Missing Long Island Teacher Leah Walsh
Posted at 9:38 AM Oct 29, 2008
Leah Walsh, age 29, has been missing since Monday morning. Walsh's employer reported the teacher missing that morning, and then her father found her abandoned vehicle by a highway. It looked as if Leah, who teaches autistic kids at the School for Language and Communication Development in Glen Cove, had had a flat tire.
Leah was having problems in her marriage to William Walsh, who made what the New York Daily News aptly described as a "somewhat bizarre plea" yesterday for his wife to come home. Walsh said, "You can have my cars. You can have everything [...] I just want my wife back."
A friend of Leah's told the same paper that she'd been sending him text messages. Lucas Bean said that Leah "was telling me that things are not going to work out with her and her husband and she had to tell me something very important, but she needed to wait 'til she got out of the car with him." Bean continued, saying that Leah was in the car with her husband as she was sending out text messages. "That was Saturday around 7 p.m.," said Bean, "They were in a huge fight."
Police began stopping Long Island commuters early Wednesday to hand out fliers and look for possible witnesses who could aid in the search for Leah Walsh.
According to police in Nassau County, NY, they are looking into Leah's disappearance as a missing person investigation. They do not believe there was an abduction.
It's a little too early to read between the lines of that statement, but it is hard to not wonder what's really going on here.
As for William Walsh, he spoke with police Tuesday night until almost 9 p.m. He didn't speak with reporters when he left the police station in Levittown last night.
[NYDN and Newsday.com.]
Comments
Bad news.
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Posted 10/29/2008 at 12:26:12 PMNothing William said makes ANY sense. This is going to have a bad outcome.
Posted 10/29/2008 at 01:40:37 PMI keep getting this nagging feeling about the husband. Now especially after watching him on the news appearing to be crying but when you look at his face, there are NO TEARS.
Sorry, I feel maybe he's more involved than the police think.
Posted 10/29/2008 at 05:19:37 PMHow interesting, this case is very similar to that of Justine Abshire, another schoolteacher in Virgina who was found dead on a road after supposedly calling her husband to let him know her car broke down. This happened after she had left the house after an argument, too. The husband claims he found her dead body when he got there, miles away from her 'broken down' car, which an inspection later concluded there had been nothing mechanically wrong with the car. Her death was ruled to have been a hit-and-run, but there were discrepancies that led to suspicions of the husband being the murderer and staging the "accident", though nothing has been proved as of yet.
Posted 10/29/2008 at 06:02:06 PMOY! Now I really DO think the husband did it. After rereading the article and seeing what the friend she was texting said. I bet they will find that he used her phone that morning to send that text to himself from her phone.
Before I even read anything, when I first heard this story on the TV, the husband popped into my mind.
The law may have let him go for now, but I bet they are watching him. His crying routine on TV did nothing for me but make me realize he was lying when the camera showed his eyes and they were completely dry.
He can only hide this for so long before he breaks I bet.
Posted 10/29/2008 at 06:04:31 PM"MsOrchid: I bet they will find that he used her phone that morning to send that text to himself from her phone"
Excellent! I agree, that is why the phone is missing. This guy is stupid. They will match up DNA to him, he will be caught. Obviously her face must have been obliterated, did you see the photo of the guy looking at her in the body bag, he was horrified in what he saw.
You can tell by the husband's demure that he is lying and murdered his wife.
But he will be caught! They don't all get a way.
Posted 10/29/2008 at 06:24:11 PMXizzi, I did not see that! But I can only imagine.
This guy is acting up a storm and it's extremely BAD acting at that!
The police let him go but I bet they are watching him like a hawk. Well...at least I HOPE so anyway!
Posted 10/29/2008 at 06:33:08 PMthe police are only building a solid case on the hubby. I bet he is arrested by friday afternoon. They will not let him drift over the weekend. Does this remind anyone of Lacy???
Posted 10/29/2008 at 06:44:15 PMAccording to newsday , the husband's family can't find him:
"Two crime scene officers came by the couple's house Wednesday afternoon in a marked van and searched for about five minutes directly in front of the home.
Tommy Walsh, the brother of the missing woman's husband, William Walsh Jr., drove by the house, his white van papered with missing-person fliers. Tommy Walsh said he couldn't find his brother, who he last spoke with Tuesday night.
"I know my brother would never hurt her in a million years," Tommy Walsh said.
He said his mother spoke to his brother Wednesday but they haven't heard from him.
"If I knew where he was then I'd be with him," Tommy Walsh said."
Posted 10/29/2008 at 07:17:34 PMWhat is WRONG with you people? THIS MAN NEEDS OUR HELP! He is in MOURNING! His wife just died, and he is all busted up about it. WE NEED TO HELP THIS MAN through his tough times.
Posted 10/29/2008 at 08:10:23 PMPlease people, I am BEGGING YOU ALL. Show some compassion for this new widower and HELP HIM. If he needs a shoulder to cry on to mourn his dearly departed wife, for GOD'S SAKE. LET"S GIVE HIM OUR SHOULDERS TO CRY ON! "We" can make it through this crisis if "we" all stick together. Like a family, you know?
Posted 10/29/2008 at 08:15:16 PMMourning, you're scaring me. Excuse me, SCARING me.
Posted 10/29/2008 at 09:48:17 PMMourning, Is your IP address from Nassau County, NY? KWIM? You've been all over the net posting the same rediculous posts. Nice try.
Posted 10/29/2008 at 10:09:35 PMOY! I guess it takes all kinds! It was SO obvious he is guilty for Pete's sake! He was SO faking that crying! Not a drop of moisture could be seen yet he was "sobbing"??? Give me a BREAK!
Mourning, you are SO gullible! I bet you write to "innocent" convicted criminals in prison too, huh!
Posted 10/29/2008 at 11:25:51 PMHmmmph! Now don't you feel stupid, Mourning?? Sticking up for a lying idiot like that? SHEESH! I know I would!
Pretty obvious he did it! He couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag. He would have been better off just acting scared. Playact crying is for the experts!
Posted 10/29/2008 at 11:45:57 PM"I know my brother would never hurt her in a million years," Tommy Walsh said.
Posted 10/30/2008 at 09:54:23 AMFamilies just aren't an accurate gauge of what a family member might or might not be capable of. I don't give any credibility to what they say anymore.
Unfortunately, there are quite a few husbands who have gotten away (for now) with killing their wives--the Websleuths site discusses several cases in which we can only hope and pray justice will prevail. If not today, then someday.
Karl C. Seman the attorney representing this low life. It just go to show some attorneys will take any type of case. Do they really think this is a " if the glove does not fit you must aquit" Man I waish I was called for this jury!
Posted 10/30/2008 at 10:38:22 PM