Brian Walshe ////// 894

What this episode is about

This discussion centers on the challenges and complexities of homicide cases where the victim's body is never recovered, known as "nobody death investigations." Key points include the reliance on circumstantial evidence and the unique investigative approaches used in these difficult scenarios.

Key takeaways

• Nobody homicides surprisingly boast an 85% conviction rate, proving meticulous police work is a game changer.
• In affluent Cohasset, no murders since '95 make Anna Walsh's case a shocking anomaly in community safety.
• Digital forensics: the modern detective's magnifying glass, turning texts and calls into crucial evidence in 'body-less' cases.
• Replicating Andy Warhol art for profit? A bold stroke that might recreate criminal intent rather than masterpieces.
• Three kids under six in a missing spouse saga—tragedy deepens as domestic narratives unravel with grim twists.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Nick (Guest) · 32 min speaking
• The Captain (Host) · 21 min speaking
• Brian Walsh (Guest)
• Anna Walsh (Guest)

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: The Cat, Cloud Candy, Mighty Squirrel Brewing Company, Brookfield, Wisconsin
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Brian Walsh, Cohasset, Massachusetts, disappearance, New Year's Day 2023
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Brian Walsh
4. 15:00 – 20:00: Brian Walsh, art fraud, Jeremy Dozer, Christmas Day 2022
5. 20:00 – 25:00: Brian Walsh, disappearance, New Year's Day 2023, The Cat
6. 25:00 – 30:00: Google searches, Brian Walsh, January 1, 2023
7. 30:00 – 35:00: Brian Walsh, disappearance, Tishman Speyer
8. 35:00 – 40:00: Brian Walsh, Google searches, Larry Tipton
9. 40:00 – 45:00: Brian Walsh, Google searches
10. 50:00 – 53:21: Brian Walsh, art fraud

Notable quotes from "Brian Walshe ////// 894"

• It's good to be seen and good to see you. Thanks for listening. Thanks for telling a friend.

  about The Cat · at 0:54

• Shortly after she went missing. The complicated part of this captain is Anna's body has never been found and there's a lot of mystery as to what was going on and who would be…

  about disappearance · at 5:17

• There's going to be no charges that will be brought forward from this police report. In 2015, Brian Walsh sells the fake shadow paintings. Success.

  about art fraud · at 9:16

• Okay. So, in February of 2022, Anna is working as in a new role. This is she's the regional general manager for a company called Tishman Spayer in Washington DC. So, she's they…

  about Tishman Speyer · at 16:45

• Okay, so let's go to New Year's Day, January 1st, 2023.

  about New Year's Day 2023 · at 22:40

• Up until 1:20 p.m., Brian Walsh conducts 20 graphic Google searches about disposing a body, cleaning up blood, dismemberment, body decomposition,.

  about Brian Walsh · at 25:18

• And then at 4:27 p.m., surveillance shows Brian disposing of heavy trash bags at three apartment complex dumpsters.

  about disposal of a body · at 30:09

• She left for emergency work problem on the first, right? Well, when they ping her phone, they track her phone. Her phone is pinging as it's still inside their home.

  about January 1, 2023 · at 32:36

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Brian Walsh — Person · Primary suspect/defendant; core subject of episode · 23 mentions · first at 5:10
  Husband of Anna Walsh and the person charged/convicted for her murder; his actions, alibi, and digital/physical evidence (including Google searches and disposal behavior) drive the episode’s narrative.
• The Cat — Person · Co-host · 2 mentions · first at 0:50
  Co-host who reacts to details, adds commentary, and helps structure the episode’s discussion.
• Jeremy Dozer — Person · Referenced investigator (private investigator) · 1 mention · first at 18:09
  Hired by Brian’s mother to surveil Anna amid suspected affair/divorce trajectory, adding context to marital conflict.
  Yes. And so in December of 2022, Brian's mother hires a private investigator. His name is Jeremy Dozer to conduct surveillance on Anna Walsh. They want to catch her in the act.
• Larry Tipton — Person · Defense attorney (referenced) · 1 mention · first at 37:57
  Named as Brian Walsh’s defense attorney who advanced the 'panic after sudden death' explanation for disposal behavior.
  Internet how to dispose of the body because he's saying and eventually his defense attorney Larry Tipton will be saying this as well that no one would believe me that she just…
• William Quigley — Person · Referenced official (local police chief) · 1 mention · first at 6:07
  Cited to characterize Cohasset as low-violence, emphasizing the unusual nature of the case for the town.
  It's a very safe community with very little violence. In fact, police chief William Quigley said there hasn't been a murder in town since at least 1995 when he first joined the force.

Companies & orgs

• Tishman Speyer — Company · Employer (victim’s job context) · 1 mention · first at 31:30
  Anna’s employer in Washington, DC; her commuting and coworkers’ missing-person report are tied to her role there.
• Mighty Squirrel Brewing Company — Company · Referenced producer (beer segment) · 1 mention · first at 1:02
  Brewery that makes Cloud Candy, mentioned in the show’s opening beverage discussion.
  Today we are drinking Cloud Candy, a New England IPA brewed by the Mighty Squirrel Brewing Company. Cloud Candy is known for its hazy appearance and tropical fruit notes. It's hazy and it has notes of papaya, mango, and starf.
• Misfits of Lowdenville, Ohio — Company · Listener group/supporters (beer fund shout-out) · 1 mention · first at 1:46
  Group thanked for donations; not part of the case narrative.
  Certainly not least, I have no idea how many people we're giving a cheers to here, Captain, but we're giving a cheers to the Misfits of Lowdenville, Ohio.

