Prosecutors say the pharmaceutical executive accused of killing her eight-year-old son in a botched murder-suicide in a Midtown hotel had been diagnosed with Munchausen by proxy syndrome—a form of child abuse in which parents induce real medical symptoms in their kids or make their kids appear to be sick. Before being accused of feeding her autistic son a deadly concoction of prescription medicines, Gigi Jordan allegedly brought Jude Michael Mirra from doctor to doctor, constituting a kind of "medical abuse" according to Assistant District Attorney Kerry O'Connell. "She was seeking unnecessary treatment of her child." more ›

The mother accused of killing her 8-year-old son in a botched murder-suicide attempt in a Midtown hotel pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges today. Speaking in what was described as "a mousy voice," socialite and pharmaceutical executive Gigi Jordan made the plea via video from her bed in Elmhurst Hospital, where she has been held since she was discovered "babbling incoherently" beside the body of her child earlier this month. more ›

The man who allegedly stabbed an Upper East Side psychiatrist to death was now found unfit to stand trial according to new psychiatric reports obtained by WABC 7. Though David Tarloff was previously found fit to stand trial, he was re-evaluated after he assaulted a Queens court guard. One psychiatrist said, "The defendant's eye contact is intense and ominous. His mood is irate and very easily angered. Mr. Tarloff does not talk about his Manhattan case but does reference it on several occasions: 'I know the the incident in Manhattan, but I never hit anyone since grade school.'" His lawyer said it's ironic "that you can be found unfit in one county, Queens, but yet come over the border essentially to Manhtattan and be found fit there" and hopes that prosecutors agree Tarloff needs to be in a state psychiatric hospital. more ›