Thursday, February 14, 2008

Friend questioned in therapist's slasher slaying

A law enforcement official says NYPD investigators are in Pennsylvania questioning a man in the slaying of a psychologist hacked to death in her office with a meat cleaver.
The man being questioned met victim Kathryn Faughey at a guitar camp six years ago with her husband and were friends but not romantically linked,according to an official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Pennsylvania State Police spokeswoman Cpl. Linette Quinn confirmed that New York detectives conducted an interview related to the case Thursday morning inside the agency's Bethlehem barracks.
The man is in his 40s and has not been arrested. Further details about the man are not known, including whether he is an actual suspect in the killing itself.
Faughey was stabbed 15 times in her office Tuesday evening. A psychiatrist who works in the building was badly injured by the attacker.
Police released a detailed sketch and grainy surveillance footage of him entering and leaving the Upper East Side building where Faughey was killed.

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