Sept. 6, 2026
An Illinois Mother “Invested In Lindsay Clancy” Strangles Her Child, Blames Psychosis
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RSS Feed A horrific story out of an affluent Chicago suburb has the country stunned by the similarities between Lindsay Clancy and 38-year-old mother of four, Corie Walshe. Walshe’s older two kids made the unimaginable discovery of their 2-year-old baby brother, Barrett, hanging from the basement rafters after they came home from school. Their mom was in the bathtub, reportedly trying to kill herself. Hours earlier she had been in a group chat with friends talking about the Lindsay Clancy trial, and police say Walshe told them she killed her toddler because he was the “anti-Christ.” Thankfully an infant was found unharmed in the home, but now Walshe is charged with first degree murder, leaving family, friends and the entire community in shock.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Sunday, September 6th, and a woman charged with murder for strangling her toddler, leaving the toddler in the basement. Sounds familiar. We're not talking Lindsay Clancy. But this scenario has happened again, and it just happened, and we need to be paying attention. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Rogues. We're talking about a case that's going on in Chicago. It just happened days ago. Can I ask you first just your reaction to hearing that there is a woman who has strangled her child and is claiming she was psychotic at the time? This just happened. Just your reaction to seeing that headline?
00:00:39
Speaker 2: It's disturbing and scary because, look, we've seen this in plenty of other types of awful stories.
00:00:45
Speaker 3: There are copycats where people get ideas. from others.
00:00:50
Speaker 2: And so it's frightening to think that the publicity of the Lindsay Clancy case, which I think many of us were hoping would shed light on postpartum mental health issues, could possibly have sparked an idea in some woman.
00:01:04
Speaker 3: And look, whether or not.
00:01:07
Speaker 2: She was psychotic, she had just recently had a baby, whether or not this is a postpartum issue, or could this be an excuse to do something.
00:01:16
Speaker 3: I don't know, but it's just, it's frightening.
00:01:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not making the connection. Roebuck and I are not. Police have made this connection between this case and the Lindsay Clancy case because they are saying that this woman was, the word they used, Roeb, was invested in the Lindsay Clancy trial and was in fact discussing it hours before she killed her child. Now, the story we're talking about is out of Frankfurt. I wasn't familiar with Frankfurt, Illinois, but apparently it's about 35 miles south of Chicago, but this just happened in recent days. But this woman, Corey Walsh, is now facing first-degree murder charges in the death of her two-year-old son. I guess we'll robe some of the details here. The strangulation, the basement, the mom attempting suicide afterwards.
00:02:01
Speaker 2: Robes.
00:02:02
Speaker 1: You didn't have to be watching the Lindsay Clancy case that closely, and you know those facts right there are eerily similar, excuse me, almost exactly the same as the Lindsay Clancy case.
00:02:13
Speaker 3: You mentioned Corey Walsh.
00:02:14
Speaker 2: She is 38 years old. Lindsay Clancy was also in her 30s. It's frightening, and we know from police that, what, at 1230, just a few hours before the killing, yes, she was texting with friends specifically about the Lindsay Clancy trial. So that is just so eerie. But she was, I guess a friend found her in the bathtub?
00:02:37
Speaker 1: Well, the way the story goes, and we'll take you back. This was September 1st. So, Robes, the day this happened, the Lindsay Clancy jury was on day three, I believe, of their deliberation. So we were all in this wait and see. So you go back to September 1st. There were two kids. Now, Corey Walsh has four kids, Robes. The toddler, who is now dead, two years old. There was a baby. How old is the infant? I didn't get that, but a very new child.
00:03:03
Speaker 3: They said like a newborn child.
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Speaker 2: Yes, an infant is how the child was described.
00:03:07
Speaker 1: And then they have two older kids, school age, I should say. Looking at the picture, they're elementary age kids, no more than, in our guess, third grade, second grade.
00:03:18
Speaker 2: It looked like the little girl was probably seven or so when the little boy was maybe nine.
00:03:24
Speaker 3: That's about what they look like, yes.
00:03:25
Speaker 1: So the two kids, as police report, Um, we're at the bus stop. They get dropped off, uh, at home every day, but they were at this bus stop and mom wasn't there to get them that day. So a neighbor, a teenager, apparently, uh, just walked the kids home. The kids go in, uh, to the house. And then this is how police in their statement, this is what they say happened next. Quote, shortly after arriving at the house, the older children came running outside while crying and screaming after making the horrifying discovery that of their little brother in the basement, in robes, I guess, the scene that's being described in the basement to think that two kids had to find this Jesus.
