The Crime Ledger: September 5, 2026

Frankfort Toddler Killing Brings Murder Charges

Frankfort police and Will County prosecutors charged Corie A. Walsh, 40, with three counts of first-degree murder Friday in the death of her son Barrett Walsh, 2. Officers were called to the 22700 block of Brook Stone Court just after 4 p.m. Tuesday. A neighbor had already cut the boy down from a basement rafter and was doing CPR; he was cold, without a pulse, and pronounced dead at a hospital. The Will County Coroner’s Office called it an apparent homicide. Preliminary autopsy findings: asphyxia from ligature compression of the neck.

Prosecutors’ petition to deny pretrial release says Walsh told officers she did it because he was the “devil” and the “anti-Christ,” and later described how she killed him in terms matching the scene. She was found upstairs, fully clothed in a tub of bloody water, with cuts to her wrists and thighs. An infant and two school-age siblings were home and unharmed; her husband was out of town. The filing also says she had been “very invested” in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial and was still texting friends about it until about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, three and a half hours before the discovery, while Clancy’s jury was still out. Walsh remains in medical custody and will move to the Will County Adult Detention Facility for a detention hearing once cleared. She is presumed innocent.

Brickell High-Rise Stabbing: Mother Killed

Miami police arrested Stefano Cremasco-Cicero, 36, on second-degree murder after officers were called about 4:47 a.m. Friday to Solitair Brickell Apartments in the 80th block of Southwest Eighth Street. They found him in the lobby with blood on his shoes, hands, and clothes. He told them, “I was defending myself.” Inside the unit, his mother, visiting from Mexico; age and full name not yet released, lay fully clothed with multiple apparent stab wounds. Fire Rescue pronounced her dead at about 5:08 a.m.

Surveillance and key-fob data, according to the report, show the two returning alone about 10:32 p.m., then Cremasco-Cicero later riding elevators with a knife and blood on his clothes before dropping the blade in a lobby, leaving the building, and returning to flag a food-delivery worker for help. Detectives executing a warrant recovered bloodied kitchen knives, shirts, and broken glass. His wife, reached in France, said he and his mother had dinner plans and had not been close since his parents’ divorce. He invoked counsel and was held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bond to be set. Motive still unclear. He is presumed innocent.

West Houston Leasing Office Double Murder

Harris County court records identify Derrick Duane Jackson, 48, as the man charged with capital murder in the Thursday evening killings of Rosa Linda Ybarra, 67, and Felix Antonio Jimenez Macz, 47, inside the management office of the Park at Woodlake complex in the 9500 block of Ella Lee Lane. Houston police were called about 6:45 p.m. after a maintenance worker and a resident trying to pay rent found both victims. Police said both were shot multiple times; the complaint also alleges Jackson stabbed Jimenez Macz. No motive in the charging papers.

Jackson was arrested Friday afternoon. Prosecutors asked for a $1 million bond and also moved to deny bond; none was set as of Saturday. First setting: Tuesday, Sept. 8. He has a prior Harris County cocaine-possession conviction from 1998. He is presumed innocent.

Houston police charged Derrick Duane Jackson, 53, with capital murder. The victims were Rosa Linda Ybarra, 67, and Felix Antonio Jimenez Macz, 47. At a court hearing, prosecutors alleged he shot Ybarra during a dispute over his lease, then shot and repeatedly stabbed Jimenez Macz as he tried to flee, ABC13 reports. He is presumed innocent.

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