Former NYPD officer Gilberto Valle, better known as ‘the Cannibal Cop’ has defended his fetish in a new exclusive interview with DailyMailTV.
Valle, who was an NYPD cop when he created the account ‘Girlmeat Hunter’ on a fetish website in 2009, recalled how he used the website for his fetish.
‘I had this thing that I was living with this fetish for cannibalism, for bondage, just basically domination. And there are websites that cater to that kind of stuff,’ he told DailyMail TV’s host Jesse Palmer in part one of their interview.
Valle was jailed in 2012 for kidnapping conspiracy after his then wife, Kathleen Mangan, told the authorities that he was planning to kill and eat more than 100 women, including herself.
Former NYPD officer Gilberto Valle (pictured), better known as ‘the Cannibal Cop’ has defended his fetish in a new exclusive interview with DailyMailTV
Valle (left) was jailed in 2012 for kidnapping conspiracy after his then wife, Kathleen Mangan, told the authorities that he was planning to kill and eat more than 100 women, including herself
‘It’s disturbing stuff. It’s something that would shock and disturb people for sure. It’s graphic imagery,’ Valle admitted.
Mangan had grown suspicious of his late-night computer sessions, Valle recalled and installed spyware on their PC, leading her to the horrific discovery.
‘What she found was not an affair. She found my chats with other people about cannibalism and bondage and I was using photos of women and things like that,’ Valle said on Monday’ show.
Valle said his wife was ‘very upset and crying’ when she found the chats and despite him telling her that ‘it’s not real’.
He said his wife decided to leave home and when she was at the airport she text him: ‘I do love you.’
In 2012 Valle was fired from his job at the NYPD following his arrest and now works at a friend’s construction company
Those words led Valle to believe that everything was going to work out between them.
‘I was like okay. She’s going to take a couple of weeks and come back. We’ll go to a therapist and everything will be alright.
‘But that’s not how it played out,’ he told Palmer.
That’s not how it played out at all. Valle’s wife went to the FBI with the information that she found on his computer.
Valle immediately made national headlines when he was charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping and for violating a federal hacking statute for using the computer at his precinct improperly.
‘It was a nightmare. It was a total, total nightmare,’ he recalled.
Valle said the two charges made him seem like a monster because the media portrayed him as a cop using law enforcement equipment to hunt, kill, cook and consume women, including women he knew.
‘That was one of the biggest things that was misreported early on and that’s something that I think scared people when it was misreported,’ Valle said.
‘It was like okay he’s using his work computer and he’s gathering this information about these women and he’s recording their addresses and clearly there’s something going on here, but that never happened,’ the former cop added.
Valle said all he ever did was look up a female friend’s accident report number.
In 2013, he was convicted on both charges and spent 21 months in jail before a judge overturned the guilty verdict, ruling that the former cop was only indulging his sexual fantasies in a cannibalism chat room.
Valle claimed the disturbing fantasies he detailed on the site, such as ‘letting her bleed out then butcher her while she hangs’, was not something he ever planned on carrying out in reality.
‘It’s not a crime to fantasize. It’s not a crime fantasize about people you know. It’s not a crime to fantasize about the most disturbing things as long as their fantasies and not real life actions,’ he added.
Valle said he’s not in the chat rooms any more, nor is he doing role play like he used to.
Mangan (right) had grown suspicious of his late-night computer sessions, Valle recalled and installed spyware on their PC, leading her to the horrific discovery
The 33-year-old has a new book, titled A Gathering of Evil, that explores his cannibalism-themed fetish through a completely fictional plot involving sadists who kidnap two women in New York.
Valle has openly defended his fetish in the years since he was acquitted of plotting to kidnap, kill and cook 100 women.
Valle’s new book, which he said is ‘very graphic’ and ‘not for everyone’ went on sale last week and received a positive review from crimefeed.com.
The review said that Valle was ‘quite a good writer’ and is ‘flying his freak flag proudly’.
Valle said that if the book sells well, ‘there will definitely be a sequel’.
In an interview with Crime Watch Daily last year, he told Chris Hanson that he had ‘talked about kidnapping women, putting them in a suitcase’ and ‘delivering them for gang rape’.
‘Then killing, them, cooking them and eating them?’ Hansen asked, adding, ‘This isn’t normal.’
‘Would it matter if I was a plumber or if I was an accountant?’ Valle asked, to which Hansen said: ‘But you were a cop’.
Valle said that he was a ‘very good husband’ to his wife, who he is now separated from.
In 2013, he was convicted on both charges and spent 21 months in jail before a judge overturned the guilty verdict. Valle recently published his book A Gathering of Evil
The couple have a young child together.
In a tell-all book released last year, Valle wrote about how he tried to hide his dark secret and speaks about the freedom he felt when he found an online community of like-minded people.
On publisher WildBlue Press’s website, Valle said: ‘The issue of thought crimes is one reason I wanted to write this book.’
‘Maybe a more important reason for me, personally, is the feeling that I owe it to myself and everyone who wholeheartedly believed in my innocence from the day I was arrested to finally get the accurate, true story out there.’
Valle has claimed he is not alone in this desire and stated in 2016 that many women contacted him online because of his cannibal fantasy.
In 2012, Valle was fired from his job at the NYPD following his arrest and now works at a friend’s construction company.