A New York City police officer is charged with conspiracy to
kidnap, rape, murder, cook, and eat women. Gilberto Valle, 28, was accused
after his wife found disturbing chats and images on his computer that depicted
women in various stages of rape and torture. She fled their home and turned the
computer over to the FBI.
Valle apparently got in contact with his “co-conspirators”
on a dark
fetish website run by a Russian man. There, he was able to chat with other
men who were interested in capturing, raping, killing, and eating women. The
owner of the site, Sergey Merenkov says the site simply functions as a social
environment for people with dark kinky fantasies. There are 4,500 users total,
about 25% of which are women, he says.
The defense for Valle as well as others using the site is
that the fetishes were role-play and nothing more. His chats included
conversations about murdering and eating women he actually knew (including his
wife), but none of the women were actually harmed and the defense claims he
never met any of the “co-conspirators.”
The contents of two computers used by Valle include images
from various websites that show women being tortured and eaten. Some of the
images show women who did not survive torture.
“Some are dead… A couple of them appeared to have been
strangled,” said FBI computer forensics examiner Stephen Flatly.
Valle refused to take the stand on Tuesday, March 5th,
and defense attorney Edward Vas argued on Monday that he should be exonerated
for lack of “a true second participant” in the conspiracy. According to Vas, if
the case continues to move forward, Valle may be forced to discuss all his
sexual fantasies on the stand.
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