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Ana Walshe was reported missing from her Massachusetts home on January 4.
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On Tuesday, her husband Brian was charged with murder in connection with her disappearance.
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Brian Walshe will be arraigned in Quincy Court on charges of murder.
Brian Walshe, the husband of missing Massachusetts mother-of-three Ana Walshe, has been charged with murder, Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey announced Tuesday.
Morrissey didn’t say whether Ana’s body was discovered.
Ana Walshe, 39, was originally reported missing by her employer, Washington, DC real estate firm Tishman Speyer, on Jan. 4 when she failed to show up for work.
According to investigators, her husband said he had not seen Ana since New Year’s Day, when she reportedly left the family home in Cohasset to go to the airport to go to DC.
However, prosecutors said Ana’s cell phone was last pinged near the couple’s home on Jan. 2.
Brian Walshe, 47, was initially arrested on January 8 after prosecutors accused him of misleading investigators. Walshe pleaded not guilty to the charge and was sentenced to $500,000 bail.
Investigators found Brian’s Internet searches, including “how to dispose of the body of a 115-pound woman,” law enforcement sources told CNN.
Walshe was already awaiting conviction in a federal case for selling counterfeit Andy Warhol art. He was supposed to report his movements to police, but was caught violating his probation terms in the span of his wife’s disappearance, according to WCVB.
While Walshe said he only left the house on Jan. 2 to take his son to get ice cream, prosecutors learned he also went to a Home Depot where he bought $450 worth of cleaning supplies, including mops, tarps, drop cloths and adhesive tape.
According to a police report obtained by WCVB, the trip to Home Depot was a violation of his probation terms and during the time he was allotted to pick up his children from school.
According to NBC Boston, the items Walshe purchased at Home Depot match some of the bloody items found during a search of a garbage facility in Peabody. Blood and a bloody knife were also found in the basement of the couple’s home, prosecutors said
In the days since Walshe was arrested, reporters uncovered an August 2014 police report in which Ana reported to D.C.’s Metropolitan Police that Brian had threatened to kill her and a friend. Police told WCVB the case was closed when Ana later refused to cooperate with the investigation.
She married Brian the following year.
Walshe will be charged with murder in Quincy court on Tuesday.
The Department of Children and Families has taken custody of the couple’s three sons – ages 2, 4 and 6.
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