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Lawyers for 'cannibal cop' want to show potential jurors shocking image of woman hogtied

Lawyers for an accused cannibal cop want this woman served on a platter . . . for potential jurors.

The twisted photo of the hogtied, nude blonde — lying prone on a serving tray, with an apple stuck in her mouth — is among three shocking images that the defense wants to show would-be panelists for the upcoming trial of Gilberto Valle.

Another pic submitted by lawyers for the deviant cop shows a buxom brunette who is bound, gagged and tied to a spit over an open fire in a wooded clearing.

Off to the side, a man who is shielding his face from the camera appears to be turning the naked woman over the flames.

The third is a cartoon of a nude woman partly submerged inside a clear, bubbling pot of vegetables atop a stove being tended by a mustachioed cook wearing an apron and hunting cap.

“Well Karyn you seem to be cooking up quite nicely . . . Your guests are going to get a very special dinner tonight,” the chef says in a dialogue balloon.

The cartoon woman’s face is obscured by a hot-pink rectangle — because Valle or someone else superimposed the face “of a real victim,” prosecutors alleged in court earlier this week.

The disturbing pics were submitted by Valle’s lawyers as part of a proposed jury questionnaire to help screen out people too squeamish to deal with the testimony and evidence at his upcoming trial.

The defense says potential jurors need to be “especially vetted,” in part because “at trial Mr. Valle will acknowledge that he has unusual, sexual fantasies which involve imagined acts of violence against women — a fetish that will be difficult for most jurors to comprehend.”

According to court papers, the images were given to the defense by prosecutors — after investigators seized them from Valle’s computer following his arrest last year for allegedly scheming online to kidnap, rape, torture, cook and eat women.

They were initially filed under seal, but were made public yesterday after a legal challenge by The Post.

”Because of this prosecution, Mr. Valle has been subjected to a level of embarrassment and mortification that is impossible to articulate,” public defender Julia Gatto wrote Manhattan federal Judge Paul Gardephe, in petitioning for details of a psychological exam to remain sealed.

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Welcome to our live coverage of the trial of accused "Cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle.

DAY 2: The trial resumed Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. Four women, who prosecutors say were Valle's "intended targets," are expected to testify.

12:04 PMLauren Johnston
Prosecutors allege Valle's gruesome plans involved cooking a Maryland woman who was his college classmate and is ID'd in the complaint against Valle as "Victim-1":

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"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 in online message to sick pal before the brunch."

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12:48 PM"Gearty, Robert" Jury returns for cross-examination of the former Molloy student. The courtroom is less crowded than Monday but it's still a good crowd.

12:47 PM"Gearty, Robert" The woman testifies that Valle once arranged to meet her at a her job for the City University of New York.

She can't remember the exact date but says when Valle showed up, he was in his police uniform and drove up in a police car.

Prosecutor Jackson asks the witness if it was typical for friends to visit her at work, drawing an objection from Valle's attorney.

Judge Gardephe sustains the objection.

She does answer his last question, one that the prosecution has asked other alleged would-be victims.

"At any point did you indictate to Mr. Valle that you consented to be the focus of discussions involving sexual violence or other kind of violence?" Jackson inquires.

She answers matter-of-factly, "No."

12:54 PM"Gearty, Robert" Valle has his hand on his chin and plays with a pen as his attorney questions his high school chum. He avoids looking at his former friend.



MONDAY RECAP: Valle's wife Kathleen Mangan took the stand, breaking down in sobs as she described discovering her husband's alleged plot to "slow cook" and eat more than 100 women.

She choked out testimony recounting the fate Valle fantasized for her:

“I was supposed to be tied by my feet, my throat slit, and they were going to watch the blood rush from my body,” she said.

The key players in the proceedings are:

Judge Paul Gardephe.
Prosecutors Randall Jackson & Hadassa Waxman.
Defense attorneys Julia Gatto and Robert Baum.

The trial at Thurgood Marshall Court House in Lower Manhattan is expected to last two weeks. Daily News reporter Robert Gearty is in the courtroom filing live updates. Stay with us.

