The final witness to see Ana Walshe alive emotionally recounted her closing night time — a New 12 months’s Eve celebration on the Massachusetts residence she shared together with her husband Brian Walshe – who’s on trial for her homicide.
He additionally recounted Brian Walshe’s cold-blooded response when he known as and revealed Ana was lacking.
Gem Mutlu stated Ana – a 39-year-old mom of three – requested him to come back to her and Walshe’s Cohasset, Massachusetts residence on Dec. 31, 2022.
“Ana got here operating out of the home to greet me,” Mutlu stated, earlier than pausing to carry again tears. “She got here operating out of the home with no coat on. It was freezing.”
“I opened the door, we hugged one another and she or he ushered me in.”
Mutlu arrived round 8:30 p.m. and stayed till roughly 1:30 a.m. because the three loved champagne and wine.
The trio signed the field for the $125 bottle of Lanson Noble Cuvee Brut they quaffed, which jurors noticed images of.
“Wow! 2022 … What a yr!” Ana wrote on the field of bubbly. “And but, we’re nonetheless right here and collectively!”
Then, a couple of days afterward Jan. 2, Walshe known as Mutlu to inform him Ana had gone lacking after she left New 12 months’s Day for a piece emergency.
“I used to be incredulous,” Mutlu recalled of his response to Walshe. “I stated, ‘What work emergency might there be on New 12 months’s. It’s industrial actual property.”
Mutlu stated he was struck by how Walshe’ tone was when he was telling him Ana had disappeared.
“It was far more even-keeled and toned down,” Mutlu began to say earlier than Walshe’s protection lawyer objected and the decide sustained it.
“His tone was not panicked,” Mutlu stated.
Walshe is accused of killing Ana, dismembering her physique and disposing of it in dumpsters.
The protection has claimed Ana died with out clarification and Walshe, believing he could be blamed, tried to cowl up the loss of life.
