Brian Walshe declines to testify at murder trial as he's accused of destroying dad’s will before murder case

Brian Walshe, who declined to attest astatine his execution trial, tried to instrumentality power of his precocious father’s property soon aft helium was indicted connected creation fraud charges successful 2018, according to a report.

Brian and Thomas Walshe had been estranged for years, but the lone kid argued that his dada didn't permission a volition and convinced the Plymouth County Probate Court successful Massachusetts to sanction him arsenic idiosyncratic typical for the property that December, according to The Boston Globe.

Brian's assertion to Thomas' property was aboriginal challenged by his father's household and friends, arguing the lone kid had really destroyed the will, sold disconnected his belongings and wiped retired his father's slope account. Brian allegedly took and sold disconnected a full of implicit $500,000 aft the precocious Walshe stripped his lad from the will.

Fred Pescatore, a longtime person of Thomas, reportedly said successful a signed connection to the tribunal that Brian stole from his father.

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Brian Walshe entered the courtroom clutching papers and a rosary successful his execution proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court, Dedham, Mass., Dec. 1, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

"Brian and Tom’s estrangement had everything to bash with money," Pescatore said. "Brian stole wealth from Tom and swindled him retired of astir 1 cardinal dollars…"

Pescatore added that Brian had a convulsive streak and said helium was "very angry" and a "sociopath."

"I saw Brian effort to smuggle retired antiquities from China," Pescatore added. "When Brian was confronted, helium picked up a stanchion and virtually attempted to termination 4 oregon 5 guards that had travel to speech to him astir his crime."

When Thomas died, Brian "almost had zero" interaction with him for implicit a decade, friends and household wrote to the probate court.

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Brian Walshe arrives astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Massachusetts, connected Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. Walshe is charged with murdering his wife, Ana Walshe. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)

Walshe is accused of sidesplitting his wife, Ana, successful January 2023 aft learning she was having an affair. Ana disappeared connected New Year's Day and was ne'er seen again. Jurors volition statesman deliberations connected Friday. The defence unexpectedly rested its lawsuit connected Thursday greeting without calling immoderate witnesses and did not enactment Brian connected the stand.

On Tuesday, a forensic idiosyncratic testified that DNA accordant with Ana's illustration was recovered connected a hatchet and hacksaw recovered from the trash.

Saman Saleem, a DNA portion supervisor astatine the authorities constabulary transgression lab, besides said that respective items recovered astatine a Peabody, Massachusetts, trash postulation tract besides had Ana's DNA connected it, which included pieces of a rug, a Tyvek suit, chartless insubstantial and slippers.

Tools that tested affirmative for humor are submitted arsenic grounds successful the execution proceedings of Brian Walshe, of Cohasset, astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham connected Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

Brian Walshe is seen connected surveillance camera astatine Lowe's successful Danvers connected Jan. 1. 2023 with a buying database buying $463.26 successful goods, including cleaning supplies. This grounds was presented successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham connected Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

Brian's woman had a $2.7 cardinal beingness security argumentation which helium was the beneficiary of, tribunal records show. He owed astir $500,000 successful restitution for his national case.

Another 1 of Thomas' longtime friends, Jeffrey Ornstein, said successful a signed connection to the probate tribunal that helium had impervious Brian was taken retired of the will. Ornstein said Brian reached retired to him pursuing Thomas' decease and asked if helium had the keys to his father's location successful Hull, Massachusetts. Brian claimed helium "needed immoderate paperwork."

When Ornstein entered the house, helium saw Thomas' volition successful the office.

"I reviewed the Will and near it wherever we recovered it, however, I took immoderate pictures," Ornstein wrote. "I noticed a database of beneficiaries, but arsenic Tom had told maine galore times implicit the years, helium had expressly disinherited Brian."

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Brian Walshe was charged with execution and misleading a constabulary probe successful Cohasset, Massachusetts connected Jan. 17, 2023. Walshe was already down bars for misleading a constabulary probe into the disappearance of his wife, Ana Walshe, erstwhile helium was charged with her murder. (Cohasset Police Department/File)

Thomas' nephew, Andrew Walshe, was named arsenic the executor of the will, Ornstein said. 

"I inactive felt bad," Ornstein continued, "so erstwhile I texted Brian aboriginal that time to archer him that I had near him a acceptable of keys nether the mat, I did not archer him astir being disinherited."

Brian and Thomas' quality stems from the acquisition of a location successful Lenox, Massachusetts, according to the report. Brian bought the house, with his begetter reportedly agreeing to money renovations with the stipulation that he'd beryllium paid back, which ne'er happened.

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Ana Walshe wrote successful an Instagram station connected May 21, 2018: "Mild concussion, bruised hep and a cut...#vulnerability" arsenic the caption with a representation of her with a chopped supra her eye. (Ana Walshe/Instagram)

Andrew yet asked the tribunal successful July 2019 to region Brian arsenic the estate's idiosyncratic representative.

"It is wide that Brian destroyed the Last Will and Testament which excluded him from immoderate inheritance, erstwhile helium gained entree to the Hull property," Andrew wrote successful a connection to the court. "Brian R Walshe had estranged himself from each Walshe household members owed to their cognition of the theft helium had committed to his father."

"I hereby bequeath to Brian R. Walshe my champion wishes but thing other from my estate," Thomas wrote successful the will.

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Ana Walshe was past seen astatine her location successful Cohasset, Mass., soon aft midnight connected Jan. 1, 2023. (Facebook/Ana Walshe)

Andrew unsuccessfully pressured Brian to relationship for what happened to the property and alleged that the lone kid drained astatine slightest $250,000 from Thomas’ slope relationship and sold his possessions, worthy astir $250,000.

Fox News Digital's Michael Ruiz and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.