reporter: what we definitely learned, anderson, is you know, a lot more about the timeline in court today, much of it linked to the alleged internet searches that walshe conducted on december 27th, january 1st, the second and fourth internet searches about things such as dna, divorce, and a decomposing body. i think the number one concern is finding ana and finding out what happened. reporter: the timeline in the mystery of what happened to ana walshe spans more than two weeks, starting on new year s day. that s when her husband, brian walshe, claims she left her cohasset home in a ride share, or taxi, to fly to washington, d.c. for work. but prosecutors say there is no evidence ana got a ride or went to the airport. brian walshe tells investigators on this day, he ran errands for his mother in a nearby town. but they find no evidence those trips occurred. prosecutors also today detailing the internet searches he made on january 1st, including at 4:55 a.m., how long bef
committed that crime. it is a much more difficult thing to prove it, which we will see if the prosecution can do. so, what will the defense case look like? we want to take a look at that, as well as how the prosecution might present theirs. joining me now is john miller, martha coakley, cnn legal analyst elliie honig, and boston police department. what do you make of that statement we just read from the defense asserting the prosecution has been leaking information on the case to the press because the case isn t that strong? so, tracy miner is an excellent and experienced defense lawyer. i actually worked with her many, many years ago in a firm. but i think that to the extent she s pointed out a problem that the prosecution may have at the moment which is what did happen between 1:00 and 1:30 on january 1st and when brian walshe started making all of those searches online because, as many of the speakers today and
tonight on your show even have noted, most of those go to how do you get rid of a body, what do i have to do, et cetera, et cetera? they do not go to motive or intent or planning. and that s where if you wanted to prove a first degree murder case or a second degree murder case, you have to prove some kind of premeditation and intent to kill. we don t know what the cause of death was. we could say homicide and the d.a. believes there was probably evidence of a homicide. but we don t know what that is. if someone points the gun and pulls the trigger, you can deem that s an intentional, premeditated murder. but we just don t know. so, that will be one place the defense will go about what evidence they have. sure, there s a lot. but what don t they have right now? elie, looking at the prosecution s case, what do you think they re trying to establish right now? first of all, the google searches are just unbelievably
yeah. so disturbing. i mean, the challenges here are that, you know, you ve got, that smith case where he killed both his first wife and second wife and kept moving around the country. that was one fbi agent, bob, who would not let go of that case. that s why it is going to trial again this being. if you look at the gail cats case. the renowned doctor who lived on the upper east side. when she disappears, he doesn t report her missing. you see some similar themes coming up. another investigator, andy, wouldn t let go of that case. came back to it years later and found records that he had a pilot s license and had gone flying over the ocean. his theory was he had thrown the body out of plane. never found the body but they convicted him on the circumstantial case. and in a parole hearing in 2020, he admitted to killing her and throwing her out of the plane.
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