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Brian Walshe Trial Enters Day 3 as Digital Searches and Dumpster Evidence Dominate

Prosecutors rely on a circumstantial record of grim online queries and recovered belongings, while the defense casts the activity as panic rather than planning.

Overview

  • Testimony resumes Wednesday with Trooper Nicholas Guarino returning to the stand, and the jury is expected to hear from Uber, Lyft, JetBlue, and U.S. Customs record keepers.
  • Jurors reviewed timestamped searches from Jan. 1–3, 2023 on Walshe’s laptop, including queries on disposing of a body, cleaning blood with bleach, dismemberment tools, and decomposition in plastic bags.
  • Investigators presented photos of Ana Walshe’s boots, jacket, handbag, and COVID-19 vaccination card found in a dumpster bag, and previously recovered a hacksaw and a bloody, damaged knife with a bone fragment from a trash site.
  • The defense disputes who used the devices and argues the “cheating wife” reference came from a porn video title, maintaining Walshe panicked after discovering a sudden death.
  • Walshe has pleaded guilty to misleading police and improper conveyance of a body but denies murder, and a first-degree conviction would mean life in prison without parole.