Psychologist explains why Brian Walshe 'dismembered' wife Ana's body, says it was the ONLY solution
COHASSET, MASSACHUSETTS: A criminal psychologist claims, Brian Walshe's alleged dismemberment of his wife does not indicate that he is "psychotic" but rather speaks about an unsettling method. Dr Louis B Schlesinger, a professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, detailed why Brian may have likely dismembered his wife, Ana Walshe, after the prosecution accused him of committing the act.
It was earlier reported that a warrant obtained by Quincy District Court said Brian was charged with murder, on January 17, for the missing case of his wife. Although Schlesinger is not collaborating with law enforcement on the missing Ana Walshe case, he has dealt with cases involving dismemberment in the past. He claimed that the perpetrators in the situations he dealt with in which the victim was dismembered had never been "psychotic."
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As MEAWW reported earlier, the two main pieces of evidence against Brian are a hacksaw that was purportedly found among trash in a dumpster close to the Swampscott home of his mother, Diana, and a bloodstained, broken knife that was found in the basement of Ana's Cohasset home. In the days preceding the disappearance of his wife, Brian had looked up "how to dispose of a 115-pound woman's body" online, according to his internet search history. The accused had also purchased $450 worth of cleaning supplies at a Home Depot, according to video evidence.
In an interview with The Sun, Schlesinger said, "You have to look at this from the frame of reference of the offender,” said Schlesinger. You may seem like ‘Oh my god, he must have been psychotic’ but no, not at all." He added, "I’ve never had a case where the offender was psychotic." Schlesinger asserted that dismemberment is typically a problem-solving tactic and has nothing to do with the perpetrator's legal mental state. "Walking out of your house with a dead body is not easy it’s very difficult so dismemberment is the solution to this," said the psychologist.
According to Schlesinger, the "overwhelming" reason why criminals decide to dismember their victims is to get rid of the body. He said, "Usually this occurs when the murder happened at someone’s home. Because you kill your wife, for example, how do you get the body out of the house?" Schlesinger added, "That’s very difficult, bodies are large, it’s very heavy when they’re dead. So what they’ll do is dismember the body in order to dispose of it."
Schlesinger continued by saying that most criminals would simply leave the victim's body if it had been slaughtered far away, like in the woods. "I don’t know the living situation of Brian Walshe but in his mind, he couldn’t just drag the body out and dump it in the car," he stated. Schlesinger further added, "You know, you’re gonna get caught that way. People are gonna see you. It’s a lot harder than you think."
Brian, 46, was arrested on January 8 and accused of misleading police investigators during their inquiry into his wife's disappearance before being charged with her murder. He is being held on a $500,000 cash bail and is due to appear in a court hearing scheduled on February 9.