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Officer Charged With Plotting to Kidnap Women and Cook Them
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/nyregion/gilberto-valle-accused-in-plot-to-kidnap-women-and-cook-them.html?_r=0A New York police officer was arrested Wednesday in Queens by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on suspicion of a federal kidnapping conspiracy in which he discussed cooking and eating female body parts, according to a criminal complaint.
The evidence against the officer, a six-year veteran of the New York Police Department, consists of e-mails and instant messages in which he was “discussing plans to kidnap, rape, torture, kill, cook and eat body parts of a number of women,” according to the complaint against the officer, Gilberto Valle.
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In one message to a co-conspirator, Officer Valle wrote that he was contemplating cooking a person “over a low heat, keep her alive as long as possible,” according to the complaint.
“The allegations in the complaint really need no description from us,” Mary E. Galligan, the F.B.I. acting assistant director, said in a statement. “They speak for themselves. It would be an understatement merely to say Valle’s own words and actions were shocking.”
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out of the pool of scumbags who want to be cops, don't they? 
Just another "isolated bad apple" I am sure, though weirder than most. 
Right?
(honestly it's what I expect to hear next from the Grand Old Psychopath party)
but for crissake 
...ground up and in the freezer! 
Because eating them raw would just be gross.
http://gothamist.com/2012/10/26/cannibal_cop_was_turned_in_by_horri.php
The NYPD officer who was arrested Thursday for allegedly attempting to "kidnap women and cook them" was denied bail during his hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday. Gilberto Valle, a 28-year-old married six-year veteran of the NYPD, has been charged with conspiracy to kidnap and accessing a computer without authorization, for which he faces up to life in prison. It's now been revealed how Valle was caught: his estranged wife, Kathleen Cooke Mangan, discovered his “tactical plan,” which he called his blueprint for “Abducting and Cooking,” on his computer last month: "When she saw what was on the computer, what he was into, she literally ran out of the house with just the clothes on her back," a law-enforcement source told the Post.
Mangam contacted the FBI about the “weird stuff” she found on his computer (including the names, photos, dates of birth, heights, weights and bra sizes of dozens of women), then immediately left the state with the couple’s year-old baby daughter. “I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus,” he allegedly wrote to a co-conspirator in one of many email and IM conversations. “Cook her over a low heat, keep her alive as long as possible.”
Public defender Julia Gatto initially argued for bail, saying the Valle was only guilty of a "deviant fantasy." "There's no actual crossing the line from fantasy to reality," Gatto said. "At worst this is someone who has sexual fantasies about people he knows and he talks about it on the Internet." But Assistant U.S. Attorney Hadassa Waxman pointed out that he was too close to carrying out the "grotesque and disturbing" plots: "[He had] plans to kidnap, rape, torture, kill and eat the body parts of young women, some of whom the FBI has identified and they acknowledge knowing the defendant for a period of time," she said.
Valle, who attended Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens and then studied psychology, criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, joined the police force in 2006. His younger brother denied the charges and defended him to reporters: “He’s a nice guy,” he said. “I’m upset.” Neighbors were in shock still as well: “That’s absolutely horrifying,” said David Rosenblatt. “I never heard of anyone doing that, let alone in this building. This is supposed to be one of the nicer areas of Queens.”
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The NYPD officer who was arrested Thursday for allegedly attempting to "kidnap women and cook them" was denied bail during his hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday. Gilberto Valle, a 28-year-old married six-year veteran of the NYPD, has been charged with conspiracy to kidnap and accessing a computer without authorization, for which he faces up to life in prison. It's now been revealed how Valle was caught: his estranged wife, Kathleen Cooke Mangan, discovered his “tactical plan,” which he called his blueprint for “Abducting and Cooking,” on his computer last month: "When she saw what was on the computer, what he was into, she literally ran out of the house with just the clothes on her back," a law-enforcement source told the Post.
Mangam contacted the FBI about the “weird stuff” she found on his computer (including the names, photos, dates of birth, heights, weights and bra sizes of dozens of women), then immediately left the state with the couple’s year-old baby daughter. “I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus,” he allegedly wrote to a co-conspirator in one of many email and IM conversations. “Cook her over a low heat, keep her alive as long as possible.”
Public defender Julia Gatto initially argued for bail, saying the Valle was only guilty of a "deviant fantasy." "There's no actual crossing the line from fantasy to reality," Gatto said. "At worst this is someone who has sexual fantasies about people he knows and he talks about it on the Internet." But Assistant U.S. Attorney Hadassa Waxman pointed out that he was too close to carrying out the "grotesque and disturbing" plots: "[He had] plans to kidnap, rape, torture, kill and eat the body parts of young women, some of whom the FBI has identified and they acknowledge knowing the defendant for a period of time," she said.
Valle, who attended Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens and then studied psychology, criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, joined the police force in 2006. His younger brother denied the charges and defended him to reporters: “He’s a nice guy,” he said. “I’m upset.” Neighbors were in shock still as well: “That’s absolutely horrifying,” said David Rosenblatt. “I never heard of anyone doing that, let alone in this building. This is supposed to be one of the nicer areas of Queens.”
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