Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / KILLER HUSBAND BRIAN WALSHE TWISTS IN COURT AS WIFE'S LOVER TAKES THE STAND, JURY BRINGS DOWN THE HAMMER
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Suspected killer. Suspected killer husband
- 0:10Speaker 1: Brian Walts, twists and turns in court as his wife's
- 0:15Speaker 1: lover takes the stand. The jury brings down the hammer.
- 0:22Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to
- 0:25Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. A Massachusetts father of
- 0:29Speaker 1: three stands trial for his wife, Anna Walsh's alleged murder,
- 0:36Speaker 1: and while he's sitting there, groomed perfectly flanked by a
- 0:41Speaker 1: phalanx of attorneys, his wife's alleged his wife's lover takes
- 0:47Speaker 1: the stand. That's right, Brian Walsh, accused of murdering and
- 0:51Speaker 1: is remembering his wife, Anna, the mother of his children,
- 0:56Speaker 1: got to sit by and listen to his lover, to
- 1:00Speaker 1: her lover on the stand. Now listen to this, and
- 1:06Speaker 1: you can't really blame the defense attorney. What did he
- 1:08Speaker 1: have to work with? During opening statements, defense attorneys said
- 1:12Speaker 1: Brian Walsh found his wife dead in bed on New
- 1:15Speaker 1: Year's Day, then panicked, lied to police as they investigated
- 1:19Speaker 1: her disappearance, but swore he didn't kill her. Okay, so
- 1:25Speaker 1: he finds her dad and didn't call nine one one.
- 1:27Speaker 1: He decided it was a better idea to dismember her
- 1:29Speaker 1: and get rid of her body. Okay. Jurors also her
- 1:33Speaker 1: testimony from a man who was Anna Walsh's lover on
- 1:37Speaker 1: the stand, as well as a voicemail. Brian Walsh left
- 1:42Speaker 1: the guy the day she Anna was reported missing. His name,
- 1:47Speaker 1: William Fastau, real estate broker in d C, met Anna
- 1:50Speaker 1: while she was looking for a home in d C
- 1:53Speaker 1: and he helped her buy a townhouse. Now, remember her husband,
- 1:56Speaker 1: Brian Waltsh was on house arrest because he's an art
- 1:59Speaker 1: con selling fake Andy Warhol's. So I guess anybody but
- 2:04Speaker 1: him looked pretty attractive to her. Yeah, my husband's on
- 2:08Speaker 1: house arrest, at home, not making a living. Not attractive.
- 2:12Speaker 1: You know, I'm telling you this much. I get up
- 2:14Speaker 1: and go to work every day, and I expect David
- 2:16Speaker 1: Lynch to get up and go to work every day too,
- 2:18Speaker 1: and he does. Plus, don't be jealous, ladies, he empties
- 2:23Speaker 1: the trash and cleans up after I cook. So you
- 2:26Speaker 1: know that said, that's a high standard. Brian Watsh just
- 2:30Speaker 1: laid around the house. Why because he was a con
- 2:34Speaker 1: and got sentenced to house arrest. Fast How the lover says,
- 2:37Speaker 1: Enna was despaonna and sad because she was away from
- 2:40Speaker 1: her children so much, but she had to be to
- 2:43Speaker 1: make a living because her husband had home confinement. She
- 2:49Speaker 1: was deeply upset that she was not in a position
- 2:53Speaker 1: to be the mother to her children she wanted to
- 2:56Speaker 1: be because of her husband. What happened to Anna Walts.
- 3:02Speaker 2: New Tonight Police were asking the public to help them
- 3:05Speaker 2: find a Cohaset, Massachusetts mother of three who vanished without
- 3:09Speaker 2: a trace on New Year's Day. Thirty nine year old
- 3:11Speaker 2: Anna Walsh left her home early Sunday morning. She was
- 3:14Speaker 2: supposed to take a flight from Logan to DC, where
- 3:16Speaker 2: she works during the week, but there's no record of
- 3:19Speaker 2: her ever boarding a flight. Police say there's been reports
- 3:22Speaker 2: that she took a ride share, but investigators haven't been able.
- 3:25Speaker 1: To confirm that.
- 3:26Speaker 3: Three days after she was seen leaving her home with
- 3:28Speaker 3: bags in hand, Walsh was reported missing.
- 3:31Speaker 4: We cannot confirm that she actually got into a ride
- 3:34Speaker 4: share in Cohasset.
- 3:36Speaker 1: We confurther, we have confirmed with the Alnes.
- 3:39Speaker 5: And that's been a challenge that she did not board
- 3:43Speaker 5: a plane this week.
- 3:45Speaker 3: Police say her phone has been off and there has
- 3:47Speaker 3: been no activity on her credit or debit cards. Is
- 3:51Speaker 3: a loving wife and mother.
- 3:53Speaker 6: Dave.
- 3:53Speaker 7: She always says, three beautiful boys, three beautiful boys.
- 3:56Speaker 5: So she loves so.
- 3:57Speaker 1: Much Phil boys wondering where is mommy? Hearing our friends
- 4:01Speaker 1: at WPR I in WUSA, so where's Anna now? I
- 4:08Speaker 1: had to take that exact flight very often, and between
- 4:13Speaker 1: New York and Boston and DC, it's almost a triangle
- 4:19Speaker 1: of hourly flights with me an all star panel to
- 4:21Speaker 1: make sense of what we know right now. But first
- 4:23Speaker 1: I'm going to go to Bob Ward, reporter for Boston
- 4:26Speaker 1: twenty five News. You can find him at Twitter at
- 4:29Speaker 1: b Ward three. Bob, thank you for being with us.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Could you just verbalize that a little bit better than
- 4:35Speaker 1: I did? I mean, I know, out of in New York,
- 4:38Speaker 1: I would very often have to race from Court TV
- 4:42Speaker 1: to get to the Marine Air terminal at LaGuardia, a
- 4:46Speaker 1: different terminal than the main LaGuardia terminal, because they had
- 4:50Speaker 1: hourly flights not only to Atlanta but to d C,
- 4:53Speaker 1: where I would go to shoot Larry King. And believe
- 4:57Speaker 1: it or not, they were so regular, almost like a
- 4:59Speaker 1: bus for sake, I could be there within two hours
- 5:04Speaker 1: of leaving the studios in Manhattan. It was amazing, But
- 5:07Speaker 1: there are so many flights out of Logan to New
- 5:12Speaker 1: York and d C. That's a lot of investigation to
- 5:15Speaker 1: find out if she really did get on a plane.
- 5:17Speaker 8: Right. But you know, Nanthy, right from the very beginning,
- 5:20Speaker 8: this sounded odd because you're talking. This was New Year's Day.
- 5:24Speaker 8: This was first thing in the morning on New Year's Day.
- 5:28Speaker 8: She had a party at her house that went until
- 5:31Speaker 8: about one o'clock in the morning New Year's Eve into
- 5:34Speaker 8: New Year's Day. A mother of three who claimed there
- 5:38Speaker 8: was an emergency at her realty firm in Washington, d C.
