Corie Walsh, Frankfort, Illinois mom kills 2-year-old, claiming postpartum psychosis with court documents saying woman was invested in Lindsay Clancy trial, Mass. mom in group chat, who also killed kids and tried to take her own life.
A Frankfort, Illinois mom arrested for killing her two year old son earlier this week and attempting to self harm according to court documents was obsessed with Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who killed her 3 children and who has since denied culpability by reason by insanity.
Corie Walsh, 38, was on Friday charged with first-degree murder after her son, Barrett ‘Bear’ Walsh, was found hanged in the basement of their family home on Tuesday afternoon.
The case had already drawn parallels to murder-accused Clancy, before prosecutors outlined another chilling link in a petition filed to keep Walsh in custody pending trial.
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BREAKING: Apparent Lindsay Clancy copycat Corie A. Walsh has been charged with the murder of her 2-year-old son.
The 38-year-old mother is accused of killing the child at her $1 million home in Frankfort, Illinois.
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Court documents detailed that Walsh had been ‘actively discussing the case via group text message with her friends’ up until just hours before her son’s murder, NBC 5 Chicago reported.
Clancy’s trial over the killing of her three children was ongoing when the message was sent, but ended in a mistrial earlier on Friday. As with Clancy’s defense, Walsh’s lawyer said her client was suffering a ‘psychotic episode,’ at the time of the slayings.
The filing also alleged Walsh told police she killed Bear as he was ‘the devil’ and ‘the antichrist.’
The document described how officers arrived at the Walsh’s $1 million home and found a neighbor in the front yard performing CPR on the toddler.
The neighbor told law enforcement that she found the youngster hanging from a basement rafter with a ligature around his neck.
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Bear was declared to have died from ‘asphyxia due to ligature compression of the neck,’ according to the documents.
Walsh was discovered by the neighbor upstairs lying in a bathtub ‘fully dressed, surrounded by bloody water,’ prosecutors said in the petition.
The neighbor held a towel on Walsh’s thigh after she had harmed herself with a knife in an alleged attempt to end her life, documents revealed.
Walsh’s husband was out of state at the time of the incident. Officers said they found another infant unharmed in the family home.
Two school-aged children also returned to the residence amid the chaos, according to the filing.
Walsh was transported to hospital and allegedly admitted to killing her son, officials said. Nevertheless the mother, like Lindsay Clancy has denied culpability for her actions, claiming that she was legally insane at the time of the killing.
Frankfort mom blames postpartum psychosis for killing son
According to prosecutors, witnesses described how Walsh had recently become invested in the Clancy murder trial.
Clancy recently stood trial over the deaths of her three children, who she admitted to killing before attempting to end her own life, as her attorney argued that the mother had suffered from postpartum psychosis.
According to the Cleveland Cliniic, Postpartum psychosis is a severe, rare mental health emergency that causes a sudden loss of touch with reality in new mothers shortly after childbirth and leads to manic, uncontrollable urges and behavior tied to shifts in hormonal levels post birth.
The case collapsed in a mistrial after jurors, for a second time in a row, were unable to reach a verdict following days of deliberations.
Prosecutors conceded that Clancy had severe mental illness, but insisted she was able to understand and control her actions.
The trial has generated intense interest for more than a month, deeply dividing the public and drawing attention to issues around maternal mental health after childbirth.
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Walsh’s lawyer Andrea Lyon told the Chicago Tribune her client was experiencing a psychotic episode.
‘This is a tragedy for the Walsh family, all of whom are mourning the loss of this child,’ she said.
‘It is also a tragedy in that Corie herself was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time this happened. It is our hope, through a thorough presentation and investigation of the facts, that all of us will come to see this heartbreak for what it is.’
Walsh was booked into the Will County Adult Detention Facility on Friday afternoon on three counts of murder and is being held for medical treatment.
She is expected to appear in court on Tuesday.
The investigation into the incident remains ongoing.
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