-PROPERTY-PORTFOLIO-HUSBAND-WAS-EAGER-TO-INHERIT/

WCVB 5 CASE HISTORY

HTTPS://WWW.WCVB.COM/ARTICLE/MISSING-ANA-WALSHE-HUSBAND-BRIAN-WALSHE-COHASSET-MASSACHUSETTS-ARRAIGNMENT/42549929

What we know about Ana

CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ana-walshe-missing-massachusetts-husband-brian-walshe-what-we-know/#:~:text=Ana%20Walshe%2C%20a%2039%2Dyear,for%20more%20than%20two%20weeks.

Brian Walshe’s damning digital footprint
 BOSTON 25

HTTPS://WWW.BOSTON25NEWS.COM/NEWS/LOCAL/25-INVESTIGATES-BRIAN-WALSHES-DAMAGING-DIGITAL-FOOTPRINT-ACCORDING-PROSECUTORS/HJSCWF5WBFCUZIB7JO5SS5HRRY/

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2023/01/18/ana-walshe-brian-walshe-murder-timeline/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/14/metro/ana-walshe-projected-success-optimism-behind-scenes-missing-39-year-old-had-stress-uncertainty/?p1=HP_TrendingBar

https://people.com/crime/brian-walshe-court-appearance-murder-charge-missing-wife-ana

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/us/ana-walshe-brian-missing-timeline/index.html

No Body convictions in New England

Katherine Leonard Romano, Quincy, Massachusetts
 
 

https://whdh.com/news/quincy-family-whose-daughters-disappearance-led-to-murder-conviction-without-body-sees-similarities-in-ana-walshe-case/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/drumoorhouse/murder-cases-where-a-body-was-never-found?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharetwitter

https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/state/1999/01/01/quincy-man-charged-in-wife/50544729007

Helle Crafts
 Newtown, Connecticut
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Helle_Crafts

https://web.archive.org/web/20130310161906/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/family/woodchipper_murder/13.html

https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-woodchipper-murderer-richard-crafts-out-of-prison-20200131-y3v7bj4blrc4zlucdf2tx4zz2m-story.html

https://www.newtownbee.com/08111999/notorious-crafts-murder-shook-newtown-ten-years-ago/