- 5:42Speaker 1: Okay, well, let me let's start right there. Bob Ward
- 5:45Speaker 1: is joining me from Boston twenty five mews. I'm drinking
- 5:49Speaker 1: out of the fireheiser from you, Bob Ward. You're giving
- 5:51Speaker 1: me so much information so quickly. So with the three children,
- 5:55Speaker 1: she was actually working in DC, living in the Boston area.
- 6:01Speaker 1: And what was her job in DC? Was it a
- 6:03Speaker 1: new job?
- 6:04Speaker 8: It was a fairly new job. You know, we're still
- 6:07Speaker 8: trying to unpack some of this stuff. But she had
- 6:09Speaker 8: a job with an apartment down in DC.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Okay, but what was her job in DC?
- 6:15Speaker 8: I'm not clear on what her job was. She was
- 6:17Speaker 8: not a realtor, but she was some kind of property manager.
- 6:20Speaker 1: That's it. That's what it was. Property manager. And hold
- 6:23Speaker 1: on just a moment we all know about getting a
- 6:25Speaker 1: new job, you feel like you've got to do whatever
- 6:29Speaker 1: they want to make that great impression so they don't say, Wow,
- 6:35Speaker 1: we've got her on six months probation. We're going to
- 6:37Speaker 1: can her. She's not doing a very good job. I mean,
- 6:39Speaker 1: David Stutdard is with me right now, guys. Now I
- 6:42Speaker 1: think of David Stutter as a motorman, as an APD
- 6:48Speaker 1: Atlanta Police Department officer, but now he is a very
- 6:52Speaker 1: well known lawyer. David Studdard, do you remember your first
- 6:56Speaker 1: day on the job as a cop?
- 6:58Speaker 8: Absolutely?
- 6:58Speaker 5: I do, and it was a los long time ago,
- 7:01Speaker 5: nineteen to eighty eight. And I do remember my first day,
- 7:05Speaker 5: and I was super excited, super enthusiastic and just wanting
- 7:08Speaker 5: to get out and stay in the world.
- 7:09Speaker 1: And didn't want to screw anything up and land at
- 7:12Speaker 1: some desk assignment.
- 7:14Speaker 8: That's right.
- 7:14Speaker 5: We were on a very strict six month probationary period
- 7:18Speaker 5: when we first started there, and any infraction would cause
- 7:21Speaker 5: you some difficulty right quick. So to your point, absolutely.
- 7:24Speaker 5: I was willing to do whatever I needed to do
- 7:26Speaker 5: to get to that probationary period.
- 7:28Speaker 1: And then you put yourself through law skill. Can you
- 7:30Speaker 1: remember your first day working as a lawyer, like, yeh man,
- 7:33Speaker 1: I'm going unscrew this up. This is nothing like being
- 7:35Speaker 1: a cop.
- 7:36Speaker 5: That's absolutely right, the same sort of feeling.
- 7:38Speaker 1: I mean, Karen Stark, you remember you would be with
- 7:41Speaker 1: me on the set at Court TV. Karen Stark is
- 7:43Speaker 1: with me, renowned psychologists joining us out of the Manhattan jurisdiction.
- 7:48Speaker 1: She's at Karenstark dot com, Karen with to see Karen.
- 7:51Speaker 1: You'd be with me on the set at Court TV,
- 7:54Speaker 1: and my stomach would be churning to figure out if
- 7:57Speaker 1: I can make that flight to get to Larry Kings
- 7:59Speaker 1: to in Washington to get on the air, you know,
- 8:03Speaker 1: And I would make it. I don't think I ever
- 8:06Speaker 1: did not make it. But when you've got a new gig,
- 8:09Speaker 1: you'll do anything. And if they told me, hey, you
- 8:12Speaker 1: got to fly to d C to be on tonight,
- 8:14Speaker 1: I go, sure, I can't wait. Just like this woman,
- 8:17Speaker 1: they go, hey you got to fly down to d C.
- 8:19Speaker 1: We got an emergency. I don't care if it's New
- 8:21Speaker 1: Year's Day and she would hop that plane would do
- 8:24Speaker 1: you agree with that?
- 8:25Speaker 9: I would agree with it, Nancy. And I remember those
- 8:27Speaker 9: days like it was yesterday, and you were always doing
- 8:31Speaker 9: above and beyond what you needed to do. I used
- 8:34Speaker 9: to watch you and Larry King because I couldn't believe
- 8:37Speaker 9: that you would make it, and you always made it.
- 8:39Speaker 1: But what pressure. Yeah, there were a lot of white
- 8:42Speaker 1: knuckles in a cab trying to get to LaGuardia Marine.
- 8:46Speaker 1: So we're hearing from Bob Ward that something wasn't right.
- 8:49Speaker 1: But yet it was a new job, so people talked
- 8:52Speaker 1: it off. Well, you know, she's proving herself. But then
- 8:56Speaker 1: things even went more sideways. Take a listen to our
- 8:59Speaker 1: friends at Boston twenty five.
- 9:01Speaker 10: A Cohasset police log is shedding new light on how
- 9:04Speaker 10: the investigation first got started. It says a call requesting
- 9:07Speaker 10: a well being check was made on January fourth by
- 9:11Speaker 10: a man who identified himself as the head of security
- 9:13Speaker 10: at Honor Walsh's employer in DC, Tishman Spyer. The log
- 9:17Speaker 10: says Tishman Spyer contacted husband Brian Walsh before he reported
- 9:22Speaker 10: his wife missing. It explains that he told police on
- 9:25Speaker 10: a left for DC, and he hadn't heard from her since.
- 9:28Speaker 10: According to the log on his phone, last piged on
- 9:31Speaker 10: January second at three fourteen am in Cohasset and hit
- 9:35Speaker 10: the tower on Reservoir Road in Cohasset, less than a
- 9:38Speaker 10: mile from the family's home.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Okay with me. Very well known PI private investigator Tom
- 9:44Speaker 1: Ruskin is with us. Ruskin is president of CMP Protective
- 9:49Speaker 1: and Investigative Group, Inc. Former NYPD investigator, and you can
- 9:54Speaker 1: find him at cmpdashgroup dot com. Tom Ruskin, I don't
- 10:01Speaker 1: like it when it's your job calling to report you missing,
- 10:07Speaker 1: not your family.
- 10:08Speaker 8: Correct.
- 10:08Speaker 4: I mean it distincs to the high heavens. It really does.
- 10:14Speaker 4: Not to mention that it is a lot easier now
- 10:18Speaker 4: than when I joined the force before my colleague in
- 10:22Speaker 4: nineteen eighty two, to check flight records, to check TSA records,
- 10:28Speaker 4: to check different airlines. There's only a certain number of
- 10:31Speaker 4: airlines that would fly between her home and Washington, DC,
- 10:37Speaker 4: and it's very easy for the TSA and holy insecurity
- 10:41Speaker 4: to go into those records now and search for her name,
- 10:45Speaker 4: her data, birth and see if she A had a
- 10:48Speaker 4: plane reservation, B. Did she clear security with all the
- 10:52Speaker 4: cameras that are in airports and c did she actually
- 10:56Speaker 4: get on the flight?
- 10:56Speaker 1: Can I tell you something, Tom Ruskin, that's an excellent point.
