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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, starting on new year's day. that's when her husband, brian walshe, claims she left her cohasset ho...

Street from me in quincy district court. norfolk county does not have the high number of homicides as surrounding areas, but there are heinous crimes that take place in this county. the other case you were talking about 20 years ago with joseph romano, this is eerily similar, taking the wife's body parts, putting them into a trash bag, lugging them to a trash compaq investor out to a land fill somewhere. that's eerily similar to what happened here. >> thank you so much. really appreciate it. just ahead we'll have more on the case the prosecution tends to make. joining me massachusetts attorn...

Incriminating. they're right out of a horror movie. judges have a standard instruction they'll give juries. they'll say science has not yet invented a way to look into the human minds, but looking at someone's google history is darn close. this is more incriminating than a confession really because confessions sometimes people don't tell the full truth. this tells you exactly what he's thinking. the key issue for prosecutors is going to be proving some sort of premeditation, some sort of deliberation in advance. as attorney general coakley said, it's only going to be second degree if you can't...

Going into a case like that. one is circumstantial evidence. and the other is the double jeopardy factor which is if you get it wrong the first time and you find the body a year later, you can't go back on it. so, prosecutors weigh these very carefully. in this case, part of what they're doing is fronting what appears to be somewhat overwhelming circumstantial evidence. >> mary ellen, there is another kind of evidence you think is important, pattern evidence. can you talk about that, what that means? >> sure, pattern evidence has to do with a victim's pattern of behavior. so, you're looking at...

Now, which family ends up being the parent, that's still to be known. but at least we know that there's going to be loving families that are going to be welcoming them in, who are just not sure of the process. but least the initial steps are done. >> did she ever talk to you about her husband? >> she never mentioned him much. we mostly had a professional connection, but she was always talking about her boys. that was the biggest thing, her boys, her boys, her boys. that's the thing that stuck with me since i learned of this case. my heart went upside-down and so did my stomach when i saw that ...