00:04:05
Speaker 3: It's out of a horror movie.
00:04:07
Speaker 2: It's out of the worst possible horror movie you could imagine because their two-year-old brother, Barrett, they found him hanging from a rafter, hanging from a, or a swing in the basement.
00:04:19
Speaker 3: There was some sort of- It was initially, yeah.
00:04:21
Speaker 1: It wasn't clear initially, but they said a swing initially, but the police report says hanging from the rafter. In the basement.
00:04:28
Speaker 3: My God.
00:04:30
Speaker 1: They saw this and they said first responders, when they first got on the scene, thought this might have been some kind of accidental suicide. Accidentally got caught up in something. So it might have been the swing part of it. So they saw the scene and thought this was an accident.
00:04:45
Speaker 2: Maybe just a terrible, horrible accident because the alternative is too awful to think. And I think that's where you're a first responder. You would never imagine that. that a parent or anyone would deliberately hang and strangle their cute, adorable two-year-old toddler from a basement rafter. So, yeah, your mind would go to think this must have been some horrific accident.
00:05:07
Speaker 1: So you, in this scene now, they say it was a teenager, Robe, that found all this, but eventually finds Corey Walsh upstairs in a bathtub, fully clothed, bloody water all around, and had tried to Now, when police did, this teenager called 911. When police arrived, they said the teen was actually still holding like a towel trying to stop the wound. So it appears, Robe, she did attempt to kill herself after killing her child.
00:05:35
Speaker 2: Yes, apparently she took the knife from her, took the bloody knife from her.
00:05:39
Speaker 3: And something to the effect of, why are you doing this? And she said, Bear is in the basement. And that's what they called the two-year-old. I guess he had a nickname.
00:05:47
Speaker 2: But yes, police said that during the interaction, she allegedly told police she had drowned a child in a different part of the house. Police then searched the home for another potential victim, but the other two kids obviously had just gotten home from school.
00:06:00
Speaker 3: And the baby, thankfully, was found safe.
00:06:03
Speaker 1: What the hell, babe?
00:06:05
Speaker 3: She thought she had drowned the baby. She was confused.
00:06:07
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. But you have four kids. She kills the one. She kills the one. There's an infant in the house that is unharmed. How do you ever make sense of this, Robes? An infant was left alone. Why just go after the two-year-old?
00:06:23
Speaker 3: To the two-year-old and then try to kill yourself. So it wasn't as if.
00:06:27
Speaker 2: But if she told the teenager that she had drowned the other child, maybe she was in such a state she thought she.
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Speaker 3: Had, but she didn't.
00:06:34
Speaker 2: But then the craziest, well, I hate to even say craziest, because this whole thing is just out of any sense of just explanation. But the explanation she did give to police was that she said her son, her two-year-old, was the devil and the antichrist.
00:06:52
Speaker 1: Okay, so here we go. I mean, robes. And this was what she told police immediately after. they say, in their discussions with her. Now, she ended up, they did take her and treat her. She went to the hospital. I think she's expected to be okay. They treated her for her injuries. I don't know if she's getting... Not life-threatening, they said.
00:07:08
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:07:08
Speaker 1: So they have transferred her now to an adult detention facility. She's in prison, no bail, as she sits right now. And people try to make sense of this. Now, We just explained what kind of motive is that, Robes. But the connection there is being made not by us. You know what? Even if police hadn't said this, we'd have made the connection.
00:07:24
Speaker 2: Obviously.
00:07:25
Speaker 1: Given some of these details. But yes, they say, Robes, she has been keeping an eye on this. I mean, we all have. But they said it was worth noting or thought it was worth noting in the reports. How engaged she had been with this Lindsay Clancy case.
00:07:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fact that she had been actively discussing the case. She had a group text messages with friends talking about the Lindsay Clancy case hours before she does something that eerily, scarily resembles the Lindsay Clancy case. All like down to the fact that she tried to cut herself unsuccessfully in an attempt to.
00:07:58
Speaker 2: Die by suicide after killing a child, strangling a child.
