Killer mum's three chilling words after suffocating baby boy and burning body
Keri Mazzuca, 52, has been captured on newly released footage confessing to the harrowing murder of a child, who was found wrapped in a towel and burned back in 1997
This is the chilling moment a baby killer calmly confesses to police she suffocated and burned her baby son's body nearly 30 years ago.
Keri Mazzuca, 52, was captured on newly released footage confessing to the death of the little boy, who was found wrapped in a towel and burned at the foot of a statue of Moses in Albany's Washington Park in 1997. She was interviewed by cops last year after she gave a sample using technology used to capture the Gilgo Beach killer, Rex Heuermann.
Mazzuca was shown the horrific photo of the child's remains when she made a casual admission, according to footage released by the Albany County District Attorney's Office.
'I got pregnant. I had the baby. I gave birth in my bathtub; the baby died. I didn't know how to get rid of it,' she told officers.
The suspect had previously claimed the baby died in the bathtub during childbirth and that she put the corpse in a bag and gave it to a "random person" at the park. However, police pressed her story and claimed the baby had not died of natural causes, and her story was inconsistent.
'I didn't know what to do. I set the baby on fire,' Mazzuca admitted calmly. 'It was dead," she insisted in a chilling statement. "I suffocated the child." She told officers the child was not alive when she set him on fire. Mazzuca pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge in February and was jailed for 25 years in April.
Albany County District Attorney Lee Kindlon welcomed her sentence, she said: 'Now, 27 years later, we can look at this collective investigative effort combined with the emerging science and be reinvigorated that we can tackle even more cold cases going forward.'
It comes after a drug-induced driver was jailed after his reckless actions behind the wheel killed a four-month-old baby. Craig Nunn, 40, was jailed for 14 years at Worcester Crown Court after causing death by dangerous driving.
Little Harley Wilkinson was sadly killed in the incident just after midnight on October 26 last year, a horrific crash that also left the child's father Jake Wilkinson seriously injured. The court was told Nunn, of Sandy Lane in Stourport, was nearly two times the drug-drive limit in his Ford Focus when he smashed into a black Suzuki Vitara being driven by Harley's mother Imogen Bradley.
Nunn was under the influence of amphetamines at the time, causing the crash in Worcestershire by running through a red light. Ms Bradley was driving home with her partner Mr Wilkinson after picking their son up from her sister's home when the collision occurred as she turned from Walter Nash Way West onto the A451 in the direction of Stourport.
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