Frankfort Mom Accused of Killing Toddler Called Him ‘Anti-Christ,’ Followed Lindsay Clancy Trial: Prosecutors
Prosecutors say Corie Walsh strangled her son and made statements linking the killing to a recent murder trial.
- On Tuesday, Frankfort police responded to Brook Stone Court for a report of an injured 2-year-old and found a neighbor performing CPR on Barrett Walsh; the child later died, and his 38-year-old mother Corie A. Walsh was charged with three counts of first-degree murder.
- Prosecutors said Walsh had recently become invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, a Massachusetts case involving a mother who killed three children; Walsh discussed the case via text with friends roughly three and a half hours before her son was discovered.
- Walsh told officers she killed Barrett because he was the "devil" and the "anti-Christ," later admitting in the hospital how she killed him; a neighbor found the boy hanging from a basement rafter with a ligature around his neck, and autopsy findings indicate he died from asphyxia due to ligature compression.
- A neighbor discovered Walsh attempting to harm herself with a knife while lying in a bathtub with self-inflicted wounds; prosecutors sought her arrest warrant Thursday while she was hospitalized, asking the court to deny pretrial release, and she is scheduled to appear before Judge Amy Bertani Tomczak on Sept. 8.
- Three other children in the home—an infant and two school-aged children—were unharmed, while Walsh's husband, who was out of state at the time, flew home Tuesday evening; prosecutors continue examining Walsh's cellphone as the investigation remains ongoing.
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Illinois mother charged with murder in death of 2-year-old son in case drawing comparions to Lindsay Clancy
Corie Walsh faces three murder charges in her 2-year-old son's death, a Frankfort, Illinois, case that a neighbor says mirrors the Lindsay Clancy trial.
A mother in Frankfort, Illinois, is accused of killing her 2-year-old son after allegedly believing he was the “devil” and the “antichrist,” while reportedly becoming increasingly focused on the Lindsay Clancy case
Police were called Tuesday afternoon and found a neighbor performing CPR on 2-year-old Barrett Walsh, who had reportedly been found hanging by a ligature from a basement rafter. He was pronounced dead.His mother, 38-year-old Corie A....
‘Absolutely horrific’: 2-year-old boy’s death, allegedly at hands of mom, thought to be Clancy ‘copycat’ * WorldNetDaily * by WND Staff
Crimes often inspire copycat criminals. High-profile crimes more so. And that allegedly is what’s developed in Illinois. Collin Rugg of Trending Politics reports, an “Illinois woman who was ‘very interested’ in the Lindsay Clancy trial, allegedly hanged her 2 year old child from the rafters in the basement of her $1M home. 2-year-old Barrett Walsh was found hanging with his feet off the ground. His mother, Corie Walsh, immediately told investiga…
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