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  • ‘Cannibal Cop’ Set Free After 21 Months In Jail

    On Monday, former New York Police Department officer Gilberto Valle was released after 21 months in jail for allegedly plotting, killing, and eating young women. He was fired from his job after his conviction.

    It was Valle’s wife Kathleen Mangan who found conversations and disturbing photos that Valle kept on their computer. Defense lawyer Julia Gatto declined to comment on Valle’s current relationship with his ex-wife and their six-year-old daughter.

    According to Judge Paul Gardephe, there was a lack of evidence to support the jury’s guilty verdict. Valle’s lawyers said that Valle’s plots were just fantasy online roles and that he never harmed anyone in real life. They said that their client is guilty of having unconventional thoughts. “We don’t put people in jail for their thoughts. We are not the thought police,” they said.

    Prosecutors, on the other hand, said that Valle was not just fantasizing and that he did actions to carry out his plans. In an online conversation Valle had with another man, he said, “I want her to experience being cooked alive. She’ll be trussed up like a turkey… She’ll be terrified, screaming, and crying.”

    Valle was convicted in 2013 on a conspiracy charge and a misdemeanor count for illegally accessing a law enforcement database.

    Outside the court, Valle apologized to the public. “I want to take the opportunity to apologize to everyone who’s been hurt, shocked, and offended by my infantile actions,” he said. Valle also thanked his lawyers, family, staff, and his fellow inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center who took care of him. “I’ll never forget them and love them,” he said.

    Valle was freed from jail on a $100,000 bond and was ordered to stay at home with his mother. He also has to go to counseling and has limited use of the Internet. “I’m tired. I just want to go home and spend some time with my family,” he said after being released.

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  • Cannibal Cop Conviction Overturned

    Gilberto Valle, known in tabloids as the “Cannibal Cop”, is a former NYPD officer convicted of attempting to kidnap, murder and eat dozens of women, including his own wife. Valle was convicted in March of 2013, but had not yet been sentenced. He was awaiting sentencing in prison, where he has spent 21 months, seven of which were in solitary confinement.

    But Valle’s conviction has been overturned and he is now free on bond, released into his mother’s custody, wearing an ankle bracelet tracker.

    Judge Paul Gardephe said that Valle’s conviction, though it seemed fitting for a man who was alleged to be planning such horrid crimes, was all a mistake.

    “The evidentiary record is such that it is more likely than not the case that all of Valle’s Internet communications about kidnapping are fantasy role-play,” Gardephe said.

    Valle apparently was talking with fetishists online about the grisly plans. He says he never really had any intent of doing any of it, but was just talking fantasies with others, which is not illegal.

    But prosecutors say there was more to Valle’s interests than just talking smack with other weirdos. They say he looked up targets in police databases. They say he researched information on how to knock someone out with chloroform.

    They even found a particular passage among his chat room transcripts: “I want her to experience being cooked alive. She’ll be trussed up like a turkey. … She’ll be terrified, screaming and crying.”

    After his release, Valle had a statement.

    “I want to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone who has been hurt, shocked and offended by my infantile actions,” Valle said. He also thanked his family and even his fellow inmates for helping him through his ordeal.

    Prosecutors say they will fight the overturn. They believe Valle is a dangerous man who was planning to hurt people. Valle’s attorneys say otherwise. They say it was all in his head, and not meant to become reality.

    “We don’t put people in jail for their thoughts,” said one attorney. “We are not the thought police.”

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  • ‘Cannibal Cop’ Convicted of Kidnapping Conspiracy

    Back in October 2012, the NYPD made headlines as a New York police officer was arrested for allegedly plotting to kill and eat dozens of women. Gilberto Valle III was caught by his colleagues having online conversations about his fantasies, which involved cannibalism.

    This week, Valle was convicted on one count of kidnapping. The New York Times is reporting that a jury found Valle’s detailed plans to kidnap women proof enough of his intentions.

    The case has shined a llght on some of the internet’s more deviant niches. In addition, it has raised questions about the line between online fantasy and reality, especially in regards to people with positions of authority in society.

    One of Valle’s lawyers told the Times that Valle was prosecuted for thought crime, saying, “These are thoughts, very ugly thoughts, but we don’t prosecute people for their thoughts.” Valle’s lawyers have vowed to appeal the verdict.

    The prosecution in the case, however, was able to demonstrate that Valle had used his access to police databases and resources as a police officer to track and research the women in his fantasies. Regardless of Valle’s real-life intentions toward the women, his misuse of police resources was a factor in the case, and the Times states that he has also been convicted of illegal access to a law enforcement database.

  • Gilberto Valle: NYPD Officer Charged In Cannibalism Plot

    Gilberto Valle: NYPD Officer Charged In Cannibalism Plot

    A New York police officer has been charged in connection with a plot to allegedly kidnap more than 100 women for the purpose of eating them, officials say.

    In what is definitely the strangest case of cannibalism we’ve heard this week, Gilberto Valle III was caught after he allegedly held conversations online regarding his plans, which included his girlfriend, who was referred to as “tasty” looking.

    Police Commissioner Ray Kelly released a statement about the arrest:

    This is a bizarre case. We suspended the officer immediately upon his arrest, and a review is now underway to determine whether there was anything in his background that should have alerted the department to his alleged proclivities. I want to commend the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau detectives and FBI agents who worked jointly on this investigation.