- 11:00Speaker 1: I hadn't even thought of, because I remember going and
- 11:03Speaker 1: you'll laugh at this. Stuttered going to the greyhound bus
- 11:07Speaker 1: station in inner city Atlanta, trying to find out if
- 11:11Speaker 1: a particular woman who always into this day is still
- 11:15Speaker 1: a Jane Day by the way, who was murdered, if
- 11:17Speaker 1: she had gotten off of a greyhound bus before she
- 11:21Speaker 1: was murdered by whom I believe to be a serial killer.
- 11:24Speaker 1: Don't worry, I got them on one one. But it
- 11:28Speaker 1: was so hard to.
- 11:29Speaker 4: Do, Tom Nancy. You'll also remember when you ran from
- 11:33Speaker 4: Court TV to the Marine Air terminal at Laguadi Airport.
- 11:37Speaker 4: You used to be able to run through no magainetometers.
- 11:40Speaker 4: You'd run on a Delta flight or People's Express flight
- 11:44Speaker 4: or Eastern back then, and you just jump on the
- 11:47Speaker 4: flight with a random ticket that you could say any hour. Nowadays,
- 11:52Speaker 4: you can't do that.
- 11:53Speaker 1: Oh no, tsa man. They got to justify their existence
- 11:58Speaker 1: and so they will do a full on body cavity
- 12:01Speaker 1: search if they feel like it. It doesn't matter who
- 12:03Speaker 1: you are. You know, who gets searched the most. My
- 12:06Speaker 1: mother going in with a wheelchair when we push her
- 12:09Speaker 1: around the airport even though she can walk. But yeah,
- 12:12Speaker 1: they love to hone in on my mom. Elizabeth that said,
- 12:16Speaker 1: you're right, Tom Ruskin, there's only a couple of air
- 12:20Speaker 1: carriers that go between Boston and d C. Crime Stories
- 12:29Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace the lover fast Out testified the fraud
- 12:37Speaker 1: case against Brian Walts was a quote big stresser in
- 12:41Speaker 1: Anna's marriage, and it felt like he was ruining and
- 12:45Speaker 1: she felt like it was ruining her and the children's life.
- 12:52Speaker 1: He testified that Anna and Walsh had a quote heated
- 12:56Speaker 1: argument over credit card charges. She told him Brian Walt,
- 13:02Speaker 1: sitting on his rear end on the sofa not working,
- 13:05Speaker 1: has spent thousands for a sports memorabilia business. I would
- 13:12Speaker 1: have done a beflop. What do we know about the
- 13:16Speaker 1: evidence regarding her murder? The employer is reporting Anna missing,
- 13:22Speaker 1: not her family, but listen to this WBZ.
- 13:25Speaker 3: WBZ has obtained and verified audio of a voicemail left
- 13:29Speaker 3: by mister Walsh for one of Anna's friends. It's the
- 13:32Speaker 3: same day Anna was reported missing to police.
- 13:35Speaker 7: Said Brian Walsh.
- 13:37Speaker 5: I hope all is going well, I was just reaching
- 13:39Speaker 5: out to basically everybody I could.
- 13:42Speaker 7: Anna hasn't been in touch for a few days, you know,
- 13:44Speaker 7: anyone that might have that contact with her.
- 13:47Speaker 11: Just you calling everyone. So I've heard to bother you
- 13:50Speaker 11: for everything.
- 13:51Speaker 1: Fine, So we do see the husband reaching out to
- 13:54Speaker 1: her friends and leaving voicemails for all of them trying
- 13:58Speaker 1: to find out if they had heard from Anna and
- 14:00Speaker 1: joining me right now. Julie lewis President and CEO of
- 14:03Speaker 1: Digital Mountain, Inc. At Digital Mountain dot com. Julie, thank
- 14:08Speaker 1: you for being with us, Tom Ruskin. The PI points
- 14:13Speaker 1: out how much easier it is to check flight records
- 14:17Speaker 1: through TSA and even getting subpoenas very quickly, or asking
- 14:22Speaker 1: the carrier like Delta to check their records to find
- 14:27Speaker 1: out if somebody made a flight. So, according to police,
- 14:30Speaker 1: she didn't make that flight. But what Julie lewis about
- 14:36Speaker 1: ride share, lift, Uber and all the others digitally, wouldn't
- 14:43Speaker 1: that leave a trail if she had taken a right
- 14:46Speaker 1: chair to the airport.
- 14:47Speaker 12: You can certainly contact the custodian of records at the ubers,
- 14:51Speaker 12: the lift and types of companies that she would have
- 14:54Speaker 12: taken a ride share and find out that information with
- 14:58Speaker 12: legal due process and see what you know, what the
- 15:04Speaker 12: actual fact pattern is there?
- 15:06Speaker 1: Well, what about her phone? I mean most people get
- 15:10Speaker 1: their right chair through their phone app.
- 15:12Speaker 5: If you have access to her yes, if you have.
- 15:15Speaker 11: Access to her phone, you knew.
- 15:17Speaker 7: The whereabouts of that phone.
- 15:20Speaker 11: You would have access to the app. But most of
- 15:22Speaker 11: that data would be stored.
- 15:24Speaker 12: In the cloud and pointing up to the Uber application.
- 15:29Speaker 4: Uh not.
- 15:29Speaker 12: It might not be stored on.
- 15:30Speaker 5: The local phone. So that's something to consider.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Got a question for you, Julie Lewis, if we don't
- 15:35Speaker 1: have her phone, but we do have her code, say,
- 15:41Speaker 1: it's like everybody else in America their birthday or their
- 15:45Speaker 1: children's birthday, and we have the code for her phone.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Can we get into the iCloud that way?
- 15:52Speaker 11: Typically you would need the user name, you would need
- 15:56Speaker 11: a password for the accounts, and you would also if they.
- 16:00Speaker 12: Have multifacturer authentication, turned on the code from the text message.
- 16:07Speaker 1: So a little harder than I thought. But you know
- 16:08Speaker 1: what we're talking about her phone and where she Where
- 16:11Speaker 1: is the husband during all of this? Take a listener
- 16:14Speaker 1: our cut thirty five Lynn Bilund talking and indicating our
- 16:20Speaker 1: January first at three pm. We did some arans and
- 16:24Speaker 1: reach was not his.
- 16:25Speaker 6: House and swamps, but but Glost because he didn't have
- 16:29Speaker 6: his phone.
- 16:30Speaker 1: He said, you know, he was lost when he saw.
- 16:31Speaker 8: A pirate ship one root one.
- 16:33Speaker 6: Defenders stated stayed fifteen minutes, then went.
- 16:36Speaker 1: To Whole Foods and CBS.
- 16:38Speaker 6: Savannah's has checked and he did not enter either with
- 16:41Speaker 6: those stores.
- 16:42Speaker 1: Okay. Bob Ward, Boston, twenty five on this the disappearance
- 16:47Speaker 1: of Otto Walsh since the beginning saw a pirate ship
- 16:52Speaker 1: on route one what okay, now wait a minute, wait,
- 16:56Speaker 1: so he says the husband says he's going to visit
- 17:00Speaker 1: his mother and he gets lost on the way to
- 17:05Speaker 1: his mom's home, and when he sees a pirate ship,
- 17:09Speaker 1: he knows he's lost, but then goes into Whole Fows
- 17:13Speaker 1: and CBS even though he's lost.
