Add The New York Post on Google The Lindsay Clancy-obsessed mom accused of hanging her 2-year-old son before trying to kill herself has retained notorious “tot mom” Casey Anthony’s former lawyer, known as the “Angel of Death Row.”
Mother-of-four Corie Walsh, 40, is charged with murdering her son Barrett Walsh at their home in Frankfort, Illinois, on Sept 1. –– just hours after discussing Clancy’s trial for killing her three children with exercise bands before attempting suicide.
Walsh is being represented by Andrea Lyon –– an attorney who previously made headlines when she worked on the defense of Florida mom Anthony when she was accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in 2008.
Dubbed the “Angel of Death Row” because of her record of wins in death penalty cases, former law school dean Lyon was a member of Anthony’s legal team in the lead-up to her trial in 2011.
“This is a tragedy for the Walsh family all of whom are mourning the loss of this child,” Lyon said in a statement she provided to The Post regarding her new client’s case.
“It is also a tragedy in that Corie herself was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time this happened.
“It is our hope that through a thorough presentation and investigation of the facts, that all of us will come to see this heartbreak for what it is.”
Walsh allegedly described her son Barrett to cops as the “anti-Christ” and the “devil” after he was found hanging by his neck from the rafters by a horrified neighbor.
The unnamed female neighbor discovered the toddler’s lifeless body hanging by a rope around his neck and with his feet off the ground in the basement of the family’s home, according to court documents obtained by CNN.
The same neighbor also found Walsh upstairs in a bathtub “actively harming herself” with a knife and with cuts to her thighs and wrists, according to the documents.
The neighbor took the knife from Walsh and then pressed a towel over a wound in her thigh.
Walsh asked why she had taken the knife as she was trying to kill herself, the documents state.
Prosecutors claim that Walsh was texting friends about the Clancy case just hours before the horror unfolded and while jurors in Massachusetts continued their deliberations in the high-profile trial, NBC 5 Chicago reported.
According to witnesses, Walsh had “recently become very invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial,” the outlet said, citing court documents.
The Clancy trial, which gripped the country for over six weeks, culminated in a mistrial Friday after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on whether to convict her of her murder or find her not guilty by reason of insanity.
Clancy admitted that she strangled her three kids with exercise bands in January 2023 before jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed.
Her defense team argued she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and overprescribed psychiatric medications.
For her part, Anthony was accused of suffocating her daughter, Caylee, who was reported missing in 2008 after she hadn’t been seen for more than a month.
The tot’s remains were found months later wrapped in duct tape inside a laundry bag in woodlands near her family’s home outside Orlando.
Anthony was charged with her murder — but a jury acquitted her after a 2011 trial that drew tens of millions of viewers from around the world.
Chicago-based Lyon, of the Lyon & Kerr firm, joined Anthony’s defense team as a death penalty expert in May 2009, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
She quit in July 2010, with Anthony’s lead attorney Jose Baez citing “financial issues.”
