Brian Walshe allegedly watched a cuckold porn video days earlier than the dying of his spouse — who prosecutors declare Walshe suspected of dishonest — and Googled the so-called “trash-bag killer” after her slaughter.
Walshe, 50, seen on his laptop computer a video a few “dishonest spouse” on Dec. 27, Massachusetts State Police Trooper Nicholas Guarino testified Tuesday, in line with a report by CNN.
The specific clip was allegedly seen three days earlier than Ana, Walshe’s spouse and the mom of their three boys, disappeared ceaselessly round New Yr’s Day 2023.
Jurors heard throughout opening statements Monday on the Norfolk County Superior Courtroom trial in Dedham, Mass. that Ana was having an affair with one other man, William Fastow.
Prosecutors claimed Walshe knew in regards to the dalliance and had even searched Fastow’s identify on-line earlier than Ana’s dying — providing a doable motive for the alleged slaying.
However Walshe’s lawyer, Larry Tipton, instructed the jury throughout his opening remarks that the actual property exec didn’t know in regards to the affair and that Walshe and Ana had been deeply in love and dedicated to their sons — regardless of the obvious extramarital tryst.
Tipton appeared to recommend on cross-examination of Guarino, that the particular person viewing the X-rated content material was really in search of movies starring their most well-liked matress actress, moderately than particularly searching for out content material about dishonest spouses.
The trooper spent a lot of the day testifying a few slew of damning web searches Walshe allegedly made within the three days after Ana’s disappearance, together with utilizing his laptop computer to google serial killer Patrick Kearney, a person who put the his victims’ our bodies in trash luggage, incomes him the moniker, the “trash-bag killer.”
One other instance, is Walshe allegedly looking out on Jan. 2, “are you able to be cost [sic] with homicide with no physique.” And he allegedly went on to view a Wikipedia web page titled, “Homicide conviction with no physique.”
Mere hours after Ana’s slaying on Jan. 1, Walshe allegedly began looking out subjects together with, “finest method to get rid of a physique,” “how lengthy earlier than physique begins to odor,” and “how lengthy does dna final,” the outlet reported.
On Jan. 2, different disturbing searches included, “learn how to noticed a physique” and “hacksaw the perfect software for dismembering physique.”
And the chilling searches continued on Jan. 3, together with “can a physique decompose in a plastic bag” — and mockingly, “can police get your search historical past with out your laptop.”
Walshe admitted final month to mendacity to cops within the days after Ana’s disappearance and to eliminating her physique. Nevertheless, he maintained he didn’t kill her.
Walshe allegedly went to shops together with Lowe’s and Residence Depot to select up instruments and cleansing provides for the grisly job of dismembering Ana’s stays, earlier than dropping them in dumpsters, inflicting them to be incinerated and compacted as a part of the waste disposal course of.
The daddy is on trial for a single rely of first-degree homicide and if he’s convicted he’ll face necessary life imprisonment.
Prosecutors have prompt Walshe could have been motivated by the actual fact his marriage to Ana was strained by his artwork fraud conviction — which got here with a $400,000 restitution tab and impending jail time. And so they claimed Walshe suspected Ana of dishonest.
However Tipton put forth an alternate model of occasions, claiming that Ana died of “sudden unexplained dying” and Walshe panicked he’d be blamed for it so he tried to cowl it up.
The trial is anticipated to last as long as three weeks.
