An Illinois mother who has been charged with murdering her two-year-old son was “very invested” in the Lindsay Clancy trial at the time of the incident, which has led some to wonder if there is an epidemic of child killing by disturbed women.
Corie A. Walsh, 40, was found with self-inflicted wounds when police were dispatched to her suburban Frankfort home on Tuesday, where they discovered a horrifying scene of two-year-old Barrett Walsh, who was known as “Bear,” hanging from a rafter in the basement with his mom in the bathtub after a failed apparent suicide attempt.
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… pic.twitter.com/eMWfhD2Orp
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 4, 2026
According to court documents, “The defendant told officers she did this to her baby because he was ‘the devil’ and the ‘anti-Christ.’
After an investigation, Frankfort Police announced that Walsh was being charged with three counts of first-degree murder and would be sent to the Will County Adult Detention Facility after she received treatment.
(Video: YouTube/ABC Chicago)
The story was shocking enough that such a thing could happen in an affluent Chicago suburb, but all the more so when it was revealed that she was apparently fixated on the Clancy trial, involving a Massachusetts mother who killed her own three young children while suffering from an alleged bout of postpartum psychosis.
According to prosecutors, before allegedly killing her young son, Walsh had “recently become very invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial,” they said in a petition to deny the accused’s pretrial release.
Hours before Corie Walsh strangled her son, she was hyper-fixated on Lindsay Clancy in chats
Folks, don’t ignore the warning signs https://t.co/XJVaaHtMZm pic.twitter.com/ceVeAyk4ca
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 4, 2026
“At the time of this occurrence, the jury was still deliberating on the matter. The Clancy trial, involving a mother who had killed her children, was widely covered and discussed in the media and on social media,” prosecutors said in charging documents.
“Corie Walsh had allegedly been ‘actively discussing the case via group text message’ with her friends until 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 1, three and a half hours ‘before the scene was discovered,” according to prosecutors.
The popular Libs of TikTok X account posted a collection of recent headlines about mothers killing their kids to suggest that there is “an epidemic of mothers m*rdering their children.”
If you thought it was just Lindsay Clancy, think again…
These are all from the last few months.
There’s an epidemic of mothers m*rdering their children.
Very dark times pic.twitter.com/Ry9fQFwKsM
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 3, 2026
“Very dark times,” LOTT wrote.
The Clancy trial has fixated the nation on the horrific story but also turned over a rock to reveal the deep psychological sickness that exists with millions of women, turning the murdering mom into some sort of bizarre hero and the victim, not her three dead kids.
A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial on Friday after a lone holdout juror refused to go along with an acquittal.
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