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The FOX True Crime Podcast

Brian Walshe Trial Begins: Internet Searches Take Center Stage

The FOX True Crime Podcast

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True Crime

4.7 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The murder trial of Brian Walshe - the man who's been accused of killing, dismembering, and hiding the body of his wife - began earlier this week. Prosecutors focused on Walshe's alleged internet search history, which included entries inquiring about getting away with murder. Walshe has pleaded guilty to the two lesser charges against him, but maintains he did not murder his wife. Former NYPD Inspector, FOX News Contributor, and Co-host of The Weekly Rap Sheet, Paul Mauro, provides his legal analysis of the trial thus far. Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno If you have a story or topic we should feature on the FOX True Crime Podcast, send us an email at: truecrimepodcast@fox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Chandley Painter and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

0:11.6

The murder trial of Brian Walsh began earlier this week with shocking online search history entries taking center stage.

0:20.2

The 50-year-old Walsh is accused of killing his wife,

0:23.1

Anna, dismembering and hiding her body in 2023. Massachusetts State Trooper and Digital Forensic

0:30.5

Expert Nicholas Guarino took the stand, providing his analysis of Walsh's alleged Google search

0:36.5

history, which included the phrase,

0:39.1

Best Way to Dispose of Body Parts After Murder. Walsh has pleaded guilty to two of the three

0:46.3

charges against him, misleading police and unlawful conveyance of human remains. However, he still

0:52.8

maintains his innocence for the charge of first-degree

0:55.3

murder. Former NYPD inspector, attorney, and Fox News contributor, Paul Morrow, has covered the case

1:02.5

on his new Fox Nation show, The Weekly RAP sheet. He joins me now with his legal analysis.

1:14.0

Paul, how do you think the trial is going so far?

1:19.1

Well, if you're the prosecution, this is one of those ones where it almost can't go badly because the facts are so compelling. I mean, the only thing they're missing here, obviously,

1:23.0

is a body. But what people labor under the delusion of is that you absolutely have to have a body

1:29.3

for a murder conviction there are at this point it was a relatively new thing at one point but

1:33.8

at this point there are a legion of cases some of them high profile where you got a conviction

1:38.3

without a body and clearly it's one of the things that was on walsh's mind because Walsh himself Googled, according to the reporting, do you get convicted of murder without having a body or words to that effect?

1:53.3

So I would argue that at this point, it's a case that the prosecution realistically just has to be careful not to botch up, not to make an

2:04.8

unforced error. Let the evidence speak for itself because unless the jury is really credulous,

2:12.6

it seems like according to opening statements that Walsh is going to go with a defense of some sort

2:18.5

of sudden death that occurred to her that is undetermined and that he couldn't determine.

2:24.3

Of course, we can't determine it.

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