On Monday, opening statements will take place in the murder trial of Brian Walshe — a case that has drawn national attention since his wife, Ana, vanished nearly three years ago.

Prosecutors accuse Walshe of killing her on New Year’s Day 2023, dismembering her body, and discarding her remains in dumpsters across the region, including one near his mother’s home. Investigators never recovered her body.

In the days after Ana’s disappearance, prosecutors say Walshe repeatedly misled police as searches stretched from the couple’s Cohasset neighborhood to Washington, D.C., where Ana worked.

On Nov. 18 of this year, just before jury selection began, Walshe pleaded guilty to two charges — misleading police and improperly removing or concealing a body. He still faces a first-degree murder ch

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