A missing mum-of-three wrote an ominous message in red pen on a champagne bottle box on New Years Eve just hours before she disappeared, it has emerged.
Ana Walshe, a 39-year-old woman with three sons, was reported missing on Wednesday, January 4, by her employer in Washington after she was last seen on New Year's Day leaving her home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, US.
Ana was described as being 5ft 2ins and and about 115lbs in plea to the public after she was reported missing.
The message she wrote on the Lanson Noble Cuvee box read: "Wow. 2022…What a year. And yet, we are still here and together.
"Let's make 2023 the best one yet. We are the authors of our lives…courage, love, perseverance, compassion, and joy. Love, Ana."
The box was in the dining room of the home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, that she shared with her husband Brian Walshe, 47, and their children.
Brian was arrested and is being held by police a $500,000 bond on a charge of misleading investigators in connection with his wife's disappearance, while the investigation is ongoing.
The husband was captured by a CCTV camera buying £370 worth of cleaning supplies at a home improvement store the day after his wife was last seen, according to a prosecutor.
He did not tell police he had been to the home improvement store, where he bought mops, buckets, tarps, tape and other items on January 2, Assistant Norfolk District Attorney Lynn Beland said at the hearing in Quincy District Court.
Police also found a bloodied knife found in the basement, along with a rug, hack saw and hatchet, according to WBZ.
Attorney Beland said Brian misled investigators so he could either clean up or dispose of evidence.
The evidence came just a day after he was revealed to have searched the internet asking "how to dispose of a 115-pound woman's body".
A friend of the couple, Gem Mutlu was in the Walshe's home on New Year's Eve and told local news outlet WBZ-TV in an interview that they had hugged and toasted during the New Year's celebration with "no indication of anything other than celebrating the New Year".
He claimed he had left the family home, around 15 miles southeast of Boston, around 1.30am in the early hours of January 1.
Another family friend, Natasha Sky, told Fox Boston that two families were going through the legal process attempting to gain custody.
They were families with whom Ana's children had regular playdates and were willing to "take all three boys together", she said.
Walshe told officers the mum went missing after she travelled to Boston Logan Airport on January 1.
However, there were no pickups at the home or evidence of the journey, according to police, as Ana's mobile phone continued to give notifications two after she allegedly left.
A prayer vigil had been organised in downtown Cohasset for Walshe at 4.30pm on Thursday.
Police searching through two waste facilities on Monday night found further potential evidence - blood, a hatchet, a hacksaw, a rug and used cleaning products.
One facility, West Wareham, was an hour south of of the couple's house while another was 15 minutes from his mother's house in Swampscott.
