Overview
- A Norfolk County jury returned the first-degree murder verdict Monday after roughly six hours of deliberations over two days.
- Under Massachusetts law, he faces life in prison without parole, with sentencing set for Wednesday morning.
- Prosecutors highlighted early Jan. 1, 2023 searches on dismemberment and body disposal and showed surveillance and receipts for cutting tools, cleaning supplies and a Tyvek suit.
- State crime-lab testimony tied Ana Walshe’s DNA to blood-stained items recovered from dumpsters—including a hacksaw, hatchet head, rug piece, towel, slippers and a Tyvek sleeve—and blood was found in the home’s basement; her remains have not been recovered.
- The defense argued Ana died suddenly and that Brian Walshe panicked; he had previously pleaded guilty to misleading police and improperly conveying a body and is separately serving a 37‑month federal fraud sentence.