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Mom of 3 vanished on New Year’s Day before flight, friends say. ‘Want to see her home’

A Massachusetts mother and wife, Ana Walshe, went missing on New Year’s Day before her flight to Washington, D.C., police and friends say.
A Massachusetts mother and wife, Ana Walshe, went missing on New Year’s Day before her flight to Washington, D.C., police and friends say. Cohasset Police Department

Police are searching for a 39-year-old woman who they say went missing early on New Year’s Day in Massachusetts.

Ana Walshe was last seen at her home in Cohasset, about 20 miles southeast of Boston, “shortly after” midnight on Jan. 1, according to a Jan. 5 news release from the Cohasset Police Department.

The wife and mother of three boys never boarded her scheduled flight to Washington, D.C., that morning, her friends told WCVB5 and other news outlets.

Walshe had plans to go to Logan International Airport in Boston around 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 1 but vanished, Cohasset Police Chief William Quigley told Boston 25.

“She is loved by so many and we just want to see her home,” Evan Turell, one of Walshe’s friends, told WCVB5.

On weekends, Walshe typically resides in Cohasset and lives in Washington during the week while working at the real estate company Tishman Speyer, another friend, Abdulla Almutairi, told Boston 25.

“She loves her family, and I know in my heart, that of her choice, she would not go a day without speaking to her husband and her kids,” Walshe’s friend Alissa Kirby told WCVB5.

Walshe is about 5 feet, 2 inches, has brown hair and eyes and speaks with an Eastern European accent, according to police.

Anyone with information about Walshe is asked to contact Cohasset Police Department Det. Harrison Schmidt at 781-383-1055, extension 6108, or email hschmidt@cohassetpolice.com.

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This story was originally published January 6, 2023 at 9:23 AM with the headline "Mom of 3 vanished on New Year’s Day before flight, friends say. ‘Want to see her home’."

Julia Marnin
McClatchy DC
Julia Marnin covers courts for McClatchy News, writing about criminal and civil affairs, including cases involving policing, corrections, civil liberties, fraud, and abuses of power. As a reporter on McClatchy’s National Real-Time Team, she’s also covered the COVID-19 pandemic and a variety of other topics since joining in 2021, following a fellowship with Newsweek. Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, she was raised in South Jersey and is now based in New York State.
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