Missing Teacher Body found

Teacher,Leah Walsh Found 2 Days After Being Reported Missing, Husband Charged With Murder.

NORTH HILLS, N.Y. (CBS) ― Police have positively identified the body of the woman found in a wooded area in Long Island as Leah Walsh, the teacher reported missing on Monday morning, and her husband has been charged with murder.

Nassau County Police Lt. Kevin Smith says a worker at the North Hills Country Club found Walsh's body around 8 a.m. Wednesday. It's believed the body had been there for more than 24 hours.

The discovery is about 13 miles from where Walsh's car was found abandoned with a flat tire early Monday. The 29-year-old special education teacher was reported missing after failing to arrive at her Glen Cove school.

Her car was found black Ford Focus was found with a flat tire on the northbound shoulder of the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway near Bethpage. -- coincidentally by her father, a bus driver who happened to be on the highway later Monday morning as he drove to work. He called his daughter's husband, who then called 911, according to police. . Her purse was found in a ditch nearby.

CBS 2 HD's Jay Dow spoke to Walsh's distressed husband, Bill, who pleaded for his wife's safe return."I don't know what to do. I just keep talking to the cops. I keep asking questions. I wish I could give them more. I don't know where to look. I don't know what to do. You can have my cars. You can have everything,I just want my wife back. I miss her more than anything," said Walsh.

A police source said Leah texted her husband the morning she went missing, and that her cell phone has not been found.

William - who was questioned for hours by cops on Tuesday - had told reporters early today morning that he was going to spend the day putting up fliers to help find his wife.

Chopper 2 HD was over the scene Wednesday morning as cars were backed up for miles on the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway near Bethpage, where the missing teacher allegedly last contacted her husband after her car suffered the flat tire.

Even with the discovery, there are still more questions than answers about the woman's disappearance.

Bill Walsh left the 8th precinct station house in Levittown after a seven-hour routine police interview Tuesday afternoon. "He's a mess, his wife is missing. How else could you be? It's tearing our family apart," her brother-in-law Tommy Walsh said.

The two had been married for just three years. "She was very close to her mother, a wonderful child, played with the kids, great gal. I'm just shocked," said former neighbor Stanley Bralower.

"Praying for the best. That's all you can do at this point. Nobody knows anything, there are no answers," said Tommy.

The New York Daily News reported that Lucas Bean, a close friend of Leah Walsh who attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst with Leah Walsh, said she and her husband had a huge blowout after he went to Atlantic City,Saturday.

Bean said Walsh sent him a text message on Saturday. "She 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 till she got out of the car with him," he said, according to the Daily News.
She apparently had not wanted to speak in front of her husband.

"She told me the marriage is over. [She said] 'I'll tell you why when I talk to you. It's something really, really bad, "

"[She said] she was definitely getting a divorce, there was no way she could stay with him after what he'd done."

"I never found out what it was [about]," Bean said.

Bean, , said she and her husband had a huge blowout after he went to Atlantic City.

The well-liked teacher had just received her master's degree from Molloy College in Rockville Centre and was teaching autistic children.

"I never found out what it was [about]," Bean said.

CBS 2's Hazel Sanchez contributed to this report.