US woman charged with killing son ‘very invested’ in Lindsay Clancy trial, prosecutors say

Corie Walsh, a 40-year-old Illinois woman, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder after her two-year-old son, Barrett, was found dead in the basement of their family home last Tuesday. Prosecutors claim that Walsh had been "very invested" in the murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy, attending closely to the proceedings and discussing the case with friends just hours before her son's death.

Walsh was found with self-inflicted injuries and later told investigators that she killed her son because she believed he was the "devil" and the "anti-Christ". Her attorney, Andrea Lyon, stated that Walsh was experiencing a psychotic episode, and the boy's death was a tragedy for the entire family.

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