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Ray Kelly: Nanny Yoselyn Ortega stabbed herself as children's mom walked in

Nanny Yoselyn Ortega is shown holding Lucia Krim,

Photo credit: Krim family blog | Nanny Yoselyn Ortega is shown holding Lucia Krim, 6, in February. Police believe Ortega killed Lucia and Leo Krim before attempting to kill herself in the family's Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan on Oct. 25, 2012. The child obscured at left, Nessie, was not home at the time.

In 30 minutes, the calm of the second floor collapsed into chaos.

Nothing seemed out of order about 5 p.m. Thursday when nanny Yoselyn A. Ortega rode an elevator with the children she cared for, Lucia Krim, 6 and Leo Krim, 2, said a woman who lives in the Krims' Manhattan building.

Ortega wore her usual blank expression, and the kids seemed happy, said Charlotte Friedman, who has lived...

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