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Defense rests without Brian Walshe testifying or putting on any evidence
Brian Walshe waived his right to testify and defense rested without witnesses after prosecution presented evidence including searches and items with alleged blood, trial in Massachusetts nears closing.
- On Monday, the jury in Dedham resumed deliberations in the murder trial of Brian Walshe, accused of killing and dismembering Ana Walshe, with a 12-member jury deciding the case.
- Ana Walshe was last seen on New Year's Eve 2022 and prosecutors say she was killed on January 1, 2023, while prosecutors allege jealousy over a months-long affair motivated the killing, the defense says Walshe panicked after a sudden unexplained death, Larry Tipton argued.
- Investigators testified about troubling internet searches on Walshe's devices, Dumpster and bloodied rug evidence, and surveillance video of tool purchases while witness Will Fastow said, `We quickly became close friends, confidants, and then an intimate relationship`.
- Walshe faces verdict options of first-degree, second-degree or acquittal; first-degree murder means life without parole, second-degree allows parole, and his guilty pleas add separate prison exposure.
- Without a recovered body and with circumstantial evidence, prosecutors face a higher burden to show premeditation as a 12-member jury deliberated for about three hours Friday and will resume Monday after reviewing an exhibit photo of Ana on a rug.
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Brian Walshe murder trial: Closing arguments expected after defense calls no witnesses
Brian Walshe during the murder trial of Ana Walshe on December 9, 2025. (Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) (DEDHAM, Mass.) — Closing arguments are expected to be delivered Friday in the murder trial of Brian Walshe, a father of three accused of killing and dismembering his wife. The Massachusetts man is accused of killing his wife, 39-year-old Ana Walshe, around New Year’s Day in 2023. He pleaded guilty last month, ahea…
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Jurors are deliberating in murder trial of Brian Walshe, whose wife disappeared 2 years ago
Jurors are deliberating in the murder trial of Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man accused of killing and dismembering his wife in 2023.
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