Agents investigating the disappearance of a mother in Massachusetts detected blood and found an ax and saw at a trash transfer facility they were searching last night.
Ana Walshe, 39, was last seen on the morning of January 1. The mother of three was reportedly taking a cab to the Boston airport for a flight to Washington, DC, due to her job.
It was Walshe’s husband, Brian, who gave that information to police when the woman’s employer reported her missing three days earlier.
Media such as Crime Online reported that the 47-year-old man faces charges of misleading investigators.
At the hearing of the case yesterday in which Brian appeared before the authorities for the first time, prosecutors pointed out that there is no evidence that the disappeared woman took a taxi on the 1st and neither did the return flight on the 3rd.
Following the court hearing, officers dug up a dumpster located at Brian’s mother’s Swampscott apartment complex and began a thorough search of a garbage facility in Peabody.
Prosecutors also indicated at the hearing that police found blood and a broken and bloody knife in the basement of the couple’s Cohasset home.
Security camera footage also located the man purchasing more than $400 worth of cleaning supplies at a Home Depot. Additionally, internet searches would also link Brian to the disappearance of his wife. “How to dispose of the body of a 115-pound woman” and “how to dismember a body” are two of the most revealing phrases.
The victim’s mother revealed to authorities that her daughter attempted to call her, her sister, and her maid of honor multiple times the night of her disappearance.
Walshe awaits sentencing in a case in which he was convicted of federal fraud.