One of the things that never changes from serial killer to serial killer is that they all work in the same patterns. Over the course of 5 days, she spent hours sketching every detail of every horrible thing she found in there. It was immediately apparent that she was in trouble. They spent their time wrecking highly organized and unsettling havoc, sacrificing pets of neighbors, delivering messages with occultist satanic symbols to people they didnt like, and all sorts of mischief considered by police at the time to be criminal acts. Before she could connect, Cindy burst into the room and they fought ferociously, Cynthia knowing full well that her life was at stake. And Marie Parker, ex-girlfriend of Ray's accomplice Dennis Roy Yancy, was also last seen at the Saloon. And if any of the women he was holding captive managed to escape, all of that land meant that there was nowhere to go. 3 days later, David Ray drove her home to her in-laws, telling them he found her wandering the beach in a disoriented state. She grew up tall, slim, and a blond tomboy the spitting image of the dad she adored. Then Ray would drug them with barbiturates in an attempt to erase their memories of what had happened before abandoning them by the side of the road.[3][4][5]. She also later called police about the incident, but there had been no follow-up. David Ray's daughter, Glenda Jean Ray, who went by the nickname Jesse, was the spitting image of her father, who she adored. I think only the kidnapping charge stuck though. ), [DISCLAIMER] This post is a formatted version of the script in the documentary. She was picked up by an off-duty law enforcement officer and told him what happened, but he did not believe her and left her at a bus stop. Thank you all so much for the kind words in the past and I hope you "enjoy"(probably not the best word) reading through this and watching the documentary I put together! One of Jesses best friends told reporters years later: This is like the last time Jesse tried to break away, to say to her dad, [she saw this behavior and said] No, this is wrong. She reported him, and then what happens? In exchange for her immediate release, he would plead guilty to all the charges against him for kidnapping and torturing Cynthia and Kelli. His taste for violence and bondage was early, and never left him. Screaming in terror, she ran down the street for her life, leaving the injured Cindy behind. More charges were added to Ray's, now totaling 37 counts. One of Ray's few living victims, Kelli Van Cleave, testified that Ray's daughter Jesse drugged her while she was drinking at the Saloon. Through investigations at the time, the best lead that police got were continuous references to someone described as an older man named David who had recently moved to Elephant Butte a few years prior, but were never able to definitively confirm who this David was. Bond set at $1M, faced up to 150 years if convicted on all charges. My experience with the enthusiasm this sub shows for the research I've done into other cases has really been so amazing for me, and it's the reason I keep coming back and sharing more with you. As disturbed as they were about this behavior from Sally which they considered out-of-character after having gotten to know her, they had no reason to disbelieve David, and Sally was soon forgotten. Its believed that after this experience with the FBI, Jesse began to fully embrace who her father was, and he kept no secrets from her. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. 3 years after the birth of their daughter, David grew bored and left his family to join the hippie revolution in 1969. Full transcripts of the tape exist, but no audio has ever made it onto the web, either because the tapes were destroyed, lost, or simply too horrible to listen to. On April 26, Glenda Jean "Jesse" Ray was arrested and charged with kidnapping women for sexual torture. Most of the evidence of his high body count comes from a diary that Ray kept that detailed what he did to each victim, but it doesn't say where he buried their bodies. Finding shattered glass, blood, and endless amounts of pully systems and chains, they called for backup. [Laughs] Youre gonna be drugged up real heavy with a combination of sodium pentothal and phenobarbital. David found an equal in Cindy or at least someone impressionable enough, and wild enough to mold into the kind of companion he desired most. None would be identifiable. Her husband did not believe that she could not remember where she had been and Garrett said she did not know what to tell police and so did not contact them. Imagine waking up groggy and not being able to move. They shacked up with the owner of a truck stop and his girlfriend. I hadn't heard much about DPR before this and for the life of me, I don't understand why he's not the most well-known serial killer of all time. Growing up, she was exposed at a very young age to her fathers masochistic lifestyle, who did little to hide his deviancy from her. On May 28, 2002, Ray was taken to the Lea County Correctional Facility, in Hobbs, New Mexico, to