In police interview, Brian Walshe struggled to explain disturbing Google searches

In police interview, Brian Walshe struggled to explain disturbing Google searches

By Charlie McKenna | cmckenna@masslive.com
Publication Date: 2025-12-02 16:31:00

On the morning of Jan. 8, 2023, Brian Walshe spoke to police for the second time in two days.

It was during that interview, at least the third time Walshe had spoken to police after his wife, Ana, was reported missing days earlier, that investigators confronted him with grisly Google searches found on his son’s iPad. The device, police told Brian Walshe, searched for “best ways to dispose of a body” around 4:54 a.m. on the morning of Jan. 1, 2023.

Brian Walshe told police he last saw his wife around 6 a.m. on the 1st.

“So how do you explain at about 4:54 in the morning the iPad mini is querying, ‘best ways to dispose of a human body,’” Cohasset Police Sgt. Harrison Schmidt asked Walshe.

“I don’t, I have no idea,” Walshe responded. “I don’t use that iPad, so that’s really weird.”

An audio recording of the interview was played Tuesday morning on the second day of Walshe’s murder trial. He is accused of killing his wife in the early morning hours of Jan. 1,…