ACCUSED KILLER HUSBAND BRIAN WALSHE 'SHANKED' BEHIND BARS
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Cohasset man Brian Walshe has been indicted for the murder of his wife, Ana Walshe, who vanished in January 2023, after a New Year's Eve party.
Prosecutors say the 48-year-old husband dismembered Ana Walshe and discarded her body in multiple trash cans in the area. Police have recovered blood-stained items from the home, including a hacksaw.
Walshe has pleaded 'not guilty' to first-degree murder. As he awaits his trial at the Norfolk County jail in Dedham, we learn Walshe was stabbed behind bars. He was taken to a Boston hospital to be treated for his injuries and released later that night.
According to the Norfolk County Sheriff's office, he was assaulted with a "makeshift blunt instrument." The attack was recorded on jailhouse video.
Walshe's next competency hearing is set for November 14. Jury selection is set to begin November 18.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.5 | Anna Walsh, the working mom of beautiful little boys suddenly just disappears. |
| 0:18.6 | Her husband says she's on the way to the airport, but she didn't have a flight. |
| 0:23.3 | She never made it to the airport, and she never ordered a car. So where's Anna? Well, |
| 0:30.9 | according to prosecutors, she's dead and dismembered because of husband Brian Walsh, a convicted art thief, a conman. And now, |
| 0:44.3 | Brian Walsh, according to the state, has gotten a taste of his own medicine. He was stabbed |
| 0:51.6 | behind bars. but he lived. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:56.9 | This is crime stories. |
| 0:58.1 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:59.8 | That's right. |
| 1:01.2 | Just before his murder trial and his wife's disappearance, |
| 1:05.6 | Brian Walsh is stabbed behind bars in Massachusetts. |
| 1:09.5 | He was assaulted a few Thursday nights ago at the Norfolk County Jail in Dedham. |
| 1:16.5 | He was taken to a Boston hospital to be treated and was released. |
| 1:23.0 | Okay, so you're not getting out of trial. |
| 1:26.7 | Can we talk about why? |
| 1:29.1 | This is what the state says Brian Walsh did to his wife, Anna, the mother of their little |
| 1:36.1 | boys. |
| 1:37.3 | New tonight, police are asking the public to help them find a Cohasset, Massachusetts |
| 1:40.9 | mother of three, who vanished without a trace on New Year's Day. |
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