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Honorary Master
Prosecutors on Monday showed a video of a screaming woman being cooked alive over an open flame and other disturbing images from websites devoted to torturing and eating women - evidence they argue proves a New York City police officer was involved in a cannibalism plot.
Officer Gilberto Valle visited web pages showing images various women, FBI computer forensics examiner Stephen Flatly testified at Valle's kidnapping conspiracy trial. "Some are dead. ... A couple of them appeared to have been strangled."
One cannibalism website allegedly visited by Valle promised customers they would "only receive the highest quality human beef." The jury also heard how the officer allegedly looked up "how to tie up a girl," "human meat recipes" and other topics.
The defense says they were part of an extreme sexual fetish fantasy that never posed a real threat. The government has conceded that Valle never met the purported Internet co-conspirators and that no women were harmed.
The FBI analysis of Valle's laptop yielded a video of a naked woman hanging over an open flame and screaming. It was not clear whether the video was real or staged.
An image of a woman roasting on a giant spit was discovered in a computer file that Valle kept on a former college friend that prosecutors have identified as a target of the alleged plot to kidnap, torture and eat women.
Prosecutors had also wanted to present even more images, including a picture of a dead body with the feet cut off - an image Valle's wife testified she saw when she went to one of his favorite sites and discovered why he stayed up late online.
But the U.S. District judge ruled they were not admissible because they were automatically stored in cache files, with no proof that Valle saw them.
Valle, 28, has been held without bail since his October arrest.
Jurors have heard testimony from Valle's estranged wife and from former classmates and other women who said they knew Valle on a casual basis and never considered him dangerous. Their testimony was followed by evidence that all of them were the subjects of emails and chats describing how they could be snatched away and eaten.
The government was to conclude its case on Monday. The defense was expected to begin its case by playing the videotaped deposition of the Russian operator of a fetish website that was frequented by Valle.
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Officer Gilberto Valle visited web pages showing images various women, FBI computer forensics examiner Stephen Flatly testified at Valle's kidnapping conspiracy trial. "Some are dead. ... A couple of them appeared to have been strangled."
One cannibalism website allegedly visited by Valle promised customers they would "only receive the highest quality human beef." The jury also heard how the officer allegedly looked up "how to tie up a girl," "human meat recipes" and other topics.
The defense says they were part of an extreme sexual fetish fantasy that never posed a real threat. The government has conceded that Valle never met the purported Internet co-conspirators and that no women were harmed.
The FBI analysis of Valle's laptop yielded a video of a naked woman hanging over an open flame and screaming. It was not clear whether the video was real or staged.
An image of a woman roasting on a giant spit was discovered in a computer file that Valle kept on a former college friend that prosecutors have identified as a target of the alleged plot to kidnap, torture and eat women.
Prosecutors had also wanted to present even more images, including a picture of a dead body with the feet cut off - an image Valle's wife testified she saw when she went to one of his favorite sites and discovered why he stayed up late online.
But the U.S. District judge ruled they were not admissible because they were automatically stored in cache files, with no proof that Valle saw them.
Valle, 28, has been held without bail since his October arrest.
Jurors have heard testimony from Valle's estranged wife and from former classmates and other women who said they knew Valle on a casual basis and never considered him dangerous. Their testimony was followed by evidence that all of them were the subjects of emails and chats describing how they could be snatched away and eaten.
The government was to conclude its case on Monday. The defense was expected to begin its case by playing the videotaped deposition of the Russian operator of a fetish website that was frequented by Valle.
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