On the first day of Gilberto Valle's trial, the wife of “Cannibal Cop” explains how she discovered his fetish. “I know S&M is popular with ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ but this seemed different.”
Kathleen Mangan-Valle took the stand Monday to tell jurors how she discovered her husband's fetish — by installing Spyware and reading through his chat history, where she saw his gruesome plans for her.
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“I was going to be tied up by my feet and my throat slit, and they would have fun watching the blood gush out of me,” she said.
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She saw him plan to rape and cook other women, too. She saw him look at photos of dead women online. “I know S&M is popular with ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ but this seemed different ... The girl on the front page was dead.”
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Valle's defense argued that while the NYPD officer had these fantasies, he never acted them out. “It’s pure fiction. It’s pretend. It’s scary make-believe," the defense lawyer said.
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