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Baitball Blogger

(46,735 posts)
Mon Feb 25, 2013, 04:28 PM Feb 2013

Thousands of people indulge in a fantasy fetish of eating people?

Wife testifies in NYC cannibal-plot case

The estranged wife of a police officer accused of plotting to kidnap, kill and eat women has told a New York City jury that she went to the FBI after finding disturbing material on his computer.

Kathleen Mangan wept while on the stand Monday. She is the first government witness at the federal kidnapping conspiracy trial of Officer Gilberto Valle.

Prosecutors have accused the 28-year-old Valle of plotting to abduct, torture and eat dozens of women, including his wife. He claims he was only indulging in a fantasy shared online by thousands of others visitors to Internet fetish sites.

Valle wiped his brow and put his head in his hands as he listened to his wife' testimony.

http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20130225/b272bc22-071d-44be-bbbd-97f5f619a2d0

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Thousands of people indulge in a fantasy fetish of eating people? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 OP
Otherwise known as "communion" jberryhill Feb 2013 #1
Beat me to it temporary311 Feb 2013 #2
. backtoblue Feb 2013 #3
Faith +1 Initech Feb 2013 #13
What the Dpm12 Feb 2013 #4
"Still no sign of land!" longship Feb 2013 #5
Is this how the zombie apocalypse starts? Initech Feb 2013 #6
Cannibalism: it's not just for the undead anymore! nt Javaman Feb 2013 #9
I believe he's somewhat confused by sexual slang . . . Journeyman Feb 2013 #7
well we have 300 million people dsc Feb 2013 #8
Message auto-removed telwhat Feb 2013 #10
mainly because half the people I was with believed it until I explained the situation to them uppityperson Feb 2013 #12
Sex/food, food/sex...it's not hard to see the correlation Taverner Feb 2013 #11
This'll show up on Law & Order: SVU some day soon. Hekate Feb 2013 #14
Reminds me of the comment Chris Hardwick made last night after The Walking Dead Duer 157099 Feb 2013 #15
I Could Go For Some Soylent Green Right About Now AnnieBW Feb 2013 #16

dsc

(52,162 posts)
8. well we have 300 million people
Mon Feb 25, 2013, 05:29 PM
Feb 2013

if you define thousands as 3000, that would be one out of 100,000 people or .001 percent.

Response to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
14. This'll show up on Law & Order: SVU some day soon.
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 12:26 AM
Feb 2013

I have to say it gave me a shuddery chill. If he were my husband I would have left town with the kids without leaving a forwarding address, as well as calling the FBI.

Duer 157099

(17,742 posts)
15. Reminds me of the comment Chris Hardwick made last night after The Walking Dead
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 12:38 AM
Feb 2013

Says, regarding whether Carl would be a good leader or not: "Man, I would totally follow someone who killed his own mom!"

Followed quickly by: "I'm sorry mom, that didn't come out right."

AnnieBW

(10,429 posts)
16. I Could Go For Some Soylent Green Right About Now
Tue Feb 26, 2013, 12:43 AM
Feb 2013

Soylent Green... it's the other white/black/yellow/red/brown meat!

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