Products & tech

• Cloud Candy — Product · Episode beverage (show segment) · 1 mention · first at 1:02
  Beer featured in the opening segment; used for the show’s customary 'drinking in the garage' framing.
  Today we are drinking Cloud Candy, a New England IPA brewed by the Mighty Squirrel Brewing Company. Cloud Candy is known for its hazy appearance and tropical fruit notes. It's…

Concepts & topics

• disposal of a body — Concept · Core topic / evidentiary theme · 10 mentions
  A major evidentiary pillar: Brian’s searches and surveillance footage of dumpster trips are framed as attempts to dispose of remains and evidence.
• Google searches — Concept · Key evidence category · 5 mentions · first at 25:18
  The episode lists numerous incriminating searches (decomposition, dismemberment, cleaning blood, inheritance timing) used to infer intent and actions.
  Up until 1:20 p.m., Brian Walsh conducts 20 graphic Google searches about disposing a body, cleaning up blood, dismemberment, body decomposition,.
• disappearance — Concept · Core topic · 4 mentions · first at 5:22
  Anna’s disappearance (reported days later by coworkers) frames the case as a 'no-body' homicide and drives discussion of timelines and red flags.
• art fraud — Concept · Background core topic · 3 mentions · first at 9:21
  Brian Walsh’s Warhol forgery scheme explains his prior federal case, house arrest/monitoring, financial pressure, and credibility issues.

Places & events

• Cohasset, Massachusetts — Place · Primary setting · 2 mentions · first at 5:02
  Home community of the Walsh family and location of the disappearance investigation; described as affluent and historically low-violence.
  For this woman being missing. Now, Brian and Anna Walsh had three children together. They lived in Cohasset, Massachusetts, a coastal suburb located 20 miles south of Boston.…
• New Year's Day 2023 — Event · Key timeline anchor · 2 mentions · first at 5:02
  The last-seen timeframe for Anna Walsh and the start of the suspicious Google searches and disposal activity.
• January 1, 2023 — Event · Key timeline anchor (pings; purchases; searches) · 2 mentions · first at 29:03
  Phone pings place Anna’s phone at home; Brian is seen buying tarps/hatchet/cleaning items and continues incriminating searches.
• Christmas Eve 2022 — Event · Timeline context (marital conflict) · 1 mention · first at 18:51
  Referenced as a time Anna spent partly with her boyfriend, contributing to family tension and divorce trajectory.
  Private investigator was able to come up with a whole bunch of incriminating evidence of the affair. Now, let's go to Christmas Eve, 2022, December 24th, 2022.
• Christmas Day 2022 — Event · Timeline context (marital conflict) · 1 mention · first at 19:08
  Mentioned as the day Anna returned to Massachusetts after missing much of Christmas with family, heightening conflict.
  Day with the boyfriend. then eventually spends part of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. It's Christmas Day when she goes back to Massachusetts. Of course, Brian and others are…
• Serbia — Place · Biographical detail (origin) · 1 mention · first at 6:40
  Mentioned as Anna Walsh’s country of origin, providing background on her life before the U.S.
  Yeah. All three of their kids were under the age of six years old. In the early 2000s, Anna immigrated from Serbia to come to this great country. When she gets here, she works…
• Brookfield, Wisconsin — Place · Listener location (shout-out) · 1 mention · first at 1:33
  Location associated with listener Courtney in the beer-fund acknowledgments.
  To our good friends for helping us fill up the old garage fridge. First up, a shout out to Courtney in Brookfield, Wisconsin. And a big we like goes out to Kate in Prosper…
• Prosper, Texas — Place · Listener location (shout-out) · 1 mention · first at 1:38
  Location associated with listener Kate in the beer-fund acknowledgments.
  Shout out to Courtney in Brookfield, Wisconsin. And a big we like goes out to Kate in Prosper, Texas. And last, but certainly not least, I have no idea how many people we're…

Media & podcasts

• Dawson Creek — Media · Cultural reference · 1 mention · first at 6:21
  Used as an analogy to help listeners visualize Cohasset as an idyllic seaside setting.
  Yeah. You want to picture a setting or a city like Capeside from the hit TV show from the WB Dawson's Creek.

Sponsors

• Courtney — Person · Listener/supporter (beer fund shout-out) · 1 mention · first at 1:33
  Named in a shout-out for contributing to the beer fund; not related to the case facts.
  To our good friends for helping us fill up the old garage fridge. First up, a shout out to Courtney in Brookfield, Wisconsin. And a big we like goes out to Kate in Prosper…
• Kimberly Kate — Person · Listener/supporter (beer fund shout-out) · 1 mention · first at 1:36
  Named in a shout-out for contributing to the beer fund; not related to the case facts.
  Up the old garage fridge. First up, a shout out to Courtney in Brookfield, Wisconsin. And a big we like goes out to Kate in Prosper, Texas. And last, but certainly not least, I…

Full transcript with timestamps

0:40 Welcome to True Crime Garage. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, thanks for listening. I'm your host, Nick, and with me as always is a man who has stocked up on the moisturizer for this year's dry January. Here is the cat.

0:53 Put the lotion in the basket. It's good to be seen and good to see you. Thanks for listening. Thanks for telling a friend. Today we are drinking Cloud Candy, a New England IPA brewed by the Mighty Squirrel Brewing Company. Cloud Candy is known for its hazy appearance and tropical fruit notes. It's hazy and it has notes of papaya, mango, and starf fruit that dominate the flavor profile. ABV 6.5% garage grade 4 and a five bottle caps. And let's give some cheers to our good friends for helping us fill up the old garage fridge. First up, a shout out to Courtney in Brookfield, Wisconsin. And a big we like goes out to Kate in Prosper, Texas. And last, but certainly not least, I have no idea how many people we're giving a cheers to here, Captain, but we're giving a cheers to the Misfits of Lowdenville, Ohio.

