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Callaroga Shark Media, Good morning, I'm reed Carter. Monday, December eighth,
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twenty twenty five. A lot happened in courtrooms last week.
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Let me catch you up. Friday, Georgia, Sumter County. Former
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pageant Queen Trinity Pogue, twenty years old, was convicted of
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murdering her boyfriend's eighteen month old son. Jury, deliberated less
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than three hours, found her guilty of felony, murder and
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cruelty to children. Sentenced to life in prison with possibility
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of parole after thirty years. This was a woman who
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texted her college roommate that she wanted to punch the toddler,
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that she felt anger toward him, that she wished she
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could run him over with her car. Now she's going
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to prison for the rest of her life. Massachusetts. The
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Brian Walsh murder trial continued last week, with days four
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and five bringing explosive testimony. Anna Walsh's secret lover, real
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estate broker William Fasto, took the stand and detailed their affair.
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Told the jury Anna was planning to leave her husband,
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that she'd discovered Brian was using her credit cards without permission,
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that she worried about Brian finding out about the relationship. Meanwhile,
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digital forensics showed Brian searched for William Fasto DC real
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estate on Christmas Day twenty twenty two, then searched Anna Walsh,
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found dead that same day before she was missing, before
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she was dead, while she was still alive and driving
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up to Massachusetts after her flight was canceled. And New York.
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Luigi Manjoni's suppression hearing hit day four Thursday, on the
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one year anniversary of Brian Thompson's assassination. Body camera footage
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revealed Mangioni told Pennsylvania police he didn't want to talk
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just minutes after they approached him at that McDonald's. His
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lawyers are fighting to exclude everything found in his back,
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including the gun and the manifesto I'm reed Carter. Today,
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trials in three states, a pageant queen who killed a baby,
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a husband whose Google searches told the whole story, and
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the CEO killer fighting to suppress his own words. This
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is celebrity trials. Let's start with the verdict that came
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down Friday afternoon. Americus, Georgia, Sumter County. Trinity Madison Pogue,
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twenty years old, former Miss Donaldsonville twy twenty three, nursing
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student at Georgia Southwestern State University, straight a student in
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her first semester, honor roll, active in pageants, picture perfect,
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Southern Bell. Now she's a convicted murderer sentenced to life
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in prison for killing an eighteen month old baby. January fourteenth,
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twenty twenty four. Romeo Angelus, also called Jaxton Drew or
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j D by his family, was found unresponsive in Pogue's
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college dorm room, eighteen months old, barely walking, couldn't even
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speak in full sentences, yet rushed to the emergency room. Pulseless,
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not breathing, skull fracture, brain bleeding, massive liver laceration. He
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died three hours later. Five days after that, police arrested
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Trinity Pogue charged her with malice, murder, felony murder, cruelty
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to children, aggravated battery. The baby's father, Julian Williams, had
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left his son in Pogue's care while he ran out
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for pizza, gone thirty five thirty six minutes. When he
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came back, the baby wasn't breathing. The trial lasted four days,
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and what the jury heard was damning. Prosecutors introduced text
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messages Pogue sent to her college room mate Paris Permort.
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In August twenty twenty three, months before the killing, Pogue
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texted about the baby. I feel anger toward j D.
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Like I want to punch him. That sounds so bad.
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Purmore testified. Pogue also said in person that she sometimes
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got so ampngy she wished she could run the toddler
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over with her car. Purmore didn't take it seriously, thought
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Pogue was just venting about a difficult relationship. The baby's
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father was controlling, demanding required social media passwords, monitored Pogue's activities.
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She was eighteen, he was twenty two, twenty three. Power
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imbalance from the start, but venting about frustration is one thing.
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Beating a baby to death is another. District Attorney Lewis
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Lamb laid it out in opening statements. Pogue resented this child.
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She wanted her own baby with Williams, not to play
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stepmother to his son. The weekend of January thirteenth and fourteenth,
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Williams brought j D to stay with Pogue at her dorm.
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She texted her roommate asking to sleep in her room
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for a mental break. Saturday night, January thirteenth, the baby
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allegedly fell off the bed. Pogue took videos showing no injuries.
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The baby seemed fine, roomate. Paris Permoort saw JD around
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ten pm, awake, acting normal, no bruising, no signs of injury.
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Sunday morning, January fourteenth, JD woke up healthy eight fredos,
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drank mountain dew, acting like a normal eighteen month old.
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Then Williams left to get pizza gone. About thirty five
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minutes when he returned, Pogue called and said the baby
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wasn't breathing. Emergency room doctors testified about what they found.
