Overview
- Massachusetts State Police Trooper Nicholas Guarino continued testimony on a series of early‑January 2023 searches extracted from a laptop, including queries on dismemberment, cleaning blood, identifying remains, and hiding digital evidence.
- Representatives from Uber, Lyft, and JetBlue testified that records show no airport rides for Ana Walshe on Jan. 1 and that she was a no‑show for a Jan. 3 flight, contradicting Brian Walshe’s initial statement that she left for a flight on New Year’s Day.
- Jurors saw photos of items recovered from trash sites and a recycling center, including Ana’s boots, jacket, and vaccination card, as well as tools and clothing with reddish‑brown stains, with a crime lab analyst confirming biological material but not its method of deposition.
- An insurance broker testified that Ana held policies exceeding $1 million naming Brian as beneficiary, which prosecutors cite as a potential financial motive, while the defense questioned medical screening details as it advances a sudden‑death theory.
- The defense pressed that the searches reflected panic, challenged attribution to Brian as the device user, and disputed prosecution claims about a ‘cheating wife’ porn video as evidence of motive, as the court weighed limits on affair‑related messages shown to jurors.