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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Trial Update: Husband Says Wife's Depression Peaked Before November Murder

Mary 'Kat' Ogdoc describes watching her mother throw 2-year-old Angelyn Ogdoc over a walkway at Tysons Corner Center last November.

Update 6:30 p.m.: The Carmela dela Rosa murder convened on Wednesday afternoon after Rebecca Rush, dela Rosa's older sister, left the stand. Rush, who lives in Washington, D.C., testified she was like a mother-figure to Carmela and said, "That's not the same sister that I know that did that act." Rush also testified that she visited dela Rosa regularly in prison. During one visit, shortly after dela Rosa was incarerated and charged with her granddaughter's murder, Rush said that her sister expressed that she felt like "she was spinning around...in the middle of a car crash." Like other family members who have taken the stand during the past two days, Rush said she noticed marked changes in her sister when dela Rosa experienced waves of …

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Trial Update: 'I Just Lost It' Dela Rosa Says In Interview Tapes

Footage of grandmother throwing 2-year-old off walkway, interviews with detectives shown in court Tuesday

Carmela dela Rosa decided to throw her granddaughter Angelyn Ogdoc off a Tysons Corner Center walkway bridge about five minutes before video surveillance cameras show her lifting the 2-year-old over the railing, dela Rosa said in police interviews shown Tuesday, the second day of the trial charging her with her granddaughter's murder. In her mind, dela Rosa said, Angelyn's connection with her son-in-law, James Ogdoc, made dela Rosa want to hurt her. She also said she had not taken several medications prescribed to her to treat depression in about a week. "I picked her up. I thought about James and then I threw her," she said. Dela Rosa entered a not guilty plea in Fairfax County Court Monday by reason of insanity. Prosecutors admitted the …

rachel

10:59 am on Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Jeff you should watch what you say and rephrase it. What she id is awful and depression is no excuse for murder especially the murder of a baby. She should have gotten a harsher punishment and life in a metal intuition if she is really that ill. And if anyone were to harm my baby the police would be booking me for murder. The child did nothing wrong and she is a monster for what she did and will …   more ›

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