Illinois Mother Charged with Murder of 2-Year-Old Son
Credit: WILL COUNTY ADULT DETENTION FACILITY & Facebook / Corie Walsh
An Illinois mother has been charged with murder after she allegedly killed her 2-year-old son before attempting to harm herself, as per shocking reports.
On Tuesday, September 1, Frankfort police responded to the home just after 4 p.m. on a report of an unresponsive child. Officers arrived to find a neighbor performing CPR on two-year-old Barrett Walsh, whom she had found hanging in the basement. The infant was rushed to a local hospital, where he was sadly pronounced dead. The Will County Coroner’s Office ruled his death an apparent homicide.
Meanwhile, officers found 40-year-old Corie Walsh in the bathroom of an upstairs bedroom, lying in a tub fully dressed and “surrounded by bloody water.” The petition detailed how Walsh had been discovered with cuts to her wrists and thighs, after an alleged suicide attempt. She was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
According to NBC, Walsh’s husband was out of town at the time. An infant was home and unharmed. Once hospitalized, Walsh described to officers “the manner in which she killed Barrett,” which was consistent with evidence at the scene. She told officers “she did this to her baby because he was the ‘devil’ and the ‘anti-Christ.’” Prosecutors added that Walsh allegedly made statements concerning harming her other children and planning to harm her husband upon his return home.
On Friday, September 4, Walsh was charged by police with three counts of first-degree murder.
During their petition to deny her pretrial release, prosecutors drew eerie, direct comparisons to the trial involving Lindsay Clancy—the woman accused of murdering her three children in January 2023—alleging that Walsh had “recently become very invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial.” Clancy’s case ended in a mistrial on Friday. As per NBC News, Walsh was “actively discussing the case” in group text messages with her friends up until 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 1—just three and a half hours before the scene at her home was discovered.