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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Timid Honor Student Son, 13, Stabs Mom Dead Sleeping With Infant

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Derek Rosa is not your typical 13-year-old boy: He is on the honor roll with neighbors saying he is exceedingly nice and the model son.

Irena Garcia, 39, just gave birth to a baby girl. So it was shocking when the teen called 911, telling the dispatcher that he snuck into the room where his mom and the baby were sleeping and stabbed his mother dead.

As the operator talks to Rosa, he tells her he took pictures of the murder and sent them to a "friend." He also says he then deleted the photos. When pressed for the friend's name, Rosa says it is just somebody he knows online. During his call with 911, Rosa said he had a gun he planned to use to kill himself but decided not to.

Derek Rosa was taken into custody and transported to a juvenile detention center. He was then moved to Jackson Memorial Hospital after he threatened to harm himself.

Rosa was initially charged with second-degree murder, but a Miami-Dade grand jury found enough probable cause to indict the teen as an adult and up the charge to first-degree murder.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

  • Jason Oshins - Criminal & Civil Attorney
  • Dr. James Garbarino - Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Cornell University and Loyola University Chicago (specialized in studying what causes violence in children); Author of, “Listening to Killers: Lessons Learned from My 20 Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases”
  • Master Sergeant Ron Livingston -
  • Ron Livingston - Sergeant at Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (30+ years in law enforcement)
  • Dr. Tim Gallagher - Medical Examiner State of Florida; Lecturer: University of Florida Medical School Forensic Medicine; Founder/Host: International Forensic Medicine Death Investigation Conference
  • Caitlyn Becker - Senior Reporter for Dailymail.com; Twitter: @caitlynbecker

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Crime stories with Nancy Grace. A gorgeous young mom, fast asleep, lying in bed right beside her newborn baby girl is murdered. That's bad enough. The mo, the method of operation, the modus operandi, itself, even more shocking.

0:40.0

The young mom stabbed in the neck.

0:44.0

That's not all.

0:46.0

Now, behind bars, her 13-old son, honor student, described as meek and mild.

1:01.0

A young mom, dead in bed asleep at the time she stabbed in the neck by her 13 year old.

1:10.0

I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at

1:16.8

Crime Stories and on serious XM 1111. Let's take a listen to the 911 call.

1:22.1

Do you call her neck?

1:24.0

Okay.

1:25.0

Where else did you stop there or other than

1:28.0

cutting her neck?

1:29.0

Where is your sister?

1:30.0

She's in her crib sleeping.

1:32.0

I cannot come. How old is your sister? She's only like a week old.

1:38.0

Okay, and you did not touch her, correct? No, I did not like you. I didn't want to suck my sister. I need to know if your mom is

1:45.8

is breathing. She said I have the gun with me I was gonna shoot myself but but I didn't want to I pulled back the slide but I did not see and more I need to know that you think we can help your mom

2:04.0

Ms she's that I think we can help your mom. Ms. She's dead. I have more family members.

2:07.0

They can take care of my sister.

2:09.0

I took pictures and I told my friends about it.

2:12.0

Was that bad? You told friends about it. Was that bad?

2:13.0

You told hold about it?

2:15.0

My friend.

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