New York ( CNN ) -- The fate of a New York City police officer accused of engaging in a plot to kidnap women and cannibalize them now lies in the hands of the jury . Jurors began deliberations to determine whether e-mail conversations Gilberto Valle had with alleged co-conspirators about plans to kidnap , torture , rape , cook and eat women were real or fantasy role-play . Valle , who was suspended without pay after his arrest in October , is charged in U.S. District Court with conspiracy to kidnap and accessing a law enforcement database illegally . None of Valle 's alleged targets was ever victimized . Valle faces life in prison if convicted of conspiracy . Trial : Graphic photos , how-to-kidnap searches found on computer used by cop . In closing arguments , Assistant U.S. Attorney Hadassa Waxman argued that the evidence shown in court proved that Valle had entered into an agreement with his co-conspirators to kidnap the alleged targets through e-mail conversations . Waxman argued that Valle conducted surveillance and handed out police charity cards in furtherance of his plan to kidnap the targets . Waxman argued that Valle expressed `` real , practical concern '' for getting caught during his conversations and was methodical and strategic in his online research of how to carry out kidnappings . She said Valle 's research of mass murderers and kidnappers were proof that he was trying to be careful about his alleged plan . Waxman urged the jury to use `` common sense '' and look at the `` big picture '' during deliberation . Cop 's defense : Cannibalism chats were fantasy . Defense attorney Julia Gatto began her closing statements by repeating `` I have a world in my mind , '' Valle 's words to another fantasy role-play partner extracted from e-mail conversations revealed in court . `` 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 . She said Valle had engaged in `` dark improv theater '' and said he fantasized about real people to heighten the experience . Gatto told the jury that it was a part of `` crude , stupid , infantile , masturbatory storytelling . '' Gatto said the government 's case was `` riddled with reasonable doubt . '' She noted that testimony in court revealed the FBI did not find the chloroform , rope , or a human-size oven that Valle alleged he had . `` This case is about storytelling , and the government has told a story too , '' Gatto said in court . Graphic e-mails read at New York cannibalism plot trial . Assistant U.S Attorney Randall Jackson said in his rebuttal that evidence proved that `` this was not someone just having fun . '' He banged his fist on the table , telling the jury that government evidence revealed `` things you would expect to see in a plot to actively victimize someone . '' `` His porn consists of dead bodies , '' Jackson said . `` That is not normal . '' In his instructions , Judge Paul Gardephe advised jurors not to convict based solely on the defendant 's thoughts alone , or the nature of the content on the Dark Fetish Network reviewed in court . The jury will resume its deliberations Friday morning . Prosecutors : NYPD officer was 'deadly serious ' about cannibalism scheme . CNN 's Raelyn Johnson and Sunny Hostin contributed to this report .
Jurors get case of Gilberto Valle , charged with conspiracy to kidnap in cannibalism plot . The New York City officer 's e-mails outlined real plans , government contends . Comment: