Husband's Art Fraud Connected to Anna Walshe Disappearance?

Published May 25, 2024, 1:00 PM

Cohasset man Brian Walshe has been indicted for the murder of his wife, Ana Walshe, who vanished in early January after a New Year's Eve party.

Prosecutors say the 48-year-old husband dismembered Ana Walshe and discarded her body in multiple trash cans in the area. Police have recovered blood-stained items from the home, including a hacksaw.

Walshe has pleaded 'not guilty' to first-degree murder, but he's headed to jail anyway. 

 A Massachusetts federal judge sentenced Brian Walshe to three years in prison for art fraud.   He was ordered to serve 37 months in prison. He'll have three years of supervised release after, if he is not serving time for the murder of his wife. 

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

  • David Studdard - Spalding County, Ga. Assistant District Attorney; Former Police Officer 
  • Caryn Stark - Psychologist; Twitter: @carnpsych
  • Tom Ruskin - Private Investigator, President of the CMP Protective and Investigative Group, Inc.; Former New York City Police Detective Investigator; Twitter: @tomruskin 
  • Julie Lewis - President & CEO, Digital Mountain, Inc.
  • Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth); Lecturer: University of Texas Austin and Texas Christian University Medical School
  • Bob Ward - Reporter for Boston 25 News; Twitter: Bward3, FB: Bob Ward Boston 25

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Delay Delay, Delay, a defense attorney's best friend. I'm talking about Brian Walsh, remember that name. Brian Walsh is charged in the murder of his wife, Anna, the mother of his children. If you'll recall, her body has never been found. Brian Walsh claimed that his gorgeous young wife left on a weekend, a holiday weekend, to go back to work, headed for the airport. Well, that didn't happen. Brian Walsh now charged with Anna's murder, even though, as I said, her body hasn't been found. But in the last hours, Brian Walsh back in court. He's had his first hearing in some time regarding the murder of his wife Anna. His also in federal court appealing a sentence recently handed down over art fraud. While in court in Norfolk Superior Court in Massachusetts, lawyers for both sides decided that the defense states to quote catch up on the evidence in the murder case. Translation, they're not ready. But what does art fraud have to do with the murder of Anna Walsh and the possible dismemberment of her body. I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thanks for being with us as you will recall Brian Walsh, accused of murdering his wife New Year's Day twenty twenty three and lying about where she went. He was just sentenced in Boston's Federal Court in a separate art fraud case. Now the judge sentenced Brian Walsh to thirty seven months at over three years on each arn't fraud to runking currently or at the same time. That jail sentence will also run concurrently to any state sentence he may get and the murder of his wife. Let me jog your memory regarding the murder of Anna Walsh. What exactly happened? Glamorous, elegant, I could speak several languages, had traveled abroad. Just a beautiful woman and a loving mother. I Meancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and series XM one eleven. Friends and family or stunned when Anna disappears after a New Year's Eve party, listen.

New Tonight Police are asking the public to help them find a cohaset Massachusetts mother of three who vanished without a trace on New Year's Day. Thirty nine year old Anna Walsh left her home early Sunday morning, she was supposed to take a flight from Logan to DC, where she worked during the week, but there's no record of her ever boarding a flight. Police say there's been reports that she took a ride share, but investigators haven't been able to confirm that.

Three days after she was seen leaving her home with bags in hand, Walsh was reported missing.

We cannot confirm that she actually got into a ride share in Cohacit. We confurther, we have confirmed with the Alnes and that's been a challenge that she did not board a plane this week.

Police say her phone has been off and there has been no activity on her credit or debit cards.

Just a loving wife and mother Dave. She always says, three beautiful boys, three bautical boys.

So she loves so much.

