Court video: Full closing arguments from prosecution in Brian Walshe's murder trial

Anna Walsh is dead. Anna Walsh is dead because he murdered her and he intended her death. Anna Walsh is not missing. She never walked out of her quest at home on January 1st of 2023 between 6:00 and 7 a.m. to take an Uber to Logan airport. She wasn't going to DC for a work emergency. There was no emergency. She didn't say goodbye to her son. That's just a story that the defendant told people. But since January 1st on a wall, she's not been seen by her friends, her co-workers, or by the people who loved her. Anna didn't take a Uber. She didn't take a lift. She hasn't used her phone. Her phone's had no contact with the Verizon network since January 2nd of 2023, but it was in the vicinity of 516 Chief Justice Cushing Highway. J used her bank accounts, her passports, her credit cards, her email didn't banish. The defendant was the only adult [clears throat] Chief Justice Pushing Highway after Jim Loot left around 1:30 a.m. on New Year's Day. After he left, Anna was home alone with the defendant and their three sons, ages two, four, and six. This defendant caused Anna's death. And the evidence does show you that. The evidence shows you that Anna didn't die of natural causes, [clears throat] but that Anna died a violent death in her cohazard home on January 1st. You have the photos of those pieces of rug recovered from the dumpster at the defendant's mother's complex. The rug that had been in the living room. You have the photo of Anna in the living room on top of the rug. The photo shows that there are wood floors in that room. There's blood on that rug. The rug was recovered from the compactor outside of the defendant's mother's apartment and taken to the office of the chief medical examiner for examination. And Dr. Atkinson found a blood clot and a piece of Anna's Gucci necklace embedded in one of the cutout pieces of rug. So look at the piece of metal stamped Gucci. It didn't break on its own. The rest of the necklace is missing. This is the necklace that Will Fowl said that Anna often wore. Look at the slippers from the dumpster. The two pairs of adult slippers. The dark gray slippers have hair and blood clumped to the bottom. And the DNA testing tells you that the slippers had the DNA of Honor Walash and the DNA of the defendant. Then there's the back. And there are two bloody white towels. A towel was tested that had his DNA. Why did the defendant throw those items out? Because they had honest blood on them. And the evidence shows you this. Because the defendant was researching cleaning. How to clean blood from what floors? Does the dishwasher clean blood? Is it possible to clean DNA off night? The defendant still had a cut on his thumb on January 9th, 1923. And on January 1st, before he even went to Lowe's to buy any cutting instruments, an initial stop that he made when he left his house was to go to Walgreens to buy antibiotic ointments and band-aids. Then he went to bin and liquors where the manager identified the defendant and the defendant threw a bag into the dumpster. Door is closed. The parking lot is empty. He's not yet gone to Lowe's. On January 2nd of 2023, the defendant went to HomeGoods because he had to buy a new rug for that living room to cover the hardwood floor. He had he did this days before the forensic scientists got to the house and knew that the rug had been changed. Anna Waltz, dying a sudden death from natural causes defies common sense. She was in great shape. The defendant told police that Anna was a sturdy Serbian woman. Listen carefully to his reported interviews because those are his words after her death. [clears throat] After he killed her. Marki told you that Anna had the highest health rating of the life insurance company. Anna had to complete an interview, have blood drawn, provide her medical records, and the life insurance company and the underwriters gave her this health rating. Anna was an active person who took care of her health. Ashley Samina, her bar instructor, told you about this exercise class that she took the morning of December 31st of 2022. And Anna was the type of person, she said, who made others want to work harder at their exercise class. Will Fastel told you that Anna was very active and did yoga together. Sergeant Amy Waterman described Anna's whole gym in BC. And Dr. Atinson told you about the different ways a person can die. And that is extremely rare for a 39year-old in good health to suddenly die of unknown causes. But without a body, it's not possible for the medical examiner to tell you the exact cause of Honor Walsh's death. No autopsy can be done. The defendant deliberately got rid of Honor Walsh's body. The defendant did not want anyone to find Anna's body and to know how she died. So, the defendant bought cutting tools at Lowe's and Home Depot and he cut up Anna's body, the woman that he claimed to love, and he threw her into dumpsters. He was hiding her body. The defendant intended to kill Anna Walsh. He didn't just want her dead. He needed her dead. This was a marriage in crisis and it was heading towards a breaking point. It began with the defendant's federal case and through the defendant's interview and his federal probation officer, you learned that the defendant was on home confinement. He was going to have to pay over $400,000 in restitution and the case had been pending since 2018. You also learned that the defendant had no assets. He told Jammu that he only made $50 to $60,000 that year, but he had told the police that he had businesses that were not making any money at all yet. Peter Calazolei told you that the defendant's mother had signed the lease for the Cohass home and it was the his mother that was paying his rent. Meanwhile, Anna was beginning to thrive. The marriage was beginning to deteriorate. Anna had her dream job. She had risen to become an executive at Tishman Spire and she was making close to $300,000 a year. She earned a bonus and Terresa Marches said that Anna was a good employee. And the defendant knew this. He bragged her bonus in South. She bought a townhouse and she furnished that townhouse for her family. and she set up bedrooms for each of her three boys. But the reality was her family couldn't join her because the defendant needed the children with him. Being the primary caregiver allowed him to avoid prison. The separation of the defendant and Anna was taking a toll. Anna wanted the children with her and Anna began a relationship with real fast which became more serious. The defendant and Anna were growing apart emotionally and physically. Anna struggled not having her children and not being able to be the mother that she wanted to be. This got worse when Anna took the trip to Serbia to take care of her sick mother. Anna and Will passed out spent the Thanksgiving holiday first in Dublin before Anna went to Serbia. And Anna bought her plane ticket with a credit card that the defendant monitored. And the defendant told police that he monitored their joint Chase Freedom credit card statement. The MacBook history also shows the defendant looking at the Chase account. The defendant knew about Anna's travel because in a reported interview he told the police that she had a layover in Frankfurt and that connection in Frankfurt is on the same credit card statement and you can see that it's right in front of you. The defendant was angry about on a missing Thanksgiving and he mentioned it repeatedly when he spoke to investigators. I I I got angry about um Thanksgiving and then uh you I realized I was just sad that we're not spending a lot of time together and she was sad about it too and it was it was it was exhausting for both of us. It was it was she was away from the boys. I was always dealing with the boys. on a return from Serbia in December, but she only spent one day in Cohasset and she was supposed to come home for Christmas morning, but she missed her early flight and she couldn't get a flight and then she had to drive up. The defendant told police there was an argument. I did have an argument with her uh for the Thanksgiving and the and the um Christmas Eve. So, I wasn't going to make the same mistake three times. So, what did the defendant do on Christmas Day when his wife wasn't home? He looked up Will Faster on his cell phone, the man his wife had just spent the night with. The defendant was losing Anna. Anna was missing her children and wanted to hear them. Anna quickly returned to DC and on December 27th, the defendant was looking up the best strategies to divorce for a man and the DC divorce laws. This was not to protect assets. That wasn't the search. The defendant told the police that everything was in Anna's name. Defendant had nothing about Anna and the kids. And on December 29th, Anna spoke with Jen Lu and told him that she was upset. Upset about the travel. kept being separated from the children, upset about the defendant's federal case. It was ongoing. It was getting to be too much. On December 29th, Anna went out with Elizabeth and she broke down. strong Serbian woman who was supposed to be having a fun night out with a girlfriend going to dance karaoke instead broke down. Anna told Alyssa that she had told the defendant that he needed to take responsibility for the federal case, go to prison. She wanted the children with her in DC and she and the defendant had not been intimate in close to a year. In Anna's mind, the marriage was broken. Anna even questioned if she could just take the children because she had already established a separate household. She said that she was falling out of love with the defendant. And at home in Tolasses, what was the defendant doing? He was looking up the Mazda building and the FBI raid on the cross he built. Looking up something that had happened in the spring of 2022 when Anna first started working for Tishan's fire. Interestingly, this was when the defendant brought up something he brought up in um his interviews when he lied about Anna having to leave early for a work emergency. This planning the work emergency. The defendant was going to lose Anna. And when he lost Anna, he probably lose his freedom. Otto would have a house