00:08:01
Speaker 3: I mean, that's in the basement. Oh my goodness.
00:08:05
Speaker 2: And then to say that her son was the antichrist and the devil sounds very much like Andrea Yates, who had the exact same thoughts about her own children, which is why she said she had to kill them because the devil was inside of them.
00:08:18
Speaker 1: Now, what we don't know now, and please tell me if you have seen somewhere, uh, again, this story has been out for the past several days or we're just getting new court documents. Um, any suggestion of her previous mental health. I haven't seen that talked about. Surely it will be brought up. But I haven't seen, have you?
00:08:36
Speaker 2: I have not seen anywhere that anyone has discussed that she was struggling, that she had issues, that she had any documented mental health. Now, the neighbors in the area, this is a very, it seems like a very affluent area of a suburban Chicago neighborhood. And some of the moms in the neighborhood had said that because of the Lindsay Clancy trial, they had set up a system. And certainly after this, to help other moms out saying, hey, if you feel like you need a break, if you're losing your mind, four kids, three kids, whatever. Let us take your kids for an hour. Go have a massage. Go get your nails done. So they're trying to recognize that moms need breaks, moms need help. And so it had spurred this really sense of community among the moms in the neighborhood.
00:09:22
Speaker 3: But to think that this happened is just horrific.
00:09:24
Speaker 1: You know, is that going to happen more often? I think so. That is wonderful. If nothing else, gee, that is wonderful to know they're doing that. Do you need a beat? We're here. We'll take the kids.
00:09:35
Speaker 3: I just got chills from head to toe.
00:09:36
Speaker 1: No, you have that as an option.
00:09:39
Speaker 2: Rope.
00:09:39
Speaker 1: That is, I didn't even think that that was going to be what comes out of this women supporting women in that simple way.
00:09:45
Speaker 2: Yeah. Because when you are like, it actually makes me emotional because when you're a new mom and you feel isolated, even if you're in a, you know, you, you might not know your neighbor on the other street or some other mom who might also be struggling a bit. And if you guys can help each other out, even have like a group date or a play date, it makes a difference to not feel so isolated and alone.
00:10:06
Speaker 1: Well, we did hear. We did hear from the attorney who is representing Corey Walsh. Stay here. You'll want to hear this statement. And you can tell already it looks like the direction this is about to go. All right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. I want to share with you the statement we got from Corey Walsh's attorney. Robe, this is one of these ways where you're trying to explain the inexplicable. We've been dealing with that for the past six weeks, right, watching the Lindsay Clancy trial. And here we go again, Robes. These are rare. Rarer still that we hear women about doing this claiming they were psychotic at the time. But she wrote, what was the number? One or two out of a thousand?
00:11:02
Speaker 3: That was the number.
00:11:04
Speaker 1: And we've got two right now making headlines in this country. We shall see. But this is a statement from Corey Walsh's attorney.
00:11:12
Speaker 2: It reads, this is a tragedy for the Walsh family, all of whom are mourning the loss of this child. It is also a tragedy in that Corey herself was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time this happened. It is our hope that through presentation and investigation of the facts that all of us will come to see.
00:11:29
Speaker 3: This heartbreak for what it is.
00:11:31
Speaker 2: So yes, they're already setting up the exact same defense that Lindsay Clancy presented in her trial. And we didn't mention, I don't believe, her husband was out of town, correct?
00:11:43
Speaker 1: Again, another part of the story that's similar. He was out of town, but he was Patrick Clancy was just up the street, but both were out of pocket.
00:11:51
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:11:52
Speaker 2: Waiting until father, dad, husband is gone and won't be coming back for a certain amount of time. And that's when this all takes place. But just I still can't get out of my head the fact that those poor kids, those older.
00:12:04
Speaker 3: Kids had to see what they saw and will never.
00:12:08
Speaker 2: And that teenager, that that poor girl who was kind enough to walk the kids over. just to know that that's something that they will never be able to unsee.
00:12:16
Speaker 3: It's just horrific.
00:12:17
Speaker 1: This was baby brothers to them. You think about that. These were older kids. You know how they felt about this kid. Rosie, Patrick Clancy, I didn't think about it. I just got reminded of it. Just the direction. I got concerned when I was looking at it. It was the first or the second for sure, and it might have been the first response somebody had to this story and comments.
