HBO Documentary "Thought Crimes" debuts Monday May 11, 9pm on HBO.
Mandy Stadtmiller, Jim Polk guest. "Thought Crimes" director Erin Carr was interviewed for this SPECIAL.
Gilberto Valle aka "Cannibal Cop" was an NYPD police officer.
He was arrested and charged with conspiracy to kidnap, rape, murder, cook and eat his wife and a number of other women.
The FBI had emails and chats with his conspirators, pictures and details of the plots, all obtained from his laptop.
He was convicted, and was looking at the possiblity of a life sentence.
But his sentence was overturned because a judge finally realized that everyone was completely hysterical. These were thought crimes.
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