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Raw Deal: The Untold Story Of NYPD's "Cannibal Cop" by Gil Valle

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4.0

"I imagine the scene. I picture her bound and gagged, I think of her tied onto a rotisserie screaming for her life as we turn her over a low fire.

Then I get off and go to bed. Maybe tomorrow we'll start another story.
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I have to give credit where it's due, the prologue really pulls you in. He was correct when saying he knew how to write, he was amazing at telling about his porn sites and the fetishes he has, whilst balancing that with his personal life and giving you an inside look at what everyone was like - as it was happening.

He may be able to write, but he's an asshole for writing the word victims with speech marks around it. If I found out someone was uploading my photos to a fetish site and having people describe what they wanted to do with me, cook me, rape me, torture me, make me a slave and so many more things then I would certainly be calling for this guy to be punished and everyone who made a comment, but the fact that he doesn't think they are victims of that is disgusting. I would have been horrified to discover what was going on, and he honestly deserved all the time he spent in prison for not thinking of those innocent women as victims.

A major debate over this case is if he deserved to be imprisoned, and at first, I thought no, no crime was being committed, but when I thought about him being charged with conspiracy to kidnap I changed my mind slightly. If I spent hours every week talking to people about how I was going to kidnapping someone (and what I was going to do with them once I kidnapped them), I would put that down to planning it. Sure I may never have acted on it, but that could easily have been a defence that would hopefully keep me out of prison. I could plan to steal from a shop, but if someone asked me if I was or not, I could say "Nope." and effectively, that is what was happening here. Despite wanting him to stay in prison, I found myself getting excited when his lawyers were finding all this evidence to prove that the prosecutors were lying. I was just caught up the happiness that was projecting through this book.
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