1:51 I've been there, and that place is filled with misfits. So, cheers to you misfits in Lounville, Ohio. And cheers to everyone who went to trimegar.com and donated to this week's beer fund. Yeah, BW, are you in beer run? If you need more True Crime Garage for your earballs, and let me tell you, you do. New Year's resolution 2026, more True Crime Garage for your earballs, you can subscribe to us on YouTube. You could subscribe to us on Patreon. You could subscribe to us on Apple Podcast. And if you do, we'll like your jib. And that's enough of the business. All right, everybody. Gather around, grab a chair, grab a beer. Let's talk some true crime.

2:56 A nobody death investigation is a homicide case where the victim's body is never found. It's an investigation where circumstantial evidence is key. Without a body, investigators rely heavily on evidence such as digital forensics like text, calls, other communications and location data, financial activity such as unusual transactions, or lack of activity from the victim. Witness statements and then later testimony are key as well. Accounts of arguments, abuse, threats, a history of violence and suspicious behavior, and physical evidence is paramount. Bullet casings, fibers, DNA, and of course, blood evidence can be the most damning.

3:50 For prosecutors, it is the same, but also very necessary to establish a strong motive for the murder. Both must be able to produce enough evidence to prove that the victim is in fact deceased and that the suspect is in fact responsible for killing the victim. Now, this might surprise you, but nobody homicide court cases, though rare, often have conviction rates around 85%. This is higher than typical murder cases because the evidence must be overwhelming for prosecutors to proceed. This success rate is a clear sign of the power of meticulous police work.

4:39 This is true crime garage. Anna Walsh, a mother of three from Cohasset, Massachusetts, was last seen on New Year's Day 2023. Her husband, Brian Walsh, was eventually charged with her murder. In fact, just shortly after she went missing. The complicated part of this captain is Anna's body has never been found and there's a lot of mystery as to what was going on and who would be responsible for this woman being missing. Now, Brian and Anna Walsh had three children together. They lived in Cohasset, Massachusetts, a coastal suburb located 20 miles south of Boston. And Cohassid is located on the corner of Southshore where greater Boston Harbor ends in Massachusetts Bay begins. This is an affluent seaside community with a small population of just under 9,000 people.

6:02 It's a very safe community with very little violence. In fact, police chief William Quigley said there hasn't been a murder in town since at least 1995 when he first joined the force.

6:16 Yeah. You want to picture a setting or a city like Capeside from the hit TV show from the WB Dawson's Creek.

6:23 And of course, we already mentioned that Brian and Anna Walsh were married together. They did have kids. Another unfortunate part of this story. They have three sons, all young boys.

6:35 Yeah. All three of their kids were under the age of six years old. In the early 2000s, Anna immigrated from Serbia to come to this great country. When she gets here, she works various jobs. She married a chef. This couple moves to Massachusetts. In early 2008, Anna meets Brian Walsh while she's working as a reservations manager. Around the same time here, Captain Anna and her then husband relocated to Washington, DC in 2011. Brian Walsh visits a friend who is living in South Korea. So, he offers to sell his friend's art collection.

7:18 Yeah. This includes two original Andy Warhol shadow paintings. If it's not the Campbell Soup, I don't want it.

7:26 I only know about three Andy Warhol paintings. So, forgive me when I see shadow paintings. I don't know exactly which ones they are talking about. But

7:36 but Andy Warhol was he's an icon, right? He's not just an artist, my friend. He's an icon

7:44 as far as I I'd put him as an icon in what late7s to the 80s. So Walsh sells these shadow paintings, the authentic shadow paintings we should say, for his friend, sells them to a US gallery. These paintings are then resold several times. Eventually, my understanding is they end up outside of the United States,

8:08 right? But selling off the Friends Art Collection gives Brian Walsh this brilliant idea to have some replicas made of the famous shadow paintings,

8:20 some forgeries. That's right. So, he can sell them off, but he wants to pass them off, of course, as the originals because they would be very, very valuable. I believe one of them was valued at over $200,000. In 2013, Anna and Brian Walsh, they start dating. Now, it's not until sometime the following year that her divorce to the chef is finalized. So, in 2014, her divorce is finalized. And sometime in 2014, Anna texts a friend of Brian's stating that Brian is a violent person. And she later reports to police that her boyfriend from Boston threatened to kill her and her friends. But in this report, in this complaint, she does not name Brian Walsh in this complaint. So, there's going to be no charges that will be brought forward from this police report. In 2015, Brian Walsh sells the fake shadow paintings. Success.

9:27 Chaching. He sold him to a buyer in France. In December of 2015, Anna and Brian get married. The couple moves in with Brian's mother at 225 Beacon Street in Boston.

9:40 Yeah. And just a little heads up, if you have a boyfriend that threatens to kill you and your friends, that's that's a deal breaker. You should move on with your life. Dump the loser. Move on with your life. But she didn't. She ends up marrying him.

9:56 In July of 2016, their first son is born. This is when the couple begins flipping properties. And I have hear I question the statement but I but I seen in at least one report that they were also renting out properties at some point. Her profession changes. She transitions from the hospitality industry to real estate. And Anna joins this firm that specializes in listing luxury homes. back to the fake paintings, the the fake artwork. The buyer discovers two Andy Warhol shadow paintings for uh So, the way that this went down, Brian lists these air quote famous paintings or the fakes, the knockoffs on eBay. He finds this buyer and the two decide that, hey, we're going to do this offline. Brian Walsh includes in the listing of this sale a picture of an invoice showing the purchase of the Warhol Foundation paintings and the Warhol Foundation numbers that accompany those. So he has legitimate paperwork, right? Because he

11:13 originally had the real legitimate paperwork paintings in his possession. Yeah. So he made forgeries of the legitimate paperwork too to go along with the fake paintings that he's selling. He's trying to move these fast because he lists them as we said the they're worth over $200,000. He's listing them for only $100,000. So you if you're a buyer and you see a deal like that, remember a lot of times if it seems too good to be true, it is.