- 17:15Speaker 8: What the pirate ship is a landmark on the one
- 17:18Speaker 8: area there's you know that area of Swampskip where his
- 17:22Speaker 8: mother lives. There are some old landmarks, miniature golf places, restaurants,
- 17:27Speaker 8: that sort of thing. And I think that's what it
- 17:29Speaker 8: was that he's talking about, was a landmark that he
- 17:32Speaker 8: saw that told him where he was. And he said
- 17:35Speaker 8: he got lost because he didn't have a GPS on
- 17:37Speaker 8: his phone with him, because he's elected at home.
- 17:41Speaker 1: Karen Starry, I find that very unusual. I've told that
- 17:45Speaker 1: my twins is like the wizards and their wands and
- 17:48Speaker 1: Harry Potter, you don't go anywhere without It doesn't make
- 17:52Speaker 1: sense to me he didn't have a cell phone, especially
- 17:55Speaker 1: if he hasn't heard from his wife. Wouldn't you keep
- 17:58Speaker 1: your cell phone with you at that time in case
- 18:01Speaker 1: she called?
- 18:01Speaker 9: Well, let's think about this, Nancy. How many people really
- 18:04Speaker 9: leave home these days without their phone. It's it's improbable.
- 18:10Speaker 9: I have trouble believing that he accidentally left at home
- 18:15Speaker 9: and he knows that he's being watched. It seems to
- 18:18Speaker 9: me so he intentionally left that phone home. I have
- 18:24Speaker 9: no doubt about it. He's the nefarious character. He knows
- 18:27Speaker 9: exactly what he's doing.
- 18:29Speaker 1: In the search for Anna Walsh. Local authorities find something
- 18:36Speaker 1: very unusual. Take a listen to our cut forty.
- 18:39Speaker 6: Data from the phone also practices where boats on January
- 18:42Speaker 6: third locations were traveled at four twenty seven on January
- 18:48Speaker 6: third from pot Complex and hargen So valiance shows the
- 18:52Speaker 6: defendant's BOBO as well as a male befitting the dependent's
- 18:54Speaker 6: appearance Exeter Pa.
- 18:56Speaker 1: Near the dumpster.
- 18:57Speaker 6: He watched the dumpster Caunton garbage he's leaning and it
- 19:02Speaker 6: appears to be heavy as he has to heft it
- 19:05Speaker 6: into the dumpster.
- 19:07Speaker 1: He walks to the dumpster.
- 19:09Speaker 6: With garbage matter and leaves it on full forty eight.
- 19:13Speaker 6: He hit another complex in Averton and at five ten pm,
- 19:16Speaker 6: cell phone shows records at another apartment and brought to him.
- 19:21Speaker 6: Video shows a hearty consistent with his appearance and his
- 19:25Speaker 6: global again.
- 19:26Speaker 1: He decided ads in the dumpster. Bob Ward joining us
- 19:30Speaker 1: from Boston twenty five on his disappearance. From the very beginning,
- 19:36Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with my husband throwing trash
- 19:38Speaker 1: out there in the dumpster outside our house, but when
- 19:42Speaker 1: he starts going from one dumpster to the next dumpster,
- 19:45Speaker 1: to the next dumpster to the next dumpster, all in
- 19:48Speaker 1: within a one hour period, that concerns me. And you
- 19:52Speaker 1: know who reminds me of And you're gonna know this
- 19:54Speaker 1: name very well. Jennifer Dulo's the missing Connecticut mom of five.
- 20:00Speaker 1: Remember her husband, Fotus Delos and his mistress. They're going
- 20:06Speaker 1: all around town dropping off items and they're caught on
- 20:09Speaker 1: surveillance video. Why is it, Bob, or maybe you can
- 20:13Speaker 1: shed some light on this. Why is it that when
- 20:15Speaker 1: a woman goes missing, her husband suddenly turns into a
- 20:18Speaker 1: knee nick and he has to throw out the trash.
- 20:21Speaker 8: Good question, Nancy, I think we know the answer to that.
- 20:24Speaker 8: And that's the allegation here that the sadly that January
- 20:27Speaker 8: third incident that you just played the cut from the
- 20:31Speaker 8: dumpsters in the south Shore and Abington and Brockton, what
- 20:35Speaker 8: we're going to find out in court that is, when
- 20:38Speaker 8: the remains of on A. Walsh are being discarded in
- 20:41Speaker 8: those dumpsters, those dumpsters eventually are brought to an incinerator
- 20:46Speaker 8: in the south Shore of Massachusetts, and within an hour
- 20:50Speaker 8: of those dumpsters being brought to that incinerator, they're destroyed.
- 20:54Speaker 8: Anna Walsh's remains have never been located, and the thought
- 20:58Speaker 8: is that they never will be because that's for those
- 21:00Speaker 8: bags were brought. The other trash bags that were recovered
- 21:05Speaker 8: in this case were brought to the north shore near
- 21:07Speaker 8: that pirate ship that we just talked about, and they
- 21:10Speaker 8: were not brought to an incinerator but to a landfill.
- 21:13Speaker 8: They were found and it's inside I don't know from
- 21:16Speaker 8: getting ahead of us, but inside those trash bags is
- 21:19Speaker 8: where the evidence, the incriminating evidence has been located in
- 21:23Speaker 8: this case.
- 21:23Speaker 1: Bob Ward, could you tell me everything you just said
- 21:29Speaker 1: one more time in very slowly?
- 21:32Speaker 7: Sure?
- 21:33Speaker 1: I think the gist is that very quickly after husband
- 21:39Speaker 1: Brian Waltch visited these various dumpsters, the dumpsters were cleaned
- 21:45Speaker 1: out where the trash was picked up and taken some
- 21:47Speaker 1: to an incinerator and some to the pirate ship. Wait wait, wait, wait, wait,
- 21:52Speaker 1: hold on, wait a minute, Wait a minute, Karen Stark,
- 21:55Speaker 1: have you ever noticed how defendants weave in a tiny
- 22:00Speaker 1: bit of truth and to their big fat lie the
- 22:02Speaker 1: pirate ship.
- 22:03Speaker 9: I mean, that's what makes pathological liars so interesting, Nancy,
- 22:07Speaker 9: is because it's usually based on a hint of truth, right,
- 22:12Speaker 9: like no smoke without fire. There's a little bit of smoke,
- 22:15Speaker 9: but the rest of it they conjure up. And they're
- 22:19Speaker 9: very adept at being able to tell a lie that
- 22:23Speaker 9: has a little bit of truth in it, but a
- 22:24Speaker 9: lot of fawceond I like.
- 22:26Speaker 1: The rebeiast conjure I like a magician or a wizard,
- 22:30Speaker 1: because one moment on a Walsh is there with witnesses
- 22:35Speaker 1: at a New Year's Eve party and the next moment
- 22:38Speaker 1: she's gone, Bob Ward joining me. Investigative Report of Boston
- 22:42Speaker 1: twenty five, tell me again what you just said?