in DC and a nice job and he would likely go to jail. So the defendant pretended. He lulled Anna into thinking that everything was okay. He joked with her about a Porsche. He didn't want her to realize that he was aware of the relationship with Will or her ability to leave him. wasn't going to let Anna know that she wasn't saved. On December 31st of 2022, the defendant claimed that he could not find his phone. Why is that important? The mislaid phone allowed the defendant to be unavailable for two days. The mislaid phone allowed him to carry out his plan on interrupt. And the mislaid phone allowed him to show the police when he eventually reports Anna as a missing person and not have the police question why he didn't contact Anna earlier. The evidence shows that the defendant was methodical. Just look at how he shopped at Lowe's with a list. He planned it with precision. So Jim Lulu came over for dinner on New Year's Eve and the defendant told Jim that his phone was lost and it was free. Anna was texting throughout the night, including with Will Fast. This is now the third holiday where Anna was concentrating on the other man in her life. When Jen left, Anna was alive. She was with the defendant. the man she was cheating on, the man she was telling to take responsibility for his actions, and the man who had her children. The defendant murdered on that morning in their collap home. And this is what the internet history shows. His internet history written words. He was looking at best way to dispose of a body. Better to throw away crime scene clothes or wash them. Crime scene. Can you be charged with murder without a body? Anna was dead. The defendant killed her and he began to um researching how to get her money, how to inherit her, how to get away with a crime. and he might have gotten away with it. But he didn't know that his MacBook was sinking with his son's iPad, the same Apple ID. His demeanor changed during the interview on January 8th when the police mentioned the searches on the iPad. Not because the iPad involved his children. He had already involved the children in his lives, but because he knew he was caught. We know he had already involved the six-year-old when he had the six-year-old say that he saw his mother when she left the house on the morning of January 1st. The son could not have seen Anna leave the house. The defendant had already killed her. Listen to the reported interviews. During the January 5th interview, the defendant spoke about what his son supposedly had seen. And the defendant involved a four-year-old by saying that the four-year-old hid his hid the defendant's um iPhone 13 mini. So, the defendant's phone made a reservation at Nightshade Noodle Bar for New Year's Day after the defendant told Anna that they were going to have a special party. This is ironic because the defendant was very clear with police on January 7th that he and Anna had no plans for New Year's Day. And the defendant also knew that he would be violating the terms of his federal probation by going to a restaurant on New Year's Day. But let's look closely at exhibit 170 about the nightshade noodle reservation which was on the defendant's iPhone mini 13 which the defense just said was deleted. And if you look on page two on the bottom of one of the bubbles, you will see that the message was deleted on January 1st at 7:59 and 5 seconds. This happens to be one of the times that the iPhone mini 13 was unlocked when it was supposed to be missing. The forensics show that the defendant's phone was unlocked four times and it was plugged in on January 1st. You heard testimony that the phone had a password of 97512. And in the January 4th recorded interview, you hear the oldest child needed help with his I have password, which was one two one two one two. The children didn't unlock the defendant's phone. The defendant blamed his misplaced phone on one of his children when he said that the children hid it. But it makes no sense that a four-year-old somehow unlocked the defendant's phone and deleted that text reminder. Listen to the defendant's recorded interview. The deletion is made when the defendant is supposedly making French toast and playing with the kids. The defendant had access to his phone. Contest. The defendant also had access to two other phones when his phone was supposedly closed. He had it on his phone and he had the iPhone SE. And in the recorded interviews, the defendant told police that on New Year's Eve, Anna had an argument with a friend. And as a result, Anna put her phone upstairs in his bedroom. >> You said she went to put her phone upstairs after that. >> Um after that, uh she um let's say 12 10 or 15 and then she she I remember putting her phone upstairs cuz then she came back down without me. was uh Thomas came down at one point and hung out with either you and >> Yeah, exactly. >> Was this before, during or after Thomas was participating as well? >> Oh, yeah. Thomas went to bed at um like like he went to bed and then he came over at like 9 or 10 or something. I think uh Anna Anna took a bunch of photos. Jim and I don't