Ex-Chicago Police Officer On Trial For Building Torture Chamber to Extort and Murder (Graphic)

[kcchiefs6465]

Inside the grisly 'torture chamber where crooked cops plotted to extort lavish properties from businessman by mutilating his genitals'

WARNING: GRAPHIC DETAILS

An FBI surveillance video shows ex-Chicago police officer, Steven Mandell, 62, inside the room authorities claim he built to torture Steve Campbell

The tape was shown to jurors in Mandell's trial Thursday

The chamber is complete with heavy tables where the torture and dismemberment would be carried out, prosecutors say, and an industrial steel sink to clean up afterwards

Mandell's co-conspirator, Gary Engel, hanged himself in 2012

A sinister video has been released showing the first glimpse inside a torture chamber where two ex-Chicago police officers allegedly planned to mutilate the manhood of a wealthy businessman to get their hands on his properties.

The FBI surveillance video shows Steven Mandell, 62, inside the room authorities claim he and co-conspirator, Gary Engel, purpose built to slice in half the penis of businessman Steve Campbell in a gruesome extortion plot before killing him and cutting up his body.

The chamber seen in the tape, one of a number shown to jurors in Mandell's trial this week, is complete with heavy tables where the torture and dismemberment would be carried out, authorities say, and an industrial steel sink to clean up afterwards.

The door was misleadingly marked with the sign 'Christian Consulting' and Mandell jokingly referred to the chamber as 'Club Med,' according to NBC News.

The footage was filmed by a wired-up real estate agent called George Michael, who is the state's star witness in the case.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Mandell laughed in other videos shown in the courtroom when he described how victims often come unglued before their deaths. [I wonder what missing people can be attributed to this man-KC] He also mimed a blindfolded prisoner, then drew a hand across this throat to signify a killing.

Both men were cops who lost their jobs in the 1980s after they were accused of a similar extortion plot. Days after their arrests in 2012, Engel was found hanged by a bed sheet in his prison cell.

The duo intended to pose as police officers and, using a fake arrest document, kidnap the man and take him to a custom-built murder chamber to torture him, according to conversations secretly recorded by a witness co-operating with police.

They planned to take the man to an office with a giant sink to drain his blood and torture him until he gave them money and millions of dollars worth of real estate, according to the criminal complaint.

'My guy knows what he's doing, he knows how to waterboard, do interrogation, psy-ops,' Mandell allegedly said of Engel.

Both men had previously been convicted - and cleared - of a similarly gruesome plot in Missouri in 1984; they allegedly intended to kidnap a Kansas City nightclub owner and extort money from him.

Engel was sentenced to 90 years in prison in 1991, while Mandell was sentenced to death in a separate murder case - making him the first police officer ever to go on death row.

But both men were eventually cleared and released after arguing that evidence had been improperly withheld at the trial. Engel was freed in 2010.

In this recent case, both men were charged with attempted extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion.

Mandell was a Chicago police officer for 10 years until 1983 while Engel worked in Willow Springs. [And again, I wonder how many people disappeared with these psychopaths as officers- KC]

Engel was found hanged in his cell by a bed sheet the day before he was due to be arraigned in federal court in Chicago.

Much more at the link. Apparently the two had some sick plan of slicing the man's penis in half. It's pretty graphic and sickening stuff.

Pictures of the torture chamber and FBI video evidence at link.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...teven-Mandell-plotted-extort-businessman.html

 

[aGameOfThrones]

We(non-apologists) told you cops are psychopaths preferred employment.

 

[Origanalist]

CHICAGO JURY CONVICTS EX-COP FOR PLOT TO KIDNAP, TORTURE, MURDER
A former Willow Springs, Illinois police officer claimed he was only joking after building a torture chamber and telling a witness he planned to kidnap, torture, and kill a man. Nonetheless, a Chicago jury convicted him for the plot.

The convicted man, Steven Mandell, 63, has had a long, strange trip through the legal system. Nine years ago, he was convicted of murder and placed on death row but was later freed after a judge found that prosecutors mishandled his case. This time, he won't be so lucky.

Mandell was convicted of plotting to kidnap, torture, and murder a Chicago nightclub owner. Mandell's nefarious plot was an attempt to seize control of the nightclub owner's business.
Jurors were treated to a mountain of evidence gathered by the FBI. The most damning was a number of audiotapes of Mandell detailing his plans for businessman Anthony Quaranta and his wife.

The jury heard Mandell on dozens of audiotapes explaining how he intended to "drain" his victim's blood and dismember him. In rebuttal, the defendant's lawyers claimed that he was "just talking" and "no way in the world" would he actually carry out the horrible things he talked about doing.

But that wasn't the only revealing evidence presented to the jury. Mandell also actually built a torture chamber stocked with tools to carry out his plans.

Jurors found out that Mandell called the chamber "Club Med" and learned it was equipped with an industrial sink, a butcher's table, various power saws, and other equipment needed to dismember a body.
In his closing remarks, Assistant U.S. Attorney Amar Bhachu asked the jury to consider why Mandell would have gone to the expense of building the torture chamber if he was really only trying to pull off a hoax.

It took the jury only 4 1/2 hours to convict Mandell of the horrendous plot. He is expected to be sentenced to life in prison by U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve.
This will be the second time the FBI has put Mandell behind bars. In 1993, when he was known as Steve Manning, Mandell was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of trucking firm owner Jimmy Pellegrino. Mandell was freed on appeal after a judge ruled that prosecutors mishandled his case.

Mandell also convinced a jury and judge in 1984 after he was arrested for kidnapping that he was framed by the FBI and was even awarded a $6.5 million settlement. The settlement was never paid, though, after another judge ruled that "significant" evidence existed that Mandell was actually guilty of the crimes with which he was charged.

After his February 21 conviction, the head of the FBI's Chicago office said that Mandell's conviction "made a community safer."

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...-Cop-Guilty-of-Kidnap-Torture-and-Murder-Plot

 

[Origanalist]

Dup post.

 

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[Danke]

Precrime works.