- Prosecutors say Brian Walshe made Google searches about dead bodies after his wife was last seen.
- The searches were made on his son's iPad, prosecutors say.
- Brian Walshe has been charged with murder in connection to his missing wife, Ana Walshe.
Brian Walshe Googled "can baking soda make a body smell good" and "can you identify a body with broken teeth" in the days after his wife was last seen on January 1, prosecutors alleged in a Quincy, Massachusetts, courthouse Wednesday morning.
The 47-year-old has been charged with murder in connection to his missing wife, Ana Walshe, 39, who was last seen on January 1 and reported missing by her job on January 4.
While Ana's body has still not been found, prosecutors reeled off a long list of information to a judge on Wednesday that leads them to believe Brian "dismembered and discarded her body."
Prosecutors said that starting January 1, Walshe made at least 20 Google searches, inquiring about dead bodies and how to dispose of them. According to prosecutors, the searches were made on his son's iPad from January 1 to January 3.
Prosecutors said searches included "10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to," "how to clean blood from wooden floor," "what is the rate of decomposition of a body in a plastic bag compared to on a surface in the woods," and "can you be charged with murder without a body."
Prosecutors said Brian Walshe didn't formally report his wife missing until police showed up at the family's rented home in Cohasset on January 4 to conduct a welfare check, after her Washington, DC-based employer said she didn't show up for work.
At the time, police observed a Volvo in the driveway, with the seats down in the back, covered in a plastic liner.
Walshe told investigators that he last saw his wife the morning of January 1, when she took an Uber or a Lyft to the airport to travel to DC for work. But prosecutors said no Ubers or Lyfts came to the house in the time frame Walshe mentioned.
Prosecutors also detailed Walshe's movements in the days after New Year's Day, when he visited several stores to buy cleaning supplies, rugs, and towels.
Prosecutors said Walshe was observed on surveillance footage disposing of trash bags at his mother's apartment complex and at another apartment complex in Abbington.
While the trash at the later was incinerated by the time police could search it, they found several bloodied items in trash bags recovered from Walshe's mother's apartment complex, prosecutors said. Some of the items were also tested and found to contain both Brian and Ana Walshe's DNA, prosecutors said.
Walshe was already in police custody when they issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday, accusing him of killing Ana Walshe. Walshe was previously arrested on January 8 on a charge of misleading police.
After his second arraignment on Wednesday, the judge ordered Walshe held without bail.
