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Defense wants doc to testify about alleged 'cannibal cop'

Gilberto Valle, a six-year veteran of the New

Photo credit: Handout | Gilberto Valle, a six-year veteran of the New York City Police Department, was arrested on charges that he kept files on women on his computer, discussed with a co-conspirator abducting a woman for $5,000 and mused about putting other women in his oven and cooking them. (2012)

Alleged "cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle began having erotic fantasies about abduction and bondage as a teenager after seeing a scene with actress Cameron Diaz in "The Mask," according to a newly released summary of defense psychiatric testimony.

Valle, the summary says, told defense expert Dr. Park Dietz that he had sadistic fantasies about teachers and "cute" women he met, but was a shy suitor...

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