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I didn't know anything about the case so I checked Wikipedia.

Brian Walshe was arrested on January 8 and charged with misleading the police in the investigation into [his wife] Ana's disappearance, after police could not find evidence that he had been to the CVS or Whole Foods in Swampscott on January 1 as he had claimed. He pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor alleged that Brian had gone to Home Depot in Rockland, Massachusetts on January 2 and spent $450 on cleaning supplies.

Police received a search warrant for the Walshe residence and in the basement found blood and a damaged, bloody knife. On January 18, Brian Walshe was arrested again and charged with murder and disinterring a body without authority. Prosecutors allege that he beat her to death, dismembered her, and then disposed of the body.

As evidence, they cited his Google search history on multiple devices including his son's iPad, which they allege includes terms like "How long before a body starts to smell", "Dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body", and "Can you be charged with murder without a body". Brian pleaded not guilty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Ana_Walshe

Good grief - Walshe is not the sharpest tool in the shed. I wonder what his legal defense will be. My bet is some kind of Twinkie Defense 2.0. The original Twinkie Defense worked pretty well for Dan White. Your honor, it's true that my client murdered a couple guys. But have you considered he's white and he ate some Twinkies?

White straight-up murdered Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone but he only did five years.

"Twinkie defense" is a derisive label for an improbable legal defense. It is not a recognized legal defense in jurisprudence, but a catch-all term coined by reporters during their coverage of the trial of defendant Dan White for the murders of San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. White's defense was that he suffered diminished capacity as a result of his depression, a symptom of which was a change in diet from healthy food to Twinkies and other sugary foods.

Contrary to common belief, White's attorneys did not argue that the Twinkies were the cause of White's actions, but that their consumption was symptomatic of his underlying depression. The product itself was only mentioned in passing during the trial. White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter rather than first-degree murder, and served five years in prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense