'I Just Lost It' Dela Rosa Says In Interview Tapes

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 hour-long interrogation video into evidence at the end of the second day of the trial. The footage, which was played in its entirety in court, showed Fairfax County detectives interviewing dela Rosa at the McLean precinct on Nov. 29, 2010, shortly after she was arrested for tossing her granddaughter over the guardrail of a pedestrian bridge that connected the mall to a parking garage.

"I just lost it," dela Rosa said several times throughout the interview. "I lost my mind...I did a terrible thing."

Angelyn's parents, Kat and James Ogdoc, were not present in the gallery when the footage aired.

Constance DiAngelo, a medical examiner who testified on Tuesday afternoon, said autopsy results indicated the child died of blunt force trauma to the head, neck, trunk and lower extremities.

Detective Stephen Needels asked dela Rosa several times throughout the tape if she understood the difference between right and wrong.

"What I did was wrong. A sane person wouldn't do this," she said.

She explains a series of factors led her to the decision to pick up Angelyn and throw her off the bridge. She said she harbored a long-time hatred for her son-in-law, Angelyn's father. She said she also felt that her daughter, her son and her husband - also at the mall that night - had snubbed her.

"Everybody was like - they have their own thing. I'm not included. They have their secret whatever - the way they look at each other," dela Rosa told the detectives. "It triggered something in me. I don't know what."

"He's a really good guy, I just feel like my daughter got robbed of things and I'm still dwelling on that."

Kat and James Ogdoc started dating at Bishop O'Connell High School in Arlington around 2003. They later enrolled at George Mason University and discovered Kat was pregnant in the fall of 2007. They were married and Kat gave birth to Angelyn in June 2008.

Dela Rosa, who has been described as a deeply religious, Catholic woman, said she never got over her feelings of resentment toward the circumstances of her daughter's pregnancy and marriage.

"He took her from me too early. He didn't give her a chance to explore," she said.

The prosecution is expected to continue to call its witnesses during trial Wednesday. It will then be the defense team's turn to prove their client was legally insane -- unable to distinguish right from wrong -- at the time of the crime. 

James Ogdoc, Angelyn's father, was summoned by the prosecution Tuesday to testify against his mother-in-law.

He soon became very emotional on the witness stand and paused for several minutes to cry. He was visibly shaking, sobbing into his hand, when he began talking about his daughter's death in November.

"She passed away. They had her hooked to machines, checking her vitals and she passed away," he said, his voice trembling. "They tried to resuscitate her but they eventually gave up because the brain damage was too much."

Judge Bruce White called a recess after James Ogdoc testified.

Two other witnesses already had been called by prosecutors Tuesday morning, after a substantial delay pushed the trial's start time past 11 a.m. The delay was due to a lice infestation, according to NBC Washington.

Catherine Corcoran, a nurse practitioner and the owner of a medical spa, testified that she was driving under the bridge on Nov. 29, 2010, when Angelyn was dropped by her grandmother.

"I saw something in the corner of my eyes," Corcoran said. "I thought it was a bird. I quickly realized it was a person, or a baby."

Fairfax County Police Officer Stan Campiano responded to Tysons Corner Center that night and arrested Dela Rosa, who was waiting on the bridge with mall security.

Campiano testified on Tuesday that he handcuffed her, transported her to the McLean precinct, waited while Dela Rosa was interviewed by detectives and later drove her to the jail for booking.

Campiano said that as he left her at the jail, Dela Rosa said to him, "I wanted to let you know you've been very nice. Thank you."

"You're welcome," Campiano said.

For background on the case, including a description of yesterday's opening statements and a rundown of the trial's first day, click .