Gem Mutlu was the last person to see Ana Walshe alive. He told the jury that the couple had celebrated New Year’s Eve at the Massachusetts home where Brian and Ana lived. Ana ran out of the house barefoot, no coat, and the three of them clinked champagne to welcome the new year together. During the festivities they signed a box for a $125 bottle of Lanson Noble Cuvee Brut that would later be shown to the jurors. On January 2, Walshe called Mutlu in a calm voice, telling him that Ana was missing after she’d left for a “work emergency” on New Year’s Day.
Gem Mutlu said, during cross‑examination, that he was stunned by Walshe’s demeanor. “I was incredulous,” Mutlu recalled of his response to Walshe. “I said, ‘What work emergency could there be on New Year’s. It’s commercial real estate.’”
The defendant’s defense lawyer briefly halted the judge’s ruling, and the judge upheld his comment. “His tone was not panicked,” Mutlu added.
Walshe is charged with killing Ana, dismembering her body, and disposing of the remains in dumpsters. The defense maintains that Ana died without clear cause and that Walshe was only trying to conceal the circumstances.
Gem Mutlu says Brian Walshe “was not panicked” when his wife went missing.
Anna signed a champagne box on December 31 to ring in the new year.
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