Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Wednesday, December tenth, and the
Speaker 1: prosecution has rested its case against Brian Walsh, but not
Speaker 1: before giving us one a hell of a day in court.
Speaker 1: And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and
Speaker 1: TJ Robes. This this day was all about one witness.
Speaker 1: Is that fair to say? A highly anticipated witness?
Speaker 2: Yes, jem Mootlou. I was trying to say his name, Christ.
Speaker 1: They were as well in court.
Speaker 3: It's Mootlou, right, Jem Mootlou. Yes.
Speaker 2: He was Anna Walsh's former boss and a friend to
Speaker 2: both Anna and Brian, and most notably, he was with
Speaker 2: them the night that everything went down on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3: He was with them until one thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the setup, right, that's the setup we got.
Speaker 1: This is the night we've been hearing about. This is
Speaker 1: very very important to hear from this witness what he saw.
Speaker 1: You would could argue he is as key to this
Speaker 1: story as anybody, is he not besides William Fastaw Maybe.
Speaker 2: True because and I even think perhaps more than that,
Speaker 2: because he had had an hour and a half two
Speaker 2: hour phone conversation with his wife with Anna, and I
Speaker 2: guess a forty five minute one the day before where
Speaker 2: she was, according to him, venting and talking about her marriage.
Speaker 2: And then he got to witness the couple together that night.
Speaker 2: Did they fight, did they drink too much? What were
Speaker 2: they like? He's the only person who could actually give
Speaker 2: insight into that.
Speaker 1: So this sounds like it should be simple. Get on
Speaker 1: the stand, we'll ask you what you saw, and there
Speaker 1: you have it. Folks, this was a mess of a
Speaker 1: day in court. I don't know how the prosecution is
Speaker 1: going to think this was a winning final day for them.
Speaker 1: This witness was a mess from jump Street and the
Speaker 1: reason romees we got off to a slow start or
Speaker 1: a late start. I should say. The jury didn't even
Speaker 1: come until ten o'clock. She told him yesterday, I don't
Speaker 1: come until then because they wanted to get this witness
Speaker 1: on the stand and give some testimony so they could
Speaker 1: question him outside the jury. It was a shit show
Speaker 1: trying to get him to answer questions.
Speaker 2: Right because he said it was three years ago. I
Speaker 2: don't remember exactly what the conversation was that I had
Speaker 2: with Anna that forty five minute one. I believe it
Speaker 2: was on December twenty ninth, and since it was three
Speaker 2: years ago. I can't remember the exact words, and the
Speaker 2: judge said, that's fine, you don't have to know the
Speaker 2: exact words.
Speaker 3: Paraphrase what she said. He just couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: He kept saying, she told me about their marital problems,
Speaker 2: and then every time there would be an objection because
Speaker 2: that was him basically categorizing it or characterizing what it was.
Speaker 3: She said, now, what did she say?
Speaker 1: But we went round and round him characterizing it as
Speaker 1: marital issues. He said, I walked away from the conversation
Speaker 1: with the feeling. I think he kept saying the feeling
Speaker 1: that there were marital issues. That doesn't work in courts.
Speaker 1: So we're going round and round, attorneys and the judge.
Speaker 1: Everybody is almost scolding him, trying to get him to understand.
Speaker 1: He can't do it. So now he freezes up even more,
Speaker 1: I would argue, and he though Robes never was able
Speaker 1: to give any testimony about something she said that suggests
Speaker 1: that she had a problem with her marriage.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was almost after and we were all thankful.
Speaker 2: A certain point, the prosecution just said never mind because
Speaker 2: they couldn't get him to answer. And you just kept saying, well,
Speaker 2: I don't remember the exact words. And that was really
Speaker 2: frustrating because it's like, Okay, well that's fine, but you
Speaker 2: have to give an example of what she said.
Speaker 3: Can't.
Speaker 2: You can't say it made me feel like they had
Speaker 2: marital problems. So that was a whole whole mess.
