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>> reporter: what we definitely learned, anderson, is you know, a lot more about the timeline in court today, much of it linked to the alleged internet searches that walshe conducted on december 27th, january 1st, the second and fourth internet searches about things such as dna, divorce, and a decomposing body. >> i think the number one concern is finding ana and finding out what happened. >> reporter: the timeline in the mystery of what happened to ana walshe spans more than two weeks...

Where is ana? and what they do is they have dna that can demonstrate that on the bloody, broken knife in the basement and in the blood that was left in the basement that he failed to clean up. we know that this matches ana. and so, its going to be very circumstantial. they also found this bloody glove at the transit station in pifty, massachusetts. thats dna. it comes back to ana. so, theres a lot of information about some crime of violence, given hacksaws, hatchets, and, you know, $450 to try t...

Telling how much evidence prosecutors still have that they didnt uncover, they didnt reveal. >> thats right. and you were just talking about motive. they didnt even go near motive other than that internet search about inheritance. weve been reporting about the prospect of domestic violence here. in 2014, ana walshe contacted police in d.c. saying that brian walshe threatened to kill her and a friend. and we know with domestic abuse, if that escalates over time -- that hasnt even been brought in ...

Think they can walk, but not all defendants walk. i think a victory is relative, and in this case its about reducing the degree of crime and looking at mitigating factors. >> mark, would you see this going to trial? if its about sort of mitigating factors and managing the defendants expectations of not going to walk but, you know, what sort of a reduced sentence he could actually get, does that argue for some sort of plea agreement? >> if you think about it, you dont get to argue a lot of litiga...

And alibi him up. the more he talked and the more he gave them fraudulent information, bad information, he painted himself into a corner that led prosecutors to focus on his actions and activities and start looking at him as a primary suspect in this case. >> danielle, as somebody whos been in law enforcement for a long time, youve seen a lot, what do you -- whats -- is this -- i mean, have you ever seen google searches like this? >> ive seen similar google searches, not quite this intense and t...

Violence events, maybe, some of the stressors. all that should play very well to the prosecutor, who knows they have a tough time proving maybe even second degree because nobody knows what happened but him to the body. and there may well be an opportunity to show, look, lets lower it to something where hes definitely going to spend a fair amount of time in prison, but that he has a chance at life afterwafrds, and thats less than second degree. thats going to be the focus, i think, of the defense...

>> reporter: what we definitely learned, anderson, is you know, a lot more about the timeline in court today, much of it linked to the alleged internet searches that walshe conducted on december 27th, january 1st, the second and fourth internet searches about things such as dna, divorce, and a decomposing body. >> i think the number one concern is finding ana and finding out what happened. >> reporter: the timeline in the mystery of what happened to ana walshe spans more than two weeks, starting...

Massive search in coe haas et. january 8th, walshe is charged with misleading investigators. >> police developed probable cause to determine her husband, brain walshe, had misled police investigators on material matters important to the search for ana wall sh. >> walshe is taken into custody. investigators recover a bloody knife in the family basement, also finding a hacksaw and torn up pieces of cloth with apparent blood stains at a trash facility, this according to law enforcement sources. jan...

Tonight on your show even have noted, most of those go to how do you get rid of a body, what do i have to do, et cetera, et cetera? they do not go to motive or intent or planning. and thats where if you wanted to prove a first degree murder case or a second degree murder case, you have to prove some kind of premeditation and intent to kill. we dont know what the cause of death was. we could say homicide and the d.a. believes there was probably evidence of a homicide. but we dont know what that i...