Too, little boys wondering where is mommy? You were hearing our friends at wpr I and WUSA, So where's Anna now? I had to take that exact flight very often, and between New York and Boston and DC, it's almost a triangle of hourly flights with me an all star panel to make sense of what we know right now, but first I'm going to go to Bob Ward, reporter for Boston twenty five News. You can find him at Twitter at b Ward three. Bob, thank you for being with us. Could you just verbalize that a little bit better than I did. I mean, I know, out of in New York, I would very often have to race from Court TV to get to the Marine Air terminal at LaGuardia, a different terminal than the main LaGuardia terminal, because they had hourly flights not only to Atlanta, but to DC where I would go to shoot Larry King. And believe it or not, they were so regular, almost like a bus. For Pete's sake, I could be there within two hours of leaving the studios in Manhattan. It was amazing. But there's so many flights out of Logan to New York and DC. That's a lot of investigation to find out if she really did get on a plying right.

But you know, Nanthy, right from the very beginning, this sounded odd because you're talking this was New Year's Day. This was first thing in the morning on New Year's Day. She had a party at her house that went until about one o'clock in the morning New Year's Eve into New Year's Day. A mother of three who claimed there was an emergency at her realty firm in Washington, d C.

Okay, well let me let me let's start right there. Bob Ward is joining me from Boston twenty five knews. I'm drinking out of the fireheiser from you, Bob Ward. You're giving me so much information so quickly. So with the three children. She was actually working in DC, living right in the Boston area. And what was her job in DC? Was it a new job?

It was, it was a fairly new job. You know, we're still trying to unpack some of this stuff. But she had she had a job with an apartment down in d C.

Okay, but what was her job in DC?

I'm not clear on what her job was. She was not a realtor, but she was some kind of property manager.

That's it. That's what it was. Property manager. And hold on just a moment. We all know, about getting a new job, you feel like you've got to do whatever they want to make that great impression so they don't say, wow, we've got her on six months probation. We're going to can her. She's not doing a very good job. I mean, David Stuttard is with me right now, guys, Now I think of David stutter as a motorman, as an APD Atlanta Police Department officer, but now he is a very well known lawyer. David Stutterard, do you remember your first day on the job as a cop? Absolutely?

I do, And it was a long, long time ago, nineteen to eighty eight, And I do remember my first day, and I was super excited, super enthusiastic, and just wanting to get out and save the world.

And didn't want to screw anything up and land at some desk assignment.

That's right.

We were on a very strict six month probationary period when we first started there, and any infraction would cause you some difficulty right quick. So to your point, absolutely, I was willing to do whatever I needed to do to get to that probationary career.

And then you put yourself through law skill. Can you remember your first day working as a lawyer, like, man, I'm going unscrew this up. This is nothing like being a cop.

That's absolutely right, the same sort of feeling.

I mean. Karen Stark, you remember you would be with me on the set at Court TV. Karen Stark is with me, renowned psychologists joining us out of the Manhattan Jurisdiction. She's at Karenstark dot com, Karen with to see Karen. You'd be with me on the set at Court TV, and my stomach would be churning to figure out if I can make that flight to get to Larry King's studios in Washington to get on the air, you know, and I would make it. I don't think I ever did not make it. But when you've got a new gig, you'll do anything. And if they told me, hey, you got to fly to DC to be on tonight, I go, sure, I can't wait. Just like this woman, they go, hey you got to fly down to DC. We got an emergency. I don't care if it's New Year's Day. And she would hop that plane would do you agree with that?

I would agree with it, Nancy. And I remember those days like it was yesterday, and you were always doing above and beyond what.

You needed to do.

I used to watch Jo and Larry King because I couldn't believe that you would make it, and you always made it.

But what pressure. Yeah, there were a lot of white knuckles in a cab trying to get to La Guardian Marine. So we're hearing from Bob ward that something wasn't right, but yet it was a new job, so people talked it off, well, you know, she's proving herself. But then things even went more sideways. Take a listen to our friends at Boston twenty five.

A Cohasset police log is shedding new light on how the investigation first got started. It says a call requesting a well being check was made on January fourth by a man who identified himself as the head of security at Honnor Walsh's employer in DC, Kishman Spyer. The log says Tishman's buy er contacted husband Brian Walsh before he reported his wife missing. It explains that he told police on a left for DC and he hadn't heard from her since. According to the log, on his phone last pied on January twond at three fourteen am in Cohasset and hit the tower on Reservoir Road in Cohasset, less than a mile from the family's home.

