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The shocking moment a New York woman matter-of-factly admitted to suffocating and burning her infant son in an Albany park nearly 30 years ago was captured on newly released footage,

according to a report. DNA testing on the child’s remains led investigators to Keri Mazzuca, 52, who was interviewed last year over the death of “Baby Moses” — a child found wrapped in a

towel and burned at the foot of a statue of Moses in Albany’s Washington Park in 1997, News10 reported. The technology, which Mazzuca submitted a sample for, was the same used to nab accused

Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann and Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo, according to the outlet. After being shown a gruesome photo of the newborn’s charred remains, Mazzuca

made an admission with seemingly casual indifference, footage released by the Albany County District Attorney’s Office showed. “I did it,” Mazzuca calmly states to the officer, before

attempting to justify her heinous act when she was in her mid-twenties. EXPLORE MORE “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 claimed to officers — still not appearing to break into any semblance of emotional response. Mazzuca denied burning Baby Moses, claiming that the child had died in the bathtub

during childbirth and that she placed the corpse in a bag and handed it to a “random person” at the park, video showed. Detectives told Mazzuca that an autopsy found Baby Moses had not died

of natural causes and her story was not adding up, News10 reported. “I didn’t know what to do. I set the baby on fire,” Mazzuca admitted calmly, while adjusting the hem of her skirt. “It was

dead.” “I suffocated the child,” she said, claiming to officers that the child was not alive when she lit him on fire. Mazzuca pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge in February and was

sentenced to 25 years in prison last month, News10 reported. Baby Moses was found on Sept. 7, 1997, in a blue towel — burned to death near a box of wooden matches, according to the Doe

Network. The child has a headstone in Graceland Cemetery that reads, “Moses Washington. Citizen of Albany. Child of God.”