Blood on the Hacksaw, Nothing in the Bedroom: The Forensic Problem Brian Walshe Can't Explain

Day 6 of the Brian Walshe murder trial gave jurors something they won't forget — surveillance footage of a masked man in blue latex gloves pushing a cart through a Lowe's on New Year's Day 2023. Inside that cart: a hacksaw, a hatchet, a utility knife, a Tyvek suit, mops, buckets, and cleaning supplies. The total was $463.23. He paid cash.

Hours later, prosecutors say Walshe drove to a liquor store in Swampscott — a place where he was a regular, a place that was closed for the holiday — and tossed a trash bag into the dumpster behind the building. Police recovered that bag. Inside they found carpet fragments with blood clots, human hair, and a piece of Gucci jewelry with the brand name engraved on it. Ana Walshe owned Gucci jewelry.

Crime lab specialist Matthew Sheehan walked the jury through the blood evidence. The hacksaw tested positive. The hatchet tested positive — and carried a greasy residue consistent with cutting into human tissue. The hammer, the tin snips, towels, slippers, carpet pieces — all positive. A kitchen knife hidden above the refrigerator in the Walshe home came back positive for blood.

But here's where the defense runs into trouble. The bedroom — where Brian Walshe's lawyers claim Ana died suddenly of natural causes — was forensically clean. No biological evidence on the floor, even after investigators dug up a section of it. No blood in the bathrooms. No blood on the stairs. But the basement floor? Covered in blood stains, right next to a pile of black trash bags.

The state medical examiner testified that sudden unexpected death in a healthy 39-year-old woman is "pretty rare" and put sudden arrhythmia "at the very bottom of the list" of explanations. He couldn't determine cause of death because there's no body. Brian Walshe already pleaded guilty to disposing of his wife's remains.

The prosecution is a third of the way through their case, and the picture is getting clearer by the day.


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