Okay with me. Very well known PI private investigator Tom Ruskin is with us. Ruskin is president of CMP Protective and Investigative Group, Inc. Former NYPD investigator, and you can find him at Cmpdashgroup dot com. Tom Ruskin, I don't like it when it's your job calling to report you missing, not your family.

Correct. I mean it distincts to the high heavens. It really does not. To mention that it is a a lot easier now than when I joined the force before my colleague in nineteen eighty two, to check flight records, to check TSA records, to check different airlines. There's only a certain number of airlines that would fly between her home and Washington, DC, And it's very easy for the TSA and holy insecurity to go into those records now and search for her name, her data, birth and see if she A had a plane reservation, B did she clear security with all the cameras that are in airports, and C did she actually get on the flight?

Can I tell you something, Tom Ruskin, That's an excellent point I hadn't even thought of, because I remember going in your life at this stutter, going to the greyhound bus station in inner city Atlantic trying to find out if a particular woman who always into this day is still a Jane Day by the way, who's murdered if she had gotten off of a greyhound bus before she was murdered by him. I believe to be a serial killer. Don't worry. I got him on one one. He's still in jail right now. Prison prison, not jail. But it was so hard to do.

Tom, Nancy. You'll also remember when you ran from Court TV to the Marine Air terminal at Laguardi Airport. You used to be able to run through no maginetometers. You'd run on the Delta flight or People's Express flight or Eastern back then, and you just jump on the flight with a random ticket that you could just say any hour. Nowadays you can't do that.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. What exactly was the art fraud with which Brian Walsh is charged. It started when a buyer saw two Andy Warhol paintings for sale on eBay. That's really odd, isn't it. It's like seeing the Mona Lisa on eBay uh Okay. The listing included photographs of authentication stamps. Now, the buyer arranged to buy those paintings, part of a Shadows series of Warhols, for eighty gram But after having an assistant picked the paintings up, the buyer finds out there were no authentication stamps and the canvas looked new. That led to an FBI investigation. But what does that have to do with murder? Did Anna Waltz discover the art fraud? Whi's she going to testify about the art fraud? Did Brian Wals murder Anna Waltz, the mother of his children, over art fraud? Or was it because as she was set to leave him? The employer is reporting Anna missing, not her family. But listen to this WBZ.

WBZ is obtained and verified audio of a voicemail left by mister Walsh for one of Hona's friends. It's the same day Anna was reported missing to police.

Said Brian Walsh. I hope all is going well. I was just just reaching out to basically everybody I could. Anna hasn't been in touch for a few days, you know, anyone that might have that contact with her, just you know, calling everyone. So I heard to bother you for everything. Fine.

So we do see the husband reaching out to her friends and leaving voicemails for all of them, trying to find out if they had heard from Anna and joining me right now. Julie lewis President and CEO of Digital Mountain, Inc. At Digitalmountain dot com. Julie, thank you for being with us Tom Ruskin, the PI points out how much easier it is to check flight records through TSA and even getting subpoenas very quickly, or asking the carrier you know, like Delta to check their records to find out if somebody made a flight. So, according to police, she didn't make that flight. But what Julie lewis about ride share, lift, Uber and all the others digitally, wouldn't that leave a trail if she had taken a right chair to the airport.

So you can certainly contact the custodian of records at the ubers the lists and types of companies that she would have taken a ride share and find out that information with legal due process.

And see what you know, what the actual fact pattern is there?

Well, what about her phone? I mean most people get their right chair through their phone app.

If you have access to her yes, if you have access to her phone, you knew the whereabouts of that phone. You would have access to the app, but most of that data would be stored in the cloud and pointing up to the Uber application. Not it might not be stored on the local phone.

So that's something to consider.

Got a question for you, Julie Lewis. If we don't have her phone, but we do have her code, say it like everybody else in America their birthday or their children's birthday, and we have the code for her phone, can we get into the iCloud that way?

