Corie, 40, is charged with murdering her son Barrett Walsh at their home in Frankfort, Illinois, on September 1. Corie Walsh, the Lindsay Clancy-obsessed mother who allegedly hung her two-year-old son before trying to kill herself, has retained Casey Anthony’s former lawyer Andrea Lyon, known as the “Angel of Death Row.
Casey was initially charged with murder, but was later acquitted by a jury after a 2011 trial.
“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 New York Post regarding her new client’s case.
The former law school dean was a member of Anthony’s legal team in the lead-up to her trial in 2011.
Andrea is dubbed the “Angel of Death Row” because of her record of wins in death penalty cases.
The Corie Walsh case
Managing a 22-lawyer unit, she tried over 130 homicide cases and defended more than 30 potential capital cases at the trial level, including taking 19 capital cases through penalty phase. In 1990, Andrea founded and directed the Illinois Capital Resource Center representing all of the death row inmates in Illinois. Prosecutors said that Corie was texting friends about the Clancy case just hours before allegedly killing her son, per NBC 5 Chicago. The Massachusetts mother faces three counts of murder in the killings of her children Cora, 5; Dawson , 3; and Callan, 8 months.
“It is also a tragedy in that Corie herself was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time this happened,” she added. The Lyon & Kerr website says, “Her legal work began in the Cook County Public Defender’s Office where she rose to become Chief of the Homicide Task Force. Corie later described Barrett to police as the “anti-Christ” and the “devil,” per the New York Post. Witnesses said that Corie had “recently become very invested in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial,” the outlet said, citing court documents.
“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. A neighbor found Corie’s son hanging by his neck from the rafters. The judge in Lindsay’s trial declared a mistrial after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict and remained deadlocked after a week of deliberations.
