Jurors' horror as sickening fetish images shown at New York ‘Cannibal Cop’ trial: Court watches video of women screaming and pretending to be COOKED ALIVE
- Gilberto Valle, 28, visited websites with recipes for human meat
- Jury made to watch horrifying video of staged 'cooking' of women
- New York Cannibal Cop accused of conspiring to kidnap and eat six women
- One of the six women was his wife with whom he has a daughter
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The jury in the trial of a New York police officer accused of conspiring to cannibalism were forced to watch a video of a woman made to appear to be cooked over an open flame.
The evidence, taken from websites devoted to torturing and eating women visited by Officer Gilberto Valle, also included images of women with apples in their mouths and instructions on ‘how to cook a girl’.
The government rested a week after it began trying to prove that Valle tried to conspire with others on the Internet to kidnap, kill and cannibalize six women, including friends and his wife.
On trial: Gilberto Valle visited websites containing instructions on how to tie up, 'chloroform' and cook a girl
Earlier, FBI computer forensics examiner Stephen Flatly testified Valle frequently visited websites showing women being tortured, including one that offered images of women who did not survive.
‘Some are dead. A couple of them appeared to have been strangled,’ he said.
As Mr Flatly described the images displayed on video monitors in federal court in Manhattan, shocked jurors put hands to their mouths and displayed other signs of distress.
One cannibalism website allegedly visited by Valle promised customers they would ‘only receive the highest quality human beef.’
The jury also heard how the officer allegedly looked up ‘how to tie up a girl,’ ''human meat recipes,’ ‘how to chloroform a girl,’ ‘I want to sell a girl slave,’ ‘how to cook a girl,’ ‘death fetish’ and ‘huge cooking tray’ among other topics the defense says were part of a fetish fantasy that never posed a real threat.
View of Federal Courthouse in Manhattan where the trial of New York Police Department officer Gilberto Valle, accused of conspiring to kidnap women that he planned to cook and eat, began
An undated photo submitted as evidence shows Gilberto Valle with his daughter. Valle is accused of conspiracy to kidnap a woman and unauthorized use of a law enforcement database that prosecutors say he used to help build a list of potential targets
The video showed to the jury, which was found by the FBI on Valle’s computer, is apparently staged and shows a naked, screaming woman hanging over an open flame.
Two images of naked women roasting on a giant spit were discovered in a computer file of several dozen photographs that Valle kept on a former college friend whom prosecutors have identified as a target of the alleged plot.
The face of one woman prosecutors say he targeted was cut out and pasted onto a cartoon of a woman being boiled in a pot.
Prosecutors also had wanted to present as many as 34 exhibits of even more ghastly images found on Valle's computer depicting women being tortured, dead bodies and body parts.
They include a picture of a dead body with the feet cut off which Valle's wife testified she saw when she went to one of his favorite sites and discovered why he stayed up late online.
However U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe ruled they were not admissible because they were automatically stored in cache files on Valle's computer.
‘What we don't have is proof that he ever saw the images here,’ he said at the start of the second week of the trial.
Wife: In this courthouse sketch, Kathleen Mangan, right, testifies about discovering her husband's sick fetish for torturing and eating women
On trial: In this courtroom sketch, Gilberto Valle is seen in federal court in New York as his wife, Kathleen Mangan testifies
Cannibal Cop: The former New York City police officer Gilberto Valle, is alleged to have conspired to kidnap, kill and eat six women, including his wife
However, the judge permitted the screenshots of Valle's Internet searches about cannibalism as well as proof that the officer looked up articles written about the rape and murder of a young woman and others about a 15-year-old girl who was kidnapped and murdered in California.
The browsing history also showed that an article titled ‘Cannibalism can be addictive, expert says’ and Facebook pages of alleged targets were viewed.
As soon as the government finished, defense lawyers asked the judge to acquit their client, saying prosecutors failed to present sufficient evidence to let a jury decide whether Valle planned to carry out a crime. A judge reserved decision. Defense attorney Julia Gatto said it has not yet been decided whether the officer will testify.
Earlier in the trial, prosecutors claimed the 28-year-old was involved in online chats with a Pakistani man to whom he offered his ex wife for meat.
At Manhattan Federal Court last week,
testimony by FBI Agent Corey Walsh outlined an an online chat between
Valle and a man named Aly Khan last year, where Khan said he 'would love
to slaughter a girl and make her meat'.
Valle, who met Khan on a website for people who fantasise about eating human flesh, wrote that he was 'trying to pick out a girl who i can send over'.
He added: 'I can talk my girlfriend into going to India,' where Walsh said Aly Khan claimed to live.
Testimony: Kathleen Mangan, pictured right as she's driven away from court on Monday
Warped: The websites visited by Valle contained images of women with apples in their mouths
Prosecution case: A passage of a Federal complaint filed in New York against Valle
He was referencing Kathleen Mangan, the
woman who would become Valle’s wife about six months later and informed
police about her husband's sexual fantasies after she found material on
his laptop. The pair have a baby daughter.
They go on to talk about 'humiliating' Mangan, taking turns raping her and then slaughtering her together.
Valle, 28, has been held without bail
since his October arrest. Throughout the trial, his lawyers have
attacked government evidence as nothing more than a man fantasizing with
like-minded people.
The government has conceded that Valle never met the purported Internet co-conspirators and that no women were harmed.
Jurors have heard testimony from
Valle's estranged wife and from former classmates and other women who
said they knew Valle on a casual basis and never considered him
dangerous.
Their testimony was followed by evidence that all of them were the subjects of emails and chats describing how they could be snatched away and eaten.
The charges of conspiracy to kidnap and improper use of a federal database system could bring Valle, 28, a life sentence if he's convicted.
'Discovered': Kathleen Mangan, 28, pictured with her husband, was offered up to a Pakistani man to be cooked and eaten
Harrowing: He allegedly discussed how to kill a woman by slowly cooking her over emails with co-conspirators
Officer: Valle worked at the New York Police Department's 29th precinct
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