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He wanted to protect and serve women — on a dinner plate!
A newlywed NYPD cop was accused yesterday of moonlighting as an aspiring cannibal — plotting to “kidnap, rape, torture, cook and cannibalize” up to 100 women in a twisted plot discovered by his wife.
Officer Gilberto Valle III, 28, conspired with three men online to hunt their prey and roast them in an oven — and even haggled over selling a drugged victim to one man for up to $5,000, federal prosecutors say.
Court papers say the new dad wrote in a July 9 chat with an accomplice.
“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.”
Valle personally knew at least some of his targets — and even surveilled their homes and workplaces. He had lunch with one as part of his scheme, authorities claim.
“I got a woman for you, I went to high school with her, she’d be perfect,” Valle told a fellow cannibal fetishist, sources said.
He kept files “pertaining to at least 100 women and containing at least one photograph of each woman,” a federal criminal complaint said.
Authorities are in the process of contacting those women.
A July 10 document on Valle’s computer identified one victim — whom a source said was a high-school classmate — by “her name, date of birth, height, weight and bra size.”
He allegedly laid out a chilling plan to kidnap her:
“ ‘Abducting and Cooking [Victim-1]: a Blueprint’ . . . ‘Materials Needed: Car (I have it); Choloform (refer to website for directions); Rope (Strongest kind to tie her up.’ ”
Asked by an online pal how big his oven was, Valle allegedly boasted, “Big enough to fit one of these girls if I folded their legs.”
Of his high-school friend, Valle allegedly wrote, “I can just show up at her home unannounced, it will not alert her, and I can knock her out, wait until dark and kidnap her right out of her home.”
His online buddy then asked:
“What is your favorite cut of meat?”
Valle never responded.
And he never got past the planning phase, the feds said..
His schoolteacher wife, Kathleen, ratted him out when she discovered his “tactical plan” last month on her own laptop, which he used after his computer crashed, sources said.
“When she saw what was on the computer, what he was into, she literally ran out of the house with just the clothes on her back,” a law-enforcement source said.
Kathleen, who is “beyond distraught,” grabbed their baby and fled to her native Reno, Nev. —with her laptop computer and its evidence of his sick obsession, sources said.
She married Valle in June, several months after having their daughter, Josephine. The family lived a seemingly normal life in a Forest Hills, Queens, apartment.
After fleeing to Reno — where her mom is an ex-judge and her aunt is a federal magistrate judge — Kathleen contacted FBI agents there and gave them her laptop.
Valle was arrested Wednesday.
The cop, an avid Yankee fan, was suspended without pay.
The federal complaint said he craved the taste of human flesh.
“I love that she is asleep right now not having the slightest clue of what we have planned,” Valle allegedly wrote on July 9 to one of his conspirators about “Victim-1.”
“Her days are numbered. I’m glad you’re on board. She does look tasty, doesn’t she?”
the alleged conspirator replied, gruesomely adding:
“You do know if we don’t waste any of her there is nearly 75 pounds of food there.”
Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said Valle’s “alleged plans to kidnap women so that they could be raped, tortured, killed, cooked and cannibalized shock the conscience.”
Valle is charged with conspiring to kidnap the women with three others — two overseas — and illegally accessing the National Crime Information Center database to research one target.
Authorities said that on July 22, Valle contacted a woman he was discussing kidnapping and eating, and invited her to lunch at a restaurant. She accepted.
He allegedly told his online pals he would disable victims with chloroform home-brewed from an Internet recipe. He also allegedly agreed to provide a woman to a conspirator planning to use her as a “sex slave,” said prosecutor Hadassa Waxman.
Waxman told Manhattan federal court Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman that Valle stalked one woman while “in his uniform and his police car, in a very intimidating fashion.”
In a Feb. 28 online chat, Valle allegedly described how excited he’d feel about abducting a woman whom he offered to sell to a co-conspirator for $5,000.
“It’s going to be so hard to restrain myself when I knock her out, but I am aspiring to be a professional kidnapper, and that’s business,” Valle allegedly wrote.
“But I will really get off on knocking her out, tying her hands and bare feet and gagging her.”
Pitman denied bail for a subdued Valle, clad in a T-shirt, after noting that the federal complaint described “profoundly disturbing” and “unspeakable conduct.”
“I have never seen allegations similar to these in 16 years on the bench and five years as a prosecutor,” Pitman said.
Valle’s dad, Gilberto Jr., said at his house, “I’m shocked. I don’t think this is possible.
“He never mentioned cannibalism.”
The officer attended Archbishop Molloy HS in Queens, where he played baseball with Mets player Mike Baxter, and graduated from the University of Maryland.
He joined the NYPD six years ago, and was described as an average cop at his current assignment in Harlem’s 26th Precinct.
In an OKCupid online dating profile, he described himself as “sociable, ambitious and a gentleman” and “mature beyond my years.”He wrote that his favorite book is Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham” and that his favorite foods are “Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese.”
“I’ll try anything and am not picky at all,” Valle, who listed “Food” as among the top six things he could never do without.
Valle’s distraught brother Daniel said, “He’s a nice guy,” as he went to collect the cop’s treasured bulldog, Dudley.
His lawyer, Julia Gatto, insisted the cop was just engaging in “idle talk” online., calling it “a fantasy.”
Valle’s mom and his two brothers refused to comment after his bail hearing.
Valle seemed to understand the chance he was taking with his threatening online chats.
“This is very risky and will ruin my life if I get caught,” he allegedly wrote. “I am putting my neck on the line here. If something goes wrong somehow, I am in deep s–t.”
Additional reporting by Gillian Kleiman, Kevin Sheehan, Pedro Oliveira Jr., Bruce Golding and Larry Celona