Brian Walshe’s Secret Searches Exposed — The Psychology Unraveled-WEEK IN REVIEW
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🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In court, jurors learned that Brian Walshe allegedly searched “Ana Walshe found dead” on Christmas Day 2022 — a full week before his defense claims Ana died suddenly and unexpectedly in their bed. Prosecutors also introduced testimony from Ana’s boyfriend, William Fastow, who revealed a relationship built on plans, long-term goals, and a future without Brian. Surveillance footage and cell-tower data added even more pressure, placing Brian near dumpsters across multiple apartment complexes in the days after Ana vanished.
But the evidence only tells half the story.
Shavaun Scott walks us through the psychology underneath it all: the shifting stories, the image-management, the sudden claims that “no one would believe” the truth, and the digital trail investigators say points to preoccupation — not panic. She explains why certain explanations fit a familiar behavioral pattern, and how someone can publicly perform calm normalcy while privately unraveling.
This episode connects the emotional framework, the alleged deception, and the forensic timeline into one picture: not speculation, but applied psychological analysis paired with courtroom testimony. If you’re trying to understand the gap between what’s being said and what’s being shown, this conversation lays it out plainly.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the big breakdown. |
| 0:02.2 | A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden |
| 0:05.9 | Killers podcast and True Crime Today. |
| 0:09.2 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:17.4 | We're talking with Chivon Scott Psychotherapist and author about the Brian Walsh murder case, |
| 0:23.4 | the disappearance and the death of Anna Walsh, the bizarre Google search histories, |
| 0:30.3 | the just utterly bizarre behavior and utterly insane explanation that he simply panicked. And that's why his wife was chopped up into a thousand |
| 0:42.3 | pieces. And that's why he made these searches. It's all innocent. It's all, it's all normal. |
| 0:47.2 | You can leave your comments in the comment section on YouTube as we continue to break through |
| 0:52.3 | this. Prosecutors revealed those Google searches, |
| 0:54.8 | including how long before a body starts to smell? |
| 0:57.6 | Can you be charged with murder without a body? |
| 1:00.4 | The search about teeth, about can you identify a body without teeth for dental records? |
| 1:07.4 | So many of these made New Year's Day. |
| 1:14.1 | What does this tell us about the kind of calculated research that he was doing and the mind behind it in terms of premeditation? Because we don't see, |
| 1:22.0 | and this is part of what the defense is arguing, is that, see, he wasn't searching about murder before she died he |
| 1:29.5 | was just searching about best places to get divorced and and things like that and if you're concerned |
| 1:35.2 | about that that's a logical search it really is the murder the disposing of body parts the |
| 1:42.5 | seemingly clueless uh look into what to do with the body, |
| 1:47.3 | like searching if you can embalm someone in your house within three hours of her death. |
| 1:54.0 | I mean, it just seems, it seems insane. |
| 1:58.1 | It also seems clueless and to have no idea, almost as if someone was met with a very sudden shock of you're in this situation. |
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