REVEALED: Cops probing disappearance of murdered Massachusetts mom Ana Walshe received RANSOM NOTE demanding $127,000 and saying ‘She messed up’
- Note was received three days after Walshe’s name was added to crime database
- Cops believed it suspicious, as it didn’t say how to transfer the ransom demand
- Walshe’s husband Brian has denied murdering his spouse, who’s still missing
Massachusetts police probing the death of missing murdered mom Ana Walshe received a ransom note demanding $127,000, it has been revealed.
The note was sent to Cohasset Detective Harrison Schmidt in January, and said: ‘We have the so named Ana Walshe with us here … we had a deal worth $127,000.
‘She messed up..we have her here with us and if she doesn’t pay the money..then she’ll never be back, and we know that the police and the FBI are involved.. Good luck finding us.’
It was sent via email from a man named Richard Walker, with Detective Schmidt receiving it three days after Walshe’s name was added to the National Crime Information Center Database, the Boston Globe reported.
A ransom note was sent to Massachusetts cops investigating the disappearance of Ana Walshe, pictured above, days after details of her case were released to the public
Walshe being led into court last Thursday. He shook his head as the charges were read aloud
Ana and Brian were parents to three young sons. He was in line to collect a $2.7m life insurance payout in the event of his wife’s death, but insists he didn’t need the money
The missing mom of three’s husband Brian Walshe, 47, has been charged over claims he murdered Walshe for having an affair, then dismembered her body in the family’s basement and disposed of it.
Investigators believed the ransom missive to be suspicious and likely fake, because it did not include any further details on how to respond.
The body of Walshe has never been found
News of Walsh’s disappearance had been widely-circulated by the time it was sent.
Walshe, a real estate executive, is believed to have been beaten to death on New Year’s Eve 2022 after Brian discovered an alleged affair.
Her body has never been found.
Days before Walshe disappeared, she told a friend she believed Brian would end up going to prison on art fraud charges.
She added that she was planning on leaving her husband and moving to Washington DC, it is alleged.
Brian Walshe was arraigned last week. He denies killing his missing wife, who was mother to the couple’s three sons.
Norfolk Superior Court was told how Brian’s mom had previously tailed Walshe during a trip to Washington DC, because she suspected her daughter-in-law was cheating on her son.
Brian Walshe is shown on January 1 purchasing cleaning supplies, a hacksaw, hatchet and other items from Lowes, hours after allegedly murdering his wife Ana
Walshe pushing his cart through the home store. He is accused of murdering and dismembering Ana at around 4.30am on January 1
Brian is accused of obsessively checking the Instagram account of a man he believed Walshe was cheating on him with.
He was also in line to collect a $2.7 million life insurance payout in the event of her death, although Brian’s family claim he was sufficiently wealthy not to need that cash.
Surveillance grabs released by prosecutors also allegedly show him buying a hacksaw, hatchet and cleaning supplies at a Lowes store.
He is due back in court in August.
