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- Published: Dec. 18, 2025, 10:00 a.m.
Brian Walshe, center, stands with his lawyers Kelli Porges and Larry Tipton as they listen to the jury announce they have found Walshe guilty of first-degree murder for killing his wife, Ana, in 2023. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)AP
Brian Walshe received the maximum possible sentence for the killing of his wife, Ana, in early 2023, then lying to police investigating her disappearance and disposing of her body.
Judge Diane Freniere sentenced Walshe to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder — the mandatory sentence. But she also sentenced Walshe to 19 to 20 years in prison for lying to police and two-and-a-half to three years for disposing of his wife’s body.
The sentences on the lesser counts will run consecutively to the murder charge, and concurrently to Walshe’s roughly three-year federal sentence for selling forged Andy Warhol paintings.
Walshe was convicted on Monday morning of first-degree murder for the killing of his wife after a two-week trial and about five hours of jury deliberations.
Before handing down the sentence, Freniere heard a victim impact statement from Ana Walshe’s sister. She also considered statements submitted by Ana Walshe’s friends, and by the Department of Children and Families on behalf of her three children.
Charlie McKenna is a reporter on the public safety team at MassLive. Based in Boston, he covers the entire state. Before joining MassLive, McKenna worked for The Daily Item, where he covered Saugus, and on The… more
