Brian Walshe murder trial: Slain wife Ana's lover takes the stand

Ana Walshe's paramour William Fastow took the witnesser basal Thursday successful the execution proceedings of her husband, Brian Walshe, testifying that the 2 began an "intimate" narration earlier she vanished without a hint connected Jan. 1, 2023.

Fastow, a realtor, helped her find lodging successful Washington, D.C., wherever she was commuting to enactment from her household location successful Boston.

Fastow, similar Ana, had children, though helium was separated from his ain wife, helium testified.

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William Fastow leaves an unfastened location successful Spring Valley country of Washington, D.C., Saturday, November 29, 2025. Fastow testified that helium had an matter with the precocious realtor, Ana Walshe. (Fox News Digital)

They became close, bonding implicit communal interests, including successful fittingness and implicit the struggles they had successful communal arsenic parents. Then they began their affair, helium said.

Although helium ne'er stayed astatine her Washington townhouse overnight, she stayed astatine his, helium said. He said helium did not support the matter a concealed generally, but that Ana had told him that if her hubby ever recovered out, she wanted him to find retired from her.

Brian Walshe arrives astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, MA, Monday, December 1, 2025. Walshe is facing execution charges for the decease of his wife, Ana Walshe. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)

Still, the 2 went connected a travel to Dublin, Ireland, for Thanksgiving successful the months earlier her murder. After Dublin, Ana flew to Serbia to sojourn her mother, portion helium returned to Washington.

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"Ana was highly disappointed that she wasn't successful a presumption to beryllium the parent she believed the children deserved," Fastow testified.

Ana Walshe wears a Washington Capitals jersey successful a December 2022 post. (Ana Walshe/Instagram)

He testified that Ana told him that her children lived with their begetter successful Cohasset, a suburb of Boston, due to the fact that Walshe's location confinement for a national creation fraud condemnation was contingent connected him being their superior caretaker.

Prosecutors person alleged 2 imaginable motives successful the slaying. The archetypal is choler implicit the affair. The 2nd is due to the fact that helium allegedly believed helium would person a amended accidental of avoiding national situation if his woman were retired of the representation and helium was the lone caretaker for their 3 children.

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Walshe's defence has denied that helium had immoderate cognition of the affair, though helium mentioned Fastow much than erstwhile during interviews with detectives earlier his apprehension and allegedly looked him up connected the net earlier Ana's disappearance.

Her remains person not been found, but prosecutors showed the assemblage Wednesday a saw and hatchet recovered from a dumpster adjacent Walshe's mother's location that the suspect allegedly utilized to dismember his wife. The aforesaid dumpster besides had her COVID-19 vaccination card, clothes, bloody towels and a cut-up rug suspiciously akin to 1 taken from the household home.