Alleged 'cannibal cop' Gilberto Valle trial: Jurors hear closing arguments
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)
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Prosecutors called accused "cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle a "sexually sadistic" man who crossed over from fantasy to reality, while the defense said he was being persecuted for "ugly thoughts" as Valle's kidnap conspiracy trial went to the jury Thursday.
On a day featuring four hours of impassioned closing arguments from both sides, Valle, a six-year NYPD veteran, held his head and began sobbing...
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