Exclusive | Lindsay Clancy-obsessed mom texted family about Disney World trip for her son hours before killing him: docs

JOLIET, Illinois — Corie Walsh was the quintessential suburban mom who was planning a Disney World dream vacation for her family — especially the 2-year-old son she is now accused of murdering, according to her lawyer.Defense attorney Robert Kerr revealed the details during a court hearing earlier this month in an attempt to show that the Lindsey Clancy-obsessive was an otherwise normal mom who was in the throes of a “psychotic episode” when she hanged little Barrett from the rafters and then tried to kill herself on Sept.1.Barrett had delayed speech, but his first words were “Bluey” and “Mickey Mouse,” Kerr said during the hearing. Walsh “could not wait, she told her mother, to see [Barrett’s] face when he met Bluey and Mickey,” he said. Prosecutors have alleged that Walsh, 40, had recently become “very invested” in Clancy’s high-profile murder trial before she “knowingly and intentionally” left Barrett suspended by a ligature around his neck in the basement of the family’s $850,000 home in suburban Frankfort, Illinois — about 35 miles south of Chicago.Her defense attorneys, however, said that just hours before the killing, she excitedly told a family member about their upcoming Disney trip.Walsh and her mother had started planning the vacation – which was to include the Walsh, her husband, their four children and both grandmothers – back in January, Kerr told a Will County courtroom during Walsh’s Sept.

8 arraignment. “They reserved flights, rooms.They made dinner reservations.

They obtained park passes,” Kerr said. “And of all of her children – she told her mom this, Judge, hours before the incident…[Walsh] was most excited for [Barrett], given his age and his affection for these characters, to go to Disney.” In the weeks since the alleged slaying, Walsh’s stunned friends, family and neighbors have struggled to reconcile the allegations with the woman they knew. She was remembered as “a very highly...