- 22:45Speaker 8: So On January third, Brian Walsh, according to the prosecutors,
- 22:50Speaker 8: is recorded on surveillance trying to dump trash bags into
- 22:55Speaker 8: dumpsters in the south Shore of Boston and the towns
- 22:59Speaker 8: of Thatington and Brockton. The prosecution believes that those trash
- 23:05Speaker 8: bags that he was struggling with to get into the
- 23:08Speaker 8: dumpsters contained the dismembered remains of his wife on a Walsh.
- 23:13Speaker 8: Shortly after he did that, those dumpsters were brought to
- 23:18Speaker 8: an incinerator in the south Shore. Within an hour of
- 23:22Speaker 8: those trash bags arriving at that incinerator, they were incinerated
- 23:28Speaker 8: and converted into electricity, and Walsh's remains have never been found.
- 23:36Speaker 8: It's an absolutely horrific and gruesome part of this case.
- 23:40Speaker 8: The other half of it is that Brian Walsh did
- 23:43Speaker 8: not allegedly did not discard of all the evidence in
- 23:46Speaker 8: the case on the south Shore. The allegation is that
- 23:49Speaker 8: he took his tools, the instruments that he used to
- 23:53Speaker 8: dismember his wife's body, along with some of her clothes
- 23:57Speaker 8: and belongings, and put them in other trash bags, scarded
- 24:00Speaker 8: those things in dumpsters on the north shore of Boston
- 24:04Speaker 8: near his mother's house, near that pirate ship. Those trash
- 24:08Speaker 8: bags have been recovered and those items are going to
- 24:12Speaker 8: be an important part of this case in this trial
- 24:15Speaker 8: when it takes place.
- 24:16Speaker 1: And what do you believe Bob Ward were in those
- 24:20Speaker 1: trash bags in January?
- 24:22Speaker 8: What we've been told was that they found a hatchet,
- 24:24Speaker 8: a hack saw, They found a bloody rug, they found
- 24:29Speaker 8: Anna's product purse, they found the boots that she was
- 24:32Speaker 8: seen wearing at that New Year's Eve party, and Nancy,
- 24:36Speaker 8: they found her COVID nineteen card. It's absolutely stunning what
- 24:41Speaker 8: they found.
- 24:41Speaker 1: Joining me former APD Atlanta Police Department officer and now lawyer,
- 24:49Speaker 1: what rank did you get to? Started?
- 24:52Speaker 4: I left?
- 24:52Speaker 5: There's an investigator, Nante's a homicide detective.
- 24:55Speaker 1: Left? Okay, David, have you ever had a case without
- 24:59Speaker 1: a body aside without a body?
- 25:01Speaker 8: Yes?
- 25:01Speaker 1: I have. Can I just say that's a tough pill
- 25:05Speaker 1: to swallow?
- 25:06Speaker 5: It is, but fortunately even in those cases and this guy, look,
- 25:12Speaker 5: you know, as a homicide detective. I would have been
- 25:14Speaker 5: looking at this guy immediately simply based on the fact
- 25:17Speaker 5: that his wife gets on an airplane, she's apparently overdue,
- 25:21Speaker 5: he hasn't heard from her in three days. Only after
- 25:24Speaker 5: he is contacted by her employer does he make an
- 25:27Speaker 5: outcry about his wife. That'll. I mean, my wife gets
- 25:30Speaker 5: on an airplane, she travels frequently. If I haven't heard
- 25:32Speaker 5: from her a few minutes after she's supposed to touch down,
- 25:35Speaker 5: I get Frank. I mean, I'm calling every you know,
- 25:37Speaker 5: trying to call her and call her. This guy has
- 25:40Speaker 5: done nothing, but he's like a magnet for suspicion. I mean,
- 25:44Speaker 5: he's going out, he's talking about this pirate ship, you know,
- 25:47Speaker 5: and not to mention all of this physical evidence that's located,
- 25:49Speaker 5: which to my point is, you know, even the most
- 25:53Speaker 5: careful criminals, when they commit these kinds of crimes, it's
- 25:57Speaker 5: almost impossible to do without leaving some sort of forensic
- 26:03Speaker 5: physical evidence behind. And this guy has left a mountain
- 26:06Speaker 5: of it.
- 26:07Speaker 1: I mean, it could you. Here's another thing, Julie Lewis,
- 26:12Speaker 1: I'm gonna circle back to you just a moment about
- 26:15Speaker 1: possible nav systems on his car. But Tom Ruskin joining me,
- 26:20Speaker 1: and then I want Karen start to weigh in on
- 26:22Speaker 1: this as well. Tom Ruskin, guy's private investigator or extraordinary
- 26:25Speaker 1: President of CMP Protective and Investigative Group, Tom listen. I
- 26:31Speaker 1: don't like jewelry. I really don't like fancy clothes. I
- 26:36Speaker 1: don't like fancy cars. But if you were to take
- 26:40Speaker 1: let's just say, this little ring right here, this is
- 26:46Speaker 1: made of my mother in law's jewelry. Okay, it's very thin,
- 26:51Speaker 1: it's not be jeweled, but if you were to take that,
- 26:55Speaker 1: I would come after you. All right. There are just
- 26:58Speaker 1: some things that wouldn't matter to me. And I've got
- 27:02Speaker 1: a funny feeling this woman would not want her to
- 27:05Speaker 1: fancy boots and her proud of hers thrown out.
- 27:08Speaker 4: No, and it would be weird if she had left
- 27:14Speaker 4: and left for a business trip, if she didn't take
- 27:16Speaker 4: those with her, that they wouldn't be behind in the
- 27:19Speaker 4: house and be discoverable. This guy is definitely the prime suspect,
- 27:25Speaker 4: and probably we'll be convicted at trial. The fact of
- 27:28Speaker 4: the matter is, to the other gentleman's point, you don't
- 27:31Speaker 4: need a body anymore to prove a case.
- 27:34Speaker 1: It sure helps, though, man. Come on, Ruskin, I mean, yeah,
- 27:37Speaker 1: you don't need a body. I'm not going to give
- 27:39Speaker 1: him a gold star for getting rid of the body.
- 27:41Speaker 1: And again, he hasn't been proven guilty. We're just hypothesizing
- 27:46Speaker 1: on the evidence that we have. But it's sure, as
- 27:49Speaker 1: hag helps, if you do have a dead body to
- 27:51Speaker 1: prove a murder case.
- 27:52Speaker 4: But it also goes against him because we know that
- 27:56Speaker 4: he was in these yards, he was dumping stuff. What
- 27:59Speaker 4: is he doing dumping her garbage? What's the matter? His
- 28:02Speaker 4: pickup's not working at his house.
- 28:04Speaker 1: Karen starts, He's so right. And Karen, again, I threw
- 28:10Speaker 1: this to Stuttard earlier, I think, but why do you
- 28:13Speaker 1: guys turn into neat nicks as soon as their wives disappear?
- 28:17Speaker 1: And again, like Stutdard said, and like Ruskin is saying
- 28:20Speaker 1: about the trash, it defies the course of normal human conduct.
- 28:25Speaker 1: He doesn't check on his wife to see if she landed.
