Valle

We’re betting this is one Terp that won’t make the alumni magazine or make the university’s list of notable alumni.

The Washington Times reports that Gilberto Valle III, the New York City police officer arrested yesterday for allegedly plotting to kill, cook and eat women, has some close ties to the region—he graduated from the University of Maryland in College Park in 2006 with a degree in psychology:

University officials confirmed that Officer Valle graduated from Maryland in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and criminology and criminal justice.

According one of Valle’s former classmates quoted by New York Metro, the cop seemed off even when he was a student:

28-year-old Janel Quarless graduated with Valle from the University of Maryland in 2006. The two were in the same resident advising class. Quarless told Metro she remembered Valle sometimes making misogynistic jokes and “playing up the stereotype about the angry New Yorker.”

“I’m floored, but somewhat unsurprised,” Quarless said. “He just came off kind of hostile, but in a joking way. In retrospect, I can see how it was a mask for deeper issues.”

Quarless said she had an eerie sense it was Valle when she first heard the news about the arrest of an NYPD who graduated from UMD.

“I started shaking, more so because, at one point, I was acquainted with a future psychopath,” she said. “I can’t say that I’m shocked.”

Beyond his alma mater, a police complaint says that one of the women he planned on killing and eating was from Maryland; they had met over the summer.