Prosecutors said some of those items had DNA on them matching one or both of the Walshes. For example, the rug recovered from the dumpster was embedded with blood and a piece of the Gucci necklace Ana regularly wore, Yas said.
Investigators later took the contents to a facility for searching, where they found the clothing items Brian said Ana was wearing when she left, as well as a COVID-19 vaccination card with her name on it, rugs, the Tyvek suit, a hammer, shears, a hatchet and hacksaw.
Brian shopped at a number of stores — including Walgreens, CVS, Stop & Shop and Lowe's — in neighboring towns in the days after Ana's death, according to surveillance footage.
Prosecutors said the video shows him — in many instances wearing a face mask over his mouth and nose and paying with cash — buying Band-Aids and antibiotics, hydrogen... See more
Tipton said Brian's Google searches in the hours that followed were "conducted by a man that is in disbelief and confusion." In closing arguments, he said the fact that the searches happened after Ana's death showed that Brian didn't kill her, let alone plan to.
"Ask yourself: Why is the man searching now if he had intended to kill his wife?" he... See more
But on an iPad belonging to his son, synced to the same Apple ID, they found Google searches about cleaning bloodstains, disposing of body parts and wiping electronic devices. They were made between about 5 a.m. on Jan. 1 and the evening of Jan. 3.
Investigators found no data from rideshare apps showing she traveled to the airport, and confirmed that her phone was last active in the early morning hours of Jan. 3 in the area of their Cohasset home.
Prosecutors recounted the story Brian told to investigators, which is that Ana left the house around 6 or 7 that morning to catch a flight back to D.C. for a work emergency — wearing Hunter boots, a black jacket and a Hermes watch.
But prosecutors said digital forensic experts found divorce-related searches on his devices between Christmas and New Year's, including: "best divorce strategies for men" and "Washington, D.C. divorce lawyers."