May 19, 2008 11:59 pm US/Eastern
Patients Blow Open Wild Malpractice Murder Plot
Former Long Island Psychiatrist Sued For Dreaming Up Scheme To Kill Patients And Other 'Antagonists'
'Jane' & 'Dennis' Break Silence To CBS HD's Lou Young
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Lou Young
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
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Richard Karpf bought a gun and a silencer with the help of "Dennis," not knowing that Dennis was working with the police. Karpf was arrested, but insisted the plot was just a version of a recurring twisted fantasy where he'd worked out the perfect crime.
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It's an unusual trial getting underway in Nassau County. A former psychiatrist is being sued for malpractice after plotting to kill a patient.
"Jane Doe" spoke to CBS 2 HD recently in shadow out of fear and shame. She's suing her former psychiatrist – Richard Karpf – first for having sex with her in his Garden City office, and then for plotting to kill her and several other imagined antagonists.
"He destroyed me," Jane said. "He basically little by little took me and he did what he wanted.
"I'm afraid to this day. I'm afraid for the public. I'm afraid for myself. I'm afraid for my family."
It was another patient who blew the whistle on the murder plot. "Dennis" told CBS 2 HD the psychiatrist began to confide in him about being humiliated by a female patient.
"He said that the only way that it could be rectified was to, if I may, get a gun with a silencer, shoot them, dismember them and bring them out to the ocean and dump 'em at sea," Dennis said of Karpf. "This way there was no evidence."
When asked if Karpf had a very clear plan, Dennis said, "Oh, he was vivid."
Karpf even bought a gun and a silencer with Dennis' help, not knowing that Dennis was working with the police. Karpf was arrested, but insisted the plot was just a version of a recurring twisted fantasy where he'd worked out the perfect crime.
"In the fantasy, (I'm) just finding some way of doing away (with) them and trying to conceal all evidence of their bodily existence. Bear in mind they are fantasies," Karpf says in a taped interview with a forensic examiner for the Nassau County district attorney's office.
However, when asked how he would "do away" with them, Karpf said, "Oh I don't know … cremating them, putting them in shark-infested waters."
Karpf copped a plea, surrendered his psychiatrists' license and went on parole after serving mere months in jail. Dennis insists this plot was no dream.
"Knowing he did not get help, it scares me," Dennis said. "I know he's capable because I was there. I know he's capable."
Both patients say they are afraid for their lives and permanently damaged by having their doctor betray them so thoroughly. Calls to Karpf's attorney were not returned.
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