Who is Brian Walshe, husband of missing Cohasset woman Ana Walshe?

COHASSET, Mass. – Missing mother Ana Walshe disappeared on New Year’s Day – and now her husband, Brian, has been charged with misleading investigators who were investigating the case.

Prosecutors revealed at the 47-year-old’s trial Monday that blood and a damaged knife were found in the basement of the family’s Cohasset home.

After Ana Walshe, 39, failed to show up for work as a regional manager at real estate firm Tishman Speyer on Jan. 4, the company notified police, prosecutors said.

Here’s what we know about Brian Walshe:

HE MISSED ANA WALSHE: ROMANCE WITH BRIAN WALSHE WAS ‘LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT’

Ana Walshe disappeared on New Year’s Day and her husband, Brian Walshe, was arrested on January 8, 2023, for misleading investigators. (Ana Walshe/Facebook/Ana Walshe/Instagram)

What does Brian Walshe do for a living?

Brian Walshe was under house arrest awaiting sentencing for selling fake Andy Warhol paintings when his wife disappeared.

On Walshe’s LinkedIn profile, he lists three jobs — including chief financial officer of LETS: Leadership and Effective Teamwork Strategies and Equity Consulting. Neither purported company appears to have a website.

Brian and Ana Walshe seen in September 2016. (Ana Walshe/Facebook)

Court documents in his federal art fraud case say he graduated from boarding school and attended Carnegie Mellon University, but did not graduate.

TIMELINE OF ANA WALSHE’S DISAPPEARANCE AND BRIAN WALSHE’S ARREST

Marriage

Brian Walshe married Anna on December 21, 2015, in a church in Boston in front of several dozen family members and friends, according to a witness.

The pair met in 2008, and Ana described their chemistry as “love at first sight,” in federal court documents.

Brian and Ana Walshe raise a toast on their wedding day in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday, December 21, 2015. (Fox News Digital)

The couple went on to have three sons who are now aged 2, 4 and 6 and Ana Walshe described her husband as a loving father.

Is Brian Walshe a sociopath?

Friends of Walshe’s late neurologist father, Dr. Thomas Morecroft Walshe, described his son as a troubled sociopath in statements made at Plymouth Probate Court.

Jeffrey Ornstein said the venerable doctor confided in him that his son had been a long-term patient at the Austen Riggs Center psychiatric hospital, where he had been “diagnosed as a sociopath.”

ANNA WALSHE’S HUSBAND BRIAN WALSHE IS A ‘SOCIOPAT’ AND ‘PHYSICALLY ABUSIVE:’

Ana and Brian Walshe blow out candles on a birthday cake with their children in an April 2020 Instagram post. (Ana Walshe/Instagram)

Dr. Fred Pescatore, another close friend of the elder Walshe, described his son as a “sociopath” who was also a “very angry and physically violent person”.

In 2014, Ana Walshe called 911 to her soon-to-be husband and reported that he had threatened to kill her and her friends. The case was closed after she refused to cooperate with prosecutors.

The Andy Warhol hoax

Brian Walshe pleaded guilty in April 2021 to selling fake 1978 Andy Warhol paintings to an art dealer in California and a buyer in France.

He had stolen the originals from a college friend and then made prints of them that he tried to pass off as authentic.

Andy Warhols fake that Brian Walshe allegedly sold to an art dealer in California. (Department of Justice)

A Boston judge nearly sentenced him to prison for brazen art fraud until it emerged he may have embezzled money from his late father’s estate.

Father’s Will: “My best wishes, but nothing else”

After allegedly destroying a signed will that left him “my best wishes but nothing else”, Brian Walshe had quietly appointed himself representative of his father’s estate and sold his belongings, according to court documents.

He allegedly ended up with more than $100,000 from his father’s bank accounts and raised additional cash by selling valuable household items, including paintings by Joan Miro and Salvador Dali, oriental rugs and even a car.

A copy of the will was produced and Brian Walshe was removed as executor before selling his father’s real estate.

Walshe allegedly stole $1 million from his father more than a decade before his death in 2018, which led to their estrangement, according to court filings.

Brian’s story doesn’t add up: state prosecutors

Brian Walshe was arraigned Monday in Quincy District Court for misleading investigators about his whereabouts after his wife’s disappearance and ordered held on $500,000 bail.

Brian Walshe arrives in Quincy District Court in Massachusetts on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, for his arraignment on one count of lying to investigators. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)

He allegedly told police his wife had an urgent business meeting in Washington, D.C., and left their Cohasset home on an early New Year’s Day trip to catch a flight.

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But prosecutors said there was no record of her getting a ride, and her cellphone fell twice from a tower near their home on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2 after he said she was leaving for the airport.

He claimed to have run errands for his mother at Whole Foods and CVS the next day — but police said he did not appear on any surveillance video at the stores.

Ana Walshe holds her three children in an October 2022 Instagram post. (Ana Walshe/Instagram)

Brian Walshe failed to mention to investigators that he drove to Home Depot on Jan. 2 and paid $450 in cash for cleaning supplies. The trip was in violation of the terms of house arrest, according to police.

CNN reported that Brian Walshe had conducted Internet research on how to dispose of a 115-pound woman and how to dismember a body, citing law enforcement sources.

High powered lawyer

Brian Walshe has retained attorney Tracey Miner to represent him in the latest charge of fraudulent investigators.

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Miner, a prominent Boston attorney, also represented Gordon “Gordie” Ernst in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal and a former FBI agent who was convicted of aiding crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger .

She did not immediately return a request for comment.

Rebecca Rosenberg is a veteran journalist and author focusing on crime and criminal justice. Email tips to [email protected] and @ReRosenberg.