have any because she she didn't send them to us yet. Uh but I think she sent one to Will Fasto. So that was when um that's when the photo was taken about. So this 10 maybe 10:00 or something like that. >> Okay. >> You know where she put her phone at that point. >> Yeah. On our bed safe. >> That's not what Jim said. Jim said that Anna was using her phone all night. Melissa Kirby texted with Anna. The defendant was telling investigators a story about Anna. How else do we know that the defendant intended to kill Anna and had a plan for doing so? Look at his internet history. Look at what he did. The defendant set up an area in his basement where he surrounded it with plastic sheeting or a tieback suit and dismember with white the love of his life. Axon, the best tool for dismembering a body. Then he got rid of Anna's body. He got rid of her belonging. He got rid of her clothes and a bag that he told police that he that she had, but she supposedly left on January 1st. He threw her in the garbage bags, tossed those garbage bags in different dumpsters, disposing of a body in the trash, Chattam West apartment rental, the Claremont apartment, and please confirm this with the location data from the SE phone and the iPhone 13 mini. The evidence shows that the defendant did this to hide the fact that he murdered Anna. He could not let Anna's body be found because Anna didn't die of natural causes. The defendant murdered Anna and then he had to hide the evidence of his crime. In his mindset, looking at internet history. Want to get away with murder? Use a special detergent. Can you be charged with murder without a body? Best way to dispose of body parts after murder. When you deliberate, look through the binder of the MacBook internet history. There are no searches of natural causes of death, body death, heart attack, aneurysm, stroke, or how to help your children when someone dies unexpectedly or goes missing. The defendant was not sad. Look at his demeanor in the surveillance videos. He's cool and calculating. He's calm. He had plans. On January 1st, he went to the Lowe's store an hour away, even though there were hardware stores approximately a mile from his house. And when he was in Lowe's on January 1st, he wore a mask and he wore gloves and he had a list of what he was shopping for. He was calm as he helped bag with purchases. A hacksaw buckets. He used cash. Does this show confusion, panic, or fear? But it doesn't stop there. He went to CVS to buy hydrogen peroxide. And then he went to Stop and Shop to buy ammonia. No wonder the house was so clean. And on Monday, January 2nd, he went to HomeGoods for rugs and candles. And then he went to Home Depot where he had bought buckets with lids this time, baking soda, and a hatchet. And at some point that day, he got a call from his probation officer and he lied and he said that he was picking up his children. He was able to calmly speak with her. No panic. He had everything now that he needed to dismember the woman that he supposedly loved. and he started to take her body and to throw it into doctors because he had to cover up the crime to get rid of the evidence of the murder. This was not a man in crisis. This was a man who on January 4th went to TJ Maxx to buy pants with a store exchange card. He was Alyssa Kirby texted him on January 4th asking about Anna. And so he called Tishman's fire a few minutes later and started to pretend to look for her. He called Will fast out, but he didn't leave a message. He called back later and then he calmly left a voicemail. No panic. The defendant knew where Anna was. The defendant even texted on his sister in Canada and said that she was missing. He was methodical. Look at the text messages. And at 4:30 p.m. on January 4th, the defendant went to Lowe's to buy a trash can. comfortable, not con. The police were coming to the house soon to talk about honor and the defendant had the house ready. The police think his wife was in DC. He had his phone ready and he sent text messages to honor even though he knew she would never see him. Despite everything that he had done on January 2nd, the defendant wrote a text message to I still love you. Haha, Miss J. The defendant prevented anyone from ever finding Ann's body. There's no autopsy. Dr. Atinson told you that the medical standard prep can do an autopsy about a body and all that remains of Anna are a few pairs, some blood, a few things that belong there. A part of a necklace she often wore, her hunter boots, a black jacket, a purse, her coar, a few other items in the dumpster, his mother's apartment complex. The defendant search is not our murder conviction is out of Please do not allow the defendant's selfserving act of dismembering and disposing of his body to let him get away with this murder. At the start of this trial, we asked you to use your common sense. When you do that, when you analyze the evidence of such deliberate and continue to use your common sense, you will see that the evidence shows there. There is only one verdict. find the defendant is guilty of the premeditated firstdegree murder of Amos.