The bloody implements that Brian Walshe is accused of using to dismember his wife’s body were shown for the first time, including the very hacksaw he pointed to in a chilling Google search for the “best tool to dismember.”
In a Massachusetts courtroom on Friday, jurors viewed the hacksaw—its handle still stained with blood—along with a hammer, hedge trimmers, clippers, packing tape and a hatchet that were taken from evidence bags. Those items had been recovered from dumpsters around Walshe’s Cohasset apartment complex after Ana vanished in January 2023.
They also matched a series of unsettling online searches the 50‑year‑old made around the time his 39‑year‑old wife disappeared. One search was “Hacksaw best tool to dismember,” another asked, “Can you identify a body with broken teeth?” and further queries included “How to stop a body from decomposing” and “How long before a body starts to smell.”
Ana’s remains were never recovered, and prosecutors argue that Walshe used those blunt instruments to dispose of her and then carelessly tossed them in the trash near their home. The case also involves a $450 cash purchase at a local Lowe’s and Home Depot for a body suit, baking soda, bleach, buckets and mops—supposedly to wipe up the crime scene.
Security footage captured a calm Walshe checking out with a cart brimming with the suspicious items, and a man matching his description was seen discarding heavy trash bags into dumpsters throughout the area.
Shockingly, he pleaded guilty on the eve of his trial for misdirecting police and disposing of his wife’s body, and now stands charged solely with murder. He maintains that Ana died from a rare condition known as “sudden unexplained death” roughly an hour after the New Year’s bell rang in 2023, and that he cut her body up because he feared taking the blame for killing her.
Last week, the evidence against him mounted even further. His lover, William Fastow, testified that he and Ana were planning to confess their affair in the weeks before her disappearance. Ana had a high‑earning real‑estate career in Washington, D.C., which allowed the couple to own a townhouse in the capital, rent a home in Cohasset, and maintain substantial life‑insurance policies. In contrast, Walshe had been convicted of selling counterfeit Andy Warhol prints in 2021 and given a 37‑month home‑confinement sentence, preventing him from leaving Massachusetts and causing Ana to commute back to D.C. for work while he stayed at home with their sons.
Fastow explained that Ana felt desperate and could not spend enough time with her kids, and that Walshe’s legal troubles were a major strain on their marriage. “The biggest stressor was his inability to resolve his criminal case, and the fact that, because of that, she couldn’t be with her children and bring them back to Washington, D.C., and the fact that it felt like it was holding up her life,” he said. He added that Ana wanted to tell Walshe about their affair in person, worried that otherwise it would damage her reputation. Fastow’s last contact with Ana was immediately after the New Year’s ball dropped.
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