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A New York City police officer has been charged with conspiring to kidnap, torture, cook and eat women whose names he listed in his computer.

In a criminal complaint unsealed in Manhattan federal court, Gilberto Valle III, 28, of Forest Hills, Queens, was charged with conspiring to cross state lines to kidnap the women and with illegally accessing a federal database.

The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Investigators uncovered a file on Valle's computer containing the names and pictures of at least 100 women, and the addresses and physical descriptions of some of them, according to the complaint.

He had undertaken surveillance of some of the women at their places of employment and their homes.

Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman, in denying Valle bail at a hearing on Thursday evening, said: "the allegations in the complaint are profoundly disturbing. I have never seen allegations similar to this in 16 years on the bench".

Valle's court-appointed attorney, Julia Gatto, had vigorously argued to the judge that her client, a 6-1/2 year NYPD veteran who appeared before the judge in a red T-shirt and jeans, was all talk and deserved to be released on bail.

"The best this complaint alleges is talk, just idle talk," Gatto said. "There is no actual crossing the line from fantasy to reality, your honour."

In an excerpt of a July online conversation with an unnamed co-conspirator, Valle is quoted in the complaint as saying:

"I can just show up at her home unannounced. It will not alert her, and I can knock her out, wait until dark and kidnap her right out of her home".

"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," he said.

The woman in question is identified only as "Victim 1".

ONLINE FANTASY GAME?

A Manhattan federal prosecutor, Hadassa Waxman, told the judge that Valle was as "close as he could possibly come," short of "kidnapping a woman, drugging her, cooking her and actually eating her".

Federal prosecutors, in announcing the charges, said Valle had created a document called "Abducting and Cooking: A Blueprint".

Valle also told an unnamed co-conspirator he would kidnap another woman for $5,000, they said.

"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," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

Valle, who an official said had no prior criminal record, was not charged with carrying out any of his suspected plans.

A law enforcement official involved in the investigation characterized Valle's actions as an online "fantasy game".

"He was titillated by it," said the official, who is not authorized to discuss the case publicly. "It looks like he was having these fantasy conversations with people he's talking to in foreign countries."

Valle's attorney, Gatto, agreed. "This was a fantasy, a sexually deviant world where people talk about unreal things," she said.

Valle's estranged wife contacted the FBI after discovering pornography on his computer, according to the law enforcement official, who said the couple is separated.

Valle was arrested on Wednesday by the FBI.

He is due back in court on November7.

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Oct 26, 2012

DJ-Winner

People are taking the concept of eating women to the next level. Eating women doesn't necessarily mean eating them as food...
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Oct 26, 2012

swona

think you right DJ-Winner! but these are the main challenges that the US has, apart from few of these NY dirty cops, the city is safe like paradise!
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Oct 26, 2012

slowfootsurefoot

FANTASY OR NOT .THIS IS SICK.
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Oct 26, 2012

Seja-Bana

the americans doesn't understand the meaning of eating a woman, they came here and they hear us talking about eating woman, now they want to practice it in their country.
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Oct 26, 2012

Mrazane

It all starts in the mind, they fantasize and then one day they succumb to those evil voices in their heads, and step out of fantasy and actually commit these crimes...most serial killers had similar fantasies before becoming serial killers. So Mr Fantasy stay behind bars that is where you belong.

@ Shredder "no no no it sounds weird" LOL
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Oct 26, 2012

ThirdEye

This is way too much, they must lock him up. He is sick.
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Oct 26, 2012

I.n.c.o.g.n.i.t.o

DJ-Winner
People are taking the concept of eating women to the next level. Eating women doesn't necessarily mean eating them as food...
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DJ Please!
I guess the term "Cooking" also means we taking the concept to the next level???!
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Oct 26, 2012

Voetzek

"Policeman planned to cook, eat women"
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The statement said it all, there no this B***ST" of not literaly eating here
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Oct 26, 2012

I.n.c.o.g.n.i.t.o

Ja @Shredder!! They deleted your comments!
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Oct 26, 2012

BRA-MAFUTHA

Sick world we living in
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