The mother of missing Massachusetts woman Ana Walshe has told of her disbelief that her daughter may have been killed by her husband – because he saved her life when she suffered a stroke 14 months ago.
Brian Walshe dropped everything and rushed Milanka Ljubicic to the hospital, where she had to stay for a month, Ljubicic told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.
'I had a very bad pain in my head and I started bleeding from my mouth and nose,' Ljubicic, 69, said, speaking in her native Serbian at her home in the nation's capital, Belgrade.
'I was crying for help. He heard me. He called my daughter and drove me to the hospital.'
Ana Walshe's mother Milanka Ljubicic told DailyMail.com that her son-in-law Brian Walshe saved her life after she suffered a stroke a year ago
'I can say he saved my life then and that is why I can't believe he is responsible – I just can't believe it,' she said
Ljubicic was staying at the Cohasset, Massachusetts, home of her daughter and son-in-law when she suffered the stroke on November 9, 2021. Ana was away working in Washington, DC at the time.
'I can say he saved my life then and that is why I can't believe he is responsible – I just can't believe it.'
She said Ana, 39, visited her in Belgrade in November and December last year and she never said a bad word about her husband.
But she knew there was some strain on their marriage because Ana had to spend so much time in Washington, where she worked, and her husband could not leave Boston because he was under house arrest for a 2018 scam when he sold fake Andy Warhol paintings on eBay for $80,000.
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ShareLjubicic said Walshe would not let his wife take their three sons with her to the nation's capital, which increased Ana's sense of loneliness and isolation.
At one point, she claimed, Ana didn't see her children for almost an entire year because she was away so much.
'She was upset because she was traveling but she didn't blame him.'
She had earlier said that Ana had begged her to fly to the United States to visit her just a week before she vanished, which made her think there were some problems in her daughter's life.
She told Fox News Digital: 'She just said, ''Please, mama. Come tomorrow''. Clearly, there must have been some problems.
'Now I can't forgive myself for not just letting things fall where they may, and just go, and whatever happens to me, happens.'
Brian Walshe is charged with impeding the investigation into his wife's disappearance. He pleaded not guilty
Ljubicic said Ana visited her in Belgrade in November and December last year and she never said a bad word about her husband
Ana was reported missing by co-workers on January 4 and Brian claims he last saw her on New Year's Day at 6am
Ana Walshe has been missing since early on the morning of January 1, when she supposedly took a car to Boston's Logan Airport to fly to DC. Ride-share services show no pickups at the family home, according to WCBV, and Ana's cellphone continued pinging from there for two days after she allegedly left the house.
She was not reported missing until January 4, after her office called the police when she failed to show up for work.
Ana vanished on January 1. Her employer reported her missing on January 4
Since then, cops have been combing the seaside town of Cohasset for any sign of her. They have also scoured a waste facility in West Wareham.
Brian Walshe, 47, has been arrested and charged with misleading a police investigation and it has since been revealed that he Googled 'How to dispose of a 115lb woman's body' just days before her disappearance.
Police also found traces of blood, a hatchet, hacksaw, a rug and cleaning supplies in a dumpster in Peabody, Massachusetts, not far from Brian's mother's home in Swampscott.
The Norfolk County District Attorney's office has said those items will undergo forensic testing.
Police were also seen in the parking lot of the apartment complex in Swampscott, where Walshe's mother, Diane, lives.
Dumpsters were hauled away with a police escort to the transfer station in Peabody to be searched.
It has also been revealed that Brian Walshe bought $450 worth of cleaning supplies from a Home Depot.
Despite her unwillingness to believe he could be responsible for her daughter's disappearance, Ljubicic admits things don't look good for her son-in-law.
She said she knew Ana and Brian had had a friend over for New Year's Eve dinner. That friend has now been named as Gem Mutlu, who told WBZ-TV there was no indication of tension between the couple.
He said the atmosphere at the home was 'festive' and said that Brian had cooked 'an elaborate meal'.
Brian and Ana lived in this house in Cohasset. Brian Googled how to dismember a 115-pound woman's body before his wife vanished
Police scoured a nearby dumpster station after removing a container from Brian's mother's property in Swampscott
'We hugged and celebrated and we toasted – just what you do over New Year's,' Mutlu said. 'There was a lot of looking forward to the New Year. There was no indication of anything other than celebrating.
'She was sitting next to me at the barstool at their kitchen. There was absolutely no indication that any modicum of a tragedy, of disappearance, or anything else could have happened that night.'
Ljubicic said she knew that Mutlu didn't leave the home till 1.30am on New Year's morning, just three hours before her daughter was due to leave, to catch the plane to Boston.
'Maybe they had a fight, but I don't know that,' Ljubicic said. 'Maybe they had too much to drink.
'Police searched the whole area around the house and woods and a river nearby and the pulled the car from the garage and they found the blood and a bloody knife.
'The question is: "Whose blood is that?" I don't know. They need to do DNA tests.
She also said police have searched the home in Washington where Ana lived and found nothing suspicious.
'They said there was nothing in that house. They said they searched the whole house. I half-think they did that and half-think they did not.
'My only wish is that my daughter is still alive. And I have only one message for her. "Ana, call me. Call me, Ana, please, if you are alive."
'And that is the question. Is she alive?'
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 reportedly books a rideshare car to take her to Logan International Airport at 4am, but it is unclear if she ever gets into the vehicle.
Her husband claims he went to Whole Foods and CVS, but there is no surveillance or receipts to prove he went.
January 2: Walshe 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 Jan 1 and 2.
January 4: Ana's employer reports her as missing.
January 5: Police say Walshe is cooperating with the investigation into his missing wife.
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 find 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' authorities but do not charge him with anything else.
January 9: Walshe grins at reporters as he is transported to his arraignment at Quincy District Court. He is held on $500,000 cash bail.
Police search a garbage facility in Peabody and find potential evidence.
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