Meat Cleaver To Ya

With four shootings in schools this week, it's almost refreshing to see a good old fashioned edged weapon bloodbath. Welcome to CNN, the Cynical News Network.

Police are still on the hunt for a man who entered a Kathryn Faughey's office with a bag of knives and a meat cleaver, and hacked her to death so savagely that blood spattered the walls and floor. Her psychologist colleague, who responded to the her screams was also seriously injured. Chivalry, sometimes you don't pay off.

Investigators were trying to determine whether the attacker was a patient at the clinic. Three knives were recovered at the scene, including a 9-inch knife and a cleaver, which was apparently bent from the attack (police said, adding the the morbid gratuity of the murder). The victim suffered 15 stab wounds, including a gash to her head believed to be from the cleaver. Investigators do not know the name of the suspect, though authorities released a sketch of a balding, middle-aged man believed to be the killer along with surveillance videotapes of the attacker entering and leaving the building.

He left behind two bags that contained bizarre clues - a roller suitcase was filled with adult diapers and women's clothing, including blouses and slippers, and a smaller second bag was filled with eight knives, rope and duct tape, tools apparently not used in the attack. Believing the killer might have been injured in the attack, authorities issued alerts to area hospitals. They looked through Faughey's computer files for clues and also examined surveillance footage to see whether he had been to the office prior to the attack.

The suspect, carrying the two bags and dressed in a three-quarter-length green coat, knit cap and gloves, and breezed past the building's doorman, saying he had an appointment with Dr. Kent Shinbach, the psychiatrist who worked in the same office suite. The suspect walked into the suite waiting room, where a female patient was waiting to see Shinbach, and at some point went into Faughey's office and started to attack her. It wasn't clear how long the struggle continued before Shinbach heard Faughey's screams and ran to help.

The traumatized female patient, who was in Shinbach's office during the attack, was being questioned by authorities. The suspect apparently didn't recognize Shinbach when he opened the door and said, "She's dead," referring to Faughey, who was lying behind her desk, police said. He then attacked the psychiatrist, stabbing at Shinbach and pinning him to the wall with a chair before stealing $90 and escaping through a basement door. Shinbach was in serious condition at New York Hospital with slash wounds on his head, face and hands.

Christ that's brutal. So let's lighten the mood a little.