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In a stunning reversal, infamous Cannibal Cop Gilberto Valle will likely have his conviction for a bizarre kidnapping conspiracy scheme overturned on Tuesday after a judge decided to revoke the guilty verdict in the flesh-eating fetish plot, a source said. The disgraced NYPD veteran, who was convicted of hatching a “heinous” plan to cook, kill, and eat several women — including his own wife — was facing life in prison for the crime. But Valle will likely have the major charge of conspiracy overturned and the sentence vacated with only a misdemeanor charge of using police computers to track down...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — An official says a would-be cannibal who was wounded during an undercover police operation has died in a hospital. Jaroslava Oravcova, spokeswoman for a university clinic in the eastern city of Kosice said the 43-year-old father of two died on Thursday.

A SELF-confessed German cannibal needed an intensive "kick" to stimulate his emotions and found it in eating human flesh, a psychiatrist testified Monday at his trial for murder. The expert, Heinrich Wilmer, told the court Armin Meiwes had a personality disorder, probably influenced by his father abandoning his family when he was still young, but was otherwise physically and mentally sound. Nevertheless, he was immature and showed little feeling for others, and his reaction to his murder trial and the intense media coverage was "like a child excited by Father Christmas," Wilmer said. The psychiatrist said Meiwes was an emotionless...