Speaker 1: Well, it didn't feel like he was trying to fill
Speaker 1: in some holes and some blanks, like he was trying
Speaker 1: to fill in with what It almost felt at times
Speaker 1: that he was. He wanted to help the prosecution as
Speaker 1: best he could. This was a close friend of his.
Speaker 1: It just he wasn't a good witness for the prosecution.
Speaker 1: And even if there was information in there that was helpful,
Speaker 1: the way it was presented, the mess that it was.
Speaker 1: When the jury finally came in and he did give testimony,
Speaker 1: it was still a bunch of objections and stopping and
Speaker 1: even the judge had to jump in at some point
Speaker 1: and no, you can it seemed like it did. It
Speaker 1: seemed like a child you were trying to get something
Speaker 1: out of or to follow instructions. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: be offensive to him by saying he's a childlike I'm
Speaker 1: trying to give an impression of what it felt like
Speaker 1: in court today.
Speaker 3: It was messy. Yeah, it was very, very very messy.
Speaker 2: And what Jem did and what he was able to
Speaker 2: at least he was able to establish a couple of things.
Speaker 2: First of all, he said that it was a festive,
Speaker 2: fun night and they appeared to be happy.
Speaker 3: Even that went around and around a bit, but he
Speaker 3: did admit.
Speaker 2: That and then asked, this was really interesting when he
Speaker 2: talked about well, First of all, he also said that
Speaker 2: he saw Anna send a text to Will Fastau earlier
Speaker 2: in the night. So he said, they took a picture
Speaker 2: of themselves and sent it. She's like, let's send it
Speaker 2: to Will. So he did establish that he saw that
Speaker 2: text take place. But then what I thought was the
Speaker 2: most interesting part about his testimony for the prosecution was
Speaker 2: when he said that Brian called him on January fourth,
Speaker 2: several days later and said that he had not seen
Speaker 2: Anna since January one, And he said, my immediate response
Speaker 2: was did you have an argument?
Speaker 3: Did you have a fight?
Speaker 2: And he said it was a strange response because he said,
Speaker 2: Brian said, no, did it look like we had an argument.
Speaker 2: You were there, But he just said he was so
Speaker 2: even keeled, he was so not panicked that he was
Speaker 2: immediately thrown off by Brian's demeanor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, hasn't everyone described him and everything we've seen,
Speaker 1: even though the police video, audio and video, we haven't
Speaker 1: seen him worked up or anybody testified to him having
Speaker 1: a temper of any kind.
Speaker 2: Have we no? And but also unemotional when it comes
Speaker 2: to his missing wife. That that was also a note
Speaker 2: just seemed so robotic about it all, so calm, not
Speaker 2: like someone desperate to find out what happened to his wife.
Speaker 2: That was something that has been very eerie to watch
Speaker 2: him to hear in real time.
Speaker 1: He confirmed what was and again I felt at times
Speaker 1: he was even begrudgingly admitting that they were a loving couple.
Speaker 1: He had to admit, yes, she loved and was in
Speaker 1: love with our husband. He was admitting a lot of things.
Speaker 1: And the night sounded really fun. Yeah, the sun came
Speaker 1: and hung out for a little while. The witness today,
Speaker 1: the friend who was there, said he considered the kids
Speaker 1: his own. Yes, like they were that kind of close.
Speaker 1: That night sounded fun. They showed the box, the champagne
Speaker 1: box that they all signed and had these nice, beautiful
Speaker 1: messages looking forward to the future. He described, Now, this
Speaker 1: gives you insight into the evening. Nothing was wrong before
Speaker 1: that dude left.
Speaker 2: That is exactly what Mutloud testified to. And yes, reading
Speaker 2: what Anna wrote on the champagne box, basically saying, you know,
Speaker 2: we made it. We're still here and together. And it
Speaker 2: just to think that that was her last night, the
Speaker 2: last message she would ever write on a.
