A Massachusetts man has been found guilty of murdering his wife, who has never been found after she disappeared nearly three years ago. Brian Walshe was convicted of first-degree murder Monday after pleading guilty last month to lesser charges of misleading police and illegally disposing of her body. Investigators relied on online searches Walshe made about dismemberment and disposing of a body. Surveillance also showed a man resembling him throwing heavy trash bags into a dumpster. Prosecutors showed photos of many items recovered that were connected to Ana Walshe, including her vaccination card. She had taken out a $2.7 million life insurance policy naming him as the beneficiary.

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Chief Superintendent Karen Gonneau of the Ontario Provincial Police stands in front of a screen displaying images of Kenneth Smith as police provide a development in three historical homicide investigations, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, during a news conference at police headquarters in Toronto. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Images of Kenneth Smith are displayed as police provide a development in three historical homicide investigations, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, during a news conference at police headquarters in Toronto. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Images of Kenneth Smith are displayed as police provide a development in three historical homicide investigations, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, during a news conference at police headquarters in Toronto. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)

The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death. They claim the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son’s “paranoid delusions” and helped direct them at his mother before he killed her. Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, a former tech industry worker, fatally beat and strangled his mother, Suzanne Adams, and killed himself in early August. The lawsuit claims OpenAI designed a defective product that validated a user's paranoid delusions, leading him to kill his own mother.