Overview
- Authorities say a neighbor found 2-year-old Barrett 'Bear' Walsh hanging from a rafter in the Frankfort basement on Sept. 1 and tried CPR before the child was pronounced dead at a hospital.
- Corie A. Walsh, 40, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening self-inflicted wounds, later charged with three counts of first-degree murder, and has been held at the Will County detention facility pending court hearings.
- Prosecutors say Walsh told officers she killed the child because he was the 'devil' and the 'anti‑Christ' and that she attempted to harm herself in an upstairs bathtub when first responders arrived.
- A preliminary autopsy listed asphyxia from ligature compression of the neck, investigators recovered a knife and Walsh’s phone, and prosecutors say a forensic analysis of the phone is under way.
- Coverage highlights a noted link to the high-profile Lindsay Clancy trial and raises questions about acute maternal psychosis, with a detention hearing set for Tuesday, Sept. 8 and broader legal and psychiatric reviews expected next.