Recordings of Brian Walshe played as prosecutors outline alleged love triangle murder

Brian Walshe, the 50-year-old Massachusetts antheral accused of sidesplitting his woman aft uncovering an matter betwixt her and a person successful Washington, D.C., returns to tribunal Tuesday for the 2nd time of his execution trial.

Walshe's defence attorney, Larry Tipton, said during his opening connection Monday that Walshe recovered his woman dormant successful her furniture but did not termination her. Tipton said grounds would amusement a "sudden, unexplained death" and that specified a happening "happens." He denied the prosecution's allegation that his lawsuit was alert of Ana Walshe's suspected affair.

Walshe is accused of sidesplitting Ana, dismembering her and hiding her assemblage — aft searching the net for accusation astir the antheral she was seeing down his back. 

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Brian Walshe arrives astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, MA, Monday, December 1, 2025. Walshe is facing execution charges for the decease of his wife, Ana Walshe. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)

"The defence tin reason that the hunt shows the consciousness of a name, not that helium knew astir a romanticist relationship," said Randolph Rice, a Maryland lawyer and ineligible expert who is pursuing the case. "That favoritism matters due to the fact that without wide cognition of an affair, the state's motive mentation gets a batch weaker."

Walshe already pleaded blameworthy to lesser charges of misleading constabulary and unlawful conveyance of quality remains.

Cohasset Police Sgt. Harrison Schmidt volition travel backmost to the basal aft prosecutors said they mean to proceed questioning him and besides to play astir 40 minutes of further excerpts from his interviews with Walshe anterior to the defendant's arrest. 

Prosecutors played much than an hr of akin recordings Monday, successful which Walshe spoke calmly with detectives with sporadic interruptions from his 3 children arsenic their parent was unaccounted for successful aboriginal January 2023.

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"I would ne'er bash thing to my wife," helium told Schmidt astatine 1 point, aft Ana's death. "I wanted to walk the remainder of my beingness with my wife. I'm inactive going to."

Brian and Ana Walshe rise a toast connected their wedding time successful the lounge of L'Espalier successful Boston, Massachusetts connected Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

Massachusetts State Trooper Nicholas Guarino, an adept connected integer forensics, is expected to instrumentality the basal adjacent and sermon Walshe's alleged Google searches, which included the sanction of the antheral progressive successful an matter with Ana, 39, and for accusation connected however to dispose of quality remains.

Guarino testified earlier this twelvemonth successful different high-profile Massachusetts execution trial, speechmaking substance messages sent betwixt Karen Read and John O'Keefe. Read was acquitted of each homicide-related charges successful the decease of her erstwhile boyfriend, O'Keefe, and convicted of drunken driving. 

Ana Walshe pictured successful a November 2022 Instagram post. (Ana Walshe/Instagram)

Prosecutors person alleged 2 imaginable motives successful the case. 

The archetypal is that Walshe allegedly uncovered an matter betwixt his woman and a Washington, D.C., realtor who is expected to instrumentality the witnesser basal Thursday. 

William Fastow leaves an unfastened location successful the Spring Valley country of Washington, D.C., Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. Fastow was a person of the precocious realtor, Ana Walshe, and is suspected of being progressive successful an matter with her earlier her death. (Fox News Digital)

The different is that Walshe allegedly believed that if his woman was retired of the picture, and helium was the lone caretaker for their 3 children, helium could person a accidental of avoiding situation successful transportation with a national creation fraud conviction.

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He faces up to beingness successful situation without parole if convicted successful Ana's death. Her remains person not been found.