GUILTY NY - Dr. Kathryn Faughey, 56, murdered in her Manhattan office, 12 Feb 2008

[Beyond Belief]

Thank goodness they caught him. This guy is the boogie man himself.

 

[izzyB]

Here is a picture of him.

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nyslay0217-pic,0,4555603.photo

when i saw this pic of him i said surely this is the man in the video. now i am worried that an insanity defense will keep him from facing what i would consider to be justice in this case.

 

[SieSie]

So glad he's been caught. I don't understand if his grudge (being institutionalized) was against the doctor he robbed, why he went and killed Faughey. I guess it won't make sense to us because we're not socio/psychopathic, but it appears that he didn't even know Faughey and she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. So very tragic.

 

[Pharlap]

when i saw this pic of him i said surely this is the man in the video. now i am worried that an insanity defense will keep him from facing what i would consider to be justice in this case.

Your right, however he's got to be insane for doing such a hernendis, [SIZE=-1]despectable
killing....:bang:
[/SIZE]

 

[SuziQ]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_...mental_patient_charged_in_brutal_slaying.html

(snip)
Even if he had swiped enough money to disappear, workers at the Far Rockaway Nursing Home, where his mother lives, said she wanted nothing to do with him. She had an order of protection against her 39-year-old son - who would call repeatedly just to curse her, they said.
"We don't take his calls anymore," a security guard said.

 

[close_enough]

Here is a picture of him.

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nyslay0217-pic,0,4555603.photo

thanks for posting this...i hadn't seen a pic of him yet....

 

[close_enough]

Your right, however he's got to be insane for doing such a hernendis, [SIZE=-1]despectable
killing....:bang:
[/SIZE]

no doubt in my mind, he's insane...

jmo

 

[SuziQ]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02172008/news/regionalnews/cops_bust_mad_killer_98032.htm

(snip)

Tarloff allegedly claimed that he unleashed his furor on Faughey, slashing her mercilessly to death with a meat cleaver and a nine-inch knife, after she confronted him. "She tried to kill me," he allegedly babbled after being questioned by cops for 25 minutes and then asking for a lawyer.

 

[SewingDeb]

'A SLOVENLY LONER'

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02172008/news/regionalnews/a_slovenly_loner_98033.htm

 

[MeoW333]

Many psychologists/psychiatrists also have a private practice on the side and work for other places as well. Other places that may include hospitals, courts, etc. So through out the years Tarloff could have come into contact with either Shinbach or Faughey or both of them. Until LE finds records of which one it is, it's anyone's guess. He could have met with one of them once in 1991, them having institutionalized him for obvious reasons.
His reasoning behind killing Faughey may be that for some reason in his sick head, he was killing his mother. There had to be some kind of conversation exchanged between him and Faughey in her office, Tarloff, in his sick head realized he lost control of his situation and killed Faughey, which in his mind, may have metaphorically symbolized his own mother for some reason. Tarloff seemed to get much worse once his mother went to a nursing home. It would be interesting to know if he was seeing a regular psychiatrist, and who that person was and why didn't they recognize any warning signs in this man. He didn't kill Shinbach, he didn't kill either female patient, only viciously murdered Faughey. The only reasoning for this i can guess is that both doctors were in "authority" positions above him, him having been institutionalized a lot over the years. The patients he may have looked at as his peers. Shinbach being a man, may have been spared his life. I think that Faughey, who was a woman, and being a psychologist; in sick Tarloff's mind it may have reminded him as a mother figure in some way and that's why he killed her so viciously. He had some weird attachment to his own mother, and when she went to the nursing home he decompensated.

"And his mother’s absence profoundly affected him, several neighbors said. “He was depressed because of his mom,” Ms. Zicherman said.A worker at the nursing home where his mother is living said that Mr. Tarloff sometimes phoned her three or four times a day."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/nyregion/17murder.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=nyregion

It seems to be that his mother going into the nursing home was a huge stressor for Tarloff, and since he was so used to being a "mother's boy" and caring for her, he was probably completely lost after and decompensated quickly, especially not taking his medication. Even if he were taking medication, the "loss" of his mother to the nursing home was a constant in his life, so there's no saying that it would have completely prevented something from happening with this man.
As for the bag of knives, it's anyone's guess at this point, being the man is obviously insane. He's had a built in insanity defense for decades. He'll be spending the rest of his life at one of the Criminally insane prisons, either Kirby or Mid-Hudson.

 

[Annie]

'A SLOVENLY LONER'

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02172008/news/regionalnews/a_slovenly_loner_98033.htm

I have seen some sketches that look almost like the person, but not in this case. The man on the poster was fairly nice looking. Nothing like the pictures of the man we see with the facial hair and wild look in his eyes. I never would have recognized him.

