Officer: ‘I’m dying to taste girl meat’

Cheerful written exchanges between a police officer and women from his past appeared in a sinister new light when an FBI agent described at the officer’s criminal trial how he talked on the internet about killing and eating the women.

“I’m dying to taste some girl meat,” Gilberto Valle told one of the online friends he met who shared an appetite for human flesh, according to agent Corey Walsh’s testimony.

The testimony came on the second day of testimony in federal court in Manhattan for the 28-year-old Queens resident charged with conspiring to kidnap women and illegally accessing a government database to research potential victims. If convicted, he could face life in prison.

It came a day after his wife told jurors she fled their home in September with their one-year-old daughter after discovering that Valle spent hours a night on extreme sexually violent websites and one that catered to those interested in cannibalism and asphyxiation.

To prove the plots involved real women and to counter defence claims that it was all fantasy, the government summoned several women to testify about their dealings with Valle.

The women included a former school classmate, two former college classmates, one of whom was named as Kimberly Sauer, aged 29, and an 18-year-old who attended Valle’s high school alma mater and said she had no contact with him before he described her to one of his internet friends as “the most desirable piece of meat I’ve ever met” and small enough to fit in his oven.

Walsh said Valle’s computer had a file titled ‘Abducting and Cooking Kimberly: A Blueprint’, which included a photo of Sauer.

Sauer came up frequently as a subject in online chats between Valle and a man in Britain who used Moody Blues as a screen name and MeatMarketMan as part of his email address, the agent testified. In one correspondence, Valle suggests a woman named Kimberly would be easy prey because she lived alone.

The agent said Moody Blues suggested eating their victim alive but Valle responded: “I’m not really into raw meat.”

Walsh said they also discussed cooking Sauer, basted in olive oil, over an open fire, and using her severed head as a centrepiece for a sit-down meal.