00:12:40
Speaker 2: The comments.
00:12:41
Speaker 1: Patrick did it. Talking about this out of Chicago.
00:12:44
Speaker 2: Thinking that that's just funny or cute.
00:12:47
Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. But robes, this does, I mean, what do we do now? Should we, I guess we have to just balance them, babe. But are people going to start just presenting this as, well, this is my defense. I can use this defense. I was going through psychosis. Or are people going to pay attention to go, okay, we should be looking at this as a viable option. Because now we know and we've learned more. I don't know where we're going to balance that.
00:13:14
Speaker 3: I don't either.
00:13:15
Speaker 2: And there is so much more to this story we need to know about. For instance, we don't know how old that infant was. Was this within a few months of giving birth? The whole point that people were making that were anti-Lindsey Clancy and anti-the postpartum psychosis defense was that she was too far out from having had a child.
00:13:34
Speaker 3: Little Callen was eight months old.
00:13:35
Speaker 2: I don't know how this... old this infant was. Could she truly have been in the throes of postpartum? Will her husband be able to shed light on how she had been acting? Had she been acting strangely or differently? Did she have any documented mental health issues? So there's just a lot more we don't, a lot more we need to know that we don't know yet. And there's a court appearance coming up this week, correct?
00:13:57
Speaker 1: Well, it's on Tuesday. So she will be in court this week. She is charged with first degree murder It's actually three counts of first-degree murder. It's the way they just happen to do it there in Illinois. It's the same murder, but they have three different sections. It's a weird way to put it, but legal theories. It's based on three separate theories is why it's three different charges, but just one murder just to clear that up. But I don't know how much more. Yeah, we should, Robes, learn more on Tuesday about what in the world was going on. Is she going to have an attorney come in there and say, yes, this woman had been suffering and she needs to be in a mental institution right now and not in prison? But here we go, Robes. We just got a mistrial on Friday.
00:14:37
Speaker 2: I feel sick that this has happened again and that it bears all the hallmarks of Lindsay Clancy. And the fact that she was invested in the case, you have to think that somehow, some way, this got into her head.
00:14:52
Speaker 3: And maybe she was suffering mentally.
00:14:54
Speaker 2: And this was just that catalyst that sparked this idea because she was interested in this case and it just, it started to take over. I don't know, but it's frightening to think that just the publicity of this case might have led to the death.
00:15:08
Speaker 3: Of another child.
00:15:10
Speaker 1: Just wanted to put this one on your radar, folks, but it will, it's the next one that's going to be talked about quite a bit. Again, she has a court appearance on Tuesday. We'll keep an eye on it, but wherever you may be this weekend for your holiday weekend, please hope you enjoy and please, please stay safe out there. We appreciate you as always spending time with us. I'm TJ on behalf of my dear Amy Robach. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Sunday, September 6th, and a woman charged with murder for strangling her toddler, leaving the toddler in the basement. Sounds familiar. We're not talking Lindsay Clancy. But this scenario has happened again, and it just happened, and we need to be paying attention. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Rogues. We're talking about a case that's going on in Chicago. It just happened days ago. Can I ask you first just your reaction to hearing that there is a woman who has strangled her child and is claiming she was psychotic at the time? This just happened. Just your reaction to seeing that headline?
00:00:39
Speaker 2: It's disturbing and scary because, look, we've seen this in plenty of other types of awful stories.
00:00:45
Speaker 3: There are copycats where people get ideas. from others.
00:00:50
Speaker 2: And so it's frightening to think that the publicity of the Lindsay Clancy case, which I think many of us were hoping would shed light on postpartum mental health issues, could possibly have sparked an idea in some woman.
00:01:04
Speaker 3: And look, whether or not.
00:01:07
Speaker 2: She was psychotic, she had just recently had a baby, whether or not this is a postpartum issue, or could this be an excuse to do something.
00:01:16
Speaker 3: I don't know, but it's just, it's frightening.
00:01:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not making the connection. Roebuck and I are not. Police have made this connection between this case and the Lindsay Clancy case because they are saying that this woman was, the word they used, Roeb, was invested in the Lindsay Clancy trial and was in fact discussing it hours before she killed her child. Now, the story we're talking about is out of Frankfurt. I wasn't familiar with Frankfurt, Illinois, but apparently it's about 35 miles south of Chicago, but this just happened in recent days. But this woman, Corey Walsh, is now facing first-degree murder charges in the death of her two-year-old son. I guess we'll robe some of the details here. The strangulation, the basement, the mom attempting suicide afterwards.
