David Tarloff gets life in prison for meat-cleaver murder
AP JENNIFER PELTZ
NEW YORK -- A schizophrenic was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for hacking a psychotherapist to death with a meat cleaver, capping a criminal case confounded for years by questions about the attacker's mental health.
In a moving proceeding, David Tarloff described a constant battle occurring in his head and pleaded for mercy as he was sentenced on his first-degree murder conviction, a conclusion that came after repeated mistrials and findings that Tarloff was unfit for court.
Tarloff, 47, never disputed killing psychologist Kathryn Faughey in February 2008 in her Manhattan office. Tarloff had never met her but intended to stick up her officemate - a psychiatrist he hadn't seen in 17 years - in hopes of netting tens of thousands of dollars to use to take his sick mother to Hawaii.
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