I-Team: Evidence connected to Ana Walshe case found at Peabody trash facility
PEABODY- Investigators searching through trash at a transfer station in Peabody Monday found evidence connected to the disappearance of Ana Walshe, sources told the WBZ-TV I-Team. The Cohasset mother has been missing since New Year's Day.
Video from SkyEye showed investigators wearing protective suits and police officers with dogs at the facility on Newbury Street in Peabody.
Police said Brian Walshe, Ana's husband, is charged with misleading investigators. Sources told the I-Team a search warrant was executed at their Cohasset home. A bloody knife that was found is being tested at the state lab for DNA.
It is unclear what evidence was found on Monday in Peabody. Walshe had told investigators he visited his mother's house in nearby Swampscott on New Year's Day, but got lost.
Brian Walshe was also seen buying cleaning products in the days after Ana went missing, prosecutors said. Sources tell the I-Team there is evidence a car that was impounded was recently cleaned.
Investigators have been working to retrace Brian Walshe's steps using surveillance cameras, cell phone towers and the radio frequency bracelet he is wearing as a result of a federal case, where he is charged with selling fake Andy Warhol paintings. The bracelet only alerts authorities when he leaves his home.
A judge ordered Brian Walshe held on $500,000 cash bail Monday after he was arraigned in Quincy District Court.