11:48 Right? So, this buyer and him agree to do this offline outside of eBay, and the agreed price is $80,000. And we know that because they end up signing a contract together, and then the buyer gives Brian Walsh a cashier's check for $80,000. Brian Walsh deposits the check into his bank account and then he starts withdrawing money from this bank account using that money from the forgeries

12:18 right almost immediately and he uses I think over $30,000 of it in the first two weeks. Now at some point this buyer will discover that hey these things they're not real.

12:33 Yeah. See, I always wondered too about this. Was there something in the paintings or some kind of research that was done to the paintings to figure out that there are forgeries or was it the paperwork? It's a couple of things. So, he the the buyer decides to remove the paintings from the frames that they came in and that's when they start to put together that hey, these things don't look quite right. So that for one, the canvas looked too new to be authentic. The there were staples that were found and there were no Warhol Foundation authentication stamps on the actual artwork. So there's a discrepancy basically between what he purchased and the photos he could see on eBay on the original listing. It's not until October of 2018 that Brian Walsh is arrested for selling these fake Andy Warhol paintings.

13:32 Yeah. I'm guessing this is a felony because of the the price he was scamming this individual out of. What? $160,000?

13:40 80,000. Yeah, but I thought there was two paintings. There are, but I think that they were sold as a p as a pair, I believe. Um I may have misspoke. Um

13:50 but but yeah, you're right. Regardless, it's going to be a substantial amount of money.

13:55 Wouldn't it be funny if they opened up the paintings? It was just It just looked like the painting was Xeroxed. I think there's something wrong here, Sherlock.

14:06 Now, this next part, it makes it a little bit complicated and for our timeline. Anyway, he's going to eventually plead guilty to this, but that won't take place until April of 2021. And when he does plead guilty to this, he is he gets house arrest while he's awaiting sentencing for this. It's it's a complicated matter. We'll circle back to it here in a bit. Um but from my understanding here, Captain, he there's four counts that he's originally charged with and he'll ultimately plead guilty to three of those four counts. And the punishment for this, there's going to be a term of incarceration, supervised release, so some kind of parole fines, restitution that will need to be paid as well. So at this time, Brian Walsh, he's then 46, he would ultimately plead guilty to one count of wire fraud, one count of interstate transportation for a scheme to defraud, one count of possession of converted

15:13 goods, and unlawful monetary transaction. The charge of wire fraud, you could serve up to 20 years in prison for that. My guess is that probably most people don't, but you could serve up to 20 years in prison for that. Three years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000. The charge of interstate transportation for a scheme to defraud comes with up to 10 years in prison, 3 years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000. And then the charge of possession of converted goods is another 10-year in prison, 3 years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000.

15:56 Yeah. But a lot of times in these cases where there's no victim as far as nobody was attacked, nobody was beat up, nobody was killed, that normally if you make a plea deal that your sentences are going to be dramatically reduced from what the maximum penalty normally is.

16:17 Yes. So ultimately what he's going to get is he's sentenced to 37 months in prison, 3 years of supervised release and order to pay restitution of $475,000. As said that that portion of the story is kind of dragging on right from 20 what did we say 18 all the way up to 2021 and it's still lingering when this next stuff is starts to happen. Okay. Okay. So, in February of 2022, Anna is working as in a new role. This is she's the regional general manager for a company called Tishman Spayer in Washington DC. So, she's they still live in Massachusetts and there she's commuting every week to and from DC. So, she'll go and stay in DC where her work is for the week and then come home basically on the weekends. Yeah. Tough situation when you have three sons under the age of six.

17:20 Yes. And Brian and the sons are in Cohasset living in a rental property at this time. And as said, Anna's splitting her time between Washington DC and Cohasset on the weekend. In November of that year, Anna Walsh is having an affair with a man who lives in DC. She spends Thanksgiving 2022 with him outside of the country.

17:48 Yeah. I believe at some point she tells her husband Brian that she has a crush on this individual, but I don't think she admits to him at the time that she's having an affair.

18:00 Yes. And so in December of 2022, Brian's mother hires a private investigator. His name is Jeremy Dozer to conduct surveillance on Anna Walsh. They want to catch her in the act.

18:16 Yeah, it seems like Brian comes from a little bit of money. I mean, it also makes sense with this whole art deal, this fraudulent art deal. But to me, he seems like a somewhat smart but doesn't know how to follow through. But for the most part, he's he's a [ __ ] Well, and I don't think that they had a lot of Look, we know that there was an affair going on, but it doesn't sound like the private investigator was able to come up with a whole bunch of incriminating evidence of the affair. Now, let's go to Christmas Eve, 2022, December 24th, 2022.

18:56 And again, it seems like she's spending this day or at least a portion of this day with the boyfriend. then eventually spends part of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. It's Christmas Day when she goes back to Massachusetts. Of course, Brian and others are upset that she missed Christmas Eve and most of Christmas Day with her family,

19:21 right? And a lot of these individuals that are having affairs, look, if you're married and your marriage sucks and you you got some crush on this guy, fine. You know, that happens. But when you have kids involved, grow the [ __ ] up, right? And it's like, if you don't want to be with their father and you want to be with this other guy, then then break it off. Get a divorce and then go start a new life. But when they're doing this, there's a there is a selfishness aspect of this situation. And you just feel bad for these three young children cuz they have to deal with the mom doing this, but you have and the the ultimate fallout of what their horrible douchebag father is going to do.

