Corie Walsh Charged With Murder After Her 2-Year-Old Son Was Found Dead In Their Illinois Home
Corie Walsh, 38, of Frankfort, Illinois, approximately 35 miles southwest of Chicago, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder Friday after her 2-year-old son Barrett Walsh was found unresponsive by a 17-year-old neighbor in the basement of the family's home on Brook Stone Court on Tuesday September 1 at approximately 4 PM.
A neighbor performed CPR while calling 911. Barrett was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Will County Coroner's Office ruled his death a homicide, cause of death asphyxia due to ligature compression of the neck.
The same neighbor found Walsh in the upstairs master bathroom in a bathtub with non-life-threatening self-inflicted cuts. Investigators say Walsh told them she killed her son because he was "the devil and the anti-Christ." Prosecutors are seeking to deny pretrial release. Three other children in the home were unharmed.
Court documents reveal Walsh had "recently become very invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial," the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother who strangled her three children in January 2023 and whose case ended in a mistrial on Friday.
Prosecutors say Walsh was actively discussing the Clancy case in a group text with friends until three and a half hours before the killing.
Walsh's defense attorney said Walsh "was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time this happened." Her first court appearance is September 8.
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