( CNN ) -- New York police officer Gilberto Valle conspired to kidnap women , who prosecutors argued he planned to rape , torture , cook and eat , a federal jury decided Tuesday . Valle 's lawyers argued the former police officer 's e-mails and online postings were just `` fantasy role-play '' and '' dark improv theater , '' but prosecutors said he was `` deadly serious . '' Valle , 28 , faces life in prison for the kidnap conspiracy conviction . He was also found guilty of illegally accessing a federal law enforcement database . The database , which Valle was trained to use and had access to as a cop , helped him research potential victims , prosecutors said . No one was ever kidnapped or eaten , but the jury did see what prosecutors said were detailed plans to carry out Valle 's plot . Graphic photos , how-to-kidnap searches found on cop 's computer . A document found on his wife 's laptop was titled `` Abducting and Cooking Kimberly -- A Blueprint . '' It included a photograph of Kimberly Sauer and personal information , including her bra size and shoe size . Sauer 's testimony revealed that some of the information -- a different last name , birthplace , birth date and college education -- was inaccurate . The same document listed `` materials needed , '' which included a gag , rope , chloroform and a tarp for the trunk . The FBI never found any of these items in Valle 's possession . References to the blueprint were found in chats the FBI deemed `` fantasy role-play , '' along with references to waterboarding and chloroform , terms frequently used in the online conversations . Valle , a six year NYPD veteran , planned to kidnap three women during the week of February 20 , 2012 , prosecutors said , pointing to some of the e-mails and chats . He communicated online with three co-conspirators , including a man identified as `` Moody Blues '' or `` Chris Collins '' or `` meatmarketman , '' who Valle met on the Dark Fetish Network , prosecutors said . `` Meatmarketman , '' who lives in the United Kingdom , bragged in one conversation about one of his past victims , sending Valle a picture , and saying he `` tried her alive first , actually it was n't very good , very bloody . '' Graphic e-mails read at trial . Court records show that Valle got the addresses of his alleged targets by sending them a police charity card that he claimed would `` get ( them ) out of a minor traffic violation '' if they are pulled over by police . The police charity card was a ruse , prosecutor Randall Jackson argued . Defense attorney Julia Gatto argued Valle 's conduct was `` pure fiction '' and `` make believe . '' Gatto tried to show that Valle provided false information about the alleged targets ' locations to some people he chatted with online . In one instance , Valle said the woman was at a college four hours away , even though she attended school in New York . In other instances , he said he was watching an alleged target , when she really lived in Ohio . Records indicate Valle never went to Ohio . Gatto told the jury that it was a part of `` crude , stupid , infantile , masturbatory storytelling . '' `` I have a world in my mind , '' Valle wrote in an e-mail to one fantasy role-play partner . `` In that world I 'm kidnapping women and selling them to people interested in buying them , '' she read aloud from Valle 's e-mail conversation . In one online chat , Valle said he was working on a story that featured `` a restaurant that sells women in all varieties , sometimes grilled or roasted as whole , sometimes in steaks or pieces , sometimes a la carte , or in a buffet . '' `` His porn consists of dead bodies , '' Assistant U.S Attorney Randall Jackson told jurors . `` That is not normal . '' Valle will be sentenced June 19 by U.S. District Court Judge Paul Gardephe . CNN 's Mark Norman contributed to this report .
Gilberto Valle faces life in prison for the alleged conspiracy . No one was ever kidnapped or eaten . Valle 's lawyers argued his e - mail and online postings were just ` ` fantasy role - play '' Prosecutors claimed Valle 's plans were ` ` deadly serious ''