Empire State Cannibal Cop
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume this wasn’t highlighted on the Charlotte Chamber’s inter-city visit NYC itinerary:
A city cop with a taste for human flesh was charged Thursday with plotting to kidnap, torture, “slow cook” and eat women he tracked down through law enforcement databases.
Accused cannibal cop Gilberto Valle, 28, was living a double life — a married dad and civil servant who moonlighted as a secret psycho straight out of a James Patterson crime thriller, federal authorities revealed … He once boasted in an instant message to a depraved ally that his oven was “big enough to fit one of these girls if I folded their legs.”
At his arraignment in Manhattan Federal Court Thursday, prosecutor Hadassa Waxman said it was only a matter of time before Valle acted on his sinister desires.
Defense attorney Julia Gatto scoffed at the charges, describing Valle’s behavior as nothing more than “fantasy talk” and lies in online chat rooms.
“Nobody has been injured. Nobody has been taken,” Gatto said. “It is, at best, someone who is living a fantasy on the Internet, a deviant fantasy. But there is no actual crossing the line from fantasy to reality.”
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Assigned to the 26th Precinct in Morningside Heights, Valle allegedly kept dossiers on at least 100 potential victims, culling federal and state law-enforcement databases for names, photos, dates of birth, height, weight and even bra sizes.
He illegally logged onto the encrypted National Crime Information Database to bolster his files and troll for targets, prosecutors said.
The FBI has interviewed 10 women found on Valle’s hit list, who all confirm they know the accused twisted cop and were stunned to learn he’d allegedly been staking them out to put them on a spit.
“This case is all the more disturbing when you consider Valle’s position as a New York City police officer and his sworn duty to serve and protect,” said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
To which I’m certain all the boilerplate PR safeguards will eventually be applied: The department has strict guidelines and policies in place to ensure not all police officers are cannibals; most police, in fact, have never tracked, kidnapped, raped, tortured, or eaten anyone.
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