Gilberto Valle “Cannibal Cop”
Is thinking evil thoughts a crime?
For many, that seems to be the question hanging in the air in the aftermath of the guilty verdict against New York City police officer Gilberto Valle, convicted of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and accessing a government computer database without authorization. During the sensational twelve-day trial in federal court, the jury heard lurid tales of the intentions of the so-called “cannibal cop” and newly married father of a baby girl to kidnap women, then cook, eat and kill them – in that order. Yet no one was ever harmed, leaving Valle’s camp “in shock” and “devastated” by the verdict.