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3:55 PM yesterday

"Gearty, Robert" FBI agent Walsh reads a July 2, 2012 e-mail Valle sent to the webmaster of darkfetishnet.com saying he had paid $15.95 for a premium account but he had not been updated yet.

"I am a girl meat hunter on the site," Valle says in the e-mail, the FBI agent tells the jury.

The witness says a premium account allows the user access additional content on the website which caters to deviants with violent sexual fantasies.

2:20 PM yesterday

Lauren JohnstonBefore the lunch recess, FBI agent Corey Walsh was on the stand and read excerpts from gruesome web chats between "cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle and a sick friend in Pakistan that wrote under the name "Aly Khan." The below document, submitted in evidence as Exhibit 428, is one of many examples of Valle's chats with Khan.

1:37 PM yesterday

"Gearty, Robert" After hearing more chats about cooking and eating women ... the judge tells jury it's time to go to lunch. Be back in an hour.

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Kathleen Mangan-Valle, Wife Of Alleged 'Cannibal Cop' Gilberto Valle, Testifies In Court (VIDEO)

NEW YORK — The trial of a New York police officer accused of conspiring to kill and eat women featured grisly testimony Tuesday as an FBI agent described the Internet correspondence between the officer and a man in Great Britain who spoke as if he were mentoring the officer on the art of cannibalism.

Agent Corey Walsh read passage after passage from emails and text messages between Officer Gilberto Valle and a man the government said used Moody Blues as a screen name and MeatMarketMan as an email address.

"I'm dying to taste some girl meat," the agent said Valle wrote.

Some of the passages went into sickening descriptions about cooking and eating women. Others sounded so absurd they bordered on cartoonish, feeding the defense argument that Valle and friends he met on extreme sexual fetish websites were merely engaging in fantasies.

In describing one potential victim, Moody Blues suggested "cutting off her feet and barbecuing them in front of her" while she was still alive.

Throughout, jurors remained stone-faced as they followed the words on screens before them while Walsh read them aloud in a federal courthouse in Manhattan, where 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.

The government called several women who were the subjects of some of the Internet correspondence to testify how they knew Valle just before Walsh took the witness stand.

Kimberly Sauer, of Germantown, Md., went to the University of Maryland with Valle and had nothing bad to say about her former classmate. Like the other women, including one who had never met him, she knew nothing about the Internet desires of Valle and the others. On cross-examination, Sauer told defense attorney Julia Gatto that she never felt threatened by Valle.

Sauer learned of the case only after she received from Valle's wife last year in the middle of the night a disturbing Facebook message that sounded so crazy that she texted him to warn that the account must have been hacked. Either that "or you're trying to sell me into white slavery," she recalled joking in the text.


Walsh said Sauer was a central subject for Valle and Moody Blues, who claimed he had fantasized about cannibalism since he was 6 years old but did not fulfill the desire until 35 years later.

In one correspondence, Valle suggests a woman named Kimberly – prosecutors say Sauer – would be easy prey because she lived alone.

"I can knock her out, wait until dark and kidnap her right out of her house," he wrote, according to prosecutors.

The agent said Moody Blues suggested eating their victim alive but Valle responded: "I'm not really into raw meat."

Walsh said they also discussed cooking Sauer, basted in olive oil, over an open fire and using her severed head as a centerpiece for a sit-down meal.

"I just can't wait to get Kimberly cooking," the agent quoted Valle as saying.

The agent said Valle's computer had a file titled "Abducting and Cooking Kimberly: A Blueprint," which included a photo of Sauer.

Walsh testified that the federal probe began after Valle's wife, Kathleen Mangan-Valle, in September gave the FBI in Reno, Nev., a computer Valle had used.

Walsh described communications between Valle and his co-defendant, Michael Vanhise, of Trenton, N.J. He said the two negotiated the price to be paid for a Manhattan teacher to be taken to New Jersey in a suitcase for Vanhise to rape and kill.

The agent said Valle asked Vanhise whether he wanted the woman clothed or naked and Vanhise said he wanted her clothed.

"Excellent. I'll leave her clothes on. I'll give you the pleasure of unwrapping your gift," Valle was quoted as saying.

Vanhise, like Valle, has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers also say he engaged only in Internet fantasy chats.

