December 2, 2025 • 9 mins
TRENDING - Brian Walshe finally explains what happened to wife Ana before she disappeared — and it's a doozy, US Marshals offer reward for arrest of Travis Turner, the missing Virginia football coach wanted on child porn charges,Luigi Mangione fans line up for chance to see alleged cold-blooded killer in NYC court, White House Christmas decor theme unveiled: 'Home is Where the Heart is', Portland sparks outrage for city's woke 'tree' lighting ceremony.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Brian wallsh trial just got under weigh in massive
choose its. He's accused of killing his wife Anna and
dismembering her body, and his story about what happened. His
defense is pretty wild. So she disappeared around New Year's
Day twenty twenty three after they went to a New
Year's Eve party. Later came out that she was having
an affair and they were having financial issues. Her body
(00:21):
was never found, but her vaccination card and prot a purse,
a bloody rug, a hacksaw, and a hatchet were found
in trash bags at a waste transfer station. He had
also searched dismemberment the best way to dispose of a
body and can you be charged with murder without a body?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, that's what I remember from this story. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So his defense, well, he's admitted to dismembering her body
and lying to police, but he says he didn't kill her.
During opening statements, his attorney explained that Anna died from
quote sudden, unexplained death and that he got in bed
with her, noticed she wasn't moving, nudged her a few times,
then realized she was dead. Yeah, he panicked because he
(01:07):
was worried that well, my wife's dead. I might be
accused of killing her, and he was worried what would
happen to their three sons he dismembered, So he chopped
her up and disposed of her, got rid of all
of her stuff. Yeah, and kill her kind of, but
he shopped up her body.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah. Here's the thing though, that still interests me about
the story. This guy he did google searches on body disposal,
DNA clean up all this kind of stuff, right, and
they still haven't found her body. Like he was dumb
enough to like do Google searches, you know, which easily
(01:42):
found and now they're able to use that against him.
But he did it in a way I guess with
the dismemberment where they haven't been able to find her.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, No, I mean I think he really like he
really sounds like he really chopped her up and then
he took her to like he threw in a dumpster
and then they take the dumpster and he goes through
all these different places and could have been incinerated.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It could separate it all.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Over the place. You know, she's probably in parts in
a landfill somewhere.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Unfortunately, this guy, he is I think he's going away
for a long time. Oh yeah, don't think that's gonna
fly in out.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
She would be nice to try, though, Like, what kind
of a guy.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh, I would never kill my wife? How much she's dead?
All job up or box?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, that's that's an interesting Uh, it's a bold strategy.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
We'll see if it works.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
US Marshals have offered a five thousand dollars reward for
information that leads to the arrest of Travis Turner, the
high school football coach in Virginia who disappeared about a
week before Thanksgiving. He was last seen walking into the
woods with a firearm. Now, this is the coach who
vanished right before his undefeated team was about to play
another big game. Seemed really strange. And then we learned
(02:47):
the police were on their way to talk to him
before he disappeared. And then we learned they had issued
multiple warrants for his arrest on child porn and soliciting
a minor charges. Now, his wife says the allegations are
not true, that he's a good husband and father, and
she's now scrubbed her social media profiles. His team has
won two big games since his disappearance, and they're on
(03:09):
their way to another one. His adult son, who helps
coach the team, said that this whole thing has been
very bittersweet. You know, the team is doing so well,
but they don't know where his dad is now. Some
people in the community were commenting that they were totally
shocked by this. Others were saying that they're not surprised
by the allegations that this was known to some people
(03:29):
that he was a creep beloved coach who was also
a creepy Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
When I saw this headline when I was off last week,
that was my first thought, Oh, yeah, there's something up
with this guy. He's going to be accused of doing
something inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
We covered the story before the news broke about what
those charges were, but I said, I'm like, we see
this all the time. He took off because he was
about to be, you know, outed for stuff he was up.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
To, and this whole thing about going into the woods
with a firearm. It reminds me who was the guy
with Gabby Patito. I can't remember his name of Brian Laundry. Yeah,
I remember when he went to the swamp and he
feels like it's going to be the same outcome.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I don't think I don't think they're going to find
him alive at all. Luigi Mangioni appeared in court yesterday
in New York City, and he drew quite a crowd.
