Bloodied hacksaw Brian Walshe used to chop up wife revealed

The blood-spattered tools Brian Walshe allegedly used to hack and pulverize his wife’s corpse have been pictured for the first time — including the hacksaw behind his chilling Google search of “best tool to dismember.”

The hacksaw — with blood on the handle — a hammer, hedge pruners and clippers, packing tape and a hatchet were each pulled from evidence bags for jurors in a Massachusetts courtroom Friday — tools that were found in dumpsters around Walshe’s Cohasset apartment complex after his wife vanished in Jan. 2023.

They were also tools that matched a series of eyebrow-raising internet searches Walshe, 50, made around the time his wife 39-year-old Ana disappeared.

“Hacksaw best tool to dismember,” one search query read. “Can you identify a body with broken teeth?” read another, along with “How to stop a body from decomposing,” and “How long before a body starts to smell.”

Ana’s body was never found — and prosecutors allege Walshe used those tools to dispose of her, and then carelessly dumped them in the trash near their home.

The father of three boys also allegedly dropped $450 in cash on cleaning supplies from a local Lowes and Home Depot, including a body suit, baking soda, bleach, buckets and mops.

Security footage showed Brian calmly checking out with a shopping cart full of the suspicious haul.

A man matching his description was even caught on camera dropping heavy trash bags into dumpsters throughout the area.

Brian shockingly pleaded guilty on the eve of his trial to disposing of his wife’s body and misleading police and is being tried just on the murder charge.

He has insisted that she died of a little-known condition called “sudden unexplained death” roughly an hour after New Year rang in in 2023 — and that he chopped up her body thinking he’d be blamed for killing her.

But last week circumstantial evidence continued to mount against him, with his wife’s lover telling the court how he and Ana were planning to come clean about their affair in the weeks before she disappeared.

Ana, a successful real estate executive, had a nearly $300,000 job in Washington, DC, which afforded the couple a townhouse in the nation’s capital, their rented Cohasset home and cushy life insurance policies.

Brian, meanwhile, had admitted to selling fake Andy Warhol artworks in 2021 and given a 37-month sentence of home confinement. That meant he wasn’t able to leave Massachusetts and she was forced to commute to DC for work, while he was living with their sons full-time.

Her lover, William Fastow, testified early on in the trial that Ana was “despondent” that she wasn’t able to spend more time with her kids — and that Brian’s criminal case was a big stressor in their marriage.

“The biggest stressor was his inability to resolve his criminal case, and the fact that, because of that, she couldn’t be with her children and bring them back to Washington, DC, and the fact that it felt like it was holding up her life,” Fastow testified.

He also said she wanted to tell Brian about their affair.

“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 a great concern, and I think she felt it would be a strike against her integrity if he found out a different way,” Fastow told the jury.

Fastow last communicated with Ana just after the ball dropped on New Year’s.