On the primary day of the Brian Walshe homicide trial, three investigators who had been concerned within the Karen Learn case have already been talked about, together with former Massachusetts State trooper Michael Proctor.
Walshe is on trial for allegedly killing his spouse Ana in January of 2023. He pleaded responsible final month to mendacity to police and mishandling a physique, however his homicide trial began Monday.
Cohasset Police Sgt. Harrison Schmidt took the stand for the prosecution following opening statements and talked about that Proctor and two different State Cops Sgt. David DiCicco and Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik had been all concerned within the case.
Schmidt stated they went with him to go to the Walshe home the day after Ana was reported lacking. DiCicco could possibly be heard in a taped interview of Walshe performed within the courtroom, the second time Schmidt had interviewed the defendant. DiCicco and Proctor additionally attended one other interview with Walshe and Walshe’s lawyer and could possibly be heard on one other recording additionally performed by the prosecutors.
The officers and different state troopers grew to become concerned within the case after Schmidt requested the Norfolk District Lawyer’s Workplace for help. State Police detectives lead murder investigations in each municipality in Massachusetts, apart from Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Pittsfield.
Proctor, Bukhenik, and DiCicco additionally investigated the loss of life of Learn’s boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe in January 2022, and all got here beneath fireplace for inappropriate conduct in the course of the investigation.
Former trooper Proctor was fired for sending inappropriate textual content messages in regards to the case to associates and different officers, together with Bukhenik and DiCicco.
Bukhenik misplaced 5 days of go away for not correctly supervising Proctor, who was his subordinate in the course of the Learn investigation. This summer season, he was additionally faraway from his place on the
Norfolk DA’s workplace. As of July, he was working in a brief place on the MSP Framingham headquarters within the Division of Requirements and Coaching.
DiCicco was additionally on a number of the textual content threads the place Proctor made inappropriate feedback, and in response to information that Learn’s group was accusing another person of killing O’Keefe, he texted, “Oh, [bleep] her.”
Learn was acquitted of homicide expenses however now faces a wrongful loss of life swimsuit from the O’Keefe household.
