He’s baaaack.
The paranoid schizophrenic who admittedly slashed a well-loved psychiatrist to death in her Upper East Side offices four years ago has been found fit for trial for the third time, his lawyer said yesterday.
This will be the third time David Tarloff has been found fit for trial — each of the first two times, first in 2010 and then in 2011, his mental health worsened and a trial was scuttled at the last minute.
Tarloff, who has bounced back and forth between jail and secure psychiatric facilities, is now due back before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward McLaughlin for pretrial proceedings on July 12, said his lawyer, Bryan Konoski.
“It’s been quite frustrating, and quite harrowing on the nerves of all of Kathryn’s brothers and sisters,” noted Michael Faughey, one of six surviving siblings of psychiatrist Kathryn Faughey. “But we will be there again,” he said of the court appearance.
Tarloff has told cops and doctors that he believed God gave him permission to kidnap and rob Faughey’s colleague, Dr. Kent Shinbach, in the two doctors’ East 79th St. offices.
Shinbach had treated Tarloff two decades prior. Tarloff told officials that he wanted to steal enough money from Shinbach to take his mother out of a Queens nursing home and move with her to Hawaii.
Faughey died of some 15 slash wounds with a knife and meat cleaver. Shinbach was seriously injured but survived. Both doctors fought bravely against the cleaver-swinging psychotic.