Ana Walshe’s mother is seeking official information about the case
BELGRADE – The Serbian mother of a Massachusetts woman who has been missing since New Year’s and her husband is charged with murder will ask the United States for official information about her daughter’s disappearance, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
Milanka Ljubičić, Ana Walsha’s mother, signed an official request to receive documentation on the case as a relative, the ministry announced. The request was sent to the Serbian consulate in New York and will be forwarded to the competent US authorities, the ministry added.
Brian Walshe, 47, has been charged with murder in the case of Anna Walshe, 39, whose body has not been found. The couple, who have three young children who are now in state custody, lived in the affluent coastal community of Cohasset, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) southeast of Boston.
Ana Walshe was last seen leaving their home in the early morning hours of Jan. 1 to pick up a shuttle at Logan International Airport for a flight to Washington, authorities said. But police found no sign that she had taken the vehicle or boarded any flights from Logan.
She was reported missing Jan. 4 by her employer in Washington, where the couple has a home and where she often commutes during the week for work at a real estate company, authorities said.
Prosecutors said earlier this week that Brian Walshe searched online for ways to dismember and dispose of the body, and that items belonging to the woman with Ana Walshe’s DNA were found at a garbage processing facility.
Walshe’s disappearance has been closely watched in her native Serbia, where her mother still lives. Mrs. Ljubičić told the local media that she could not believe that her son-in-law would harm her daughter.
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