Supporters stood outside the courthouse wearing Luigi costumes like from
Super Mario Brothers and hats. One woman told The New
York Post she and her friends called themselves the Mangionists,
(04:33):
and that she froze her butt off the last time
she stood outside to see him in court, so she
brought a heater and a tent this time, and they
eventually did get into the courthouse after. She said she
was happy to see that he was unshackled and wearing
regular human clothes. Another fan said she thinks he was
framed and that if he's the guy, he was too
(04:54):
smart to be found five days later with all the evidence,
and that's the evidence that he's trying to get thrown
out because he says they didn't read him, as Miranda writes,
or have a search warrant. Another woman said she paid
one hundred and fifty dollars for an uber ride from
East Harlem so she could be there to support him
because she believes he's innocent.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I saw some of these fans. And this is not
about healthcare, okay, this is about an infatuation with.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I mean, I gotta be honest. He looked pretty cute
sitting in court, Like he's an attractive man. I mean
maybe I shouldn't say.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That, but no, just like objective, this is what it is. Yeah,
Like he's hot, and then that's what I think this is.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I think that's.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, if he looked like Thomas Crooks, no is he
going after him?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
No, like that guy, the Gilgo Beach serial killer in
New York. Yeah, No, he doesn't have fans waiting outside
the courthouse for him. It's a whole different deal. But
it was his eyebrows it came up again. It was
those eyebrows, of bushy eyebrows that got him caught at
that McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
The White House just unveiled this year's Christmas theme, Home
is Where the Heart Is. The decorations are an ode
to the quote and during American spirit of generosity, patriotism,
and gratitude, and every detail was personally chosen by First
Lady Milania Trump.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, the red room represents her fostering the future campaign
with ornaments and thousands of blue butterflies. The Green room
is dedicated to the quote playfulness and imagination that make
a house a home, with centerpieces made out of dominoes
and playing cards. Two presidential portraits are featured on either
side of the tree in that room. There's one of
George Washington and then one of Trump, and those portraits
(06:39):
are made with over six thousand legos. There's also a
painting of Trump raising his fist immediately following the assassination
attempt that's in between some Christmas trees, and then his
portrait is all throughout the house of course. Yeah, and
the White House also said the space captures the heart
of the theme, reminding us that love, steady, selfless, and
ever blooming is what truly makes a home. Now, I'm
(07:03):
sure Milania enjoyed every minute, Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Every detail.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I mean again, like you just described, that's a lot
of stuff in the White House decorated for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well back in twenty twenty, she actually talked about how
much she enjoyed decorating for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'm you know, but I need to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
So that was a candid moment of her on the
phone and the audio leaked during Trump's first presidency. But
I can totally understand.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That it's very relatable, totally relatable.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The reason I decorate my house is because I have kids.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, very relatable there from Malania.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The city of Portland, Oregon is facing some serious backlash
after they held a Christmas tree lighting, but refused to
refer to the tree as a Christmas tree. They just
called it a tree.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
The event was Friday night, leaders and speakers completely avoided
the word Christmas. The ads made no mention of Christmas either.
It was just the tree lighting.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It's so ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So it opened with a woman from the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs thanking everyone in the crowd for coming
out on Native American Heritage Day. And then the woman
introduced two younger members of the tribe, who referred to
the celebration only as the tree lighting, before she handed
the microphone to another speaker. That woman was draped in
(08:22):
a Palestinian flag and led a chant and so if
I could get a free free Palestine, Palestine.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well it gets in the Christmas spirit, it really does. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Then she led the crowd in the Strong Woman song.
Performed with a bunch of kids. She said, this feels
appropriate sense we're representing our matriarchs up here. And then
after that, an hour into this tree lighting, they actually
brought Santa out saying deck the halls and had the
mayor like the tree.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
So Santa is okay, but you can't call it a
Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And you can deck the halls, but you can't say
the word Chris Smiths at all and free Palestine was
completely an appropriate thing.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
To do, right right, that's appropriate. Christmas tree not appropriate?
