Corie Walsh, 40, from Frankfort, Illinois (a suburb roughly 35 miles south-west of Chicago), has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder after her two-year-old son, Barrett, was found dead in the family home's basement last Tuesday. Prosecutors say Walsh had been closely following the high-profile trial of Lindsay Clancy — a Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children, whose case ended in a mistrial — and was texting friends about it just hours before the boy was discovered by a neighbour, who began CPR before emergency services arrived; an autopsy confirmed the child died from ligature strangulation. Walsh, who was found injured in a bathtub at the scene, allegedly told investigators she killed her son because she believed he was the devil, though her attorney says she was in the grip of a psychotic episode.