Typically you would need the user name, you would need a password for the accounts, and you would also if they have Multifacturer authentication turned on the code from the text message.

So a little harder than I thought. But you know what we're talking about, her phone and where she Where is the husband during all of this? Take to listen our cut thirty five, I've Lynn b Lund talking kind to indicate our January.

First at three pm he did some arns and which was not his house and swamps, but lost because he didn't have his farm. He said he know he was lost when he saw a pirate ship one one defenders did. Stayed fifteen minutes, then went.

To Whole Foods in CBS.

Savanah's has checked and he did not enter either at those stores.

Okay, Bob Ward, Boston twenty five on this the disappearance of Atto Walsh since the beginning saw a pirate ship on route one what okay, no, wait a minute. Wait, wait, so he says. The husband says he's going to visit his mother and he gets lost on the way to his mom's home, and when he sees a pirate ship, he knows he's lost, but then goes into the whole foods of CBS even though he's lost.

What the parnership is a landmark on the rout one area. There's you know that area of Swampskit where his mother lives. There are some old landmarks, miniature golf places, restaurants, that sort of thing. And I think that's what it was that he's talking about, was a landmark that he saw that told him where he was. And he said he got lost because he didn't have the GPS on his phone with him because he's left it at home.

Karen Starr, I find that very unusual. I've told that my twins is like the wizards and their wands and Harry Potter, you don't go anywhere without it. Well, doesn't make sense to me he didn't have a cell phone, especially if he hasn't her from his wife, wouldn't you keep your cell phone with you at that time? In case she called brot RUPs, think about this.

Nancy how many people really leave home these days without their phone.

It's it's improbable.

I have trouble.

Believing that he accidentally left it home and he knows that he's being watched. It seems to me so he intentionally left that phone home. I have no doubt about it. He's the nefarious character. He knows exactly what he's doing.

In the search for Anna Walsh, local authorities find something very unusual. Take a listen to our cut forty.

Data from the phone also tracked his whereaboats on January third. Locations were traveled at four twenty seven on January third from an impartment complex in Hambingen, so valiance shows the defendant's bobo as well as a male fitting the defendant's appearance, Exeter.

Cob near the dumpster.

He walks to the dumpster carrying garbage bag he's leaning and it appears to be heavy as he has to it heft it into the dumpster. He walks to the dumpster with the garbage bag and leaves it on full.

Forty eight.

He hit another complex in Avergon and at one pm. Cell phone shows records at another pot in their broadtown. Video shows of high and consistent with his appearance and his global again he decided how you to skin the dumpster?

Bob Ward joining us from Boston twenty five on his disappearance. From the very beginning, I don't have a problem with my husband throwing trash out there in the dumpster outside our house. But when he starts going from one dumpster to the next dumpster, to the next dumpster to the next dumpster, all in within a one hour period, that concerns me. And you know who reminds me of and you're gonna know this name very well. Jennifer Dulo's the missing Connecticut mom of five. Remember her husband, Fotus Delos and his mistress. They're going all around town dropping off items and they're caught on surveillance video. Why is it, Bob Ward, maybe you can shed some light on this. Why is it that when a goes missing, her husband suddenly turns into a knee nick and he has to throw out the trash?

Good question, Nanty, I think you know the answer to that. And that's the allegation here that the sadly that January third incident that you just played the cut from the dumpsters in the south Shore and Avington and Brockton. What we're going to find out in court, that is, when the remains of on A. Walsh are being discarded in those dumpsters, those dumpsters eventually are brought to an incinerator in the south shore of Massachusetts, and within an hour of those dumpsters being brought to that incinerator, they're destroyed. Anna Walsh's remains have never been located, and the thought is that they never will be because that's where those bags were brought. The other trash bags that were recovered in this case were brought to the north shore near that pirate ship that we just talked about, and they were not brought to an incinerator, but to a landfill they were found. And it's so, I don't know if I'm getting ahead of us, but inside those trash bags is where the evidence, the incriminating evidence has been located in this case.

Bob Ward, could you tell me everything you just said one more time in very slowly?

Sure?

