NEW YORK — (NEW YORK) -- Massachusetts man Brian Walshe appeared in court this week on charges he allegedly killed and dismembered his missing wife, Ana Walshe. The case echoes other high-profile cases in recent years involving husbands allegedly killing their wives.
Prosecutors accused Walshe of making incriminating Google searches including"10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to" and"can you be charged with murder without a body."Walshe has pleaded not guilty to murder and improper transport of a body.
As for the premeditated homicides, motives are often jealousy or greed. For example, they may"become enraged because their wives have become so successful," Garrett said. "If possession and control is one of your triggers," he said, during a divorce"you see even more things disappearing and you have even less control over what happens."When it comes to domestic homicide offenders' personalities, they are usually narcissistic and anti-social, according to Garrett.
Walshe's defense attorney, Tracy Miner, told ABC News in a statement Friday:"It is easy to charge a crime and even easier to say a person committed that crime. It is a much more difficult thing to prove it, which we will see if the prosecution can do. I am not going to comment on the evidence, first because I am going to try this case in the court and not in the media. Second, because I haven’t been provided with any evidence by the prosecution.
But psychological reasons behind a domestic homicide are still complex, Garrett noted, stressing that mental health and drug use can be factors.After a nationwide search for missing travel blogger Gabby Petito in 2021, her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, admitted in a notebook that he killed her. Domestic violence overall is"unbelievably underreported," Garrett noted."The person being abused has to figure out a way to report what's going on."
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