Maureen O'Connor
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Past articles by Maureen:
Outsourcing Adulthood
Can you ever really grow up if you don’t do anything for yourself? → Read More
What Billy Bob and Angelina, Mary Kate and Sarkozy, and the Pences Taught Me About Marriage
What Billy Bob and Angelina, Mary Kate and Sarkozy, and Mike and Karen Pence can teach us about marriage. → Read More
The Bush Report
How women style their pubic hair has evolved a lot over the past few decades. Though full bush used to be the norm, nowadays women are waxing, trimming, shaving, tweezing, threading, and using lasers to modify or fully remove their pubes. → Read More
Why Won’t Brett Kavanaugh Stop Lying?
An earnest plea for honesty. → Read More
I Think About This a Lot: The Beauty Habits of This Possible Cult Leader
Teal Swan is a controversial self-made guru who calls herself “the spiritual catalyst” — but what I can’t stop thinking about are her pores. → Read More
Anna Delvey Wants to Make a Plea Deal
The scammer wore her Céline glasses to court. → Read More
The Courthouse Scene at Harvey Weinstein’s Arraignment
He was quiet but apparently undaunted. → Read More
Sentenced to Life in Prison, the Nanny Sobs (For Herself)
At Monday’s sentencing, former nanny Yoselyn Ortega was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2012 murders of Lucia and Leo Krim. Parents Kevin and Marina Krim both spoke. → Read More
The Jury and the Family Speak Out As the Nanny Trial Ends
Yesterday a jury found Yoselyn Ortega guilty on four counts of murder in the 2012 deaths of Leo and Lucia Krim, two children whom she cared for as a nanny. Their father Kevin Krim and the jurors spoke after the verdict was delivered. → Read More
The Jury Is Out at the Nanny Murder Trial
This week, lawyers deliver their closing arguments and the judge instructs the jury on deliberations. They will decide the fate of Yoselyn Ortega, who has pleaded guilty by reason of insanity to the murders of Lucia and Leo Krim. → Read More
Video Shows Nanny in Murder Trial Denying Hallucinations
This week, the prosecution presented a 2016 video of former nanny Yoselyn Ortega denying hallucinations that she was possessed by the Devil to kill Lucia and Leo Krim, ages six and two, in 2012. → Read More
Nanny Trial Week 6: Yoselyn Ortega’s Family and Biography
An introduction to the family of Yoselyn Ortega, who killed Lucia and Leo Krim while working as their nanny. The court has heard from Ortega’s sisters Miladys and Delsy and her son Jesus. Prosecutors say the family is lying about her hallucinations. → Read More
A Crucial Question at the Nanny Trial: Is She Faking Her Hallucinations?
This week, the defense presented testimony from Dr. Karen Rosenbaum, a forensic psychiatrist who believes Ortega’s psychosis is real. Ortega’s lawyers say that at the time the nanny murdered Lucia and Leo Krim, she was hearing the voice of the Devil. → Read More
What’s Left to Learn From the Horror of the Nanny Trial?
This week the court heard testimony from forensic pathologist Dr. Jonathan Arden on the wounds nanny Yoselyn Ortega inflicted on herself after killing Leo and Lucia Krim in 2012. → Read More
Nanny’s Sister Describes Phone Call Before the Crime: ‘It Was Not Her, It Was a Demon’
On Monday two of Yoselyn Ortega’s sisters, Miladys Garcia and Delsy Mercedes Ortega-Garcia, took the stand to describe Yoselyn’s mental health. Miladys told the court about a phone call from Yoselyn the day she murdered Lucia and Leo Krim in 2012. → Read More
The Nanny Murder Trial Is Impossible to Watch and Impossible to Look Away From
The brutal story of the murders of Lucia Krim and Leo Krim, who were stabbed to death by their nanny Yoselyn Ortega in their Upper West Side apartment in October 2012, has tapped into a host of New York anxieties. → Read More
For the First Time, the Nanny Cries at her Murder Trial
On Friday, Nanny Yoselyn Ortega cried for the first time during her trial for killing the Krim children. She broke down amid testimony from psychiatrist Marc Dubin, who treated her at Weill Cornell after the crime. → Read More
Nanny Murder Trial: A Father Describes the Day His Children Died
He was on a flight back from California, and landed to find a flood of messages. → Read More
The Therapist Who Saw the Nanny Just Before the Murders Testifies
On Thursday the court heard testimony from Dr. Thomas Caffrey, a forensic psychologist who saw Yoselyn Ortega in October 2012 a few days before she killed Lucia and Leo Krim, the two Upper West Side children she cared for as a nanny. → Read More
The Nanny Trial in Photos: Violence, Horror, and Family
This week, the court saw crime scene photos from the 2012 murders of Lucia and Leo Krim by Yoselyn Ortega. Maureen O’Connor reflects on the images the case has generated, from Marina Krim’s blog to tabloid front pages to Sheryl Sandberg’s Option B. → Read More