作为马萨诸塞州三个孩子的父亲，他因妻子被指控谋杀一名与该女子有染的男子周四出庭作证。
布莱恩·沃尔什(Brian Walshe)被指控在2023年元旦前后谋杀并肢解了他39岁的妻子安娜·沃尔什(Ana Walshe)。男性认罪上个月，在审判之前，他被指控误导警察和非法运送尸体，尽管他否认他杀了他的妻子，并否认犯有谋杀罪。安娜·沃尔什的尸体还没有找到。
在本周审判的开庭陈述中，辩护律师说，布莱恩·沃尔什在新年那天发现他的妻子死在床上，然后惊慌失措，在警方调查她的失踪时向警方撒谎-但坚持说他没有杀她。
周四，马萨诸塞州戴德姆的谋杀案审判进入第四天，陪审员听取了安娜·沃尔什失踪前与其有婚外情的一名男子的证词，以及布莱恩·沃尔什在报告失踪当天给他留下的语音邮件。
华盛顿特区的房地产经纪人威廉·法斯托(William Fastow)表示，他在安娜·沃尔什(Ana Walshe)为家人在华盛顿特区找房子时遇到了她，并帮助她在2022年购买了一栋联排别墅。
当时，布莱恩·沃尔什(Brian Walshe)和他们的三个孩子住在马萨诸塞州，他在一桩联邦欺诈案中认罪，承认出售假冒安迪·沃霍尔画作的计划，并等待判决。
Fastow说，当他的妻子安娜·沃尔什搬到华盛顿工作后，他和安娜·沃尔什开始了婚外情，他就和妻子分居了。
“我们很快成为亲密的朋友，然后是知己，不久，我们开始了亲密的关系，”他说。
“我们会分享关于我们的生活，我们正在经历的事情，个人烦恼，诸如此类的事情，”他说。
法斯托说安娜·沃尔什对如此远离她的孩子感到“沮丧”，孩子们和他们的父亲在马萨诸塞州，因为“他的家庭监禁是基于他是主要的照顾者。”
“最初，她觉得这是她必须经历的事情，但随着时间的推移，这对她来说成了一个重大问题。这让她非常难过，”他说。
他说:“安娜对自己不能成为孩子们应得的母亲深感失望。”
他作证说，联邦欺诈案是安娜·沃尔什婚姻中的一个“巨大压力”，“感觉就像是它支撑着她的生活。”他说，她和她的丈夫也有一个“激烈”的争论信用卡收费，她告诉他布赖恩沃尔什为体育纪念品业务。
他说，他们的关系一直瞒着安娜·沃尔什的丈夫，但这是认真的，他们计划一起去国外旅行。
法斯托说:“安娜觉得，当布莱恩发现他们的关系时，他会从她那里听到这一点非常重要，她表达了极大的关注，我想她觉得如果他以不同的方式发现，这将是对她的正直的打击。”
他说他们在2022年一起度过了平安夜，第二天她去了马萨诸塞州。他说她和Brian Walshe因为Brian Walshe没有和家人在平安夜而“发生了争执”。
“有一些争论点，”他说。
他说，他们应该在2023年1月4日一起吃晚饭，讨论他们的未来，此前他们都应该在假期看望孩子后返回华盛顿特区。但他们从未共进晚餐，在除夕收到她祝他新年快乐的短信后，他再也没有她的消息。
安娜·沃尔什的雇主在2023年1月4日报告了她的失踪。那天，法斯托说他接到了布莱恩·沃尔什的两个电话，他把它们转到了语音信箱。
“我和他的妻子有亲密关系。我已经几天没有她的消息了，坦率地说，我担心他可能已经发现了，并打电话来找我，”他说。
布莱恩·沃尔什在第二次通话中留下了语音邮件，这是在法庭上播放的。
“我基本上接触了所有我能接触的人。Ana已经几天没联系了。我今天去上班了。她不在，”布赖恩·沃尔什在电话中问法斯托最近是否有她的消息。
“很抱歉打扰你。我肯定一切都很好，”他说。
Fastow说，他立即打电话回来，并提出去华盛顿的联排别墅，看看安娜·沃尔什是否在那里。他说没人在家。
在反诘问中，当被问及安娜·沃尔什是否曾告诉他，她的丈夫怀疑她有外遇时，法斯托说没有。他说他不知道她是否有计划在回家过圣诞节时告诉布莱恩·沃尔什这件事。
检察官指控布莱恩·沃尔什杀害并肢解了他的妻子，然后将她的尸体扔进垃圾箱。检察官说，1月1日他的设备上的互联网历史记录包括诸如“处理尸体的最佳方式”、“某人失踪多久才能继承遗产”和“谋杀后处理身体部位的最佳方式”等搜索。
检察官说，圣诞节那天，布赖恩·沃尔什的手机上出现了对法斯托的互联网搜索。
辩护律师说，沃尔什不知道这件事，他们的婚姻因联邦案件而存在压力，但他爱他的妻子。
Brian Walshe murder trial: Man who had affair with Walshe's wife testifies
As a Massachusetts father of three stands trial for hiswife's alleged murder, a man who was having an affair with the woman took the stand on Thursday.
