Where’s Julia Child when you need her?
Accused cannibal cop Gilberto Valle (pictured) turned to Google to figure out how to prepare the women he wanted to kidnap, cook and eat, an FBI computer expert testified yesterday.
Data retrieved from a laptop that Valle used to surf the Web revealed such stomach-turning search terms as “human meat recipes,” “how to cook a human,” “what to look for in human meat” and “eat her for dinner cannibalism,” computer-forensic examiner Stephen Flatley told Manhattan federal jurors.
Valle — who could take the witness stand in his own defense today — also shopped around for such handy accessories as “huge knife” and “largest cooking tray,” Flatley said.
Other how-to queries included “how to abduct a girl,” “how to knock someone unconscious” and “how to chloroform a girl,” Flatley added.
The laptop, which Valle’s wife turned over to the FBI after discovering his depraved Web habits and fleeing their Queens home with their baby daughter, also yielded a stash of nasty porn that caused several female jurors to cover their mouths in shock when it was displayed.
Some of the graphic images showed naked women being sexually violated or trussed up with bizarre bondage gear.
Valle maintains his cannibalism searches were all just fuel for his fantasies.
The jury also saw a brief — but apparently staged — video of a naked woman, chained and standing spread-eagle, screaming through a gag in her mouth as the flame from a torch burned directly below her crotch.
Prosecutors rested their case after Flatley’s testimony.
Defense lawyer Edward Zas urged the judge to toss all the charges, saying the government failed to prove its case, and then added: “If the case goes forward, Mr. Valle may well have to take the stand and testify about every masturbatory fantasy he’s had since he was a teenager to explain what was going on.”
Judge Paul Gardephe did not immediately rule on that request.
Meanwhile, a British woman who met one of Valle’s twisted online pals — Dale Bolinger, a k a “Moody Blues” — said she was “horrified” to learn that Bolinger told Valle he wanted to “snap her neck” as part of his “many plans for her.”
Lian Chen, 27, who met Bolinger at the restaurant where she works outside London, told The Sun newspaper, “You try to talk to a nice person, it’s really upsetting. It’s not right that this happened all behind my back.”
Additional reporting by Chuck Bennett