Ana Walshe, the Massachusetts real estate manager and mom-of-three who disappeared on New Year's Day, had finalized the sale of her apartment in Revere, MA, only days before going missing in mysterious circumstances, friends have said.
Ms Walshe's Revere tenants told Fox News Digital the decision to sell her apartment where they lived was sprung on them and that Ms Walsh became uncharacteristically 'pushy' towards them over time.
Her friends said Ms Walsh kept promising 'a big surprise' in the new year and had sought to sell her apartment and a car for cash at the end of December 2022, before her disappearance.
This comes days after the arrest of her husband Brian Walshe, 47, who was charged with misleading a police investigation and Googled 'How to dispose of a 115lb woman's body' just days before his wife's disappearance.
A source told Fox News Digital: 'proceeds from the sale of the Revere condo were going directly into the purchase of another investment property, and not to Ana herself.'
Mom-of-three Ana Walshe disappeared on New Year's Day and was reported missing on 4 Jan
Walshe was arrested and taken into custody on 8 January on charges of misleading authorities
TIMELINE LEADING TO DISAPPEARANCE
November, 2016: Brian Walshe is arrested in connection with an $80,000 art fraud of Andy Warhol paintings. He is ordered by a court to remain under house arrest until sentencing. Walshe has yet to be sentenced for the fraud.
January 1, 2023: Ana Walshe is last seen by family friend Gem Mutlu around 1:30am after a New Year's party at the MA house.
Ana reportedly books a rideshare car to take her to Logan International Airport at 4am, but it is unclear if she ever gets into a vehicle or takes a flight.
Ana was scheduled to fly to Washington D.C. on 3 January but allegedly said she needed to fly sooner due to an emergency.
Her husband claims he went to Whole Foods and CVS on New Year's Day, but there is no surveillance or receipts to prove he went.
January 2: Walshe tells authorities that he only left the family home in Cohasset to take his son for ice cream.
He is caught on surveillance footage buying $450 worth of cleaning supplies in Home Depot.
Ana's phone pings in the area of the house on 1 and 2 January.
January 4: Ana's employer reports her missing. Police initially deem the disappearance is not suspicious, with no evidence of foul play.
January 5: Police say Walshe is cooperating with the investigation into his missing wife.
Cohasset Police Chief William Quigley acknowledges they have 'more questions than answers' at this stage.
January 8: Walshe is seen leaving the property on Sunday in a red Volkswagen. His three children are taken away in a separate vehicle.
Officers execute a search warrant at their home and found blood in the basement, along with a broken knife. The officers load a Volvo SUV onto the back of a truck while others search the grounds of their home.
Police arrest Walshe on suspicion of misleading an investigation but do not charge him with anything else.
January 9: Investigators find trash bags with blood, a hatchet and a hacksaw at the Peabody trash transfer station on the other side of Boston.
It is revealed during the investigation that Walshe had Googled 'how to dispose of a 115-pound woman's body'.
Brian Walshe is transported to his arraignment at Quincy District Court. He is held on $500,000 cash bail.
Walshe pleads not guilty to misleading the investigation but has yet to be charged with anything else in connection to his wife’s disappearance.
January 11: In a Daily Mail exclusive, Ana Walshe's mother says she 'can't believe' her son-in-law could be responsible for the disappearance of her daughter after he saved her life in 2021.
January 12: Police reveal Ana Walshe called the cops on her husband in 2014 saying 'he's going to kill me'.
The case was closed as Ana refused to cooperate with police.
January 16: Fox News reports Ms Walshe was making plans to sell her property assets and reinvest elsewhere just before her disappearance as her behaviour became more erratic towards friends.
Sources say this was to buy another property. Friends previously claimed Ms Walsh looked to sell her apartment and a car for cash in December.
Ana Walshe was last seen by family friend Gem Mutlu on New Year's Eve at a party at their Cohasset home.
Friends said there was 'no indication of anything' suspicious in the hours before Ana vanished.
