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A Massachusetts judge overseeing the murder trial of Brian Walshe ruled Monday that prosecutors may show jurors a still image taken from video of his missing wife playing with their children on a rug inside the family’s Cohasset home, after defense attorneys argued the footage was too inflammatory.

Prosecutors had wanted to show the entire video to illustrate a connection between the victim and the rug itself. They said in court that the rug seen in the clip is identical to one later recovered 40 miles away from a dumpster near the home of Brian Walshe’s mother, Diana, along with a saw and a “bone fragment.”

Brian Walshe, a 50-year-old convicted fraudster, is accused of killing his wife Ana after learning she was having an affair. Prosecutors

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