A judge will not suppress a statement from a Pittsburgh homicide defendant to police that she dropped a baby “hard” a couple of times on the floor of a Shadyside home several hours before the child died.
Nicole Virzi, 31, of San Diego is charged with killing her best friend’s infant son in 2024 and might face the death penalty. She sought to bar prosecutors from using a potentially incriminating statement.
Virzi’s attorneys argued at a hearing in November that her statement — in which she admitted a longtime compulsion to hurt children and did so with Leon, the 6-week-old victim — had been coerced following a long day during which she had little sleep or food…