Find out more about that and more, drawing on our extensive archives and new reporting in our new podcast, “The Search for Anna Walsh,” hosted by NBC10 Boston anchors Colton Bradford and Matt Fortin. I am.
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Anna Walsh's murder was one of the biggest stories of 2023 for the Boston metropolitan area, but the conspiracy reached far beyond the Bay State and attracted international attention.
The days and weeks following Anna's disappearance and Brian Walsh's arrest were at times intense and chaotic for NBC10 Boston journalists as they tried to bring updates on the case to a public desperate for answers. .
In Episode 4 of “The Search for Anna Walsh,'' three reporters who covered this huge case look back and reminisce about what happened in the case that turned from a missing person to a murder case. Masu.
Abby Niezgoda, a reporter at large for NBC10 Boston, covered the case for about a month straight after Anna's disappearance. She followed the ground investigation, spoke to people in the Walsh family circle, and reported on the charges against Bryan as prosecutors laid out their charges against him in court.
“This is one of those cases that still keeps me up at night,” Niezgoda said. “I was preparing an episode of 'Dateline' from the beginning.”
Kathy Curran also talks about her role in reporting in the new episode. As NBC10's chief investigative strategist for her Boston, Curran leverages a network of sources she's built over decades to obtain her inside information. This case is no different, and she talks about the process of digging into Brian's past as she follows the ongoing development of the search.
“A few days after it happened, I could tell just from my sources that they thought there was something suspicious,” Curran said. “My instinct was that something wasn't right, because as a parent, I don't think a mother would just leave the house and leave her children behind.”
Finally, we hear from Mark Garfinkel, the station's staff photographer who has covered Boston for decades.
Garfinkel spoke of the infamous shot of Walsh appearing to be smiling as he emerges from the Cohasset Police Department after being charged in the first case. He also has a strange personal connection to the case, which leads us to a key point in the search for Anna.
“He looked straight into my camera and had a big smile on his face,” Garfinkel said. “what happened?”
A full account of the search for Anna Walsh can be heard in the latest episode of the podcast.
