“Rather than divorce, it is believed that Brian Walshe dismembered Ana Walshe and discarded her body,” prosecutor Lynn Beland said at the suspect’s January arraignment.

On December 27 – a few days before the mother disappeared – the husband allegedly searched on Google: “What’s the best state to divorce for a man?”

After Ana Walshe disappeared, Brian Walshe allegedly Google searched phrases such as “Ten ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to,” “dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body,” “can you be charged with murder without a body,” and “can you identify a body with broken teeth,” the prosecutor said.

A hacksaw, a hatchet and Ana Walshe’s purse

Surveillance video captured Brian Walshe tossing heavy bags into dumpsters in Abington and in Swampscott, Beland said. Cell phone data showed the husband visited a dumpster near his mother’s home in Swampscott, the prosecutor said.

But she said the trash bags in Swampscott were found in a collection site in Peabody and contained blood stains, cleaning equipment, a hacksaw, a hatchet, a Prada purse carried by Ana Walshe and her Covid-19 vaccination card.

The state crime lab tested some of the bloody items in the bags and found DNA from Ana and Brian Walshe, Beland said.

‘A brilliant businesswoman’ and ‘supermom’

Ana Walshe, 39, worked for a real estate firm based in Washington, DC.

She was “an absolute radiant spirit, the kind of person that when you walk into a room, you just feel her energy,” her friend Pamela Bardhi told CNN.

“She’s a brilliant businesswoman and what I like to call a supermom.”

The mother of three young children would travel from Cohasset to DC during the week for her real estate job at Tishman Speyer and then return home on weekends, Bardhi said.

The couple’s three children were placed in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, a spokesperson said. Two of Ana Walshe’s friends, including Bardhi, said several local families had offered to take in the children so they can remain together.

At the time of her disappearance, the mother of three had a real estate portfolio worth nearly $2 million, according to CNN’s analysis of publicly available documents.

She owned at least four residential properties, according to property assessment records and tax records in Massachusetts, Maryland and Washington, DC. Her husband was not listed as owner or co-owner of any of the properties.

Property records examined by CNN include those in both her married name and the name she used before marrying Brian Walshe, Ana Knipp, but may not be an exhaustive picture of her real estate holdings.

CNN’s Jean Cesarez, Samantha Beech, Laura Dolan, Kristina Sgueglia, Eric Levenson, Amanda Watts, Jason Carroll, Kiely Westhoff, Anna Bahney, Lindsey Knight and Celina Tebor contributed to this report.