According to Boston 25 News, she is thought to have met Brian Walshe during her two years working at the Wheatleigh Hotel in Lenox, Massachusetts.

[8] In 2021, Brian pleaded guilty in federal court on three charges of fraud relating to selling counterfeit Andy Warhol works.

Brian told the police that Ana had left the house early for a flight from Boston's Logan International Airport to Washington, D.C., after a work emergency caused her to move up a trip scheduled for January 3.

Police received a search warrant for the Walshe residence and in the basement found blood and a damaged, bloody knife.

[15] On March 30, Brian was indicted on the charges of first-degree murder, misleading a police investigation, and "improper conveyance of a human body".

[19] Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has communicated, through the Serbian consulate-general in New York, with the Norfolk District Attorney's office, in order to provide Ana Walshe's mother with non-publicly available information about the course of the investigation.