Who is gilberto valle

The start of a steady career within the police department. Underneath the surface of the devoted family man, however, was some very dark fantasies. Valle would visit internet fetish chat rooms. In those rooms, he would describe his fantasy to kidnap, torture, rape, kill, and cook women, especially his own wife.

On Oct. He was also, unsurprisingly, fired from the NYPD. He just talked about them in chat rooms a lot, but never seemed to act on them.

At trial and in interviews, Valle said that those things he talked about were just that fantasies. So if he is not into cannibalism, what is the explanation for those comments? I kind of wanted to provide and be a little more graphic and kind of not disappoint - again, the competitive side of me came out.

The former cop said that he is the least violent person you'll ever meet. He told WCBS that his online searches for methods of abduction were meant to "add realism to the stories" while role-playing and that he never intended to hurt anyone. In July , a judge overturned Valle's kidnapping conspiracy conviction, saying it was fantasy role play. When asked if he would go back to visiting websites dedicated to the dark fantasies, Valle said, "I don't know. I can't answer that.

And they were horrible mistakes, he admits. But, he wants to believe there is more for him down the road. Crime Time is your destination for true crime stories from around the world, breaking crime news, and information about Oxygen's original true crime shows and documentaries.

Sign up for Oxygen Insider for all the best true crime content. Sign Up for Free to View. GIlberto Valle, shown in CrimeCon However, his lawyers argued that he had only engaged in online role-playing fantasies on fetish websites. The case went to appeal and in July, a federal judge in New York overturned the conviction on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Judge Paul Gardephe said the government failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr Valle "entered into a genuine agreement to kidnap a woman, or that he specifically intended to commit a kidnapping".

However, the judge acknowledged that Mr Valle's "depraved, misogynistic sexual fantasies about his wife, former college classmates and acquaintances undoubtedly reflected a mind diseased". Prosecutors are appealing against Judge Gardephe's decision. At the sentencing hearing on Wednesday, Mr Valle apologised to the women for putting them through the ordeal of testifying.