Opening statements in the murder trial of a convicted fraudster accused of killing his wife and dismembering her body are scheduled to begin Monday in a Massachusetts courtroom.

Brian Walshe, 50, pleaded guilty in mid-November to two lesser charges linked to the 2023 disappearance and death of Ana Walshe, 39 — misleading a police investigation and improper conveyance of a body.

The trial, in Norfolk County Superior Court, is expected to last two to three weeks.

Prosecutors have alleged that Walshe was motivated by money — he was the sole beneficiary of his wife’s $2.7 million life insurance policy — and that he believed she was having an affair when she disappeared on New Year's Day nearly three years ago. Her body has never been found.

An attorney for Brian Walshe has deni

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