GLAM PHD STUDENT 29, “TORTURES” FRIEND’S TWIN BABY DEAD, SHOCKED SHE MAY BE PUNISHED

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Ethan Katz and Savannah Roberts have a lot to celebrate. It's not only Father's Day weekend, Ethan's birthday weekend, but also the couple's anniversary. Savannah has given birth to their twin sons, now 6-weeks-old. Family friend Nicole Virzi travels from San Diego to Pittsburgh to visit and provide a helping hand.

While watching the twin boys, Ari and Leon, Nicole Virzi tells the parents she notices odd injuries on Ari's genitals. Around 6:30 PM, the new parents take Ari to the hospital leaving their other son, Ari's twin, Leon Katz, in the care of Virzi Just after 11PM, Ethan Katz and Savannah Robertson get a call from Nicole Virzi telling them while she was in the kitchen getting a bottle for Leon, the baby fell from his bouncer seat and hit his head.

Nicole Virzi tells the 911 dispatcher that Leon has fallen from a bassinet and bumped his head and is becoming unresponsive. When the police arrive Virzi tells police she falls asleep with the baby in his bouncer seat. When she wakes up she goes to get a bottle from the kitchen for the baby. While she is out of the room, she hears Leon screaming and finds him on the floor with a bump on his head. She tells police he fell out of his bouncer seat

Rushed to the hospital doctors discover Leon Katz has a severe skull fracture to the left side of his head and multiple brain bleeds. The injuries suffered by the six-week-old baby prove fatal and he is pronounced dead the next morning at Children's hospital. Police say Virzi has no “plausible explanation” for the severity of Leon’s injuries. Examining the "bouncer seat" detectives report that it is about 18 inches from tallest point of the seat to the floor,

Doctors tell investigators about the injuries suffered by Leon's twin brother, Ari. He has small scratches on both sides of his face, two bruises below his belly button and swelling, bruising, redness and scratches to his genitals. The doctor who examined the injuries to both boys says they are consistent with having been sustained as a result of child abuse, as these were inflicted injuries that are not natural and not accidental noting that all of Leon's injuries were "acute."

Joining Nancy Grace today:

• Kelly Hyman - Trial & Civil Attorney, TV Legal Analyst, Podcast Host: "Once Upon a Crime In Hollywood", Twitter: @kellyhyman1, TikTok: @kelly.hyman, Instagram: @Kelly_Hyman1
• Dr. John Delatorre - Licensed psychologist and mediator, specializing in forensic psychology, psychological consultant to Project Absentis: a non profit organization that searches for missing persons, resolutionfcs.com, Twitter, IG, and TikTok - @drjohndelatorre
• Dr. Melissa Merrick - President & CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America, www.preventchildabuse.org and www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org, Facebook & YouTube: Prevent Child Abuse, X & IG: @PCAAMERICA
• Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County, Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
• Gabriella DeLuca - TV News Reporter, WPXI in Pittsburgh, PA X: @GabriellaDeLuca IG: WPXIgabrielladeluca

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