00:02:01
Speaker 2: Robes.
00:02:02
Speaker 1: You didn't have to be watching the Lindsay Clancy case that closely, and you know those facts right there are eerily similar, excuse me, almost exactly the same as the Lindsay Clancy case.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned Corey Walsh.
00:02:14
Speaker 2: She is 38 years old. Lindsay Clancy was also in her 30s. It's frightening, and we know from police that, what, at 1230, just a few hours before the killing, yes, she was texting with friends specifically about the Lindsay Clancy trial. So that is just so eerie. But she was, I guess a friend found her in the bathtub?
00:02:37
Speaker 1: Well, the way the story goes, and we'll take you back. This was September 1st. So, Robes, the day this happened, the Lindsay Clancy jury was on day three, I believe, of their deliberation. So we were all in this wait and see. So you go back to September 1st. There were two kids. Now, Corey Walsh has four kids, Robes. The toddler, who is now dead, two years old. There was a baby. How old is the infant? I didn't get that, but a very new child.
00:03:03
Speaker 3: They said like a newborn child.
00:03:05
Speaker 2: Yes, an infant is how the child was described.
00:03:07
Speaker 1: And then they have two older kids, school age, I should say. Looking at the picture, they're elementary age kids, no more than, in our guess, third grade, second grade.
00:03:18
Speaker 2: It looked like the little girl was probably seven or so when the little boy was maybe nine.
00:03:24
Speaker 3: That's about what they look like, yes.
00:03:25
Speaker 1: So the two kids, as police report, Um, we're at the bus stop. They get dropped off, uh, at home every day, but they were at this bus stop and mom wasn't there to get them that day. So a neighbor, a teenager, apparently, uh, just walked the kids home. The kids go in, uh, to the house. And then this is how police in their statement, this is what they say happened next. Quote, shortly after arriving at the house, the older children came running outside while crying and screaming after making the horrifying discovery that of their little brother in the basement, in robes, I guess, the scene that's being described in the basement to think that two kids had to find this Jesus.
00:04:05
Speaker 3: It's out of a horror movie.
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Speaker 2: It's out of the worst possible horror movie you could imagine because their two-year-old brother, Barrett, they found him hanging from a rafter, hanging from a, or a swing in the basement.
00:04:19
Speaker 3: There was some sort of- It was initially, yeah.
00:04:21
Speaker 1: It wasn't clear initially, but they said a swing initially, but the police report says hanging from the rafter. In the basement.
00:04:28
Speaker 3: My God.
00:04:30
Speaker 1: They saw this and they said first responders, when they first got on the scene, thought this might have been some kind of accidental suicide. Accidentally got caught up in something. So it might have been the swing part of it. So they saw the scene and thought this was an accident.
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Speaker 2: Maybe just a terrible, horrible accident because the alternative is too awful to think. And I think that's where you're a first responder. You would never imagine that. that a parent or anyone would deliberately hang and strangle their cute, adorable two-year-old toddler from a basement rafter. So, yeah, your mind would go to think this must have been some horrific accident.
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Speaker 1: So you, in this scene now, they say it was a teenager, Robe, that found all this, but eventually finds Corey Walsh upstairs in a bathtub, fully clothed, bloody water all around, and had tried to Now, when police did, this teenager called 911. When police arrived, they said the teen was actually still holding like a towel trying to stop the wound. So it appears, Robe, she did attempt to kill herself after killing her child.
00:05:35
Speaker 2: Yes, apparently she took the knife from her, took the bloody knife from her.
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Speaker 3: And something to the effect of, why are you doing this? And she said, Bear is in the basement. And that's what they called the two-year-old. I guess he had a nickname.
00:05:47
Speaker 2: But yes, police said that during the interaction, she allegedly told police she had drowned a child in a different part of the house. Police then searched the home for another potential victim, but the other two kids obviously had just gotten home from school.
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Speaker 3: And the baby, thankfully, was found safe.
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Speaker 1: What the hell, babe?