Speaker 3: New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2: And he got emotional a couple of times too, like
Speaker 2: you know, actually got choked up when he was testifying
Speaker 2: about Anna and about their relationship. But he the last
Speaker 2: little bit he tried to get in for the prosecution
Speaker 2: when they tried a final time to discuss how Anna
Speaker 2: talked to him during that phone call about the marriage.
Speaker 2: He said, she said there were cracks in the marriage.
Speaker 2: Immediate objection and overruled. But I wonder still even though
Speaker 2: and he said that many different ways, each time there
Speaker 2: was an objection, each time it was sustained, excuse me,
Speaker 2: not overruled. The jury still hears it. And that's what
Speaker 2: I leaned over and looked at you, and I said,
Speaker 2: the jury still hears that. They're hearing him say that,
Speaker 2: and that still has an impact.
Speaker 1: And there was a lot of that today to the
Speaker 1: point it was hard to keep up. It was hard
Speaker 1: to find a flow, It was hard to find a story.
Speaker 1: Even the attorneys on the prosecution side at least struggled
Speaker 1: to build sentences or questions the right way that wouldn't
Speaker 1: get an objection. It was just a lot of that
Speaker 1: today that didn't necessarily tell much of a story you had.
Speaker 1: You know what, if you're on the jury, yes it's there,
Speaker 1: but you had to find it for yourself. Nobody put
Speaker 1: a good story together today.
Speaker 2: That is exactly true. I remember just thinking, why can't
Speaker 2: we button this up and explain? Even when the prosecution
Speaker 2: had Brian Walsh's and I don't know what the term was,
Speaker 2: It's not obviously a parole officer, but it was someone
Speaker 2: who was in charge of making sure he stayed on
Speaker 2: house arrest with I don't know if he had a monitor.
Speaker 2: I believe he must have had some sort of ankle
Speaker 2: monitor on him, but he wasn't allowed to leave the house.
Speaker 3: But even going through what he was.
Speaker 2: Allowed to do and what he wasn't allowed to do,
Speaker 2: I didn't understand what she was getting at. Are you
Speaker 2: saying that he planned a fake six hour window that
Speaker 2: he claims he was driving his mother back home from
Speaker 2: surgery when clearly we all know now during that period
Speaker 2: of time, he was going to Low's and he was
Speaker 2: going to Walgreens and he was getting equipment and things
Speaker 2: to clean up and to actually dismember his wife. So
Speaker 2: was the implication that he had premeditated that so made
Speaker 2: up an excuse for his ability to leave his house.
Speaker 2: But they never brought it home. They never made it
Speaker 2: make sense. And I just didn't understand what the point
Speaker 2: of any of that testimony was.
Speaker 1: And we listened to every single second of that, we
Speaker 1: were paying close attention, and we couldn't figure that out. Look,
Speaker 1: maybe we're just not good listeners, and maybe the jury
Speaker 1: is putting this together just fine. But it was a
Speaker 1: mess of a day. It was the biggest day in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, and it was their final day
Speaker 1: the prosecution has now put on its case. What's next
Speaker 1: we do not know. But some of the things we've
Speaker 1: already described, a couple of things we've left out so far,
Speaker 1: including the final witness of the day was a friend
Speaker 1: of Anna Walsh, and she put into testimony some things
Speaker 1: we have not heard yet in this trial. Will explain
Speaker 1: what that was about. And also how did a psychic
Speaker 1: come into play today in testimony.
Speaker 2: Stay here, welcome back everyone, as we talk about day
Speaker 2: eight in the Brian Walsh trial. And this was a
Speaker 2: huge day. It turned out to be the final day
Speaker 2: for the prosecution, starting off with the man who was
Speaker 2: with the Walshes until one thirty in the morning, the
Speaker 2: night that Anna Walsh died and ultimately disappeared forever. So
Speaker 2: we had his testimony. But another big name and the
Speaker 2: final witness was Anna Walsh's close friend. Her name was
Speaker 2: it's her last name's Kirby. What was her first name?
