Massachusetts

A Norfolk County jury convicted Brian Walshe of murdering his wife, Ana Walshe, who disappeared after New Year’s Day 2023; jurors deliberated about six hours over two days and he faces life in prison without parole at upcoming sentencing. Prosecutors — who called roughly 50 witnesses while the defense called none and Walshe did not testify — presented DNA linking Ana to a hatchet and hacksaw, receipts and surveillance of purchases of tools and cleaning supplies, internet searches about disposing of a body, a $2.7 million life-insurance policy naming Brian as beneficiary, and alleged motives including an affair and financial/legal pressure; no body has been recovered, and Walshe had previously pleaded guilty to related charges of misleading police and disposing of a body.