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Gilberto Valle, accused 'cannibal cop,' found guilty

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)

A federal jury in Manhattan Tuesday convicted accused "cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle of conspiracy to kidnap and eat women, stunning Valle, his family and a defense team that relentlessly argued he had engaged only in crude, online role-playing fantasies.

Six-year NYPD veteran Valle, 28, of Forest Hills, Queens, flinched, lurched forward and held his head when the guilty verdict was read. Later,...

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