- 28:28Speaker 1: Her employer has to call looking for her. And then
- 28:31Speaker 1: he wants to take out the trash. Fine, do it
- 28:33Speaker 1: at the corner at the end of the driveway, or
- 28:35Speaker 1: the trash ute in your apartment in Manhattan, But why
- 28:38Speaker 1: do you go to five or six different dumpsters and
- 28:40Speaker 1: because somebody just surprised me once and not throw bloody
- 28:43Speaker 1: rags and towels in a dumpster.
- 28:45Speaker 9: Do something different what always happens, Nancy. He believes he's
- 28:49Speaker 9: not going to get caught, and this looks suspicious, so suspicious.
- 28:53Speaker 9: I mean, he gets lost going to his mother.
- 28:57Speaker 1: He didn't get lost. He's trying to explain his circuitous
- 29:01Speaker 1: route from one dump to the next.
- 29:03Speaker 9: And also saying that he went to places where they
- 29:06Speaker 9: could check and he did not go.
- 29:08Speaker 4: So, Nancy, can I jump in for one second? Yes,
- 29:11Speaker 4: I just want to bring welso bring up the fact
- 29:14Speaker 4: this is a woman. Let's assume that the husband has
- 29:19Speaker 4: nothing to do with her murder. This is a woman
- 29:22Speaker 4: who's going to take a flight, supposedly from Boston to
- 29:26Speaker 4: Washington on a business trip. Why is her phone off?
- 29:29Speaker 4: No one that travels, myself, my loved ones, my family. Well,
- 29:34Speaker 4: we go to the airport, you show off your phone
- 29:37Speaker 4: once you're on the flight, and you turn it on.
- 29:39Speaker 4: To mister Stoddard's point once you land. Why is she
- 29:44Speaker 4: becoming all of a sudden sreptitious or becoming covert in
- 29:48Speaker 4: her actions, which sort of defies the logic of the husband.
- 29:52Speaker 1: Tom Ruskin, private investigator. You're absolutely right. I mean, I
- 29:56Speaker 1: don't guess any of you people on this panel have
- 29:59Speaker 1: read Don't be an Victim written by Oh what's that
- 30:01Speaker 1: girl's name? Oh Nancy Grace. You're supposed to like take
- 30:05Speaker 1: a picture of when you're in the parking deck, which
- 30:08Speaker 1: I do and send in my family, and then when
- 30:10Speaker 1: I get on the plane, I take a picture I'm
- 30:12Speaker 1: on the plane and send to them. You don't even
- 30:15Speaker 1: have to write a text or write words, but just
- 30:17Speaker 1: let people know where you're going. Jackie. I think I've
- 30:21Speaker 1: even sent them to you before. Yes, I have. Okay, guys,
- 30:25Speaker 1: that's not the end of it. But I want to
- 30:26Speaker 1: ask Julie Louis Something, President and CEO of Digital Mountain, Inc. Julie,
- 30:33Speaker 1: what about I like to just say on Star as
- 30:37Speaker 1: a blanket nav description, wouldn't his car show everywhere he
- 30:42Speaker 1: had been if it were, you know, anything older than
- 30:45Speaker 1: in twenty ten?
- 30:46Speaker 11: So before I jump into that, I just you were
- 30:48Speaker 11: talking about pictures, and there was supposedly a picture she
- 30:52Speaker 11: photographed of herself with her.
- 30:53Speaker 12: Wedding ring off and some of her final photos, and
- 30:57Speaker 12: so within that picture things called excess data that you
- 31:01Speaker 12: can look for that potentially could have geolocation information about
- 31:05Speaker 12: where she was when the picture was taken.
- 31:08Speaker 1: Say that is why you're the expert. I didn't even
- 31:10Speaker 1: catch that, Julie Lewis so.
- 31:13Speaker 11: Switching gears to the car. You know, the car is
- 31:16Speaker 11: a moving computer these days on most cars with.
- 31:20Speaker 12: Why buy has GPS, it has a cell network, all
- 31:25Speaker 12: these things that you can use for tracking. So if
- 31:29Speaker 12: Brian's car has has that in it, law enforcement could
- 31:33Speaker 12: have certainly used that information. The other thing that happens
- 31:37Speaker 12: in cars is a lot of people think their phones
- 31:41Speaker 12: and so text messages, contacts, you know, browser history, all
- 31:46Speaker 12: these things may be on that on.
- 31:49Speaker 5: The car now.
- 31:50Speaker 12: You know, for example, if you rent a.
- 31:52Speaker 11: Car, even that information can be on that. So that's
- 31:56Speaker 11: something that's really important to note.
- 31:58Speaker 1: You mean, when you charge your phone in a car,
- 32:01Speaker 1: the car can track everything that you have written on
- 32:04Speaker 1: your phone during that time.
- 32:06Speaker 11: It could be thinking like you when you are in
- 32:08Speaker 11: a uber your playlist, Depending on the configuration, it could
- 32:12Speaker 11: actually download that. So you don't want to go in
- 32:14Speaker 11: some stranger's car rental car.
- 32:17Speaker 12: And plug it in because the car and voltanment system
- 32:21Speaker 12: could be grabbing and capturing some information from your phone.
- 32:24Speaker 1: Good to Night Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. The lover
- 32:36Speaker 1: also testifies their relationship was hidden from Anna's husband, but
- 32:41Speaker 1: it was serious and they were planning to travel abroad together.
- 32:46Speaker 1: Anna wanted to tell Brian about the relationship. The two
- 32:50Speaker 1: were supposed to have dinner to discuss their future together
- 32:53Speaker 1: on January four, but he never heard from her. What
- 32:59Speaker 1: happened between Christmas in January the fourth Take a listener
- 33:03Speaker 1: hour cut thirty six This is Land, Bilan talking On.
- 33:07Speaker 6: January first, defenditive googled.
- 33:11Speaker 1: Using a son's iPad. Some of his searches are as follows.
- 33:15Speaker 6: Keep in mind that the defendant said he left at
- 33:17Speaker 6: sixteen six am.
- 33:20Speaker 1: At four fifty five.
- 33:21Speaker 6: Am on January first, he searched how long before a
- 33:24Speaker 6: body starts to smell?
- 33:26Speaker 1: How long before a body starts to smell? Okay, keep going?
- 33:32Speaker 8: Eight am?
- 33:34Speaker 6: How to stop a body from decomposing?
- 33:37Speaker 7: At five twenty am.
- 33:38Speaker 6: He searched how to bound the body At five forty
- 33:42Speaker 6: seven am. Ten ways to dispose of a dead body
- 33:47Speaker 6: if you really need to. At six twenty five am
- 33:50Speaker 6: on the first how long for someone to be missing
- 33:53Speaker 6: to inherit?
- 33:54Speaker 9: At six thirty four am.
- 33:56Speaker 1: On first, can you go away body pots? Okay, I
- 34:00Speaker 1: think we need Doctor Kendall Crowns, Chief Medical Examiner, Terrance
- 34:05Speaker 1: County Lecturer, University, Texas Austin and Texas Christian University Medical School.
- 34:13Speaker 1: Doctor Kendall Crowns, thank you for being with us. Let
- 34:15Speaker 1: me just ask you a couple days and I'd like
- 34:16Speaker 1: to point out also, this is food for thought for you.
