Hello and welcome to another episode of Just Melissa.

And today we're talking about the trial of Brian Walsh, the first week.

A case that began on New Year's Day has now taken center stage in a Massachusetts

courtroom, a mother missing, a husband with too many answers, and later not enough.

A coastal town shaken awake by one question, where is Anna Walsh? I'm going to peel back the layers of a marriage

under strain, secret searches in the middle of the night, and a digital trail prosecutors claim

paints a picture of murder. And now, nearly three years later, 16 jurors sit silently, listening to evidence

that is shocking, meticulous, and at times chilling. From the frantic first search to the

Google queries prosecutors say are as damning as fingerprints,

to the explosive shift in court when the accused husband suddenly said two small words,

I plead.

This is the trial of Brian Walsh.

Anna Walsh, a 39-year-old mother of three, and a rising corporate executive, vanished in the early

morning hours of January 1st, 2003. Her husband, Brian Walsh, told police she left for a work emergency.

There was a flight, a driver, a business trip.

But investigators say none of that was true.

What they found instead was a trail of inconsistencies.

A last cell phone peeing near the house.

A husband on surveillance video at stores buying cleaning supplies.

Trash bags deposited at multiple transfer stations,

and later recovered items that prosecutors say were stained with Anna's DNA. But the most haunting detail? Searches, dozens of them. Investigators say Brian typed into his son's iPad and his own

phone. Searches that, according to prosecutors, reveal a plan. Brian was eventually charged with first

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