Brian Walshe’s bizarre claim that his wife, Ana, died of “natural causes” at age 39 “defies common sense,” a Massachusetts prosecutor said Friday as the murder trial wound to a close.

Walshe, 50 — who is on trial for murdering the mother of his three children on New Year’s Day 2023 — dismembered and disposed of her remains in dumpsters “to hide the fact that he murdered Ana,” prosecutor Anne Yas told the jury in Norfolk County Superior Court in Dedham, Mass.

Her body has never been found.

“He could not let Ana’s body be found because Ana didn’t die of natural causes,” Yas said. “The defendant didn’t want anyone to find Ana’s body, to find out how she died.”

The 12-person jury began deliberating Friday afternoon whether Walshe is guilty of a single count of first-degree murder — a c

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