I think the gist is that very quickly after husband Brian Walt visited these various dumpsters, the dumpsters were cleaned out where the trash was picked up and taken some to an incinerator and some to the pirate ship. Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, wait a minute, Wait a minute, Karen Stark, have you ever noticed how defendants weave in a tiny bit of truth into their big fat lie the pirate ship.

I mean, that's what makes pathological liars so interesting, Nancy, is because it's usually based on a hint of truth.

Right, Like no smoke without fire.

There's a little bit of smoke, but the rest that they conjure up, and they're very adept at being able to tell a lie that has a little bit of truth in it, but a lot of Faucetod.

Did Brian Walsh murder his wife, Anna, the mother of his children because she knew about more extensive arn't fraud? Did that exist? Is that motive for murder? Or was she murdered because she intended to leave Brian Walsh? What more do we know about her murder? Okay, Bob Ward joining me? Investigative Report of Boston twenty five, tell me again what you just said.

So on January third, Brian Walsh, according to the prosecutors, is recorded on surveillance trying to dump trash bags into dumpsters in the south shore of Boston, in the towns of Abington and Brockton. The prosecution believes that those trash bags that he was struggling with to get into the dumpsters contained the dismembered remains of his wife, on A.

Walsh.

Shortly after he did that, those dumpsters were brought to an incinerator in the South Shore. Within an hour of those trash bags arriving at that incinerator, they were incinerated and converted into electricity, and Walsh's remains have never been found. It's an absolutely horrific and gruesome part of this case. The other half of it is that Brian Walsh did not, allegedly did not discard of all the evidence in the case on the South Shore. The allegation is that he took his tools, the instruments that he used to dismember his white's body, along with some of her clothes and belongings, and put them in other trash bags and discarded those things in dumpsters on the north shore of Boston near his mother's house, near that pirate ship. Trash bags have been recovered and those items are going to be an important part of this case in this trial when it takes place, and what do you believe Bob Ward were in those trash bags in January. What we've been told was that they found a hatchet, a hacksaw, they found a bloody rug, they found Anna's product purse, they found the boots that she was seen wearing at that New Year's Eve party, and Nancy, they found her COVID nineteen card. It's absolutely stunning what they found.

Joining me former APD Atlanta Police Department officer and now lawyer, what rank did you get to started?

I left, there's an investigator, Nante's a homicide detective and I left.

Okay, David, have you ever had a case without a body, a homicide without a body?

Yes, I had.

Can I just say that's a tough pill to swallow?

It is unfortunately even in those cases. And this guy look, you know, as a homicide detective, I would have been looking at this guy immediately simply based on the fact that his wife gets on an airplane. She's apparently overdue. He hasn't heard from her in three days. Only after he is contacted by her employer does he make an outcry about his wife. That'll, I mean, my wife gets on an airplane, she travels frequently. If I haven't heard from her, a few minutes after she's supposed to touch down. I get Frank, I mean, I'm calling every you know, trying to call her and call her. This guy has done nothing, but he's like a magnet for suspicion. I mean, he's going out, he's talking about this pirate ship, you know, and not to mention all of this physical evidence that's located, which to my point is, you know, even the most careful criminals, when they commit these kinds of crimes, it's almost impossible to do it without leaving some sort of forensic physical evidence behind. And this guy has left a mountain of it.

I mean, and could you here's another thing, Julie Lewis, I'm gonna circle back to you just a moment about possible NAV systems on his car. But Tom Ruskin joining me, and then I want Karen start to weigh in on this as well. Tom Ruskin, guy's private investigator or extraordinary president of CMP Protective and Investigative Group. Tom listen, I don't like jewelry. I really don't like fancy clothes. I don't like fancy cars. But if you were to take let's just say this little ring right here, this is made of my mother in law's jewelry. Okay, it's very thin, it's not be jeweled, but if you were to take that, I would come after you, all right. There are just some things that would matter to me. And I've got a funny feeling this woman would not want her to fancy boots at her product hers thrown.