00:06:05
Speaker 3: She thought she had drowned the baby. She was confused.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. But you have four kids. She kills the one. She kills the one. There's an infant in the house that is unharmed. How do you ever make sense of this, Robes? An infant was left alone. Why just go after the two-year-old?
00:06:23
Speaker 3: To the two-year-old and then try to kill yourself. So it wasn't as if.
00:06:27
Speaker 2: But if she told the teenager that she had drowned the other child, maybe she was in such a state she thought she.
00:06:33
Speaker 3: Had, but she didn't.
00:06:34
Speaker 2: But then the craziest, well, I hate to even say craziest, because this whole thing is just out of any sense of just explanation. But the explanation she did give to police was that she said her son, her two-year-old, was the devil and the antichrist.
00:06:52
Speaker 1: Okay, so here we go. I mean, robes. And this was what she told police immediately after. they say, in their discussions with her. Now, she ended up, they did take her and treat her. She went to the hospital. I think she's expected to be okay. They treated her for her injuries. I don't know if she's getting... Not life-threatening, they said.
00:07:08
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:07:08
Speaker 1: So they have transferred her now to an adult detention facility. She's in prison, no bail, as she sits right now. And people try to make sense of this. Now, We just explained what kind of motive is that, Robes. But the connection there is being made not by us. You know what? Even if police hadn't said this, we'd have made the connection.
00:07:24
Speaker 2: Obviously.
00:07:25
Speaker 1: Given some of these details. But yes, they say, Robes, she has been keeping an eye on this. I mean, we all have. But they said it was worth noting or thought it was worth noting in the reports. How engaged she had been with this Lindsay Clancy case.
00:07:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fact that she had been actively discussing the case. She had a group text messages with friends talking about the Lindsay Clancy case hours before she does something that eerily, scarily resembles the Lindsay Clancy case. All like down to the fact that she tried to cut herself unsuccessfully in an attempt to.
00:07:58
Speaker 2: Die by suicide after killing a child, strangling a child.
00:08:01
Speaker 3: I mean, that's in the basement. Oh my goodness.
00:08:05
Speaker 2: And then to say that her son was the antichrist and the devil sounds very much like Andrea Yates, who had the exact same thoughts about her own children, which is why she said she had to kill them because the devil was inside of them.
00:08:18
Speaker 1: Now, what we don't know now, and please tell me if you have seen somewhere, uh, again, this story has been out for the past several days or we're just getting new court documents. Um, any suggestion of her previous mental health. I haven't seen that talked about. Surely it will be brought up. But I haven't seen, have you?
00:08:36
Speaker 2: I have not seen anywhere that anyone has discussed that she was struggling, that she had issues, that she had any documented mental health. Now, the neighbors in the area, this is a very, it seems like a very affluent area of a suburban Chicago neighborhood. And some of the moms in the neighborhood had said that because of the Lindsay Clancy trial, they had set up a system. And certainly after this, to help other moms out saying, hey, if you feel like you need a break, if you're losing your mind, four kids, three kids, whatever. Let us take your kids for an hour. Go have a massage. Go get your nails done. So they're trying to recognize that moms need breaks, moms need help. And so it had spurred this really sense of community among the moms in the neighborhood.
00:09:22
Speaker 3: But to think that this happened is just horrific.
00:09:24
Speaker 1: You know, is that going to happen more often? I think so. That is wonderful. If nothing else, gee, that is wonderful to know they're doing that. Do you need a beat? We're here. We'll take the kids.
00:09:35
Speaker 3: I just got chills from head to toe.
00:09:36
Speaker 1: No, you have that as an option.
00:09:39
Speaker 2: Rope.
00:09:39
Speaker 1: That is, I didn't even think that that was going to be what comes out of this women supporting women in that simple way.
00:09:45
Speaker 2: Yeah. Because when you are like, it actually makes me emotional because when you're a new mom and you feel isolated, even if you're in a, you know, you, you might not know your neighbor on the other street or some other mom who might also be struggling a bit. And if you guys can help each other out, even have like a group date or a play date, it makes a difference to not feel so isolated and alone.
00:10:06
Speaker 1: Well, we did hear. We did hear from the attorney who is representing Corey Walsh. Stay here. You'll want to hear this statement. And you can tell already it looks like the direction this is about to go. All right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. I want to share with you the statement we got from Corey Walsh's attorney. Robe, this is one of these ways where you're trying to explain the inexplicable. We've been dealing with that for the past six weeks, right, watching the Lindsay Clancy trial. And here we go again, Robes. These are rare. Rarer still that we hear women about doing this claiming they were psychotic at the time. But she wrote, what was the number? One or two out of a thousand?