Got it?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The Ryan Gorman Show five to nine every weekday morning
on news radio FLA
The Brian wallsh trial just got under weigh in massive
choose its. He's accused of killing his wife Anna and
dismembering her body, and his story about what happened. His
defense is pretty wild. So she disappeared around New Year's
Day twenty twenty three after they went to a New
Year's Eve party. Later came out that she was having
an affair and they were having financial issues. Her body
(00:21):
was never found, but her vaccination card and prot a purse,
a bloody rug, a hacksaw, and a hatchet were found
in trash bags at a waste transfer station. He had
also searched dismemberment the best way to dispose of a
body and can you be charged with murder without a body?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah, that's what I remember from this story. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So his defense, well, he's admitted to dismembering her body
and lying to police, but he says he didn't kill her.
During opening statements, his attorney explained that Anna died from
quote sudden, unexplained death and that he got in bed
with her, noticed she wasn't moving, nudged her a few times,
then realized she was dead. Yeah, he panicked because he
(01:07):
was worried that well, my wife's dead. I might be
accused of killing her, and he was worried what would
happen to their three sons he dismembered, So he chopped
her up and disposed of her, got rid of all
of her stuff. Yeah, and kill her kind of, but
he shopped up her body.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah. Here's the thing though, that still interests me about
the story. This guy he did google searches on body disposal,
DNA clean up all this kind of stuff, right, and
they still haven't found her body. Like he was dumb
enough to like do Google searches, you know, which easily
(01:42):
found and now they're able to use that against him.
But he did it in a way I guess with
the dismemberment where they haven't been able to find her.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, No, I mean I think he really like he
really sounds like he really chopped her up and then
he took her to like he threw in a dumpster
and then they take the dumpster and he goes through
all these different places and could have been incinerated.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It could separate it all.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Over the place. You know, she's probably in parts in
a landfill somewhere.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Unfortunately, this guy, he is I think he's going away
for a long time. Oh yeah, don't think that's gonna
fly in out.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
She would be nice to try, though, Like, what kind
of a guy.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh, I would never kill my wife? How much she's dead?
All job up or box?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, that's that's an interesting Uh, it's a bold strategy.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
We'll see if it works.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
US Marshals have offered a five thousand dollars reward for
information that leads to the arrest of Travis Turner, the
high school football coach in Virginia who disappeared about a
week before Thanksgiving. He was last seen walking into the
woods with a firearm. Now, this is the coach who
vanished right before his undefeated team was about to play
another big game. Seemed really strange. And then we learned
(02:47):
the police were on their way to talk to him
before he disappeared. And then we learned they had issued
multiple warrants for his arrest on child porn and soliciting
a minor charges. Now, his wife says the allegations are
not true, that he's a good husband and father, and
she's now scrubbed her social media profiles. His team has
won two big games since his disappearance, and they're on
(03:09):
their way to another one. His adult son, who helps
coach the team, said that this whole thing has been
very bittersweet. You know, the team is doing so well,
but they don't know where his dad is now. Some
people in the community were commenting that they were totally
shocked by this. Others were saying that they're not surprised
by the allegations that this was known to some people
(03:29):
that he was a creep beloved coach who was also
a creepy Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
When I saw this headline when I was off last week,
that was my first thought, Oh, yeah, there's something up
with this guy. He's going to be accused of doing
something inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
We covered the story before the news broke about what
those charges were, but I said, I'm like, we see
this all the time. He took off because he was
about to be, you know, outed for stuff he was up.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
To, and this whole thing about going into the woods
with a firearm. It reminds me who was the guy
with Gabby Patito. I can't remember his name of Brian Laundry. Yeah,
I remember when he went to the swamp and he
feels like it's going to be the same outcome.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I don't think I don't think they're going to find
him alive at all. Luigi Mangioni appeared in court yesterday
in New York City, and he drew quite a crowd.
