Bring on the second course!
The feds dished out a kidnapping-conspiracy charge today against a New Jersey man tied to alleged NYPD cannibal wannabe Gilberto Valle.
Michael Vanhise, 22, was busted by the FBI at his home in Trenton, N.J., this morning and charged with offering Valle $5,000 to kidnap and deliver a woman so he could rape and kill her.
Vanhise previously admitted sending emails in which he and Valle discussed the abduction and Vanhise tried to knock down the price after Valle sent him a photo of the intended victim, court papers say.
A Manhattan federal court complaint includes the following exchange between the two, which allegedly took place on Feb. 28.
Vanhise: “I definitely want her and how much again, I’m sorry to ask but I don’t remember.”
Valle: “$5,000 and she is all yours.”
Vanhise: “Could we do 4?”
Valle: “I am putting my neck on the line here. If something goes wrong some somehow, I am in deep s–t. $5,000 and and you need to make sure that she is not found. She will definitely make the news.”
The complaint also says that Valle, who’s accused of downloading a cholorform recipe from the Internet, allegedly told Vanhise: “I will really get off on knocking her out, tying 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.”
“just make sure she doesn’t die before I get her,” Vanhise allegedly replied.
Vanhise also admitted sending other emails to two other, unidentified people, “about kidnapping, raping and murdering women and children,” according to the complaint.
Vanhise allegedly sent those people “photographs of a minor girl known to him” and gave them “the purported address of the child, which was in close proximity to the child’s actual home address.”
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said the complaint against Vanhise “reads like a script for a bad horror film, but fortunately, neither he nor his co-conspirators were able to act out the twisted conspiracies described in the complaint in real-life.”
“His arrest today is the second in this bone-chilling case, but we are not finished,” Bharara added.
Manhattan FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos said there was no need to “characterize” Vanhise’s alleged scheme.
“The factual allegations more than suffice to convey the depravity of the offense,” he said.
According to the complaint, Vanhise made his admissions during an FBI raid on his home on Oct. 26, a day after Valle, 28, was arrested for allegedly scheming online to kidnap, rape, torture, cook and eat women.
Valle is also charged with accessing a law-enforcement database to target his alleged victims.
The 6-year NYPD veteran maintains that he was merely engaging in sexual fantasies and never planned to actually harm anyone.
He’s set for trial later this month.
Vanhise is expected to appear in court later today. Like Valle, he faces life in the slammer if convicted.