Brian Walshe is locked up in Massachusetts for the crime of hindering a police investigation into the disappearance of his Serbian born wife Ana Walshe. Brian and his wife hosted a New Year’s Eve party at their Cohasset home. Ana disappeared on New Year’s Day. Brian said that he went to his mother’s house in Swampcott on New Year’s Day but got lost. The police found a hatchet, a hacksaw, a rug and used cleaning supplies while searching dumpsters near Brian’s mother’s home. Cops also found a knife in the basement of the Walshe family home in Cohasset with blood on it, as well as on the floor. On January 2nd Brian had searched the internet on how to dispose of a 115 pound woman. On January 2nd Brian spent $450 in Home Depot on cleaning products.

Brian’s wife Ana worked full time as a realtor while Brian stayed home to take care of their three kids, a 6 year old and two toddlers. Brian was a full time stay at home dad while he was on home confinement for a Federal fraud crime he had pleaded guilty to. He was expected to be sentenced to some time in Federal prison. According to the criminal file in the Federal case, Brian was praised in character letters as the “Father of the Year.” Who was watching the kids while Brian allegedly committed the murder? Who was watching the kids when he disposed of the body and cleaned up? Day care? Another caretaker? The cops must have interviewed the kids. Brian’s mother was not capable of watching the kids, according to the Federal criminal file, she was a recluse.

The police will have a hard time charging Brian with murder if they can’t find his wife’s body, even if her blood is found to be on knives and cleaning supplies. In Connecticut a similar murder was allegedly committed by an ex-husband named Fotis Dulos, and no body was found. The police still brought murder charges, even though they didn’t have a body, but the suspect ex-husband committed suicide. The police had a significant amount of circumstantial evidence tying Mr. Dulos to the disappearance of his ex-wife. Dulos told his worker to clean his car. Dulos was caught on video tape disposing of trash bags all over Hartford. Dulos was caught on video tape going to his wife’s house just before she disappeared. Dulos’ attorney was caught digging a grave. Dulos’ attorney and his girlfriend are currently fighting charges that they were accessories to the murder.

The Federal criminal file contains information about Brian Walshe’s background, which shows he suffered mental abuse as a child: “At once being used as a pawn by his parents in their acrimonious marital relationship (he was severely attacked when he was six years old by Doberman dogs brought home by his father to spite his mother) and being put on a pedestal as the replacement for a deceased uncle, Brian was emotionally abused from an early age. To make matters worse, his mother lived (and still lives) a reclusive lifestyle while his father (now deceased) spent his time partying with mere acquaintances just looking to have a good time. Brian had no one else inside or outside the family to turn to for help. According to his treating psychiatrist, this left Brian, “neglected, unloved, and emotionally damaged.” Brian was sent to boarding school in Rhode Island for high school. Although smart, he was unfocused and failed to excel either academically or athletically, leaving him somewhat of a misfit and even more isolated. Neither parent was there for him physically or emotionally. After high school, he enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Brian’s mental health continued to deteriorate and as a sophomore in college, he left college and checked himself into the Austin Riggs Center, a psychiatric in-patient treatment facility which specializes in psychiatric patients who have failed at least one prior treatment. His depression, anxiety and anger left him unable to function. There he started his long battle to overcome his mental illness. His treating psychiatrist reports that “over the course of his
treatment at Austin Riggs, Mr. Walshe made slow but significant progress. His stay was cut short, however, when his parents each thought the other should pay for his treatment and neither one of them would.”