Ana Walshe disappearance: Final note missing mother wrote to husband hours before vanishing revealed
Rachel Schilke
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Ana Walshe left her husband a note reflecting on the new year just hours before she disappeared, according to a report.
The missing Massachusetts mother and wife, 39, of Cohasset was last seen on Jan. 1 in the early morning. Her husband, Brian Walshe, was arrested on Sunday for misleading police after giving conflicting statements on both his and Ana’s whereabouts.
A note obtained by the New York Post from Ana Walshe to Brian Walshe shows the wife toasting to 2022 and looking forward to 2023, allegedly written hours before she vanished.
“Wow! 2022 … What a year! And yet, we are still here and together! Let’s make 2023 the best one yet! We are the authors of our lives … courage, love, perseverance, compassion, and joy. Love, Ana,” the message states, which was written on the side of a Lanson Noble Cuvee champagne box.
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On the other side of the box, another note, allegedly from Ana Walshe, says, “Gem Ana Brian 2023!” Family friend Gem Mutlu told WBZ-TV that nothing seemed off at the New Year’s party.
“We hugged and celebrated and we toasted, just what you do over New Year’s,” Mutlu said. “There was a lot of looking forward to the New Year. There was no indication of anything other than celebrating the New Year, problems on hold.”
Other family friends, Mike and Mandi Silva, said Ana Walshe had told them she had a “big surprise” for the New Year and was rushing to get rid of her assets, such as a car and her apartment.
Mandi Silva said she received a text message from Brian Walshe on Jan. 2, a day after his wife was missing, but there was no mention of Ana Walshe.
“Nothing is adding up,” Mandi Silva said.
Police said that evidence obtained from the Walshes’ home, a transfer station, and surveillance cameras have shifted their focus from a missing person search to the possibility that Ana Walshe was killed.
Investigators found blood remnants and a bloody knife at the Walshes’ home, and a hacksaw, hatchet, rug, and cleaning supplies were found in a transfer station’s trash compactor 15 minutes from Brian Walshe’s mother’s home.
In the days following his wife’s disappearance, he was seen buying $450 worth of cleaning supplies, and internet records show he searched “how to dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body” and information on dismemberment.
Brian Walshe lied consistently about where he was going and when he had last heard from Ana Walshe, investigators determined after Ana Walshe’s employees in Washington, D.C., alerted police on Jan. 4 that she had not been showing up to work.
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Officers ultimately determined that Brian Walshe’s misleading statements had affected their missing person search and arrested him on one count of intimidation of a witness. A judge set his bail at $500,000 cash at the request of the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office.
Friends and family are set to gather for a vigil on Thursday at 4:30 p.m., hosted by Cohasset churches, according to local news radio WBZ.