Opening statements in the murder trial of a convicted fraudster accused of killing his wife and dismembering her body are scheduled to begin Monday in a Massachusetts courtroom.

Brian Walshe, 50, pleaded guilty in mid-November to two lesser charges linked to the 2023 disappearance and death of Ana Walshe, 39 — misleading a police investigation and improper conveyance of a body.

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The trial, in Norfolk County Superior Court, is expected to last two to three weeks.

Prosecutors have alleged that Walshe was motivated by money — he was the sole beneficiary of his wife’s $2.7 million life insurance policy — and that he believed she was having an affair when she disappeared on New Year's Day nearly three years a

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