Leo Krim

The family moved there from San Francisco in 2010.

Kevin Krim was a digital content executive at the television network CNBC.

Marina Krim, a former kindergarten teacher, was a stay-at-home mother, art teacher, and blogger who chronicled the children's lives.

Lucia and Leo Krim, aged 6 and 2 respectively, were murdered in the late afternoon of October 25, 2012, at the La Rochelle apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

The children's part-time caretaker, Yoselyn Ortega, was convicted of stabbing the children to death with kitchen knives while their mother Marina Krim and three-year-old sister Nessie were a few blocks away at a swimming lesson.

Upon returning home, their mother and sister found Lucia and Leo dead in a bathtub at the family apartment.

Ortega then began stabbing herself repeatedly in the neck and throat.

She survived the self-inflicted wounds.

On October 25, 2012, at about 5:35 pm, Marina Krim returned with her 3-year-old daughter, Nessie, from the girls' swimming lesson at a nearby YMCA to her apartment in a 10-story doorman building at 57 West 75th Street and Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

The 36-year-old mother returned to the apartment earlier than scheduled because Ortega had failed to show up at Lulu's ballet lesson where they had agreed to meet.

She entered the apartment but, as it was dark and quiet, found no one.

After returning to the lobby and consulting with the doorman, who had seen Ortega and the children return to the apartment shortly before, Marina and her daughter Nessie returned to the family apartment.

In the bathroom, she discovered her motionless two-year-old son, Leo Krim, and six-year-old daughter, Lucia "Lulu" Krim.

They were clothed; each had multiple stab wounds and were in a bathtub, filled with blood.

After seeing Marina Krim discover what had happened to her children, Yoselyn "Josie" Ortega, their caregiver of two years who was on the floor next to the bathtub, slashed her own wrists and began to violently stab herself in the neck and throat with a kitchen knife.

This scene was also witnessed by the apartment building's superintendent and his 10-year-old son.

The bodies of the two children were removed from the building on a single stretcher.

Kevin Krim, 37 years old at the time, learned of the events that night from police at John F. Kennedy Airport upon returning from a business trip to San Francisco.

Ortega told police investigators Lucia, who suffered defensive wounds, had fought back when she was attacked.

She said 2-year-old Leo was sleeping when the attack started.

Ortega, a naturalized U.S. citizen for 10 years at the time, was originally from Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic, and was 50 years old at the time she murdered the Krim children.

She was living on Riverside Drive in Manhattan's Hamilton Heights neighborhood with her 17-year-old son Jesus, her sister, and her niece.

In interviews with the New York City Police Department (NYPD), Ortega, who was paid $18 an hour, claimed she was upset that her employer, Marina Krim, responded to her inquiry about needing more hours (due to money troubles) by suggesting she could do housework.

The NYPD and friends of the nanny said she indicated that she was upset because the Krims would not pay her more money.

However, family and friends who knew the Krims, as well as Ortega's own family, said that Ortega was close to the children and was treated very well by the Krims.

The Krims paid for her plane tickets to see her family in the Dominican Republic and, on one occasion, accompanied her on vacation there.

Ortega survived her self-inflicted wounds, and was later deemed by two New York State psychiatrists mentally competent to stand trial.

She was incarcerated at a New York City psychiatric hospital without bail while she prepared for her trial with a private attorney contracted by NY State to serve as Ortega's public defender.

In November 2012, Ortega was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder.

Over the next five years, prior to trial, Ortega made approximately 90 court appearances.

In April 2016, Judge Gregory Carro made a plea offer to Ortega over the objection of the prosecution (who said the only appropriate sentence would be life without parole) of 30-years-to-life-in-prison, the minimum sentence for the two murder counts, in exchange for her guilty pleas.

Ortega rejected the offer.

On February 22, 2018, twelve jurors were chosen for Ortega's trial, and opening statements began March 1 in Manhattan Supreme Court.

On April 18, 2018, Ortega was found guilty of first-degree murder and second-degree murder.

Ortega was sentenced on May 14, 2018, to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The children lived with their parents, Marina and Kevin Krim, in New York City.

Lucia was known as "Lulu."

On February 22, 2018, 12 jurors were chosen for Ortega's trial as Judge Carro presided, and opening statements were scheduled for March 1 in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The trial was expected to last four months, but ended after less than two.

Ortega faced the possibility of life in prison.