Out, No, and it would be weird if she had left and left for a business trip, if she didn't take those with her, that they wouldn't be behind in the house and be discoverable. This guy is definitely the prime suspect, and probably we'll be convicted at trial. The fact of the matter is, to the other gentleman's point, you don't need a body anymore to prove a case.

It sure helps, though, man, come on, Ruskin, I mean, yeah, you don't need a body. I'm not going to give him a gold star for getting rid of the body. And again, he hasn't been proven guilty. We're just hypothesizing on the evidence that we have. But it's sure as heck helps if you do have a dead body to prove a murder case.

But it also goes against him because we know that he was in these yards. He was dumping stuff. What is he doing dumping her garbage? What's the matter? His pickup's not working at his house.

Karen starts, He's so right, and care Aaron. Again, I threw this to Stuttard earlier, I think, but why do guys turn into neat nicks as soon as their wives disappear? And again, like Stutdard said, and like Ruskin is saying about the trash, it defies the course of normal human conduct. He doesn't check on his wife to see if she landed. Her employer has to call looking for her. And then he wants to take out the trash. Fine, do it at the corner at the end of the driveway or the trash ute in your apartment in Manhattan. But why do you go to five or six different dumpsters? And because somebody just surprised me once and not throw bloody rags and towels in a dumpster. Do something different?

What always happens, Nancy. He believes he's not going to get caught, and this looks suspicious, so suspicious. I mean, he gets lost going to his mother.

He didn't get lost. He's trying to explain his circuitous route from one dump to the next.

And also saying that he went to places where they could check and he did not.

So, Nancy, can I jump in for one second, Yes, I just want to bring well, to bring up the fact this is a woman. Let's assume that the husband has nothing to do with her murder. This is a woman who's going to take a flight supposedly from Boston to Washington on a business trip. Why is her phone off? No one that travels, myself, my loved ones, my family. Well, we go to the airport, you shut off your phone once you're on the flight, and you turn it on. To mister Stoddard's point once you land. Why is she becoming lost, unsereptitious, or becoming covert in her actions, which sort of deflies the logic of the husband.

Tom Ruskin, private Investigator, You're absolutely right. I mean, I don't guess any of you people on this panel have read Don't Be a Victim written by Oh what's that girl's name? Oh, Nancy Grace. You're supposed to like take a picture of when you're in the parking deck, which I do and send in my family, and then when I get them on the plane, I take a picture. I'm on the plane and send to them. You don't even have to write a text or write words, but just let people know where you're going. Jack, I think I've even sent them to you before. Yes I have. Okay, guys, that's not the end of it. But I want to ask Julie Louis something, President and CEO of Digital Mountain, Inc. Julie, what about I like to just say on Star as a blanket nav description, wouldn't his car show everywhere he had been if it were, you know, anything older than twenty ten.

So before I jump into that, I just you were talking about pictures and there was supposedly a picture she photographed of herself with her wedding ring off in some of her final photos, and so within that picture there's things called excess data that you can look for that potentially could have geolocation information about where she was when the picture was taken.

Say that is why you're the expert. I didn't even catch that, Julie Lewis.

So switching gears to the car, you know, the car is a moving computer these days on most cars with why fuy has GPS, it has a cell network, all these things that you can use for tracking. So if Brian's car has has that in it. Law enforcement could have certainly used that information. The other thing that happens in cars is a lot of people think their phones and so text messages, contacts, you know, browser history, all these things may be on that on the car.

Now.

You know, for example, if you rent a car, even that information can.

Be on that.

So that's something that's really important to note.

You mean, when you charge your phone in a car, the car can track everything that you have written on your phone during that time.

It could be thinking like when you when you are in a uber your playlist. Depending on the configuration, it could actually down on that. So you don't want to go in some strangers car rental car and plug it in because the car and fountainment system could be grabbing and capturing some information from your phone.

