Ana Walshe’s Body Has Never Been Found, Hubby Stands Trial For Murder | Crime Alert 5PM 11.28.25

Just moments before jury selection commenced on November 18, Brian entered a guilty plea to two charges related to Ana’s disappearance: misleading law enforcement and the conveyance of a human body.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alaric hourly update, breaking crime news Now I'm Nicole Parton.
All eyes are set to be on Massachusetts as a
man is currently facing trial for the alleged murder of
his wife, whose remains have not yet been discovered. Fifty
year old Brian Walsh is accused of first degree murder
in the presumed death of his thirty nine year old wife, Annawash.

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Just moments before jury selection started on November eighteen, Brian
entered a guilty plea to two charges related to Anna's disappearance,
misleading law enforcement, and the conveyance of a human body.
Sentencing for those charges will be placed following the conclusion
of the murder trial. A jury was finalized on November twenty,

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and opening statements are set to start on December one.
Prosecutors alleged that Brian took his wife's life on January one,
twenty twenty three, and then spent several days attempting to
cover up the crime before Anna was reported missing by
Hori lawyer on January four. Surveillance footage reportedly shows Brian

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buying four hundred and fifty dollars worth of cleaning supplies
and tarps on January two investigative documents indicate that Anna
was involved in an affair prior to her death and
had confided in a friend about her intentions to leave Brian. Furthermore,
investigators found that Brian's Internet search history included alarming questions

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such as how long before a body starts to smell
and dismemberment and best ways to dispose of a body.
At the time of Anna's presumed murder, Brian was under
house arrest while awaiting sentencing for a different fraud case
involving the cell of counterfeit Andy Warhol Artworks. Former Massachusetts

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Police trooper Michael Proctor played a significant role in the
investigation into Anna's disappearance. Brian's legal team sought access to
records related to Procter's other cases, including those of Karen
Reid and Birchmore. In advance to the murder trial, Proctor
was dismissed from his position for sending inappropriate messages about

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Karen Reid and for consuming alcohol while on duty. Nevertheless,
Brian Walsh faces murder charges.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
The defendant is now before the court charged with murder
of his wife, Anna Walsh, as well as dysenterium a
body Anna was thirty nine years old and the mother
of three children, two foreign six.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Ana worked in Washington, d C. Split her time weekdays
between DC during the week and us staying in her
house in Crahasset, where she lived with the defendant and
the three kids. On January fourth of twenty twenty three,
Cohasset Police received a call from her Washington d C
employer indicating that she was missing.

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Count on Crime Alert hourly update as we keep you
posted as this trial unfolds more crime and justice news.
After this, authorities in New Hampshire announced the arrest of
a suspect and the murder of an eighty eight year
old woman in Exeter. Danielle Kelson, she's fifty five, has

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been charged with second degree murder in relation to the
February death of her mother in law, Janet Kelson. Prosecutors
alleged that Danielle recklessly caused her mother in law's death
by delivering blunt force trauma to the head. In addition
to the murder charge, Kelson faces charges of wire tapping
and eavesdropping for allegedly intercepting communications between herself and her

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mother in law. Danielle Kelson was arrested in Southwest Harbor, Maine,
and is awaiting extradition back to New Hampshire for a
hearing set for December ten. Police in Alabama are asking
for the public's help and locating a missing woman from Auburn.
Auburn police say eighty eight year old Patricia Schrader left
her Auburn home around seven pm on Thursday. She was

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expected at her family's home and Grass Valley for Thanksgiving dinner,
but never arrived. Schrader's sister reported her missing after she
was more than an hour late. Now police are asking
anyone with information to please come forward. Schrader was driving
a blue Honda Civic with a California license plate seven
g l V one eight five. Police say if you

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have any information, please call five three zero eight two
three four two three four. Patricia Schrader is eighty eight
years old, five three, one hundred and nineteen pounds, brown hair,
green eyes. She was last seen wearing a navy blue
top with buttons, a tan jacket, and dark jeans. For

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Nicole Parton