Overview
- Opening statements finished Monday, with the defense asserting Ana Walshe died from a sudden unexplained medical event and that Brian Walshe panicked afterward.
- Lead Cohasset police investigator Sgt. Harrison Schmidt began testifying about the initial missing-person probe, with testimony on Safari and iPad search history expected to follow.
- Prosecutors outlined Google queries about dismemberment and disposal, surveillance of tool and cleaning-supply purchases, and trash bags containing tools and items bearing both Brian and Ana Walshe’s DNA.
- Possible motives presented include his status as sole beneficiary of about $2.7 million in life insurance and suspicions of an affair, assertions the defense disputes.
- No body has been found; Walshe has pleaded guilty to misleading police and improper conveyance of a human body, and the trial is expected to run two to three weeks.