Remember the New York police officer who was arrested for his cannibalistic plot to kidnap, kill, cook and eat women? Well his case is now being heard in New York and things are getting hot… no pun intended.
NEW YORK (AP) – Jurors appeared uncomfortable Monday as prosecutors showed an apparently staged video of a screaming woman being cooked alive over an open flame and other disturbing images from websites devoted to torturing and eating women – evidence prosecutors say proves a New York City police officer was involved in a cannibalism plot.
Officer Gilberto Valle visited web pages showing various women, FBI computer forensics examiner Stephen Flatly testified at Valle’s kidnapping conspiracy trial. “Some are dead. … A couple of them appeared to have been strangled.”
As Flatly described the images that were displayed on video monitors in federal court in Manhattan, some jurors put their hands over their mouths. One shook her head. Another wiped his brow.
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” and other topics the defense says were part of a fetish fantasy that never posed a real threat.
The FBI analysis of Valle’s laptop yielded a video of a naked woman hanging over an open flame and screaming in agony. It was not indicated in court whether staged or real but it seemed staged. A flame sometimes rose near the woman’s crotch but didn’t appear to linger long enough to singe the skin, and the camera at one point focused on her sweating body.
There also were several photos of women with bright red apples stuffed in their mouths.
Another image of a woman roasting on a giant spit was discovered in a computer file that Valle kept on a former college friend that prosecutors have identified as a target of the alleged plot to kidnap, torture and eat women.
h/t USA Today
