Investigators have found blood and a damaged knife with blood on it in the basement of the Cohasset home where Ana Walshe was living with her husband, Brian R. Walshe, who bought $450 of cleaning supplies before the mother of three was reported missing to authorities, a prosecutor said in court Monday.
During the arraignment of Brian Walshe Monday on a single count of misleading police, Norfolk First Assistant District Attorney Lynn M. Beland described the discoveries police have made since launching a high-profile search for 39-year-old Ana Walshe last week.
Beland said that while executing a search warrant this weekend at the Cohasset home where the couple has been living with their three children, they discovered blood and a damaged knife with blood on it in the basement. Beland did not specify in what way the knife was damaged, nor did she provide details about the bloodstains police found.
Ana Walshe has not been heard from since she left her home around 4 a.m. on New Year’s Day to take a rideshare to Logan International Airport for a flight to Washington, D.C., where she works for a real estate company, family have told police. Investigators have not been able to confirm she took a rideshare, but have determined she did not board a flight from Logan, according to Cohasset police Chief William Quigley.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island have lost residents over the past two years, part of an overall population drain in the Northeast, as Americans migrate south and west, according to new US Census figures.
... Rhode Island, meanwhile, saw its population decline by about 3,200 residents between July 2021 and July 2022. The Ocean State topped out at 1,097,371 residents in 2020, but this summer, that figure stood at 1,093,734, according to Census figures.
All told, 18 states experienced a population decline between July 2021 and July 2022. New York, California, and Illinois all experienced six-figure losses in population, which were the biggest decreases in the nation.
The populations of other New England states saw some growth year over year. Maine added about 8,100 residents. New Hampshire added about 7,700. Connecticut added about 2,800, and Vermont grew by a little more than 90 residents.
Overall, however, the Northeast experienced a population drain of nearly 219,000 residents year over year, as the South and West grew by 1.3 million and 153,000, respectively. (The Midwest saw a population decline of nearly 49,000 residents.)
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Investigators have found blood and a damaged knife with blood on it in the basement of the Cohasset home where Ana Walshe was living with her husband, Brian R. Walshe, who bought $450 of cleaning supplies before the mother of three was reported missing to authorities, a prosecutor said in court Monday.
During the arraignment of Brian Walshe Monday on a single count of misleading police, Norfolk First Assistant District Attorney Lynn M. Beland described the discoveries police have made since launching a high-profile search for 39-year-old Ana Walshe last week.
Beland said that while executing a search warrant this weekend at the Cohasset home where the couple has been living with their three children, they discovered blood and a damaged knife with blood on it in the basement. Beland did not specify in what way the knife was damaged, nor did she provide details about the bloodstains police found.
Ana Walshe has not been heard from since she left her home around 4 a.m. on New Year’s Day to take a rideshare to Logan International Airport for a flight to Washington, D.C., where she works for a real estate company, family have told police. Investigators have not been able to confirm she took a rideshare, but have determined she did not board a flight from Logan, according to Cohasset police Chief William Quigley.