Speaker 2: I just completely lost her first name, but her, one
Speaker 2: of her best friends, testified and I thought what she
Speaker 2: had to say was very, very eye opening and certainly
Speaker 2: this was a win for the prosecution with this particular witness.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess yes, it depends on how you or
Speaker 1: how they hope the jury is going to interpret this.
Speaker 1: I was surprised to hear, right. They talked to plenty
Speaker 1: that the defense was saying that he didn't know about
Speaker 1: the affair first of all, and also saying that he's
Speaker 1: not a jealous man. And they made that point with
Speaker 1: the previous that's Trus who was the guy who was
Speaker 1: there with him, that I was a guy that she
Speaker 1: was very close with and spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: with him. Men, they asked, Hey, you did did Brian
Speaker 1: ever express jealousy or anything that you two spent more
Speaker 1: time so much time. No, we were all very close.
Speaker 1: So they've been setting this up, is what I am saying.
Speaker 1: That he is not a jealous person. But I didn't
Speaker 1: see it coming that he was aware that his wife
Speaker 1: had a crush on the guy that she was ultimately
Speaker 1: having an affair with. And then who actually told him
Speaker 1: about the crush.
Speaker 3: Yes, so that was really interesting.
Speaker 2: It's Alyssa Kirby, by the way, I did find her
Speaker 2: first name, but that Alyssa said that Anna told her
Speaker 2: that she and Brian didn't keep secrets, that they told
Speaker 2: each other everything, and that she almost wished he was
Speaker 2: more jealous. The defense attorney got her to admit that,
Speaker 2: which I thought was really really interesting. She's like, well,
Speaker 2: you know the way a girl wants a guy to
Speaker 2: maybe you know, put her first or whatever. But that
Speaker 2: definitely stuck with me that she said that. But she
Speaker 2: also gave us some insight into where Anna Walsh's head
Speaker 2: was in the days right before she died on December
Speaker 2: twenty ninth, they hung out. She's saying that Anna Walsh
Speaker 2: is basically saying her life is a mess, that she's
Speaker 2: at a breaking point. So we had not heard that before,
Speaker 2: that she was not in a good place in her
Speaker 2: marriage and she was spilling this all out to her
Speaker 2: on December twenty ninth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So again, I don't know how the prosecution felt
Speaker 1: about how they finished up their day, if they felt
Speaker 1: they finished up strong, but that is it. As of now,
Speaker 1: we don't know the list of what the defense is
Speaker 1: possibly going to put on starting tomorrow. They are anticipating
Speaker 1: to be back at at starting at nine am and
Speaker 1: the Brian Wallsh trial. It will be day nine of
Speaker 1: testimony tomorrow. Folks will keep a close eye on go ahead.
Speaker 2: Well, we have the psychic to tell you about too,
Speaker 2: because that was the other thing you tease.
Speaker 3: I wanted to make sure.
Speaker 2: Basically, Alyssa Kirby said that Anna Walsh told her that
Speaker 2: Brian's mother went to a psychic.
Speaker 3: Are you following me?
Speaker 2: I know that's confusing, but that Brian's mother's psychic told
Speaker 2: Brian's mother that Anna was having an affair. So the
Speaker 2: implication would be that Brian might have asked her about it.
Speaker 2: Ha ha, Are you having an affair? My mom's psychic
Speaker 2: said you were, so there was some implication that there
Speaker 2: was a conversation at least about something Brian's mom's psychic
Speaker 2: told her about Anna. So that was another little interesting
Speaker 2: part of her testimony.
Speaker 1: We'll see how much more interesting things will get tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll keep an eye on on it. Back to the trial.
Speaker 1: Nine am from now, I'm TJ. Holmes on behalf of
Speaker 1: my dear Amy Robot. We'll talk to Ulster