COHASSET, Mass. —

Before he was a murder suspect on trial for killing and dismembering his wife, Ana Walshe, Brian Walshe was behind an international art fraud scheme, accused of orchestrating a complicated probate fraud case involving his estranged father's estate and, according to a family friend, a sociopath.

"He was very calculated, almost genius about how he went about things," said Ron Rivlin, one of Walshe's fraud victims, in an interview shortly after his arrest.

Rivlin is the owner of Revolver Gallery in Beverly Hills, the largest Warhol gallery in the world. Despite his experience, Walshe sold him two fake Warhol paintings in 2016.

Walshe pleaded guilty in 2021 in federal court in Boston to defrauding a total of three victims in the Warhol scheme.

The art fraud case is just

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