20:11 Yes. And there's a lot of back and forth between Massachusetts and Washington DC in this story. So, I apologize for the complexity of it, but it is as it is here. Now, speaking of divorce, Captain on December 27th, Brian Walsh Google searched what's the best state to divorce for a man. But also, this is probably why his mother gets a private investigator because this is all roads are leading to them getting a divorce. So by getting the private investigator and again you have some states that are that are at fault states. So that's what he's trying to do. Oh well if she's at fault then maybe I get custody. Maybe she ends up having to pay me a bunch of money.

21:01 Mhm. But [clears throat] what's insane to me is like if if I sold some fake paintings, which I'm not saying I'm going to, but if I did and I was caught and I was going to have to spend three years in prison, yeah, I probably could do three years in prison, but he's he has to pay back almost $500,000. Like, at that point, I'm just jumping off a goddamn bridge.

21:26 Well, and I'm not trying to defend anybody having an affair. Um, but we also should keep in mind too on her end, she's got to be thinking like pretty soon this guy's going to go away to prison for 3 years,

21:40 right? Um, and it doesn't seem like their relationship was that great outside of the children to begin with. So now we are at December 28th during a dinner with a friend. She's now in Washington DC. And the friend would later report that they believe that Anna became uncharacteristically upset. She was talking to her friend about Brian Walsh who is going to be incarcerated as a result of that federal case. She has been preparing to leave him and she tells his friend that she wants to take the children to Washington DC once the split happens.

22:22 Now, 3 days later, the happy couple, they're hosting a New Year's Eve dinner with a friend of theirs. This makes no sense to me.

22:34 We have a report of Anna being last seen at 1:00 a.m. or maybe even 1:30 a.m. Okay, so let's go to New Year's Day, January 1st, 2023. Let's say 1:30 a.m. Brian and Anna went to bed shortly after that friend left. This seems to be the agreed upon time that that she's last seen, 1 or 1:30 that night. When police come knocking and asking about where Anna may be, Brian Walsh is going to tell police that his wife Anna had to leave for some kind of work emergency and had to fly to Washington DC for her job and that she actually left on January 1st, 2023.

23:52 All right, we are back. You filthy animals, talk hands in the air. Cheers to you, Colonel.

23:59 Cheers to you, my friend. Yeah. So, it's it's weird because it seems like she was reported missing by her job and not anybody [clears throat] in the family, which red flag there.

24:11 Yeah. So, she's first reported missing by the co-workers and then later he's going to say, "Oh, yeah, she, you know, she is missing. This is when I last saw her." So, she's not reported missing for a couple of days. And we've talked about this I I feel like a dozen times on this show, but anytime we have these cases that seem to take place around Christmas or New Year's, the holidays really kind of jam things up for people reporting things quickly. People go people get busy and it's just the natural state of things. If you don't have to work, if you're off for the holidays, nobody really knows that you're missing for a period of time because we now know she's been missing since January 1st, not reported until the 4th. He tells police, Brian tells the police eventually on the 4th, that his wife left sometime between 4:00 and 6:00 a.m. that she got a ride share to the airport and she was going

25:07 to have to go to Washington DC. That's about the window of time that he says that she leaves. What we also know that's going on between from 4:55 a.m. up until 1:20 p.m., Brian Walsh conducts 20 graphic Google searches about disposing a body, cleaning up blood, dismemberment, body decomposition, embalming. So, at 4:55 a.m., the search was, "How long before a body starts to smell?" 3 minutes later, how to stop a body from decomposing? Less than an hour later, this is just before 6:00 a.m. 10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to.

25:52 If you really need to is the strange part of that, like 6:25 a.m., how long for someone to be missing to inherit? 6:34 Can you throw away body parts? 9:29 a.m. What does formaldahhide do? 9:34 How long does DNA last? 1 minute before 10:00 a.m. Can identification be made on partial remains? 11:34 a.m. Dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body. 10 minutes later, how to clean blood from wooden floor. 4 minutes before noon, Luminol to detect blood. 10:08 p.m. What happens when you put body parts in ammonia? 1:21 p.m. Is it better to put crime scene clothes away or wash them? 5:30 p.m.

26:43 Surveillance video shows Brian Walsh and his vehicle going to a dumpster. This is in the parking lot of a liquor store and he's throwing something in that dumpster. He can be seen throwing something in that dumpster before he goes back and gets in his car and drives away.

26:58 Yeah. And that's one surveillance footage. There's going to be more that tracks Brian's movements, but I'm guessing that there's possibly multiple other stops that he made that we don't have surveillance footage of.

27:11 Yeah. So, there there's uh between 5:30 p.m. that night and about 8:00 p.m. that night. We don't know exactly where he was or what he was up to, but we know he returns home at approximately 8:00 p.m. that night. So, we have two and a half hours of I mean, he could be I hate to say it, but I my guess is he's driving around and disposing of items around in several different parts of town.

27:40 So, the shopping spree that he went on is actually before this, correct? Well, so no. So he it's January 2nd, the following day is when he's seen at a Home Depot store and he's wearing gloves and he's wearing a like a surgical mask, the mask that we were wearing during CO,

28:02 right? And this is when he's seen purchasing over $400 worth of cleaning supplies.

28:08 Wasn't this a Lowe's? I have Home Depot in my notes here, but because what I have is that he went to Lowe's, he went to CVS, and he went to HomeGoods.