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Doctor Michael Bussman said JD arrived pulseless and unresponsive. Skull fracture,
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brain bleeding, liver laceration, the kind of injuries that would
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cause symptoms within minutes, not hours, not the next day.
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Doctor Jill Olek testified there was a zero percent chance
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CPR caused the liver tear. The injury was on the
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right lobe, away from where compressions are performed. She said
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the severity fit high force blunt trauma, not a short
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fall from a bed. GBI medical examiner doctor Anthony Clark
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described a complex fracture at the base of JD's skull,
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bleeding on the brain, crushed right lobe of the liver,
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crushed adrenal gland. He testified those injuries required very high
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focused force, and the head trauma alone would have killed
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JD within seconds to minutes after impact, not consistent with
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a household fall. Here's what the defense argued. Trinity Pogue
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was an immature eighteen year old in a relationship with
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a controlling older man. She made comments about not liking
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the baby, but nobody testified they witnessed her cause harm.
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The investigation was flawed. GBI found no physical evidence in
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her dorm room, no blood, no obvious crime scene. Defense
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attorney Tim Gamble asked jurors to focus on reasonable doubt.
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Argued Pogue was a second victim accused of a crime
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she didn't commit. Pointed out that Williams told various conflicting
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stories to hospital ste about what happened. But here's the
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problem with that defense. The medical testimony was devastating. Every
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doctor who took the stand said the same thing. The
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injuries happened minutes before the baby arrived at the er,
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not hours, not overnight, minutes, and who was alone with JD.
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In those minutes Trinity Pogue. The prosecution put it simply
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in closing arguments, only one person was alone with j
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D during that time frame, the defendant, Trinity Pogue. Friday afternoon,
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the jury came back after less than three hours. They
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acquitted her of malice murder, meaning they didn't find she
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planned to kill the baby, but they convicted her on
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two counts of felony murder and first degree cruelty to children.
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The killing may not have been premeditated, but it happened,
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and she did it. Judge sentenced her immediately life in prison,
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with the possibility of parole after thirty years, plus an
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additional twenty years for cruelty to children to run Concurrently,
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Trinity Pogue is twenty years old. If she serves the
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minimum before parole eligibility, she'll be fifty fifty years old
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before she even gets a hearing, and parole isn't guaranteed.
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After the verdict, Pogue cried. The baby's father, Julian Williams,
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sat in the courtroom wearing the same jacket he wore
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when he rushed his dying son to the hospital. Testified
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he never washed it because it's the last thing I
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got to remember of him. A stain on the sleeve
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his son's vomit. Romeo Angelus Jaxton Drew j D. Eighteen
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months old born June twenty fifth, twenty twenty two. Died
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January fourteenth, twenty twenty four. He should be celebrating his
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third birthday next summer, should be starting preschool, should be
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running around a backyard, learning to kick a ball, saying
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his first full sentences. Instead, he's dead because a twenty
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year old college student couldn't control her anger, because she
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resented a baby who was just existing, just needing care,
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just being a toddler. Some people are just evil, and
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some evil hides behind a pageant, crown and a nursing degree.
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Rest in peace, Romeo, someone has to say your name.
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We'll be right back with the Brian Walsh murder trial.
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His wife's secret lover takes the stand and the Google
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searches that prove Brian knew exactly what he was doing.
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Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm reed Carter Dedham, Massachusetts,
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Norfolk County Superior Court. The Brian Walsh murder trial continued
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last week with days four and five of testimony. We've
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been covering this case from the beginning, let me tell
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you where we are. Brian Walsh, fifty years old, is
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charged with first degree murder in the death of his wife,
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Anna Walsh, thirty nine. Anna disappeared on New Year's Day
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twenty twenty three. Her body has never been found, but
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prosecutor say Brian murdered her that day, then spent the
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next several days dismembering her remains and disposing of them
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across multiple locations. The evidence against him is overwhelming. We've
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covered his Google searches before. How long before a body
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starts to smell? Best ways to dispose of a body?
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Can you be charged with murder without a body? How
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to dismember a body? Searched all on January first and second,
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twenty twenty three, the day his wife supposedly left for work,
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and the day after. Before trial began, Walsh pleaded guilty
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to misleading police and conveyance of a human body. Those
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guilty Please He admitted, he lied, admitted he moved her remains.
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The only question now is whether he killed her. Day
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four brought testimony from William Fastaw, real estate broker in Washington,
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d C. The man Anna Walsh was having an affair
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with Fasto met Anna through a real estate referral in
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early twenty twenty two. Anna worked for Tishman Speyer, a
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major commercial real estate firm, and wanted to buy a
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town home in d C. Fasto helped her find one.
