DEDHAM — As the murder trial of Brian R. Walshe began on Monday , his lawyers, for the first time, laid out his defense: Though he indeed moved his wife’s corpse and lied to police about it, he’d only done so in an irrational panic after she suddenly died of natural causes in the bed they shared.

“Brian Walshe never killed Ana,” defense attorney Larry Tipton told the jury during his opening statement on Monday in Norfolk Superior Court. “Brian Walshe never thought about killing Ana.”

Tipton said Walshe never told anyone, because, “He didn’t think anyone would believe that Ana Walshe was alive one minute and dead the next.”

Walshe , 50, of Cohasset, is charged with murdering 39-year-old Ana Walshe in the early morning of New Year’s Day 2023 as their relationship worsened and his

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