The Lindsay Clancy-obsessed mother who allegedly hanged her 2-year-old son chillingly crooned a tune from the “Wizard of Oz” throughout police questioning concerning the harrowing homicide, investigators stunningly revealed.
As an alternative of answering Illinois detectives’ queries about how her toddler son’s lifeless physique had ended up dangling from a rafter, crazed mother Corie Walsh responded by breaking out in her personal rendition of “Comply with the Yellow Brick Street,” in response to courtroom paperwork reviewed by The Solar.
Walsh, 40, is going through first-degree homicide expenses after her two school-aged youngsters found their sibling, Barrett Walsh, with a rope round his neck and his ft off the bottom on the household’s residence in Frankfurt, a suburb about 30 miles southwest of Chicago, and ran to a neighbor’s home for assist, the doc states.
The frantic neighbor referred to as 911 and tried fruitlessly to carry out CPR on little Barrett, who didn’t have a pulse and was chilly to the contact. He was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
An post-mortem later confirmed that the boy, who was referred to as “Bear” by his household, died of “asphyxia as a consequence of ligature compression of the neck,” in response to courtroom data.
Between haunting harmonizations, Walsh allegedly confessed to killing the boy, claiming he was the “anti-Christ” and “satan,” in response to prosecutors.
The mother — whom cops had found absolutely clothed, soaking in a bath filled with bloodied water on the home – tried to take her personal life by slashing her wrists and thighs with a knife.
By the point police confirmed up, Walsh was reportedly so out of it that she believed she had killed all 4 of her youngsters, together with an 8-month-old toddler who was found unsupervised on the home.
The mother later confessed that she had additionally deliberate on “poisoning [her husband] with a drink” and had a number of prescriptions on the time, in response to courtroom docs and prosecutors.
The harrowing sequence of occasions unfolded just some hours after Walsh allegedly despatched buddies “complicated” and “out of character” textual content messages about Lindsay Clancy’s homicide trial, saying she believed that Clancy’s husband killed the youngsters – not their mom, the outlet reported.
Prosecutors have since claimed that Walsh was infatuated with Clancy, whose high-profile trial captivated the nation over the protection group’s argument that she was legally insane as a consequence of postpartum psychosis when she fatally strangled her three youngsters with train bands.
“It was manslaughter, please I’m actually freaking out,” Walsh reportedly wrote in a textual content to a good friend on Sept. 1, as jury deliberations have been nonetheless ongoing in Clancy’s case.
Walsh’s protection legal professionals, in the meantime, have argued that she was “severely mentally ailing” and within the throes of a “psychotic episode” in the course of the grisly incident – arguments echoing these utilized by Clancy’s attorneys throughout her weeks-long courtroom battle that finally resulted in a hung jury and mistrial.
An legal professional for Walsh, nonetheless, refuted the concept his consumer is a Clancy “copycat” – and described the accusation as “sickening” throughout her first courtroom look final week.
“Describing Corie to a copied Lindsay is to take a simple bait,” legal professional Robert Kerr reportedly instructed the Will County courtroom.
Regardless of her legal professionals’ pleas that Walsh be positioned in “fast” care to forestall her from additional harming herself, the choose ordered her detained by bars, saying she posed a danger to her three remaining youngsters and husband.
Walsh’s husband, who was out of the state in the course of the horrific occasions — has “unwavering” assist and love for his accused killer, and has been absolutely cooperating with police and social staff, Walsh’s legal professional claimed.
Kerr didn’t instantly reply to inquiries from The Publish. A spokesperson for the Will County District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned it doesn’t touch upon pending litigation.
A preliminary listening to within the case is scheduled for Sept. 24.
