NYPD officer accused of attempted kidnapping, threatening to eat women

NEW YORK -- An NYPD officer is accused of threatening to kidnap, cook and eat women in a bizarre plot where he fantasized about how "tasty" one victim looked and said it would be easy to roast a person in his oven, officials said Thursday.

Gilberto Valle, 28, of Queens, was charged with two counts of attempted kidnapping in the shocking case that includes online transcripts of his alleged plans, at one point telling a co-conspirator that his oven is "big enough to fit one of these girls if I folded their legs."

"I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus ... cook her over a low heat, keep her alive as long as possible," he is accused of saying in the July conversation.

"She does look tasty, doesn't she," he added, according to the complaint.

According to the criminal complaint, Valle had files on his computer that referred to at least 100 women, including photographs, addresses and physical descriptions.

Ten of those women have been interviewed by the FBI and confirmed that they know Valle, the complaint said.

Valle had been assigned to the 26th Precinct in Manhattan before his suspension on Wednesday.

He was expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan in court later Thursday. Lawyer information was not immediately available.

NBC New York