Crime stories with Nancy Grace, Where is the body of Anna Walsh? We can't count on anything, Brian Walsh says, we already know that he lined to even a friend in the art fraud dealings. He gained access to those paintings by telling a friend who was the lawful owner of the paintings he could help the friends sell the paintings at a good price. According to court documents we have obtained, that friend told investigators that after Walsh took the art, the friend could no longer contact him. He took a powder, he got ghosted. The art in question was valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars. So if he will lie to a good friend over money, you don't think he would lie to save his own skin. So just to poke another stick in the wheel, just to muddy the water a little bit more, just to get ten more minutes delay. Brian Walsh is appealing a federal sentence regarding the art fraud. As his state murder case inches forward and Eye Maan inches forward, all of this is swirling while the convicted con artist accused of killing his wife is publicly exoriated for a string of deception that has gone on for years. His stalling tactics and deception in that federal art fraud case cost him more than a thirty seven month prison sentence. His entire lavish and extravagant lifestyle goes up in flames. As a matter of fact, Walsh to pled guilty. Now remember he pled guilty, so once he got to appeal, it was his decision to plead guilty to selling fake Andy Warhol paintings, and he was literally mom wents away from a sweetheart deal, in part because his wife's Anna had written a letter of support. That deal would have included no prison time. But the proceedings all came to a screeching halt when federal investigators discovered two million dollars worth of assets he hid to avoid paying by the victims. Yes, he was moments away from getting a sweetheart lenient deal, no jail time when every came to a stop. Federal investigators uncovered two mil. And according to prosecutors, this further illustrates the brazenness of his crimes as he attempts to mislead the very body about to pronounce judgment on him. In other words, he tried to fake out the judge that was about to sentence him wow. Over the next three years, as Brian Walsh and Anna Walsh's assets were being studied, Walsh was on house arrest as part of the pre sentenced probation period. It was there in their Massachusetts home where he decided his wife was cheating on him with a man back in dec where her job was. The relationship was strained and Anna goes missing. I can never forget those disturbing Google searches, including how long before a body starts to smell? How to stop a body from decomposing? The pending murder trial date has come and gone. That was March the fourth. Does his years long scheme of fraud have anything to do with his wife's murder? We learned about Google searches. I mean, what an idiot? I just can't stress this enough. Take a listen to our cut thirty six. This is Lynd Beilan talking.

On January first, Offenitive googled using.

A son's iPad.

Some of the searches are as follows. Keep in mind that the Canadian said he left at sixty six am. At four fifty five am on January first, he searched how long before a body starts to smell?

How long before a body starts to smell? Okay, keep going?

Eight am? How to stop a body from decomposing? At five twenty am, he searched how to follow the body At five forty seven am, Ten ways to dislause disclose of a dead body if you really need to. At six twenty five am on the first, how long for someone to be missing? To inherit at six thirty four am on the first, Can you go away body pots?

Okay, I think we need Doctor Kendall Crowns, Chief Medical Examiner, Terrance County Lecturer, University, Texas Austin and Texas Christian University Medical School. Doctor Kendall Crowns, thank you for being with us. Let me just ask you a couple days and I'd like to point out also, this is food for thought for you. Karen Stark, psychologist on his son's iPad, like they don't know how to read the search history and there's daddy searching. How long before a body starts to smell? How do you stop a body from decomposing? How to get rid of a body? Ten ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to. I'm glad he added to check that on at the end. How long before how long for someone to be missing to inherit? That's not for you, Crowns. Can you throw away body parts? Okay? I'm starting to agree with Tom Ruskin and David Stutter that you don't really need the dead body to prove that someone is dead. Doctor Kendall Crowns, can you give me some quick answers to those. This is a lightning round for you. How long before a body starts to smell, doctor Crowns?

For ten days?

That just rolled off the tip of your tongue. I'm not going to ask why how do you stop a body from decomposing?

Refrigeration? I mean, you look at it. That guy they found in the iceberg hot to see the iceman. He was missing for a thousand years and he's stuck in the icebergs. Really, refrigeration at the best way to prevent a body from decomposing.

Ten ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to. That's not a medical question. Let me go to the next medical question. Can you throw away body parts?