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She purchased it in March twenty twenty two, but the
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relationship didn't stay professional. Fasto testified they became close friends,
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then confidants, then engaged in an intimate relationship. By early
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summer twenty twenty two, it was serious. They traveled together
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Dublin for Thanksgiving, planned to celebrate Christmas Eve at the
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Annapolis Yacht Club. Here's what the jury learned. Anna was
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planning to leave Brian had confided in Fasto that she
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was unhappy that Brian's legal situation was affecting her life
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and her relationship with their children. Brian had pleaded guilty
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to federal fraud charges involving fake Andy Warhol paintings and
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was awaiting sentencing on house arrest, a convicted fraudster who
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couldn't even leave the house with us permission. Anna discovered
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Brian was using her credit cards without her knowledge, running
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up charges. She made over three hundred thousand dollars a year.
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He was dependent on her income, and he was stealing
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from her on top of it. Fasto testified Anna was
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worried about Brian finding out about the affair. She thought
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he was suspicious. She wanted to tell him herself rather
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than have him discover it. December twenty fifth, twenty twenty two,
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Christmas Day, Anna's flight from DC to Boston was canceled
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due to weather. She drove up to Massachusetts instead, arriving
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late that night. And here's where the digital evidence becomes devastating.
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Massachusetts State Police Trooper Connor Keith testified about what they
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found on Brian's devices. Christmas Day, December twenty fifth, twenty
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twenty two, Brian searched for William Fasto, DC real estate.
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He was looking up his wife's lover. Then he searched
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Anna Walsh Tishman Speier looking up his wife's employer. Then
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Christmas Day plane crash, Then Anna Walsh found dead. Let
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me repeat that. On Christmas Day twenty twenty two, while
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Anna was still alive, still driving up to Massachusetts, Brian
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Walsh searched for Anna Walsh found dead. That's not idle curiosity.
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That's planning. That's a man imagining a future where his
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wife is gone. The searches continued December thirty first, twenty
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twenty two, New Year's Eve, Brian searched for best divorce
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strategies for men, Best states to divorce for a man, Washington,
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d C. Divorce Attorneys in Laws. He was researching divorce,
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planning his exit strategy, but something changed between December thirty
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first and January first. Instead of divorce searches, Brian started
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searching for murder four fifty five am January first, Best
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ways to dispose of a body? How long before a
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body starts to smell? The timeline is crystal clear. Something
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happened overnight. Anna went from planning to leave her husband
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to being dead. Day five continued the forensic evidence Trooper
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Keef detailed Brian's movements through cell phone location data January
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first through January fifth, twenty twenty three. The iPhone tracked
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him to Low's CVS stop and shop, home goods, home depot,
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multiple apartment complex dumpsters in Abington and Brockton, a trash
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facility in Peabody. Investigators found items in those dumpsters and
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trash facilities. Anna's green hunter boots, a black jacket with
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reddish brown stains, her COVID vaccination card, her purse, a hammer, wire, snips,
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hack saw, shears, tape, tivex suits, tarps, protective booties, items
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covered in blood, hair, evidence of dismemberment. DNA analyst Davis
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Gould processed the Walsh family volvo. Found reddish brown stains
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on the driver's visor, the passenger visor inside, exam style
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gloves on the trunk mat. Five areas tested positive for blood.
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In the trash bags recovered from dumpsters and the recycling facility,
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Gould found two white towels with reddish brown stains, a
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bathrobe with blood, slippers with blood and hair, carpet pieces
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with blood, hydrogen peroxide bottles. All the supplies Brian purchased
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on surveillance video on January second, used bloodied discarded on
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a Walsh was thirty nine years old, a Serbian immigrant
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who built a successful career in commercial real estate, mother
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of three boys. Trapped in a marriage with a convicted
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fraudster who was stealing her money, she tried to build
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an exit a town home in DC, a relationship with
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someone who actually respected her, a plan to get out.
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Brian found out or suspected, and instead of letting her leave,
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instead of divorce, he chose murder, then spent days methodically
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destroying her body and disposing of the evidence. The trial
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continues this week. The prosecution will present more forensic evidence,
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more witnesses, more proof of what Brian Walsh did to
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his wife. Anna Walsh should be forty one years old now,
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should be living in her DC town home, should be
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raising her three sons, should be building a new life
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away from her controlling, thieving husband. Rest in peace, Anna.
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