28:18 Yes, I could be wrong. He could have went to Home Depot as well. Forgive me because you we both are right. He's doing these shopping trips on two days. Okay. So, actually before he goes to that dumpster, you're absolutely right. He went to he claims that he spent the day visiting his mother on January 1st.

28:42 His mother's a trip and that he's running errands for her. Okay. So, we don't have any surveillance for this. Uh but it's believed that he went to a CVS and a Whole Foods. The Lowe's trip captain happens on the 4th. Whatever he's doing, he's not doing it very quickly. The shopping trip on January 2nd is Home Depot in Rockland. And he purchases tarps, mops, tape, hatchet, a hatchet, and gloves. And he purchased this with cash. These are a cash buy here. And

29:19 I think all of his transactions are going to be cash except for one that I think he made with a gift card. Later that day, his search searches, internet searches include, "Hacksaw, best tool to dismember, can you be charged with murder without a body, and can you identify a body with broken teeth?"

29:38 Some very incriminating searches. January 3rd, there was supposed to be a flight. Anna was supposed to have a flight. She never boards this plane. And on the same day, we have more internet searches. One at 1 pm that says, "What happens to hair on a dead body?" 11 minutes later, "What is the rate of decomposition on a body found in a plastic bag compared to on a surface in the woods?" Also searched, "Can baking soda mask or make a body smell good?" And then at 4:27 p.m., surveillance shows Brian disposing of heavy trash bags at three apartment complex dumpsters.

30:17 Yeah. And on one of the trips, one of the shopping trips, we we see Brian on surveillance footage, but he's with his six-year-old son.

30:28 Classy move. And he does one of those selfch checkout and as he's doing the selfch checkout. So, we have him on the camera of the selfch checkout.

30:37 But he has his son help him scan the items that he's purchasing. It's pretty pretty haunting when you think of that image. Well, and later on that third he's he goes to several apartment complexes and it's believed that he's disposing of items in the dumpsters at these different apartment complexes. On January 4th, it's when he visited a HomeGoods and a TJ Maxx to buy towels and bath mats and then visited the Lowe's, which is the one that if anybody's caught pieces of this story on the news, it's been on the news a lot lately. This is the picture that you're seeing here. This part in the timeline is where he can be seen at the Lowe's and he's buying a squeegee or squeegee and a trash can and some other items.

31:28 Now, on this same day, key here is this is when Anna is reported missing by her co-workers. Remember, Brian Walsh claims to police that, yeah, I last saw her early on January 1st and she had to take a ride share to Boston Logan International Airport. Yeah, but even if you're having troubles in your marriage, you're still married. You're responsible for the children. How many times is he trying to contact her within that period? And I think it would be reasonable if he has nothing to do with her disappearance. It's reasonable for him to call cops as soon as January 2nd when he goes, "Hey, I'm calling her phone and yeah, I saw her leave and she took this uh ride chair and she was going to jump on a plane cuz she had this emergency at her work. Well, I can't get a hold of her. But that never happens.

32:19 He never reports her missing ever. When they go to do this welfare check and they talk to him, they notice that there's a plastic liner inside his vehicle.

32:28 Not good. Yeah. This is going to give them probable cause here. And then the topper is going to be Well, she he says that she left for emergency work problem on the first, right? Well, when they ping her phone, they track her phone. Her phone is pinging as it's still inside their home.

32:47 Yeah. On January 2nd. And again, if you had a concerned husband that was trying to call her, chances are he would have found her phone. And then that would be again reason to call the police and say, "Hey, my my wife went to this uh emergency work thing, but she left her phone. I can't get a hold of her. Nobody's heard from her." But none of this happens.

33:10 Yeah. And so with that his vehicle, they later detect blood, positively detected blood inside that vehicle.

33:18 Yeah. On January 5th, 2023, there's a public appeal issued by the police. They are asking people to search their yards. The police are actively searching the wooded areas and they're collecting video evidence and hoping to figure out where she may have went or what happened to Anna Walsh, who was aged 39 at the time. The public appeal is a missing person's appeal, right? They're they're giving out her description. She's 5'2 inches tall, weighs about 115 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes, olive complexion. They're of course not getting any calls or any tips as to where she may be. The search efforts for her included K-9 teams and state police air units. They had 20 troopers. Captain 20 state troopers. Now, let's get to January 8th here. Captain Brian Walsh is questioned by investigators about his searches on the internet and the searches that they discovered on his six-year-old son's iPad. So they have

34:30 him at the station conducting a a thorough interview of him and they are equipped with information saying, "Hey, somebody in your home using this iPad and using your home internet is searching for things like does the dish dishwasher remove blood from a knife?"

34:49 Yeah. How to stop a body from decomposing? And that's when Brian should have said, "Yeah, my son's into some weird shit."

34:56 Yeah. I've I've confiscated the iPad. Some say he's on the spectrum of being a Jeffrey Dmer type.

35:04 So, shortly after all of this, Captain, we have Brian who is arrested and he is initially charged with misleading the police in an investigation. But it was on January 8th that police revealed that they found blood and a broken knife in the family's basement and that they had that surveillance footage of Brian Walsh wearing a medical mask and surgical gloves purchasing those cleaning supplies at the Home Depot. And then you referenced some of the other purchases and surveillance footage of those as well. This evidence piling up goes from an ant hill to a giant mountain pretty quick. So he's wearing this is what's difficult though because he's wearing this monitoring bracelet because remember he got caught selling the fake Andy Warhol paintings,

35:56 right? So he's under house arrest. He's allowed to leave the home for things like going to doctor's appointments in the grocery store. And from my understanding, I I hate when they call these monitoring bracelets. This one doesn't have GPS tracking on it from my understanding. So, how how much monitoring how much monitoring are they doing? It almost seems like this this thing is no different than uh than the watch I wear. My guess is that maybe maybe it triggers some kind of alert if he's gone for

36:29 too long. For too long. I hope there is some actual monitoring that's being done. So, we do know that the police also attempted to find items in the local landfill there as the landfill would be the obvious destination for whatever was in those dumpsters. And again, he went to multiple dumpsters. It would be 10 days later that he's eventually charged with murder. And then it would be March of 2023 when he was actually indicted by a grand jury. So, this is three charges here, Captain. Murder, misleading a police investigation, and improper transport of a human body.

