Brian Walshe is escorted into the courtroom for his murder trial on Wednesday in Dedham, Massachusetts. Mark Stockwell/The Boston Herald/AP

Gem Mutlu paused to gather himself as he described Ana Walshe running from her Massachusetts home into the cold night to greet him before he could even park his car.

They embraced. It was New Year’s Eve 2022, and Mutlu had been invited to celebrate with Ana and her husband, he said Wednesday, growing visibly emotional as he testified in Brian Walshe’s murder trial about the last time he saw Ana alive.

A few days later, around mid-morning on January 4, 2023, Mutlu was walking on the beach when Brian Walshe called to ask if he had heard from Ana, he said.

“His tone was not panicked,” Mutlu said in court Wednesday, remembering Walshe told him Ana

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