Prosecutors reveal the 21 Google searches Brian Walshe allegedly made before and after wife vanished

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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“What’s the best state to divorce for a man” and “Can you be charged with murder without a body” were just two of the 21 Google searches prosecutors say Brian Walshe made in the days before and after he allegedly killed his wife. Walshe is charged with murder and disinterring a body without authority in addition to a previous charge of misleading investigators who were looking into his wife’s disappearance. Criminal defense attorney Mark O’Mara joins AC360 to discuss if he agrees with Walshe’s attorney who said the prosecution’s case isn’t strong.

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0:00.0	Good evening on a day that Brian Walsh was arraigned in the disappearance of his wife Anna.
0:05.1	We learned in horrifying to tell what prosecutors say he did to her and the online research
0:09.9	they say he did on how.
0:11.8	This includes in the space of less than one hour, searches for, quote, how to stop a body
0:16.5	from decomposing, how to bomb a body, and 10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really
0:21.9	need to.
0:23.2	Anna Walsh is the mother of their three young children.
0:25.9	She's been missing since the new year.
0:27.4	From today in a Quincy, Massachusetts courtroom, prosecutors laid out what they believe her
0:31.5	husband did to her.
0:32.5	She didn't chase and Carol now joins us with the latest.
0:34.9	So talk about the arrangement that the prosecutor provided any explanation or motive.
0:39.1	Well, Anderson, you talked about some of those searches there.
0:43.5	And if you're talking about motive, I would direct you to some of those searches, too,
0:47.6	in particular, that Walsh allegedly made.
0:50.6	One had to do with divorcing.
0:52.9	What's the best state for a man to get a divorce?
0:54.8	He searched about that.
0:55.8	The other was about inheritance.
0:59.1	And when is the best time in order to get an inheritance after someone has disappeared?
1:07.7	Rather than divorce, it is believed that Ryan Walsh dismembered.
1:11.1	Anna Walsh was scattered her body.
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