[ad_1] Slain Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe spent thanksgiving in Dublin with a mystery lover about a month before her husband killed her on New Ye
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Slain Massachusetts mother Ana Walshe spent thanksgiving in Dublin with a mystery lover about a month before her husband killed her on New Year’s Day, new court filings alleged.
The unidentified beau also told police that he’d been having an affair with the mother of three for several months, according to the Daily Mail.
Ms Walshe, 39, a real estate executive from Cohasset, Massachusetts, mysteriously disappeared January 1 and has been presumed dead, even though her body has not been found, NY Post reports.
Authorities have charged Brian Walshe, her 47-year-old husband, with first-degree murder. Police say they found damning evidence that links him to the crime, such as her clothing and Google searches about how to dismember and dispose of a body allegedly made on his son’s iPad.
Prosecutors said he beat his wife to death after discovering her affair, then chopped her up in the family basement. He was arraigned Thursday in Norfolk Superior Court.
Days before her death, Ms Walshe told a friend she thought her husband was going to prison — presumably on art fraud charges — and she planned to leave him and move to Washington, DC, court documents said.
Ms Walshe got “uncharacteristically emotional and extremely upset” when she confessed this to her friend during dinner, the papers said.
Mr Walshe’s lawyer admitted Thursday that the defendant’s mother had hired a private investigator to tail Ms Walshe during a trip to the nation’s capital because she suspected infidelity.
But her son had no reason to suspect his wife was cheating until she vanished, the lawyer alleged.
Prosecutors disputed this, saying Mr Walshe obsessively checked the Instagram account of a Washington, DC, man who he thought was his wife’s love interest.
Prosecutors maintained Mr Walshe had a lot to gain if Ms Walshe died — like $US2.7 million ($4,090,000) in life insurance payouts, according to the Daily Mail.
But the defence claimed that was no motive — he didn’t need the money because his family was already loaded. The defence argued Ms Walshe could have disappeared of her own accord.
Mr Walshe has pleaded not guilty to murder, misleading police, obstruction of justice and improper conveyance of a human body.
He’s due back in court in August.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission
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