14 DAY TRIAL // New York City police officer Gilberto Valle has been arrested for conspiracy to commit kidnapping, after evidence showed he planned to cook and eat 100 women.
According to the New York Times, the six-year veteran of the New York Police Department had gathered chloroform and rope, and had put together a document titled “Abducting and Cooking,” in which he detailed how he would eat his victims.
Records of Valle talking to a co-conspirator online emerged. The two exchanged gruesome details of their plans to abduct, murder and cook women.
“I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus. [...] Cook her over a low heat, keep her alive as long as possible.”
Officer Valle even replies to a question about the size of his oven describing it as “big enough to fit one of these girls if I folded their legs.”
The police acted on a tip by the 28-year-old officer's estranged wife. The woman had discovered the disturbing document on the man's computer, at his home in Forest Hills, Queens.
Valle apparently communicated his plans to three other men, who would have been his accomplices. All the victims he had chosen were women he knew.
In some cases, he used the FBI National Crime Information Center to find out more details about them.
Some of the chosen victims were former classmates from high-school. The officer attended Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens and the University of Maryland, in College Park.
There is a possibility that the man intended to act on his plan soon. In July, he had sent a message to an alleged accomplice, detailing his meeting with a woman that is referred to in court documents as “Victim 1.” She met him “at a restaurant for lunch,” the woman said to FBI investigators.
The defense is arguing that, since there was no kidnapping or murder, there is no crime, just an overactive imagination.
“There is no actual crossing the line from fantasy to reality,” attorney Julia L. Gatto stated.