- 34:19Speaker 1: Karen Stark, psychologist on his son's iPad, like they don't
- 34:26Speaker 1: know how to read the search history and there's daddy searching.
- 34:32Speaker 1: How long before a body starts to smell? How do
- 34:35Speaker 1: you stop a body from decomposing? How to get rid
- 34:39Speaker 1: of a body? Ten ways to dispose of a dead
- 34:41Speaker 1: body if you really need to. I'm glad he added
- 34:44Speaker 1: to check that on it at the end. How long
- 34:47Speaker 1: before how long for someone to be missing to inherit?
- 34:50Speaker 1: That's not for you, Crowns. Can you throw away body parts? Okay?
- 34:57Speaker 1: I'm starting to agree with Tom Ruskin and David Stone
- 35:00Speaker 1: or Debt. You don't really need the dead body to
- 35:02Speaker 1: prove that someone is dead. Doctor Kendall Crowns, can you
- 35:06Speaker 1: give me some quick answers to those this is a
- 35:08Speaker 1: lightning round for you. How long before a body starts
- 35:11Speaker 1: to smell?
- 35:12Speaker 5: Doctor Crown's for ten days?
- 35:13Speaker 1: That just rolled off the tip of your tongue. I'm
- 35:15Speaker 1: not going to ask why how do you stop a
- 35:18Speaker 1: body from decomposing?
- 35:19Speaker 8: Refrigeration?
- 35:20Speaker 7: I mean, you look at it. That guy they found
- 35:23Speaker 7: in the iceberg ot see the iceman. He was missing
- 35:28Speaker 7: for a thousand years and he's stuck in the iceberg.
- 35:31Speaker 7: So really, refrigeration is the best way to prevent a
- 35:34Speaker 7: body from decomposing.
- 35:36Speaker 1: Ten ways to dispose of a dead body if you
- 35:38Speaker 1: really need to. That's not a medical question. Let me
- 35:40Speaker 1: go to the next medical question. Can you throw away
- 35:43Speaker 1: body parts?
- 35:44Speaker 7: You have to, you know, if you don't want the
- 35:47Speaker 7: trash man to notice some potamon dumpsters like which was
- 35:51Speaker 7: possibly done in this case, and then dismember the individual
- 35:56Speaker 7: and just small enough parts that they aren't recognizable human
- 36:01Speaker 7: and then mix them in with other trash. And another
- 36:04Speaker 7: good way is to put them in I think it's
- 36:07Speaker 7: like these pool chemicals that can melt the body parts
- 36:11Speaker 7: down into kind of a slug.
- 36:13Speaker 1: You know, Doctor Kendall Crowns, you're actually ante scaring many
- 36:16Speaker 1: people that are listening to you right now putting it
- 36:19Speaker 1: in pool. Waite a minute, Karen start. I know you've
- 36:21Speaker 1: got something to ad hold on. What did you say
- 36:23Speaker 1: about pool cleaner, doctor Kendall Crowns.
- 36:26Speaker 7: There's a certain chemical they use. I believe it's in
- 36:29Speaker 7: pool cleaning or something else. I can't think of it
- 36:31Speaker 7: off the top of my head. But it'll actually dissolve
- 36:34Speaker 7: the dismembered body parts down relatively and it'll dissolve the
- 36:40Speaker 7: bone as well, and it'll just kind of make this
- 36:42Speaker 7: kind of ooze. Then you have to dispose of that.
- 36:45Speaker 1: I'm glad you're on the right side of the law,
- 36:47Speaker 1: doctor Kendall Crowns. I really am. But guess what, guys,
- 36:50Speaker 1: there's more. Take a listen again to lend Biland at
- 36:54Speaker 1: nine twenty nine am.
- 36:56Speaker 6: What does from Aldeheide do at nine to thirty four one? First,
- 37:01Speaker 6: how long does the DNA list at nine to fifty
- 37:04Speaker 6: nine am. Can identification be made when passion means? At
- 37:09Speaker 6: eleven thirty four AM. Dismendment and the best ways to
- 37:13Speaker 6: dispose of a body at eleven forty four.
- 37:17Speaker 1: How to put blood from wooden.
- 37:18Speaker 6: Flu at eleven fifty six On the first moment, all
- 37:22Speaker 6: to detect.
- 37:22Speaker 3: Blood at one oh eight?
- 37:24Speaker 6: What happens when you put body pots in a moment
- 37:28Speaker 6: at one twenty one pm? Is better than full clime
- 37:30Speaker 6: scene close away or washing them?
- 37:34Speaker 8: Those one the general worst.
- 37:36Speaker 1: Okay, guys, just know that while some of these questions
- 37:39Speaker 1: are so rudimentary, they are cruel and horrible. And three
- 37:47Speaker 1: little boys are left without their mother while this guy
- 37:52Speaker 1: is googling what does for maldehyde do? How long does
- 37:56Speaker 1: DNA last? Can an ID be made on partial remains? Dismemberment?
- 38:01Speaker 1: Best ways to dispose of a body? What happens when
- 38:05Speaker 1: you put body parts in ammonia? Should you throw away
- 38:08Speaker 1: crime scene clothes or wash them? So to doctor Kendel
- 38:12Speaker 1: Crown's lightning round, Doctor Crown's how long does DNA last?
- 38:16Speaker 7: You can find DNA ons on surfaces for years.
- 38:20Speaker 1: What does from aldehyde do?
- 38:22Speaker 7: From aldehyde is a fixative. Also, that's what you use
- 38:26Speaker 7: to kind of pickle the organs to keep them preserved
- 38:31Speaker 7: for a long periods of time.
- 38:32Speaker 1: What happens when you put body parts totnemonia? Doctor Kendl
- 38:35Speaker 1: Crowns That one.
- 38:36Speaker 8: I don't know.
- 38:36Speaker 7: That's a new one to me. As far as I know,
- 38:38Speaker 7: I've stopped.
- 38:40Speaker 1: You're out, No, don't go, I've got more. Oh well,
- 38:43Speaker 1: one more quickie from Lynn blund to listen one can
- 38:47Speaker 1: or three that.
- 38:48Speaker 6: Same day at one o two pm to do some
- 38:50Speaker 6: more Google searches.
- 38:53Speaker 1: What happens to.
- 38:54Speaker 6: Hear when a dead body at one thirteen pm? What
- 38:58Speaker 6: is the rate of decomposition of the body found in
- 39:01Speaker 6: a plastic bag compared to on a service in the
- 39:04Speaker 6: woods at one pm?
- 39:07Speaker 1: In faking soda mask? Or maybe a body smell good?
- 39:12Speaker 1: Ken baking soda make a body a dead body smell good?
- 39:17Speaker 1: These Google searches have led to a bombshell development in
- 39:22Speaker 1: the search for Ana Walch Bob were joining Me Boston
- 39:25Speaker 1: twenty five News and indictment explain.
- 39:28Speaker 8: Who was indicted on three counts. There was murder, misleading investigators,
- 39:32Speaker 8: and improper disposal of a body. So his case is
- 39:36Speaker 8: being moved up from district court to Superior court. Superior
- 39:39Speaker 8: Court has the authority if he is when he has
- 39:43Speaker 8: tried and he's found guilty on first agree murder, to
- 39:47Speaker 8: hold him if he is convicted on first degree murder
- 39:51Speaker 8: for life not for ale, which is the maximum sentence
- 39:54Speaker 8: here in Massachusetts. There is no death penalty in Massachusetts. Natty.
