Lindsay Clancy-obsessed mom Corie Walsh sang ‘Wizard of Oz’ tune after hanging 2-year-old son: cops

The Lindsay Clancy-obsessed mom who allegedly hanged her 2-year-old son chillingly crooned a tune from the “Wizard of Oz” during police questioning about the harrowing murder, investigators stunningly revealed. 

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Instead of answering Illinois detectives’ queries about how her toddler son’s lifeless body had ended up dangling from a rafter, crazed mom Corie Walsh responded by breaking out in her own rendition of “Follow the Yellow Brick Road,” according to court documents reviewed by The Sun. 

Walsh, 40, is facing first-degree murder charges after her two school-aged children discovered their sibling, Barrett Walsh, with a rope around his neck and his feet off the ground at the family’s home in Frankfurt, a suburb about 30 miles southwest of Chicago, and ran to a neighbor’s house for help, the doc states. 

The frantic neighbor called 911 and tried fruitlessly to perform CPR on little Barrett, who didn’t have a pulse and was cold to the touch. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

An autopsy later confirmed that the boy, who was called “Bear” by his family, died of “asphyxia due to ligature compression of the neck,” according to court records. 

Between haunting harmonizations, Walsh allegedly confessed to killing the boy, claiming he was the “anti-Christ” and “devil,” according to prosecutors. 

The mom — whom cops had discovered fully clothed, soaking in a bathtub full of bloodied water at the house – tried to take her own life by slashing her wrists and thighs with a knife.

By the time police showed up, Walsh was reportedly so out of it that she believed she had killed all four of her children, including an 8-month-old infant who was discovered unsupervised at the house.  

The mom later confessed that she had also planned on “poisoning [her husband] with a drink” and had multiple prescriptions at the time, according to court docs and prosecutors. 

The harrowing series of events unfolded just a few hours after Walsh allegedly sent friends “confusing” and “out of character” text messages about Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, saying she believed that Clancy’s husband killed the children – not their mother, the outlet reported. 

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Prosecutors have since claimed that Walsh was infatuated with Clancy, whose high-profile trial captivated the nation over the defense team’s argument that she was legally insane due to postpartum psychosis when she fatally strangled her three children with exercise bands. 

“It was manslaughter, please I’m really freaking out,” Walsh reportedly wrote in a text to a friend on Sept. 1, as jury deliberations were still ongoing in Clancy’s case. 

Walsh’s defense lawyers, meanwhile, have argued that she was “severely mentally ill” and in the throes of a “psychotic episode” during the grisly incident – arguments echoing those used by Clancy’s attorneys during her weeks-long courtroom battle that ultimately ended in a hung jury and mistrial. 

An attorney for Walsh, however, refuted the idea that his client is a Clancy “copycat” – and described the accusation as “sickening” during her first court appearance last week. 

“Describing Corie to a copied Lindsay is to take an easy bait,” attorney Robert Kerr reportedly told the Will County courtroom. 

Despite her lawyers’ pleas that Walsh be placed in “immediate” care to prevent her from further harming herself, the judge ordered her detained by bars, saying she posed a risk to her three remaining children and husband. 

Walsh’s husband, who was out of the state during the horrific events — has “unwavering” support and love for his accused killer, and has been fully cooperating with police and social workers, Walsh’s attorney claimed.

Kerr did not immediately respond to inquiries from The Post. A spokesperson for the Will County District Attorney’s Office said it does not comment on pending litigation.

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A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for Sept. 24.