Overview

• Judge Diane C. Freniere directed that Walshe be hospitalized for 20 days at Bridgewater State Hospital for a competency assessment.
• The court rescheduled the Oct. 20 trial start and the final pretrial conference planned for Tuesday, with no new trial date set.
• Court records list the next hearing for Oct. 27 at 9 a.m. to address Walshe’s competency status.
• Walshe has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, misleading investigators, and improper conveyance of a human body, and he remains held without bail.
• Recent docket filings note completion of additional DNA testing and indicate prosecutors will present limited facts about his federal art fraud conviction while declining other prior-acts evidence, and may seek to infer his knowledge of his wife's alleged infidelity.