She has pleaded not guilty. Her sister has said she loved the children and is a peaceful woman. Complete coverage of the Krim Murders on Crimesider. Please enter email address to continue. During that time, Marina would be with Nessie at her swim lesson at the YMCA, and she would then pick Lulu up at Ballet on head home with the two girls at around pm.
Yoselyn did as Marina asked and headed out. Just a few blocks Nessie was finishing up her swim lesson while her mom waited for her. Once the lesson was over, Marina and Nessie headed to pick up Lulu at the dance studio. This was unusual for Yoselyn - she always responded and was always reliable. Something was very wrong Marina hurriedly rushed out and headed to her apartment building.
Thomas responded and told her that Marina had left. Yoselyn got into the elevator and headed to the 2nd floor. Charlotte Friedman, a neighbor who lives on the seventh floor of the building, also got into the elevator with the nanny and the two children. She recalled that the two children were playing around and that the little girl looked so happy. Charlotte asked her if she was going on a play date or something and said she was going home. It was around pm when Marina walked into the 11 story building and headed up to her apartment.
She opened the door and immediately noticed it was dark, as if no one was there. It was also very quiet - too quiet. So Marina headed back into the apartment…. This time, when she entered the apartment she walked into the apartment towards the back rooms. She noticed that the light in the bathroom down the hall was on, but the door was shut.
The bathroom was the furthest room from the front door of the apartment. She called out for Lulu and Leo. She walked to the door with Nessie still in her arms, and opened it. She initially could not comprehend the horrifying scene in front of her. Her two children, 6 year old Lulu and 2 year old Leo, were both clothed and inside of the tub.
They were soaked in blood and motionless. Yoselyn Ortega was standing in the bathroom staring at Marina with bulging eyes, holding a large kitchen knife in her hand. When she saw that Marina had seen her children, she jabbed the knife into her own neck and throat multiple times. Marina testified in court and was able to describe what she saw that day, and I quote:.
I walk down the hall, and I see the light on under the door. I see Leo next to her. They had blood on them. Then I see the defendant, blood all over her and eyes bugging out. She remembered screaming and described it as "It was a scream you can't imagine is even inside of you, I don't even know where it came from. I just thought: I'm never going to be able to talk to them ever again.
They are dead. I just saw my kids dead. I go down, I walk down the hall and I see the light on under the back of the door, and I'm like, 'Oh God it's so quiet in here, oh God. Why is it so And I open the door…… After seeing what Yoselyn had done to her children, Marina ran out of the apartment, screaming.
She collapsed on the landing, wailing and screaming that her children were dead. He went to the back bathroom and as soon as he opened the door, Yoselyn turned and looked right at him. She had been standing facing the bathroom mirror, covered in blood, holding a cloth to her bleeding throat. I did my best not to take my eyes off Miss Ortega.
He called down to have the police sent up to the apartment. Doorman Glen Loby immediately called She had a bloody knife by her side and a second knife was in the blood-covered sink. Officer Gore stepped over Yoselyn as she was moaning, and still had signs of life. Gore then checked the children - no signs of life. Officer Provenzano handed him a camera to preserve the scene. Then she would get waves of the reality of what just happened and then she'd go into just plain blood curdling screams with her arms flailing out to the sides.
CPR and chest compressions were attempted on the children, as is procedure, but the children had lost too much blood. The children were removed from the apartment building on a single adult stretcher.
Marina was escorted out of the building by authorities, holding Nessie in her arms and shielded by a white towel. She was transferred in a separate ambulance to the same hospital as the children. Upon arrival at the hospital, she was sedated. She had fractured a vertebrate in the process of stabbing herself in the neck and was placed in a medically induced coma. Authorities were waiting for the plane when it arrived, and before anyone was allowed to exit the plane, NYPD said they needed one passenger to exit first - Kevin Krim.
Texts and voicemails were asking him if he was alright. His phone rang When he exited the plan he collapsed. He was taken to St. When Kevin got to the hospital he saw Marina and she fell into his arms, sobbing.
Kevin told the doctors that he wanted to see his children. Marina Krim said calling the killings an "accident" shows Oretega's family has "still not taken responsibility for their roles in these murders. They're still trying to cover up for her and themselves. Ortega, who was found guilty last month on two counts each of first-degree and second-degree murder, had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Her defense attorney, Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg, argued she was "suffering from severe psychosis" and "dissociation" at the time of the killings.
We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Another big question is whether the crime is first- or second-degree murder. As true trial junkies will know, the difference between first-degree murder and second-degree murder is planning — did the defendant plan the murder in advance, or did she act in the heat of the moment?
This case could really go either way, which is why the next few weeks of investigation are really important. It might be that Ortega started planning the murder of the young children after her fight with Marina Krim the day before — or maybe she just snapped under the pressure of her personal struggles. Background On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, stately pre-war apartment buildings flank tree-lined streets and nannies push strollers to nearby Central Park while well-to-do parents are at work.
New York state has abolished the death penalty, and Ortega is facing life imprisonment. Ortega did not confess to the killing of the children. Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida Kevin Spacey Arraignment Video. Adnan Syed Appeal Video Archive. Government issues historic restrictions amid virus outbreak.
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