Brian Walshe found guilty of killing his wife and dismembering her body

A Massachusetts jury found Brian Walshe guilty of first-degree murder Monday, siding with prosecutors who accused the convicted fraudster of killing his wife and dismembering her body three years ago

A Massachusetts jury found Brian Walshe guilty of first-degree murder Monday, siding with prosecutors who accused the convicted fraudster of killing his wife and dismembering her body three years ago.

The verdict came after nearly two weeks of testimony in Norfolk County Superior Court, southwest of Boston. The jury began deliberating Friday afternoon.

In closing arguments, prosecutors said that Walshe, 50, methodically cut up the body of Ana Walshe, 39, and disposed of her body in dumpsters.

“He needed her dead,” said Norfolk County Assistant District Attorney Anne Yas told the jury. "This was a marriage in crisis."

Brian Walshe in court Monday.Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / UProsecutors have alleged that Walshe was motivated by money — he was the sole beneficiary of his wife’s $2.7 million life insurance policy — and by an affair she was having with a realtor in Washington, D.C.