37:10 Yeah, he's what you call a real piece of [ __ ] The jury selection for his trial took place this November 2025. As if this story is not weird enough, look at all this evidence they have against him. At some point, Brian's going to switch from, "Hey, innocent," to now he's got a story to tell us. Right? So Brian's defense,

37:32 and hold on, it's a whale of a story. Yes. Brian's defense is that Anna Walsh died suddenly of some kind of unexplained death. Okay. So he says, "I found her unresponsive in our bed. She wouldn't wake up. This was after we were celebrating New Year's Eve." He says he panicked and started searching the internet how to dispose of the body because he's saying and eventually his defense attorney Larry Tipton will be saying this as well that no one would believe me that she just one minute she's alive and the next minute she's dead. So I panicked and had to dispose of her. Yeah. She was a young healthy woman and because of all their problems and everybody knows they're heading they're heading to a divorce. He's heading to prison. he's going to be responsible for all this money that he has to pay back because he's going to prison. He's going to lose probably custody of his children. So, this isn't

38:30 going good for him at all. But either way, this is the mother of your children. If you find her dead in your home, what do you do about it? Do you try to rescue her? Do you try to save her? Do you try to call 911? at least Google search how does somebody die suddenly. But that's not what the Google searches are. The Google searches are how to dismember a body and and how to basically dispose of this body.

39:00 Yes, prosecutors, they were stating that they believe that Brian Walsh was motivated by money. He was the sole beneficiary of his wife's over $2 million life insurance policy and also motivated by the affair that she was having with the realator in Washington DC. Now, his defense team is going to say, "No, not so fast. He didn't kill his wife. They called him a loving husband and father who didn't even know about the affair." The closing arguments by the prosecution state that Brian Walsh methodically cut up the body of Anna Walsh and disposed of her body parts in different dumpsters, saying, quote, "He needed her dead." End quote.

39:53 The jury deliberation started on Friday, December 12th in the afternoon. Well, and wait before we get to that though, because what the jury wasn't privy to during the whole trials that Brian Ari plead guilty to certain crimes.

40:12 Yes. And they were made aware of that, I believe, by the judge right before they were in deliberations to come up with a verdict. A lot of people just thought, man, this is opensh case, so the verdict's going to come back pretty quickly. It didn't. But I wonder if being being hit with this very damning and crazy information right before you go into deliberations, is that part of the the the holdup of them coming up with a verdict?

40:42 Well, I have that they came up. So, it was December 15th, the following Monday, that he's found guilty of murder in the first degree. And it was Yes. nearly two weeks of testimony in Norfolk County Superior Court. And you're you're absolutely right, Captain. I I'm with you. It's like, so this guy's whole defense is, yeah, I disposed of her body. I'm not going to tell you where I put her, and you're not going to be able to recover her, but I didn't kill her. You know, it's like one of the most bizarre defenses I've ever heard. So, I'm with you. I thought two days is all is the only test. But you when you when you have the evidence and you have the ability to do so, especially when you don't have a body, you have to lay it on pretty thick, right? And you have to go over in detail so the jury is made aware of how strong your case is, leaving no question about what our accusations are and that we we believe them to be 100%

41:51 true. And of course, we [clears throat] know that the jury agreed with that. There was no reaction in the courtroom from Brian Walsh. I don't know if you saw this, but I there was something on court TV where they zoomed in on his face when they were getting ready to read the verdict. After he's announced that he's guilty, he's handcuffed, shackled, and they take him out of the courtroom. Eventually, we will learn that he's going to receive a life in prison sentence for killing his wife, Anna Walsh. And those three young children are now in state custody. From my understanding,

42:36 Brian Walsh had a what seems to be a a reputable defense team, but a lot of people that weren't in that courtroom were like, "Man, this guy seemed defeated at every pass." But the defense team did tell everybody, tell the jury, "Hey, we might not have all the answers, but the but the true story is going to come out when we put Brian on the stand." Well, Brian never went on the stand. So, I think

43:03 originally originally he said that he was going to take the stand or at least his defense says that he's going to and then then what it looks like is kind of at the 11th hour, right? He decides not to take the stand.

43:17 Yeah. And I think the prosecution because you have no body, so we don't know how she was killed. I mean, you can speculate, well, maybe she was poison, maybe he stabbed her to death. We don't know. Um, I think you would know more. uh if you went through those Google searches and went through them with a fine fine tooth comb to figure out like what was he searching first? Uh but then when you're hit with hey he he disposed of her body and he dismembered her. There you go. I mean, to me, you go open and shut case, but again, I think some of it is confusion. And I can't remember if it was on court TV or something else, but some quote unquote expert was like he had somebody else help him because uh dismembering a body is normally a twoperson job. What I mean, I out of all the things I heard in 2025, I think that's one of the dumbest things I've heard. We we have plenty of situations where people have dismembered

44:19 their victims by themselves. Yes, we've we've covered a lot of cases unfortunately where dismemberment is part of the case, part of the crimes committed and many many times done as a solo act. And I think what you have to look at here too is nobody's with him on these trips, right? We these trips that he's taking to collect materials, the trips that he's taking to dispose of materials, with the exception of his son being there for one of them, he appears to be by himself,

45:01 right? uh on a lot of these trips and it unfortunately whatever however he was able to get rid of the evidence that all took place inside that home inside the family's home very likely in the basement of that home. I mean this is just a a slimy dude. There's just something. I mean, of course, the murder, of course, the other crimes, but this I just look at him and it's he's a slimy sl. And and we've talked about this before, you have to be a certain type of person to dismember a body. And so, I think somebody needs to look into his history more. You know, where [clears throat] did he go university, where he worked? Is there any missing person? Is there any rumors of him dating somebody that just kind of disappeared? I wouldn't put it past him because this, like I said, takes a special individual. And then you have these these crimes with the forgery.

