A New York city police officer was charged today in a ghoulish plot to kidnap and torture women and then cook and eat their body parts. Gilberto Valle sent numerous e-mails and other Internet communications about the torture and cannibalism scheme, according to a criminal complaint. He identified and cataloged at least 100 women on his computer, investigators said, but there was no information that anyone was harmed. "I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus ... cook her over low heat, keep her alive as long as possible," Valle allegedly wrote in one exchange in July, the complaint says. In other online conversations, investigators said, Valle talked about the mechanics of fitting a woman's body into an oven (her legs would have to be bent), said he could make chloroform at home to knock a woman out and discussed how "tasty" one woman looked. "Her days are numbered," he wrote, according to the complaint. Valle was to appear in federal court in Manhattan this afternoon to face charges of kidnapping conspiracy and unauthorized use of law enforcement records. The name of his attorney was not immediately available, and no one answered the door to his home in a quiet, middle-class Queens neighborhood. A search of Valle's computer found he created records of at least 100 women with their names, addresses and photos, the complaint says. Some of the information came from his unauthorized use of a law enforcement database, authorities said. He claimed, according to the complaint, that he knew many of them. "The allegations in the complaint really need no description from us," said Mary E. Galligan, acting head of the FBI's New York office. "They speak for themselves. It would be an understatement merely to say Valle's own words and actions were shocking." There was no immediate response to a message left with the NYPD today. Valle met one potential victim over lunch, authorities said. The complaint alleges that in February, Valle negotiated to kidnap another woman for someone else, writing, "$5,000 and she's all yours." He told the buyer he was aspiring to be a professional kidnapper, authorities said. "I think I would rather not get involved in the rape," according to the complaint. "You paid for her. She is all yours, and I don't want to be tempted the next time I abduct a girl." It says he added: "I will really get off on knocking her out, tying up her hands and bare feet and gagging her. Then she will be stuffed into a large piece of luggage and wheeled out to my van." http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/10/nypd_officer_charged_in_plot_t.html
