Former resident charged with murdering wife

BY LEIGH BLANDER

Brian Walshe, who lived with his wife, Ana, and their children in Marblehead recently, has been charged with her murder.

Ana Walshe was last seen in her Cohasset home on New Year’s Day. The case has rivoted the region and the nation.

Walshe was arraigned on a murder charge on Jan. 18. He is being held without bail.

The Walshes lived in Marblehead a couple of years ago. Their neighbor Judith Doane is heartbroken by the case.

“I’m beside myself. It’s a very scary situation,” said Doane, who sold the home at 6 Edgewood Road to Ana Walshe in 2018 and lived nearby. Walshe and her family moved to Cohasset in 2020.

“It’s all creepy,” Doane told the Marblehead Current. “My concern is for the boys.” The Walshes have three young sons.

Doane remembers Ana as always looking her best. “She is absolutely beautiful, always decked out,” Doane said. “I never saw her in sweatpants or a sweatshirt.”

Doane kept in touch with Ana Walshe after she moved away. “We were going to visit them this year.”

She last heard from Ana the day after Christmas. “In her last text, she said that we were the best neighbors she ever had. She sent us a video of the boys with the Christmas presents we sent to them.” blood.”

Doane remembers Brian Walshe playing with his sons outside their Edgewood Road home.

“He was outside with the kids all the time,” she said.

She looks forward to her service to the housing authority. She said she would be listening out of the gate.

“You have to get the lay of the land a little bit,” she said. “You never go in gangbusters when what’s going on.”