Supporters stood outside the courthouse wearing Luigi costumes like from
Super Mario Brothers and hats. One woman told The New
York Post she and her friends called themselves the Mangionists,
(04:33):
and that she froze her butt off the last time
she stood outside to see him in court, so she
brought a heater and a tent this time, and they
eventually did get into the courthouse after. She said she
was happy to see that he was unshackled and wearing
regular human clothes. Another fan said she thinks he was
framed and that if he's the guy, he was too
(04:54):
smart to be found five days later with all the evidence,
and that's the evidence that he's trying to get thrown
out because he says they didn't read him, as Miranda writes,
or have a search warrant. Another woman said she paid
one hundred and fifty dollars for an uber ride from
East Harlem so she could be there to support him
because she believes he's innocent.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I saw some of these fans. And this is not
about healthcare, okay, this is about an infatuation with.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I mean, I gotta be honest. He looked pretty cute
sitting in court, Like he's an attractive man. I mean
maybe I shouldn't say.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
That, but no, just like objective, this is what it is. Yeah,
Like he's hot, and then that's what I think this is.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I think that's.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, if he looked like Thomas Crooks, no is he
going after him?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
No, like that guy, the Gilgo Beach serial killer in
New York. Yeah, No, he doesn't have fans waiting outside
the courthouse for him. It's a whole different deal. But
it was his eyebrows it came up again. It was
those eyebrows, of bushy eyebrows that got him caught at
that McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
The White House just unveiled this year's Christmas theme, Home
is Where the Heart Is. The decorations are an ode
to the quote and during American spirit of generosity, patriotism,
and gratitude, and every detail was personally chosen by First
Lady Milania Trump.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, the red room represents her fostering the future campaign
with ornaments and thousands of blue butterflies. The Green room
is dedicated to the quote playfulness and imagination that make
a house a home, with centerpieces made out of dominoes
and playing cards. Two presidential portraits are featured on either
side of the tree in that room. There's one of
George Washington and then one of Trump, and those portraits
(06:39):
are made with over six thousand legos. There's also a
painting of Trump raising his fist immediately following the assassination
attempt that's in between some Christmas trees, and then his
portrait is all throughout the house of course. Yeah, and
the White House also said the space captures the heart
of the theme, reminding us that love, steady, selfless, and
ever blooming is what truly makes a home. Now, I'm
(07:03):
sure Milania enjoyed every minute, Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Every detail.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I mean again, like you just described, that's a lot
of stuff in the White House decorated for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well back in twenty twenty, she actually talked about how
much she enjoyed decorating for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'm you know, but I need to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
So that was a candid moment of her on the
phone and the audio leaked during Trump's first presidency. But
I can totally understand.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That it's very relatable, totally relatable.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The reason I decorate my house is because I have kids.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, very relatable there from Malania.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The city of Portland, Oregon is facing some serious backlash
after they held a Christmas tree lighting, but refused to
refer to the tree as a Christmas tree. They just
called it a tree.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
The event was Friday night, leaders and speakers completely avoided
the word Christmas. The ads made no mention of Christmas either.
It was just the tree lighting.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It's so ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
So it opened with a woman from the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs thanking everyone in the crowd for coming
out on Native American Heritage Day. And then the woman
introduced two younger members of the tribe, who referred to
the celebration only as the tree lighting, before she handed
the microphone to another speaker. That woman was draped in
(08:22):
a Palestinian flag and led a chant and so if
I could get a free free Palestine, Palestine.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well it gets in the Christmas spirit, it really does. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Then she led the crowd in the Strong Woman song.
Performed with a bunch of kids. She said, this feels
appropriate sense we're representing our matriarchs up here. And then
after that, an hour into this tree lighting, they actually
brought Santa out saying deck the halls and had the
mayor like the tree.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
So Santa is okay, but you can't call it a
Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And you can deck the halls, but you can't say
the word Chris Smiths at all and free Palestine was
completely an appropriate thing.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
To do, right right, that's appropriate. Christmas tree not appropriate?
Got it?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The Ryan Gorman Show five to nine every weekday morning
on news radio FLA
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