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Speaker 3: That was the number.
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Speaker 1: And we've got two right now making headlines in this country. We shall see. But this is a statement from Corey Walsh's attorney.
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Speaker 2: It reads, this is a tragedy for the Walsh family, all of whom are mourning the loss of this child. It is also a tragedy in that Corey herself was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time this happened. It is our hope that through presentation and investigation of the facts that all of us will come to see.
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Speaker 3: This heartbreak for what it is.
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Speaker 2: So yes, they're already setting up the exact same defense that Lindsay Clancy presented in her trial. And we didn't mention, I don't believe, her husband was out of town, correct?
00:11:43
Speaker 1: Again, another part of the story that's similar. He was out of town, but he was Patrick Clancy was just up the street, but both were out of pocket.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Waiting until father, dad, husband is gone and won't be coming back for a certain amount of time. And that's when this all takes place. But just I still can't get out of my head the fact that those poor kids, those older.
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Speaker 3: Kids had to see what they saw and will never.
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Speaker 2: And that teenager, that that poor girl who was kind enough to walk the kids over. just to know that that's something that they will never be able to unsee.
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Speaker 3: It's just horrific.
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Speaker 1: This was baby brothers to them. You think about that. These were older kids. You know how they felt about this kid. Rosie, Patrick Clancy, I didn't think about it. I just got reminded of it. Just the direction. I got concerned when I was looking at it. It was the first or the second for sure, and it might have been the first response somebody had to this story and comments.
00:12:40
Speaker 2: The comments.
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Speaker 1: Patrick did it. Talking about this out of Chicago.
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Speaker 2: Thinking that that's just funny or cute.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. But robes, this does, I mean, what do we do now? Should we, I guess we have to just balance them, babe. But are people going to start just presenting this as, well, this is my defense. I can use this defense. I was going through psychosis. Or are people going to pay attention to go, okay, we should be looking at this as a viable option. Because now we know and we've learned more. I don't know where we're going to balance that.
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Speaker 3: I don't either.
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Speaker 2: And there is so much more to this story we need to know about. For instance, we don't know how old that infant was. Was this within a few months of giving birth? The whole point that people were making that were anti-Lindsey Clancy and anti-the postpartum psychosis defense was that she was too far out from having had a child.
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Speaker 3: Little Callen was eight months old.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how this... old this infant was. Could she truly have been in the throes of postpartum? Will her husband be able to shed light on how she had been acting? Had she been acting strangely or differently? Did she have any documented mental health issues? So there's just a lot more we don't, a lot more we need to know that we don't know yet. And there's a court appearance coming up this week, correct?
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Speaker 1: Well, it's on Tuesday. So she will be in court this week. She is charged with first degree murder It's actually three counts of first-degree murder. It's the way they just happen to do it there in Illinois. It's the same murder, but they have three different sections. It's a weird way to put it, but legal theories. It's based on three separate theories is why it's three different charges, but just one murder just to clear that up. But I don't know how much more. Yeah, we should, Robes, learn more on Tuesday about what in the world was going on. Is she going to have an attorney come in there and say, yes, this woman had been suffering and she needs to be in a mental institution right now and not in prison? But here we go, Robes. We just got a mistrial on Friday.
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Speaker 2: I feel sick that this has happened again and that it bears all the hallmarks of Lindsay Clancy. And the fact that she was invested in the case, you have to think that somehow, some way, this got into her head.
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Speaker 3: And maybe she was suffering mentally.
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Speaker 2: And this was just that catalyst that sparked this idea because she was interested in this case and it just, it started to take over. I don't know, but it's frightening to think that just the publicity of this case might have led to the death.
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Speaker 3: Of another child.
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Speaker 1: Just wanted to put this one on your radar, folks, but it will, it's the next one that's going to be talked about quite a bit. Again, she has a court appearance on Tuesday. We'll keep an eye on it, but wherever you may be this weekend for your holiday weekend, please hope you enjoy and please, please stay safe out there. We appreciate you as always spending time with us. I'm TJ on behalf of my dear Amy Robach. We'll talk soon.