46:05 [gasps] Okay, I'm going to paint this picture. I'm not saying that this happened, but his defense team, even other people were like, well, she told him, Anna told Brian that she had a crush on this individual. It later comes out even in the trial that this this affair was confirmed, but they were saying, "Oh, well, he wasn't a jealous type." Well, he might not have been that because we we don't have a body. We don't know the motive. I actually wonder because like I said when you were saying the story how they had this this gathering. I wonder if he tried to poison her because it it almost seems like people were hanging out and then she disappears as far as like well she's going to go to bed and then does some people leave and not say goodbye to her and so like think about that like oh we have this party and I poison you but you collapse or die while there's other people around then they

47:02 they essentially somewhat become my alibi. So, I'd wonder if I'd wonder if there's any searches on any uh of these items for anything about poison a victim or not. But where my mind wonders is did she have any involvement in these sales? I don't think that's maybe information that we could find, but is it is it is it something that he can't you know, cuz he's a slime ball? Like you said, this guy is utterly a piece of [ __ ] but did he come up with the idea and then then explains to her the idea and she goes, "Oh, no, that's a good idea and we could make a little bit of money and that could start some of our real estate endeavors and blah blah blah." And then because to me it's like again I can see, oh, if she's having an affair and and and okay, everybody knows that she told her husband that she had a crush on the guy. Did she eventually tell him that they had an affair? Is that the straw

48:02 that broke the camel's back? Is that the motivation for him to kill her, behead her, dismember her, dispose of her? Or is it more than that?

48:12 I think it's probably all of the above. And the thing that we can't, you know, the the obvious thing to point to here is

48:21 I agree with the prosecution when they're saying that we believe he was motivated not just by the affair, but also he's the sole beneficiary of Anna's $2.7 million life insurance policy. And remember, one of those

48:37 See, that's not that's not what I have as the insurance policy. what I have as the insurance policy or what he would have received which he was uh he would have been a a benefactor of that but also the three children would be is it's $220,000. It's twice her annual annual salary. So to me that seems like a a life insurance policy that is not extreme. Right.

49:04 Right. And also like you have three young children so it would make sense. I mean, I don't know where you're getting the$2 point some million dollars, but again, you have a guy that his life before this was crashing all around him. He's going to lose his freedom for at least, okay, he's sentenced for three. He's probably going to get out in what, a year and a half, maybe two. Unless that's just like you get three years and there's no time off for good behavior. Plus, you're going to be monitored. Plus, you got to pay all this money back because of all these things. Because you're a slime ball because because of all these things now, you're losing your wife. You're going to lose custody of your kids. And then if she moves away because you're in prison, you can't stop that. If you get a divorce and let's say you live in Ohio and your ex-wife gets custody of the kids and she wants to move to Michigan,

49:59 she has to come up with some damn good reasons why she's going to take the kids away from the father. And that's something that the father can fight for. And it's actually something that the state is like, "Nah, you're going to have to work out some kind of deal. Maybe even leaving the kids here and you not getting custody. Hey, we'll let you move. and we'll let you take this work opportunity or whatever it is, but we're not going to let the kids leave, but when you're in prison, he wouldn't be able to fight for this. Like I said, sick son of a [ __ ] is losing everything. I think on some level, he wanted somebody else to suffer. I think he wanted somebody else to lose everything. And I think he took out his anger on his wife. Now, I think it was hard for the prosecution to come up with that story. And I think also the prosecution in the back of their head, they're going, "Well, we know he

50:49 admitted to dismemberment and disposing of the body, but we can't say that." So, it's uh this is this case is so weird and bizarre.

51:01 Yeah. I was pointing to the Google search of how long someone missing to inherit. So he's he's actively trying to figure out how long does this person have to be missing for before I can inherit the life because if the person's missing, they're not technically dead, right? As far as that that contract goes for the life insurance. Now, it was NBC News that reported that it was a $2.7 million life insurance policy. At court, it was testified that uh by an insurance agent that Anna Walsh had a $1 million term life insurance policy and a $250,000 whole life insurance policy.

51:47 Okay. Brian Walsh will not see a penny of that. What he's going to be seeing a lot of is a prison cell.

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Who speaks in "Brian Walshe ////// 894"?

Nick (Guest), The Captain (Host), Brian Walsh (Guest), Anna Walsh (Guest).

What is "Brian Walshe ////// 894" about?

This discussion centers on the challenges and complexities of homicide cases where the victim's body is never recovered, known as "nobody death investigations." Key points include the reliance on circumstantial evidence and the unique investigative approaches used in these difficult scenarios.

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24 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Brian Walsh, disposal of a body, Google searches, disappearance, Cohasset, Massachusetts, New Year's Day 2023. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Brian Walshe ////// 894"?

The episode runs 53 min; the transcript is about 7,888 words in 98 timestamped sections.

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