There’s one piece of evidence that prosecutors can’t use in their case against Brian Walshe for the murder of his wife, Ana Walshe: her body.
But trying a murder case without a body has been a high-profile highlight of three successive Norfolk County District Attorneys. The previous cases resulted in, first, a plea deal admitting manslaughter and, second, a murder conviction.
“I see what Mike Morrissey has done, it is clear that the effort that went into this case was substantial,” William Delahunt told the Herald of how Michael Morrissey, the current Norfolk DA, has handled the early stages of the Walshe case. “He appears to be doing the kind of work that he needs to be doing.”
