BELGRADE, Serbia — Ana Walshe's mother is holding out hope that her daughter is still alive and"just cannot believe" that her son-in-law Brian Walshe made thethat prosecutors unveiled in court Wednesday, she told NBC News.
, as long as there is enough circumstantial evidence for a jury to infer that the victim is dead and the defendant is guilty. Ljubicic also claimed that Brian Walshe saved her life when she was visiting the United States in 2021 and “had some health issues.” before they were married, according to a report filed with Washington, D.C., police obtained by NBC Washington. The report did not identify Brian Walshe by name, but an agency spokesperson confirmed he was the person accused of having threatened Ana Walshe over the phone. No charges were filed, and the case was closed because of a lack of cooperation from the victim, according to the spokesperson.
Ana Walshe loved her job, according to her mother, but hated being away from her three sons, ages 2, 4 and 6 — but the family couldn't move because in October 2021, Brian Walshe was ordered to home confinement and not to leave the state of Massachusetts after pleading guilty to three counts in the wire fraud case six months earlier.
One of those texts came on Christmas Day, when Ana Walshe asked her mother, “Mama, can you please come tomorrow?” Ljubicic said. “I understood that they were trying to make an arrangement where to live together … About what happened that night, I have no idea,” she said, adding that she has received “no official word” from Serbian or U.S. officials about what transpired.
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If she were alive she would have contacted someone by now.
They should do background checks on guys who do mail ordered brides. This could have been prevented. She isn’t the first or last.