Brian Walshe is accused of murdering and then dismembering his wife, 39-year-old Ana Walshe, around New Year's Day in 2023. Hepleaded guiltylast month, ahead of the trial, to misleading police and unlawfully conveying a body, though he denies that he killed his wife and has pleaded not guilty to murder. Ana Walshe's body has not been found.
During the trial's opening statements this week, defense attorneys said that Brian Walshe found his wife dead in bed on New Year's Day and then panicked and lied to police as they investigated her disappearance -- but maintained he did not kill her.
On day four of the murder trial in Dedham, Massachusetts, on Thursday, jurors heard testimony from a man Ana Walshe was having an affair with before she went missing -- as well as a voicemail Brian Walshe left him on the day she was reported missing.
William Fastow, a real estate broker in Washington, D.C., said he met Ana Walshe while she was looking for a home in the D.C. area for her family, and helped her purchase a townhouse in 2022.
At the time, Brian Walshe and their three children were living in Massachusetts while he was awaiting sentencing in a federal fraud case after pleading guilty to a scheme to sell counterfeit Andy Warhol paintings.
Fastow said he was separated from his wife when he and Ana Walshe started an affair after she moved to D.C. for a job.
"We quickly became close friends, then confidants and, before long, we started an intimate relationship," he said.
"We would share conversations about our lives, what we were going through, personal troubles, those sorts of things," he said.
Fastow said Ana Walshe was "despondent" about being away from her children so much, and that the children were in Massachusetts with their father because "his home confinement was predicated on him being the primary caregiver."
"Initially, she felt that it was something necessary for her to get through, but as time came on, it became a significant issue for her. It deeply upset her," he said.
"Ana felt deeply disappointed that she wasn't in a position to be the mother the children deserved," he said.
He testified that the federal fraud case was a "big stressor" in Ana Walshe's marriage and "it felt like it was holding up her life." He said she and her husband also had a "heated" argument over credit card charges she told him Brian Walshe made for a sports memorabilia business.
He said their relationship was kept hidden from Ana Walshe's husband, but it was serious and they were planning to take trips abroad together.
"Ana felt it was really important that when Brian was to find out about the relationship, that he would hear it from her, she had expressed great concern, and I think she felt it would be a strike against her integrity if he found out a different way," Fastow said.
He said they spent Christmas Eve together in 2022, and that she went up to Massachusetts the following day. He said she and Brian Walshe "had an argument" about her not being with her family on Christmas Eve.
"There were some points of contention," he said.
He said they were supposed to have dinner to discuss their future together on Jan. 4, 2023, after they were both supposed to return to D.C. after visiting their children over the holiday. But they never had that dinner, and he never heard from her after receiving a text message from her on New Year's Eve wishing him a happy new year.
Ana Walshe's employer reported her missing on Jan. 4, 2023. That day, Fastow said he got two calls from Brian Walshe, which he pushed to voicemail.
"I was in an intimate relationship with his wife. I had not heard from her in several days, and frankly, I was concerned that maybe he had found out and was calling to confront me," he said.
Brian Walshe left a voicemail on the second call, which was played in court.
"I was just reaching out to basically everybody I could. Ana hasn't been in touch for a few days. I spoke to work today. She hasn't been in," Brian Walshe is heard on the call while asking if Fastow had heard from her recently.
"I'm sorry to bother you. I'm sure everything's fine," he said.
Fastow said he immediately called back at that point and offered to go to the D.C. townhouse to see if Ana Walshe was there. No one was home, he said.
On cross-examination, when asked if Ana Walsh ever told him that her husband was suspicious that she was having an affair, Fastow said no. He said he had no knowledge if there was any plan for her to tell Brian Walshe about the affair when she went home for Christmas.
Prosecutors allege that Brian Walshe killed and dismembered his wife, then disposed of her remains in dumpsters.The internet history on his devices on Jan. 1 included searches such as "best way to dispose of a body," "how long for someone to be missing to inherit" and "best way to dispose of body parts after a murder," prosecutors said.
On Christmas Day, there was an internet search for Fastow on Brian Walshe's phone, prosecutors said.
Defense attorneys said that Walshe didn't know about the affair and that there was stress in their marriage due to the federal case but that he loved his wife.
