Re: William Walsh 'staged' disappearance, cops say Police reveal details about arrest of husband in Leah Walsh case
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My Note: Here is a previous story to get some perspective or the
husband's chutzpah...
http://tinyurl.com/5ucu3d
and today's story...
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-liwals1031,0,2133978.story
Newsday.com
William Walsh 'staged' disappearance, cops say
Police reveal details about arrest of husband in Leah Walsh case
BY MATTHEW CHAYES
3:32 PM EDT, October 30, 2008
It began, police said, with an argument over whether he was cheating on
her.
William Walsh Jr. then strangled his wife, hid her body in the woods,
staged her disappearance, and made phony emotional pleas for her safe
return, Nassau police said Thursday.
Walsh, 29, has confessed to strangling his wife, Leah Walsh, after he
returned to their Bethpage home early Sunday from a trip to Atlantic
City, Det. Lt. John Azzata of Nassau's homicide squad said at a news
conference.
The confession came hours after the body of his wife, also 29, was
discovered Wednesday near the Long Island Expressway in North Hills,
Azzata said.
Leah Walsh, who worked at a special-education school in Glen Cove, was
identified by detectives using fingerprints on file from a criminal
background check done when she became a teacher, Azzata said.
Her disappearance, which was treated as a missing-person case at first,
gained national attention when William Walsh pleaded for help finding
his wife.
"I just wanna know where she is. I want my wife," he told reporters at
his home, about an hour before he was arrested Wednesday in the
slaying.
Walsh knew all along where she was because he had killed her, police
said.
Walsh "should not enjoy one nanosecond of freedom" for the rest of his
life, Nassau Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey said.
At his arraignment Thursday in Hempstead, Walsh was ordered held
without
bail. His parents and siblings were at the hearing and left court
without comment. Walsh's attorney, Karl C. Seman, of Garden City, said
his client's confession was not valid.
The confession came after Walsh hadn't slept for three days and had
been
interrogated for 15 consecutive hours without being allowed to speak
with family, Seman said.
"Any confession they obtained was through trickery," Seman said.
Before the arraignment, Seman said Nassau County police "rushed to
judgment" in arresting Walsh before an autopsy was complete because
police were under pressure to solve the case.
In response to a reporter's question about whether Walsh was "beaten
down" into confessing, Azzata said, "I can assure you he wasn't beaten
down."
Azzata also disputed the defense attorney's allegation of 15 hours of
questioning, saying that Walsh was pulled over around 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday, that he was interrogated after 10 a.m. and that the
confession came before 4 p.m.
"That's nowhere near 15 hours," Azzata said.
Confirmation Wednesday night that a body found early in the day was
Leah
Walsh and the prime suspect in her death was her husband capped a
dramatic series of events that began Monday morning when her abandoned
car was found on the shoulder of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway.
Police said Walsh ran errands throughout the day Sunday following the
slaying in an attempt to create an alibi for himself as the body lay in
their home.
"During the rest of Sunday, Mr. Walsh went about his business,
including
doing his laundry at a local Laundromat, going to a local McDonald's,"
Azzata said.
At nightfall, William Walsh moved his wife's body into her own Ford
Focus to dispose of the remains, Azzata said.
"In the cover of darkness, he drove around Long Island and Nassau
County, finding a dark area, backed his vehicle into that dark area and
ultimately removed Leah from the vehicle, dragged her across the cold
ground and left her in weeds, leaves and a wooded area," Azzata said.
He later put the Ford Focus on the side of the Seaford-Oyster Bay
Expressway, near Exit 9, after letting the air out of a tire, Azzata
said.
Leah Walsh's family spoke after the news conference. Outside his
parents' Rockville Centre home, her brother, Josh Hirschel, thanked
Nassau police for "their professionalism and dedication and their
kindness" and loved ones for their "outpouring of support."
"Without you I think this nightmare would have been completely
unbearable for all of us," Hirschel said, speaking on behalf of his
family.
Hirschel, who did not respond to questions about his brother-in-law,
said his sister was a wonderful person.
"Leah always strove to brighten the world around her," Hirschel said.
"She always lent a hand to those who most needed it."
Staff writers Joseph Mallia, Sophia Chang and Keith Herbert contributed
to this story.
I'd been following this one. I posted a couple stories about it. I
what it was they had that big fight about? Why she told her friend 'shewas
divorcing him'. What ever he did was unforgivable.
td
From the article:
"> It began, police said, with an argument over whether he was cheating on
her."
It usually does. Too bad the whole world turns a blind eye to cheating.
It's the reason behind virtually every divorce and every incident of
domestic violence, including murder. Ask any cop or marriage counselor.
WTF does he have to kill her? She seemed *okay* with divorcing him. What,
he couldn't take it that it was okay with her, divorce.
td
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