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A Lindsay Clancy-Inspired Murder? Hours Before Boy, 2, Was Found Hanging from Rafter, Mom Was Discussing Clancy Online: Court Docs

The greatest fear that spawned from the Lindsay Clancy trial and subsequent social media/podcastery maelstrom was that it would inspire copycat crimes. If the case of Corie Walsh is any indication, those chickens may be coming home to roost quicker than expected.

Walsh, a 40-year-old mother of four children from Frankfort, Illinois, is being held on three charges of first-degree murder after allegedly hanging her son.

Her attorney says that her client was “experiencing a psychotic episode,” according to WMAQ-TV in Chicago, but authorities said that the mother had “recently become very invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial.”

Prosecutors said that a neighbor found her 2-year-old child hanging from a rafter in the basement last Tuesday.

“She removed the ligature, lowered the child to the ground, and attempted CPR while calling 911. According to the neighbor, Barrett was cold and had no pulse,” court documents read. Officers were then “directed to an upstairs bathroom located in the master bedroom… reportedly due to this defendant, the mother of the victim, attempting to harm herself.”

Police said they found Walsh in a tub “fully dressed, surrounded by bloody water.” The child, meanwhile, was pronounced dead from “asphyxia due to ligature compression of the neck” later in the day. The mother was hospitalized with injuries that were not........

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