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Ana Walshe's husband, Brian Walshe, searched how to dismember a body amid the Massachusetts mother's disappearance – a detail his defense team may have a tough time explaining, an expert told Fox News Digital.... ...Two law enforcement sources told CNN that police found internet records showing that the convicted art swindler had searched how to dismember a body and "how to dispose of a 115-pound woman's body."... ...In an interview with investigators, Walshe failed to mention that he'd gone on a shopping at Home Depot on Jan. 2, in violation of his probation, to buy $450 in cleaning supplies....

A working mom of three from Massachusetts mysteriously vanished after leaving home to catch a flight on New Year’s Day — sparking a statewide police search as her loved ones fear the worst. Ana Walshe, 39, of Cohasset ordered a rideshare bound for Logan International Airport in Boston at 4 a.m. to commute to Washington, DC, for her job at a real estate firm, according to police. But Walshe, who has three young sons, ranging from 2 to 6 years old, never boarded the plane... ...The mystery deepened later Friday, when a fire reportedly broke out at the family’s former...

BOSTON — A new WBUR poll (PDFs – topline, crosstabs) of the special Massachusetts U.S. Senate election finds it wide open on both the Democratic and the Republican sides. U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, of Malden, leads his Democratic rival, U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, of South Boston, by 11 percentage points. On the Republican side, former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan, of Abington, has the lead over both Norfolk state Rep. Dan Winslow and Cohasset private equity manager Gabriel Gomez.

A 50-year-old Cohasset mom - charged alongside her teenage son with throwing a wild underage drinking party for nearly two dozen youths - was busted months earlier and ordered to be tested for a possible alcohol problem. Elizabeth McQuade was arrested May 17 and was order by a judge to undergo an alcohol evaluation "to deterimine if she had a problem," said David Traub, a spokesman for Norfolk District Attorney William Keating. Before she could be tested, she was busted Saturday and charged with the weekend’s shenanigans. McQuade and her son, Taylor, 18,pleaded not guilty yesterday in Quincy District Court...