Gilberto Valle, a NYPD cop, accused of plotting to kidnap, rape and cook women, was turned in by his estranged wife, Kathleen Mangan.
She found his deranged plans and tipped off the FBI, in September, before taking their year-old-baby girl out of New York, sources told the New York Daily News newspaper.
Mangan, a schoolteacher, said that she discovered his “tactical plans” on her computer. Her husband has used her laptop because his own had crashed.
What she discovered was pages and pages of plans and description of the cruel and brutal acts. One of the documents he referred to as a “blueprint” for the “Abduction and Cooking” of his victims.
A law enforcement source told the New York Post “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.”
Magan, who is “beyond distraught”, has fled to her hometown of Reno, Nevada.
Valle (28) had been a police officer, for six years, a married man and a father. All the while he was living a double life, plotting horrendous crimes.
His online writings reveal his plans to kidnap, torture, “slow cook” and eat women, whom he found using law enforcement databases. He used police surveillance to track these women and even used his position to worm his way into their lives.
Among the depraved writings his wife found was a description of the torture and cooking which he planned.
He wrote “I was thinking of tying her body on to some kind of apparatus, cook her over a low heat, keep her alive as long as possible.”
Over instant message, to one of his co-conspirators, he bragged that his oven was “big enough to fit one of these girls if I folded their legs”.
On Thursday, at Valle’s arraignment in the Manhattan Federal Court, Hadassa Waxman, the prosecutor in the case said it was only a matter of time before the NYPD officer had acted on his desires.
Waxman said “If he was not arrested, he would have carried out this plan."
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The prosecution told the court that Valle had spied on one woman while in his uniform and behind the wheel of a police cruiser.
Valle’s defense lawyer Julia Gatto said the officer’s behavior was nothing more than “fantasy talk” and lies on online chat sites.
Gatto said “Nobody has been injured. Nobody has been taken.
“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.”
The Magistrate Judge Henry Pittman denied Valle bail. He described the allegations as “very, very serious, unspeakable conduct.”
Valle kept dossiers of at least 100 potential victims. He chose the unsuspecting victims from federal and state law-enforcement databases searching for names, photos, dates of birth, height, weight and even bra sizes.
The FBI has interviewed ten of the women from his hit list. They all confirm they know the cop and said they were stunned.
One of the women confessed that she had had lunch with the cop in Baltimore, in July.
Days before their lunch date Valle had written;
“I love that she is asleep right now, not having the slightest clue of what we have planned/
“Her days are numbered. I’m glad you’re on board. She does look tasty doesn’t she?”
His coconspirator message back “You do know if we don’t waste any of her, there is nearly 75 lbs of food there.”
Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara commented on Valle’s crimes saying “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.”
Valle is a native of Forest Hills, in Queens. He graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School in 2002, and studied psychology at the University of Maryland.
In 2006 he joined the New York Police Department and recently took the sergeant’s exam. He has now been suspended without pay.
His younger brother told reporters on Thursday “He’s a nice guy. I’m upset.” His brother said that although he has not spoken to his brother, he denied the charges.
Here’s Dick Brennan’s CBS News report:
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.connemaragirl | Oct 29, 2012, 12:17 AM EDT
Wait a minute everyone defending this guy he had lunch with at least one of the women he was discussing on the internet,what more do you need,the mother of his child left with just the clothes on her back, red flag !!!!!!,she suspected some thing before this, lock him up and throw away the key .
jetsnoone | Oct 28, 2012, 04:24 AM EDT
CitizenWhy.... this is still the USA -- we don't have thought crimes here....however, what they may have on this guy is "plotting to kidnap" and that would be serious. Only a trial may answer whether he was thinking or plotting. I hope for his sake he is not guilty. In your twisted mind that probably makes me some one who approves of cannabalism but, on the contrary, I have been a vegetarian all my life.
CitizenWhy | Oct 28, 2012, 01:21 AM EDT
Some disturbingly ignorant comments here. Cops are not free to write down such fantasies and cannot use police resources for their personal stalking purposes. That's a matter of discipline. Using police resources without authorization, for personal purposes, IS a crime called Theft of Services. If you are so quick to defend this guy, request that he be allowed to continue his police career and serve in your neighborhood. It's shameful how so many people of Irish background are willing participants in dismissing the well being of women as trivial.
fincarn | Oct 27, 2012, 10:37 PM EDT
"Cannibal cop’s" Are you a considered a cannibal just for thinking it? Please put a headline that is related to the story
merefalow | Oct 27, 2012, 06:33 PM EDT
not funny,imagine being pulled over by this guy late at night,with a recipe book in glove box,some people on this site say you should not be arrested for writing,well what do you want to do,wait until he murders and eats some one,he is a sick disturbed individual and because of his position dangerous,how did he pass police evaluation?his wife was correct to turn him in,she might have been the star attraction at christmass dinner,so how long can you keep him locked up before you have to release him to possibly put his phantasy into reality?tough one, and i dont trust trick cyclists,they are always releasing supposedly cured sychos who go on to murder innocent people.
antoman | Oct 27, 2012, 02:59 PM EDT
What do you call a Roman after he has eaten the mother-in-law? Gladiator.
Springfield9 | Oct 27, 2012, 01:54 PM EDT
Eleanor Roosevelt looked like a Cannibal!
Sarge524 | Oct 27, 2012, 01:35 PM EDT
Hell, he's just another Harlem cop gone native.
Searlit | Oct 27, 2012, 12:51 PM EDT
He committed a crime. Using police files and databases to find victims and to stalk them is a crime. What a heinous character. How does anyone know, right now, whether he has killed anyone or not? There are plenty of unsolved murders.
hooligan6a | Oct 27, 2012, 12:35 PM EDT
But, but, don't you understand, there was no crime. You want them to be able to lock you up for something you wrote?
Corkman | Oct 27, 2012, 12:33 PM EDT
A Yankees fan, I'm not suprised.
TisEyerish | Oct 27, 2012, 12:21 PM EDT
I wouldn't want to risk thinking it was just a "sick fantasy." I hope they can find some kind of charges that will stick and get this guy in prison. It doesn't get much sicker than what he and his friend had planned. I cannot believe that a female attorney is defending him! Shame on her!
saraindc | Oct 27, 2012, 12:21 PM EDT
and another question that arises - is there another side kick nutjob out there - who was he writing to and who wrote back to him about the weight of the bodies etc etc. seems to me they need to find out who's conspiring with him in case that other freako does get away!
saraindc | Oct 27, 2012, 12:20 PM EDT
somehow i dont think its very bright of the media to post where his wife is gone - she's got enough of a cross to bear as it is without having the media chasing her down or worse still him if he does get bail (he hasnt actually committed the crime so wont be surprising if he manages to get out on bail)
hooligan6a | Oct 27, 2012, 11:41 AM EDT
Wait a minute. There was no crime committed. They locked him up for what he wrote? Is that illegal .bad writing?
cillowen | Oct 27, 2012, 11:30 AM EDT
thanks to ms mangan we have a crazy off the street and one with a gun to boot - the suffering that such a sick animal could've cause should make nigh all people shudder.
jetsnoone | Oct 27, 2012, 10:42 AM EDT
Maybe it was only a sick fanstasy....let's not arrest people for thought crimes...
Murph46 | Oct 27, 2012, 09:23 AM EDT
Just when you think that you have seen it all.....