British Nurse Arrested in Connection to NYC Cannibal Cop
A male nurse has been arrested on suspicion of plotting to rape, kill and eat women by detectives hunting a “mentor” to a policeman who fantasised about torturing and cannibalizing female victims.
Dale Bolinger, who works at a hospital in Kent, was held at his home in Canterbury together with another man after a tip-off from police in the US investigating “cannibal cop” Gilberto Valle.
Mr Bolinger, a father-of-two whose wife is a prominent campaigner for the disabled, was questioned by police investigating Valle’s online contact with someone in Britain who claimed to have eaten two women in the past. A court in New York has been told that Valle’s British contact, who used the aliases MeatMarketMan and Moody Blues, urged him to eat his victims alive, saying: “I think of it as eating her to death.”
Moody Blues wrote: “The meat isn’t quite like pork, but very meaty…I’ve eaten a black woman and a white person.”
New York policeman Valle, 28, who met Moody Blues through an extreme sexual fetish website, said he was “dying to taste some girl meat”.
He claimed to have a recipe for “haggis” using human lungs and stomach, and said feet were “a favourite” delicacy.
Valle’s British contact communicated with him throughout last summer, when they discussed the best way to kill, cook and eat a woman.
Courtroom sketch of former police officer Gilberto Valle listening as his wife Kathleen Mangan testifies on the first day of his trial (Reuters)
Moody Blues talked about flying to New York to help Valle, saying he had anaesthetic gas which could be used to render the victim unconscious and a meat cleaver, though he was worried about being caught trying to enter the US with them.
During one chat Moody Blues made reference to the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, as he offered advice on who to kidnap and how to avoid detection.
He wrote: “They won’t be expecting it if we choose different girl types. The main reason the Yorkshire Ripper got caught is he stuck to the same type. Don’t follow the same pattern. Patterns is what they look for. Anyway, girls go missing all the time.”
Mr Bolinger, 57, and an unnamed 30-year-old man were arrested last week on suspicion of conspiracy offences, grooming and possessing images of child abuse. They are currently on police bail.
Following his arrest Mr Bolinger was suspended from his nursing job by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
Mr Bolinger, who photographed himself with a pet snake around his neck for his profile on the Facebook social networking site, qualified as a nurse in 1979 and is married to Rosemary Bolinger, who until last October was a trustee of the cerebral palsy charity Scope.
The couple have two children, Rick, 30, who lives near his father in Canterbury and works in performing arts, and Laura-Jane, 26, who acts as a carer for her mother.
Mrs Bolinger, 55, who separated from her husband last year, has campaigned for better access for the disabled since she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy 15 years ago, lobbying Gordon Brown when he was Prime Minister and appearing on Radio 4 and in newspapers to promote the cause.
Before the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games she and Mr Bolinger visited Weymouth, the site of the sailing events, and nearby resorts on the south coast to rate them for disability access on behalf of Scope.
Yesterday, at her home in Eastbourne, East Sussex, the former nurse said: “I don’t know anything about the arrest. We are separated. I haven’t seen him for over a year. He is my husband in law only.”
Her daughter Laura-Jane said: “I knew he had been arrested but not what for.”
Mr Bolinger answered the door at his rented end-terrace home in Canterbury but said “no thank you” and slammed the door when asked about his arrest.
A Kent Police spokesman said: "Two men aged 57 and 30 from the Canterbury area were arrested on Feb 21 for conspiracy offences,grooming and the possession of child abuse images. The two men are currently on police bail while inquiries continue. The Kent Police have been in touch with law enforcement authorities in the United States in relation to this investigation."
Valle, who discussed killing his wife and other female acquaintances, did not kidnap or injure any women, and he claims he was only fantasising on the internet and had no intention of going ahead with the things he was discussing.
He denies charges of conspiracy to kidnap and improper use of a federal database system, after he allegedly used a police computer to research potential “victims”.
He was arrested after his wife Kathleen discovered material on his computer and handed it over to the FBI last year.
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