An Illinois woman charged with killing her 2-year-old son had been closely following the Massachusetts murder trial of Lindsay Clancy and texting friends about it hours before the child was found dead, prosecutors said. According to authorities, Corie Walsh, 40, faces three counts of first-degree murder after her son Barrett was found dead in the basement of the family's suburban Chicago home on Sept. 1.
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