Mutlu told WBZ-TV: 'There was a lot of looking forward to the New Year. There was no indication of anything other than celebrating the New Year, problems on hold.'
Ms Walshe's mysterious disappearance was subsequently treated as unsuspicious by police, without evidence of foul play.
But revelations over the last week have drawn international attention to the story.
Hours before her disappearance, Ana Walshe is understood to have written an 'eerie note' on a champagne box, wishing her husband 'courage, love and perseverance' in the new year.
The scrawled note, first transcribed by the New York Post, read: 'Wow! 2022…What a year! And yet, we are still here and together!
'Let's make 2023 the best one yet! We are the authors of our lives…courage, love, perseverance, compassion, and joy. Love, Ana.'
The other side of the champagne box read: 'Gem Ana Brian 2023!', referring to family friend Gem Mutlu who was in the Walshe's home on New Year's Eve, hours before the disappearance.
Mr Brian Walshe first reported that his wife had taken an Uber or Lyft taxi journey to the airport to fly to Washington D.C. on 1 January for work.
Ms Walshe reportedly planned to travel on 3 January, but said she needed to fly earlier due to an emergency.
The police investigation was unable to confirm that Ms Walshe had ever taken a taxi to the airport.
Husband Brian Walshe also told investigating authorities he had been shopping for his mother on New Year's Day, but CVS surveillance was unable to support the alibi.
Mr Walshe did not tell police he had spent about $450 in cash buying gloves, tape and cleaning supplies from a Home Depot in MA, either.
Mr Walshe was sighted wearing a black surgical mask and blue surgical gloves.
The trip was reportedly made during the time he was supposed to pick up his children from school, although the school was not open on 2 January.
Ana Walshe was only reported missing - by her employer - on 4 January.
Police then found a hacksaw, hatchets, parts of a rug, used cleaning supplies and bloody trash bags in dumpsters at the Peabody transfer station on the other side of Boston.
Officials later announced that they had discovered blood in the basement of the Walshe family home in Cohasset, along with a damaged and bloody knife.
Brian Walshe was arrested on charges of misleading an investigation.
The affidavit stated that 'the intentional, willful and direct responses to questions about his whereabouts on the days of Sunday 1 January , 2023, and Monday 2 January, 2023, were a clear attempt to mislead and delay investigators.
'The fact that he was asked a specific question, and he gave an untruthful answer that led investigators out of the area caused a clear delay in the search for the missing person, Ana Walshe.'
The judge set bail at $500,000 cash and the next hearing scheduled for 9 February 2023.
Mr Walshe pleaded not guilty to the charges on Monday 9 January.
Ana Walshe's mother then said she 'can't believe' her son-in-law could be responsible for her daughter's disappearance.
She said Ana, 39, visited her in Belgrade in November and December last year and she never said a bad word about her husband.
Missing mother-of-three Ana Walshe, 39, is pictured with her husband Brian Walshe, 47
The note that Ana Walshe wrote to her husband on a champagne box, hours before vanishing
Pool behind house on Route 3A. Missing mother-of-three Ana Walshe promised a 'big surprise' in New Year and 'sold off assets' including a car and apartment in days before she vanished
Brian Walshe's 'response to friends' - a prepared statement addressing his missing wife's disappearance and thanking loved ones for their concern is seen folded on his dining table
Police reportedly searched the dumpster near Mr Walsh's mother's residence after seeing Brian Walshe dispose of items there. Walsh has been arrested for misleading authorities
The selling of owned assets to buy others, reported by Ms Walshe's tenants, is not suspicious in and of itself.
DailyMail.com revealed that Ms Walshe, a real estate executive for Tishman Speyer, was also the manager of a luxury Washington DC building where two fake Homeland Security agents lived.
Ms Walshe had looked to sell an apartment and a car for cash in the final days of 2022, promising a big surprise for the new year, according to friends.
While tenants said Ana had become uncharacteristically 'pushy' as she tried to sell her Revere, MA, condo, others said that Ana had not shown significant behavioral changes in the lead up to her disappearance.
Police have asked the public to send any information or tips to [email protected].