Husband arrested after wife reported missing last week

The man’s wife was reported missing last week, and he was charged Monday for allegedly making misleading statements to the police.
On Monday, 47-year-old Brian Walshe was arraigned in Quincy District Court. Prosecutors allege that Brian Walshe’s initial statements to police caused a delay in the search for his wife, Ana Walshe, 39, who was reported missing on Jan. 4 after she failed to show up at her job in Washington, DC, prosecutors said. The last time she was seen was three days ago by a family member.
“These various statements caused a delay in the investigation to the point that, during the time frame when he didn’t report his wife missing and gave various statements, that allowed him time to either clean up evidence or dispose of evidence,” prosecutor Lynn Beland said at Brian Walshe’s arraignment Monday.
Walshe was held on $500,000 cash bail after pleading not guilty.
Brain Walshe told police that he last saw his wife on New Year’s Day when she took a rideshare to the airport to travel to Washington, DC.
Ana Walshe didn’t book a rideshare or have a scheduled flight to DC that day, according to investigations. Her phone pinged in the area of her home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2, according to prosecutors, the day after which Brian Walshe said she’d already left, according to Beland.
Investigators questioned Brian Walshe’s whereabouts on those days. According to Beland, the man told officers he went to Whole Foods and CVS to purchase items on Jan. 1; however, there were no receipts, and police surveillance indicated that he never went to these two locations on that day.
However, surveillance video obtained during the police investigation found that he went to Home Depot, where he purchased $450 worth of cleaning supplies, including mops, a bucket, and tarps; the prosecution continued by saying that Brian Walshe told police officers he took his son out for ice cream on Jan. 2.
Prosecutors said that after obtaining a warrant to search the Walshes’s home, police found blood and a damaged, bloody knife in the basement.
Authorities announced they were not resuming a ground search in the wooded area near Ana Walshe’s home after two days and no results, and Brian was arrested the following day.
The statement read that twenty troopers from the MSP Special Emergency Response Team, a specialized unit trained in search and rescue operations, as well as three K9 teams and the State Police Air Wing searched wooded areas near Ms. Walshe’s home with negative results for the second straight day.