 

[SuziQ]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330912,00.html

A man accused of butchering of a Manhattan therapist rambled and appeared agitated during his arraignment Sunday and the judge ordered him to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
David Tarloff, 39, was arraigned on charges of second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault. He claimed that his court-appointed lawyer, Reginald Sharpe, was "not an attorney." (more at link)

 

[Filly]

This guy has to be insane. Twenty years in and out of psych hospitals. He also said he had been in jail before. Perhaps when the patient went into Doctor Shinbach's office he just wandered in to Doctor Faughey's office. No doubt she tried to give him some sort of comforting words and tried to help him. Then he snapped. Then again why you walking around with knives and a clever to rob someone? It's all very sad.

 

[SuziQ]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_...n_accused_of_therapist_slay_unhinged_i-1.html

Alone and unhinged, accused meat-cleaver killer David Tarloff babbled aimlessly Sunday at his first court appearance - and confused his Legal Aid lawyer with the Rev. Al Sharpton.
It was a front-row seat into the demented mind of the 39-year-old schizophrenic charged with brutally hacking to death upper East Side therapist Kathryn Faughey.
"I'm not stupid. I won't talk until I have a real attorney," the jackal-eyed Tarloff ranted against lawyer Reginald Sharpe. "I want a real district attorney."
Apparently thinking Sharpe was passing himself off as Sharpton, he exclaimed, "Look at him, he's white!" (more at link)

 

[Bobbisangel]

He's got to be her patient. I think anyway. Wow, that poor man got grilled for an awful, horrible murder. I'd be crying too.

It is awful. It is my understanding that the only reason LE picked this guy up is because him and the doc had been emailing each other recently. Like the man said..."we were friends but not in a romantic way" or something to that affect. I can understand LE looking at everyone who had had contact with the doc BUT they did not have to release his name. It has been on the news and in the papers. It will have an effect on his life from now on. I hope LE catches the real killer right away. Was this man released because the DNA is back and it didn't point at him or because it isn't back and they can't hold anyone without evidence?

 

[Bobbisangel]

yes, i think you're right, Suzi!...thank goodness!

Cops believe the suspect was furious with psychologist Kathryn Faughey over a decision that sent him to a mental institution, the sources told the Daily News.

The 39-year-old Queens telemarketer was picked up by cops shortly after midnight, according to sources. Investigators noted he fits the description of the balding, fat-faced killer.

According to this news article the man hadn't been a patient of the female but rather a patient of the male....


Tarloff told police he was a patient of Dr. Kent Shinbach, the psychiatrist who survived the vicious slashing rampage on Tuesday night. Shinbach had Tarloff committed to a mental institution in 1991, the suspect told police.

Tarloff allegedly told police he only meant to rob Shinbach, but after waiting outside wandered in to the office next door — belonging to Faughey — who was also slashed and stabbed to death in the frenzied attack inside her East 79th Street office.
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That makes sense to me. He planned to rob the male doc. The male doc had a patient and for some reason this man didn't go into his office while the patient was there. Instead he decided to go into the female's office even though he had nothing against her. He did grab some money as he left the office. Maybe by the time he decided to kill someone he figured one doc was just as good as the other. I'm surprised that he didn't kill the male doc too unless he didn't recognize him when he ran into the female's office. After all, it was the male doc he was after. I suppose we will never understand what goes through the mind of a mentally ill person when they are out of control or anyone for that matter when they are that far out of control. Scary.

 

[murdershewrote]

maybe she opened the door to see who was out in the waiting room and he just went into her office...

How could this guy even be employed, as a telemarketer no less, when he calls up his own mother and screams obscenities. I just don't understand how anyone with his mental history keeps getting let out into society. For his own sake and for ours.

Interesting that Ted, the former DC detective, now a defense attorney, that is always on Greta's show, he was interviewed (before the perp was arrested) and said he thought the motive was robbery and the perp was probably a mentally ill, homeless man. He was pretty much right. He thought that because he said why would anyone who was hell bent on murder bother to take $90.

 

[shadowraiths]

I suspect he will be deemed as incompetent to stand trial, and if/when he is returned to competency, this will turn out to be a compelling case for NGRI.

 

[luthersmama]

Shinbach had been involved in getting him committed, but may not have had him as a regular patient. He sounds so screwed up that he probably can't remember what he was planning to do or why or how.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18murder.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

 

[Filly]

It is awful. It is my understanding that the only reason LE picked this guy up is because him and the doc had been emailing each other recently. Like the man said..."we were friends but not in a romantic way" or something to that affect. I can understand LE looking at everyone who had had contact with the doc BUT they did not have to release his name. It has been on the news and in the papers. It will have an effect on his life from now on. I hope LE catches the real killer right away. Was this man released because the DNA is back and it didn't point at him or because it isn't back and they can't hold anyone without evidence?

BA, they have got their man I believe. The other guy got left go without DNA evidence I think. Agreed the man didn't need his face on the news and his name released. That was wrong. The Doctor's friend I mean. Not only was it the e-mails and calls, but some misinformation about them diapers.