I had a strange reaction to "Thought Crimes." I thought: This is the birth of a writer. Valle, "the Cannibal Cop," seemed unusually gifted. He would go on a site called Dark Fetish, and he would write at length about his fantasies concerning cannibalism. As he observes in the documentary, he was a vivid writer. Perhaps too vivid. Other users of Dark Fetish would get really, really excited about his work. Valle--like anyone in the grip of a new passion--began staying up later and later. He was flexing his muscles. You see some of his disquieting sentences in the documentary--and they are brisk and detailed and shocking. In other words, the man can WRITE. I began Googling Valle as I watched the documentary, and--sure enough--he has emerged from the Cannibal Cop mess as a new man. He is a published author. One memoir, one horror novel. Thus far. This is not to dismiss the wrongness of a great deal of Valle's behavior. He should not have been posting informati...