Overview
- Jurors reached the guilty verdict Monday after roughly six hours of deliberations spread across Friday and Monday.
- Massachusetts law mandates life in prison without parole for first-degree murder, with formal sentencing and action on his prior guilty pleas still pending.
- Ana Walshe’s body has not been found, and prosecutors said Brian Walshe dismembered her and discarded the remains in dumpsters.
- Evidence presented included early Jan. 1, 2023 device searches about disposing of a body and cleaning blood, surveillance and receipts for tools and supplies, DNA on items recovered from trash, and blood detected in the home’s basement.
- The defense called no witnesses, said Ana died suddenly and that Walshe panicked, and noted he had pleaded guilty before trial to misleading police and improperly conveying a body.