Michael Appleton for The New York Times
A police officer stood outside 57 West 75th Street, where two children were fatally stabbed in New York City on Thursday.
A mother returned home to her luxury Upper West Side apartment on Thursday evening to find two of her children, a 2-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl, fatally stabbed in a bathtub by the family's nanny, the authorities said. The nanny herself lay on the floor, near a bloody knife, with an apparently self-inflicted slash to her own throat.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the mother, Marina Krim, had left her apartment a block from Central Park at 57 West 75th Street to take one of her children, a 3-year-old girl, to a swimming lesson. The two other children were left with the nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, 50.
When Ms. Krim returned around 5:30 p.m., the commissioner said, she found a dark apartment. She went back down to the lobby to ask the doorman if he had seen the nanny and her children. When told that they had not left the building, she returned to the apartment. She looked around in the quiet rooms. Finally, she turned the lights on in the bathroom — and discovered her two children in the bathtub and the nanny unconscious on the floor.
"There were bloodcurdling screams from a woman," said Rima Starr, who lives down the hall from the victims' second-floor apartment. Ms. Starr also recognized a man's screaming voice as that of the building superintendent. The screams prompted neighbors to call 911. Ms. Ortega was arrested as soon as the police arrived. She was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she was in critical but stable condition.
According to the police, Ms. Krim and her husband, Kevin, had three children — Nessie, the 3-year-old who lived, and Lucia and Leo. Ms. Krim wrote a blog where she documented "life with the little Krim kids" and showed them in photos around New York City, eating Gray's Papaya hot dogs, pretending to use a pay phone, napping on the sofa and picking pumpkins.
On the Upper West Side, where nannies are often an integral part of children's lives, pushing strollers or walking their charges by the dozens home from school in the afternoon, the news of the double killing was met with stark disbelief.
"It's family-oriented, this neighborhood," said Pauline Sklar, a real estate investor who lives a block from the building where the children were stabbed. "Parents are working. They have to depend on people. My niece hires people. She researches them."
Ms. Sklar paused, then added, "Or tries to."
Nannies are there for meal times, for bedtime, for birthdays and holidays, and go on vacations. Indeed, on her blog, Ms. Krim described how she and her family had spent several days visiting Ms. Ortega's family in the Dominican Republic, speaking to just how close her relationship had been with the family.
"We spent the past 9 days in the Dominican Republic. We spent half the time at our nanny, Josie's sisters home in Santiago," she wrote. "We met Josie's amazing familia!!! And the Dominican Republic is a wonderful country!! More pics to come!!"
Commissioner Kelly said that given the horror Ms. Krim had just witnessed, it was difficult for her to communicate. Mr. Krim was told of the situation hours later, when he landed after a flight back to the city. He was met at the airport by the police, who told him what happened and took him to see his wife at St. Luke's Hospital, where the couple remained on Thursday night, along with Ms. Krim's sister.
There were no immediate explanations for what drove the nanny's actions. Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said he did not know if she left a note behind, and he could not immediately say how long she had worked for the family. The Krims moved to New York from California in recent years, neighbors said.
A Harvard graduate, according to his LinkedIn profile, Mr. Krim is an executive at CNBC and had previously worked at Bloomberg and Yahoo.
Ms. Krim had worked in California for a wholesaler of powders made from exotic fruits, like acai berries and pomegranates, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Reporting was contributed by James Barron, Joseph Goldstein, Kia Gregory, Anemona Hartocollis, William K. Rashbaum and Jack Styczynski.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: October 25, 2012
An earlier version of this article misstated the ages and sex of the children who were killed. They were 2 and 6 years old, not 3 and 5. And one was a girl; they were not both boys.
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