- 39:58Speaker 8: Can I just say one thing about the internet search
- 40:00Speaker 8: and it's one thing that has just absolutely haunted me
- 40:03Speaker 8: when I go back over this timeline and you realize
- 40:07Speaker 8: that there was a New Year's Eve party, that there
- 40:10Speaker 8: were three people at this party. It was Brian Anna,
- 40:13Speaker 8: and they had one guest in the house, and that
- 40:15Speaker 8: guest left the house somewhere between twelve thirty and one
- 40:19Speaker 8: o'clock in the morning. That first search. How long before
- 40:25Speaker 8: a body starts to smell is at four fifty five
- 40:28Speaker 8: am on a wall. She was alive at one o'clock
- 40:31Speaker 8: in the morning, and at four fifty five am she's gone,
- 40:36Speaker 8: and that search is done, and I just think about that,
- 40:39Speaker 8: and I think that she's in the house. They also
- 40:41Speaker 8: found we haven't talked about this in the district court arraignment.
- 40:46Speaker 8: They said that they found blood in the basement and
- 40:49Speaker 8: they found I think it was two bloody knives, one
- 40:53Speaker 8: broken bloody knife in the basement and a heavy smell
- 40:57Speaker 8: of ammonia in the basement of the house. So you know,
- 41:00Speaker 8: I'm picturing in my mind that her body is there
- 41:03Speaker 8: in the basement. He's killed her, and he goes and
- 41:05Speaker 8: he finds his kid's iPad and he's doing these searches
- 41:09Speaker 8: within a couple of hours of his wife being there,
- 41:12Speaker 8: someone that he loved, and this is what he is doing.
- 41:16Speaker 8: I had a story, I broke a story about how
- 41:20Speaker 8: he threatened to kill her back in twenty fourteen. And
- 41:23Speaker 8: here he is in the first day of twenty twenty three,
- 41:26Speaker 8: in the house with her dead body, and this is
- 41:30Speaker 8: she isn't even cold, and he is already coming up
- 41:33Speaker 8: with this plan on what to do with her remains.
- 41:36Speaker 8: You know, the depravity of this case. I've been doing
- 41:38Speaker 8: this for forty years, and the depravity of this case to
- 41:41Speaker 8: me is really just off the charts.
- 41:44Speaker 1: The three children, the three little boys, now no mom
- 41:48Speaker 1: and potentially no dad at home either. Not that it matters,
- 41:54Speaker 1: motive never has to be proven in court, but mom,
- 41:58Speaker 1: why why did he do this?
- 42:00Speaker 8: There's another There's another detail here too, And from talking
- 42:03Speaker 8: to investigators, The New York Post had this, this picture
- 42:07Speaker 8: you all may have seen, and I talked to an
- 42:10Speaker 8: investigator about this. There was a champagne, a box of
- 42:15Speaker 8: champagne from the party that the New York Post got
- 42:18Speaker 8: a picture of. That was that was on the dining
- 42:20Speaker 8: room table. I went knocked on the door. When before
- 42:24Speaker 8: all this blew out, before everything happened, I was trying
- 42:27Speaker 8: to talk to Brian. I didn't you know when she
- 42:29Speaker 8: was missing, and we didn't know what we were getting
- 42:30Speaker 8: ourselves into, really really early on, and I could see
- 42:34Speaker 8: inside and the Christmas tree was still set up and
- 42:36Speaker 8: it was still lit. You could see inside. I didn't
- 42:39Speaker 8: see what I'm about to describe to you because the
- 42:41Speaker 8: police hadn't done their search yet. So they found a
- 42:47Speaker 8: bottle of champagne and that was still in its box,
- 42:50Speaker 8: and the New York Post got a picture of this,
- 42:53Speaker 8: and on the side of the box on a Walsh
- 42:56Speaker 8: had written a note to Brian on New Year's Eve
- 43:01Speaker 8: that said, to Brian, we made it through twenty twenty two.
- 43:04Speaker 8: It was a tough year, but twenty twenty three is
- 43:07Speaker 8: going to be a great year. I love you, Anna,
- 43:10Speaker 8: and it had hearts written on it. And the investigator
- 43:16Speaker 8: that I spoke to said they believed that that was her.
- 43:19Speaker 8: Those are her last words to the world. And when
- 43:23Speaker 8: I look at there's another Internet search here from December
- 43:27Speaker 8: twenty seventh. They did not describe where the Internet search
- 43:32Speaker 8: was found, so they didn't say if it was on
- 43:34Speaker 8: the kids iPad, or it was on a phone or
- 43:36Speaker 8: a computer, but all it said was the best state
- 43:40Speaker 8: for a divorce for a man. So that's from December
- 43:43Speaker 8: twenty seventh, when Honor's still alive, before the New Year's
- 43:46Speaker 8: Eve party. And it makes me wonder if Anna, if this,
- 43:51Speaker 8: whatever happened, whatever happened New Year's Eve, if Anna never
- 43:55Speaker 8: saw this coming, just came out of the blue. I
- 43:58Speaker 8: think because the story that I broke about the threat
- 44:02Speaker 8: that she complained back in twenty fourteen, before they were engaged,
- 44:07Speaker 8: they were just dating. She complained to DC police that
- 44:11Speaker 8: he threatened to kill her in twenty fourteen, I think,
- 44:17Speaker 8: and I know investigators think that this is a domestic
- 44:20Speaker 8: violence case and there's an escalation that started. Then in
- 44:24Speaker 8: twenty eighteen, there's a selfie picture of her where she's
- 44:29Speaker 8: pointing at a bruise on her face and she said
- 44:31Speaker 8: that she walked, she fell at work or something. It's
- 44:35Speaker 8: on one of her Instagram accounts, and I think there
- 44:38Speaker 8: was an escalation of domestic violence. I don't think the
- 44:40Speaker 8: police were ever called, but something happened was going on
- 44:43Speaker 8: behind the scenes, and this is going to be one
- 44:45Speaker 8: of the things that I'm going to be watching for
- 44:48Speaker 8: to try to understand what happened here and how this exploded,
- 44:52Speaker 8: because you don't, you don't get to this kind of
- 44:57Speaker 8: and this hatred to I can understand a moment of
- 45:02Speaker 8: passion and murder, of a moment of anger, but this
- 45:07Speaker 8: dismemberment and this depravity that we see here, and these
- 45:12Speaker 8: messages that are caught on the iPad, and then what
- 45:14Speaker 8: we've been talking about with the disposal of the body,
- 45:18Speaker 8: it's almost too much.
- 45:20Speaker 1: The jury brings down the hammer, finding Brian Walsh guilty
- 45:26Speaker 1: in the murder and dismemberment of his wife, thirty nine
- 45:28Speaker 1: year old Anna Walsh, the mother of their three little boys.
- 45:34Speaker 1: He gets life without parole. Brian Walsh wrought in hell.
- 45:41Speaker 1: Nancy Grace signing off goodbye riand