The government hasn't said what role Moody Blues, who has been portrayed as a co-conspirator, played in the investigation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/26/kathleen-mangan-valle-gilbert
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CANNIBAL COP -- STICK A FORK IN HIM -- HE'S DONE

Outside the Manhattan federal courtroom where the “cannibal cop” trial was getting under way Tuesday, it was all jokes and puns — “the ADA’s gonna pepper the witnesses with questions” and “stick a fork in him — he’s done.”

Until the tiny, beautiful 18-year-old that NYPD Officer Gilberto Valle had talked about cooking to death took the stand. Then all nervous laughter ceased.

Kristen Ponticelli, whom Valle had zeroed in on when he would go back to his old high school, Archbishop Molloy, and watch girls’ softball games, was the “type” he was obsessed with: petite and pretty, with very long brown hair.

RELATED: CANNIBAL COP PLANNED TO EAT WIFE, COLLEGE FRIENDS: PROSECUTOR

Just like Valle’s wife, who testified Monday. Just like the two women who thought they were his friends and who also took the stand Tuesday.

Kristen is so young and delicate that prosecutor Randall Jackson only asked her, “Do you know Officer Valle?” She answered in a tremulous girl’s voice, “I do now.”

Considering another victim, his college chum Kimberly Sauer, Valle writes, “I want to cook her over a low heat to make her suffer as long as possible. She’s been one of my favorite victims to fantasize about for about 10 years now.”

RELATED: HAMILL: OFFICER A 'CANNIBAL COP' IN THOUGHT BUT NOT DEED

Bingo. Sexual fantasy. That’s all it was, claims Valle’s lawyer Julia Gatto — “Fifty Shades of Grey” meets “Iron Chef.” Except that Valle, who as a cop had a Glock, told a fellow sicko that he has a woman he can kidnap for him for $5,000.

This isn’t velvet handcuffs, or French maids’ costumes or even Tyson Chandler on a Harley wearing nothing but whipped cream.

This is the planning of a crime. Valle is a monster. It is difficult not to believe that, had FBI agents not intercepted him, he would have become a real-life Hannibal Lecter.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/molloy-cannibal-guilty-sin-article- 1.1274471#ixzz2MQgehTQB

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The lawyer for the “cannibal cop” ate an FBI agent alive on Wednesday.

On the third day of Gilberto Valle’s conspiracy trial, his lawyer, Robert Baum, went after the agent who had been leading the jury through a pile of emails and electronic messages the feds say show he was planning to kidnap, rape, cook and eat several women he knew.

FOLLOW THE LIVE BLOG OF THE TRIAL WHILE COURT IS IN SESSION

The G-man, Special Agent Corey Walsh, read more of the messages to the jury earlier on Wednesday, including one deeply disturbing exchange with an alleged co-conspirator in Pakistan, Aly Khan.

The pair was discussing plans for a woman Valle, 28, described as his “girlfriend” — the mother of his then-3-month-old daughter, Kathleen Mangan.

RELATED: 'CANNIBAL COP'S' WIFE TESTIFIES ON NYPD OFFICER'S SICK BONDAGE FETISH

“So you’re fixated on Kathleen?” Valle asked, after sending Khan pictures of his soon-to-be bride.

“Yes,” Khan answered. “She’s too good. She deserves to be eaten.”

Khan said he had slaughtered goats before — he had sent Valle a YouTube video showing how to do it — and said killing a woman would be “easy.”

Valle said he thought he could talk Kathleen into taking a trip to India, and they could slaughter her there.

“I’ll kill her as humanely as possible,” Khan said.

RELATED: MOLLOY: 'CANNIBAL COP' GUILTY AS SIN

“It’s all right,” Valle said. “You don’t have to be humane.” He said they could “tie her up and rape her” together.

Khan said he wanted to force her to perform oral sex on him.

“Fine by me,” Valle said. “She hates that.”

The exchange was dated January 2012, and Valle said he would try to get her to India a month later — but he never did. He had also told Khan that he lived in Pennsylvania, and that Kathleen was a teacher — even though she had stopped teaching a year earlier.

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