Dorothy Newell

She met Brian.

They had three young kids.

She started working in real estate.

She worked in Washington, D.C.

during the week while Brian took care of their three kids in their home in a Boston suburb.

Now, the reason he could take full-time care of the kids is because he was on house arrest awaiting sentencing for art fraud.

He pleaded guilty to selling some fake Andy Warhols.

It all sort of started when her employer reported her missing when she didn't show up for work.

So police went to the home to do a welfare check, and they met with Brian.

And according to prosecutors, Brian seemed cooperative at first.

He handed over his cell phone and his electronic devices for them to check out.

That's when the missing persons case became a murder investigation because right there on one of the kids' iPads, there were some strange Google searches with titles like 10 ways to dispose of a body and how to stop a body from decomposing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

On the day after she disappeared, his GPS data on his phone showed that Brian had made a visit to Home Depot where he bought cleaning supplies, a mop, goggles, a hatchet, and baking soda.

Prosecutors also say that a man who looked like Brian was caught on camera throwing a heavy garbage bag into a dumpster.

And they didn't find that garbage bag, but they did find others at a dump in the town where Brian's mom lived.

And those bags contained some of her belongings.

And some of those items were covered in blood.

So prosecutors have a few theories.