You have to, you know, if you don't want the trash man to notice some put them in dumpsters like which was possibly done in this case, and then dismember the individual into small enough parts that they aren't recognizable as human and then mix them in with other trash. And another good way is to put them in I think it's like these pool chemicals that can melt the body parts down into kind of a sluge.

You know, Doctor Kendall Crowns, you're actually man hate scaring many people that are listening to you right now, putting it in pool. Waite a minute, Karen start, I know you've got something dead. Hold on, what did you say about pool cleaner, doctor Kendall Crowns.

There's a certain chemical they use. I believe it's in pool cleaning or something else. I can't think of it off the top of my head. But it'll actually dissolve the dismembered body parts down relatively and it'll dissolve the bone as well, and it'll just kind of make this kind of ooze. Then you have to dispose of that.

I'm glad you're on the right side of the law, doctor Kendall Crowns. I really am. But guess what, guys, there is more. Take a listen again to land Bailand at nine twenty nine am.

What does from aldehyde do at.

Nine thirty four AM. One first, How long does NA last? At nine fifty nine am. Can identification be made?

On passion remains?

At eleven thirty four am. Dismendment and the best ways to dispose of a body at eleven forty four How to clean blood from wooden fluid at eleven fifty six On the first, Mom and All to detect blood at one oh eight? What happens when you put body pots pneumonium at one twenty one pm? Is better the throw clime scene close away or wash them those on the general word?

Okay, guys, just know that while some of these questions are so rudimentary, they are cruel and horrible. And three little boys are left without their mother while this guy is googling what does from aldehyde do? How long does DNA last? Can an ID be made on partial remains? Dismemberment? Best ways to dispose of a body? What happens when you put body parts in ammonia? Should you throw away crime scene clothes or wash them? So to doctor Kendall Crown's lightning round, Doctor Crown's how long does DNA last?

You can find d nams on surfaces for years.

What does from aldehide do?

From aldehyde is a fixative? Also, that's what you use to kind of pickle the organs to keep them preserved for long periods of time.

What happens when you put body parts anemonia? Doctor Kendall?

That one, I don't know. That's a new one to me. As far as I know that I stopped.

You're out, No don't go, I've got more. Oh well, one more quickie from Lynn blend to listen one can ry third.

That same day at one o two pm, you did some more Google searches. What happens to hear on a dead body at one thirteen pm? What is the rate of decomposition of the body found in a plastic bag compared to on a service in the woods at one pm? To baking soda mask or maybe a body smell good?

Can baking soda make a body? A dead body smell good? These Google searches have led to a bombshell development in the search for an a Walch Bob. We're joining me, Boston twenty five News. An indictment explain.

He was indicted on three counts. There was murder, misleading investigators, and improper disposal of a body.

Of course, he's in a cent until proven guilty. The art fraud victims speaking out. According to his guilty plea, Walsh defrauded three victims, a California art dealer, a Paris man, and a former friend in South Korea during the Andy warhol scam, and he was about to get away with selling hundreds of thousands of dollars from two of those victims until a US art dealer, Ron Rivlin, filed a formal complaint with the FEDS. The French victim said he met Walsh in Paris in twenty fifteen, where Walsh convinced him to buy seemingly legitimate Warhol paintings for one hundred and forty five thousand dollars. Now, the French victim convinced his father to loan him the money to buy the paintings. He never got the money back, and his sixty three year old father had no choice but to put off retirement for another ten years since he lost his hard earn savings. According to that victim, he and his father no longer speak. Wow. It just seems that Brian waltsh leaves a wake of devastation behind him. What seems to be even more unfair is that when a jury is impaneled to hear the murder trial, they won't know anything about all of the art fraud victims. But the reason I told you about the French art fraud victim is to show it's not just about them losing money. That one victim god his dad to take money out of retirement funds, and now the dad has had to put off retirement and go back to work till at least his mid seventies. Just as there are devastating consequences in the murder of Anna Walsh, her boys will grow up without a mother. I just wonder, regardless of what a jury may find, if Brian Walsh will be able to con his boys into believing Anna Waltz just abandoned them, and that will be another travesty of justice connected to Brian Walsh. We wait as justice unfolds.

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