New York's 'cannibal Cop' Back in Spotlight at Appeals Court

The police officer, in lurid online conversations that would earn him the tabloid nickname "cannibal cop," said he had selected his kidnapping victim: Andria, a former college friend who lived in Ohio.
According to prosecutors, He asked one man online whether it would be "remotely possible to stick her in the oven while she is alive," and told another: "[o]verall she is the girl i would most want to eat."
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court in New York will consider whether that gruesome imagery was part of an actual criminal plot or simply the dark but harmless fantasies of an extreme fetishist.
A jury convicted New York City Police Officer Gilberto Valle in March 2013 of planning to kidnap, cook and eat several women.