Brian Walshe enter the courtroom clutching papers and a rosary on Monday as his murder trial got underway in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts. Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger/AP

Was Ana Walshe murdered by her husband? Or did she die in bed of a mysterious, unexplained medical event?

Defense attorneys for her husband, Brian Walshe , will try to convince jurors of the latter, one said in opening statements Monday as his murder trial began in earnest, almost three years after Ana vanished from a Boston suburb in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2023.

It was the first time anyone has publicly offered a theory for the cause of Ana’s death since Walshe was charged with her murder. Her body has never been found, and while Walshe two weeks ago pleaded guilty to illegally

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