be questioned by state police. As the trials went on for the kidnapping and torture of Kelli Van Cleave and Cynthia Vigil Jaramillo, with several dramatic moments themselves, David continued to proclaim his innocence. After reading the continuing coverage, the mother-in-law of a woman, married only a few days to her son, came forward to tell the police about how the girl had gone missing for three days. Dont ever scream. The impressionable Roy Yancy was fresh out of the Navy in 1995. Nothing ever happens in Elephant Butte. Misbehavior of any kind was met with violent beatings. And most horrifying of all, an actual medical-grade gynecological chair modified to restrain victims and position limbs as he saw fit, positioned in the center of the toy box like a throne of pain. With no idea where she was, she only that she had to get away. Please read that one before continuing here! After we get completely through with you, youre gonna be drugged up real heavy, with a combination of sodium pentothal and phenobarbital. Patty was asked to go back inside and create detailed sketches of everything she found within to hand over to the Evidence Response Team. Its the kind of town so small and quiet, its not uncommon for people to leave their homes unlocked. He made a tape recording of himself telling one woman that the drugs were "sodium pentothal and phenobarbital [sic]". He died of a heart . Police believed at the time that he was guilty of as many as 30 murders over the course of his life. She never expressed any remorse for her crimes, only self-pity for the situation she found herself in suffering for her crimes, blaming David for sucking her into his stupid bondage fantasies. Although she had numerous infractions while in prison, including possession of contraband and drugs, she walked out of prison on July 15, 2019 and is now a free woman with no supervision by the state. As hard as it might be to believe, David Parker Ray didn't work alone. While there were a couple of women who managed to make it out of Ray's torture chamber alive, one actually believed that her memories of Ray's sexual abuse were no more than bad dreams until she was contacted by the FBI. He was raised by his grandparents after his violent, severely alcoholic, and abusive father Cecil left the family and moved to Albuquerque. Police searched the lake, his property, everywhere. Scan this QR code to download the app now, Cindy vehemently claimed no wrong doing either. In a strange three-way relationship dynamic, Cindy soon began dating both Jesse and Roy, occasionally using David Parker Rays trailer as a sort of love nest. Except Cindy was not going to be a victim of it. She had no idea if it was safe, only knowing that the alternative was far worse. He and his mother laid into her viciously, telling her how irresponsible she was for leaving for 3 days and not telling anyone. Ray reportedly treated his victims like dogs, forcing them to eat on the floor while bound with a leash. She was haunted by nightmares of being tortured and suspended in mid-air. They had a daughter named Glenda Jean Ray the following year, whose importance to this story cannot be overstated, and youll hear more about her later. [2], Ray was divorced four times and had two children, including his accomplice, daughter Jesse Ray (born Glenda Jean Ray). Jesse Ray was 32 in 1999 when law enforcement arrested her and her father. David Parker Ray only had one child from an early marriage, but boy was she a doozy! [2], Ray used soundproofing methods on a semi-trailer, which he called his "toy box", and equipped it with items used for sexual torture. Its too long to paste in its entirety here, but you heard a part of the original audio of that tape at the beginning and Ill leave a link to a pastebin post with the full transcript of what each of his victims heard before their nightmare began. At Jesse Ray's arraignment, her lawyer, Billy Blackburn, entered a "not guilty" plea. The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2019), pp. He spent most of the 80s getting deeper and deeper into the bondage community, becoming exposed to habits and deviancy, and networked contacts that fueled his unbridled thirst for violence and torture. Just before midnight that night, she took out a revolver, held it against her head, and ended her own life. David started the video recorder and Roy approached Marie with the rope. Homeless, she pitched a tent on the shores of Elephant Butte Lake, and dropped her children off with a friend. ago She pled no contest and received a 30-month sentence with an additional five years to be served on probation. She rarely saw her father who was constantly traveling, working odd mechanical jobs. A week? Ray also put his victims in wooden contraptions that bent them over and immobilized them while he had his dogs and sometimes other friends rape them. [16][20][26][27] In 2010, Yancy was paroled after serving 11 years in prison, but the release was delayed by difficulties in negotiating a plan for residence. They stayed for an entire year, waiting for the disappearance of Marie Parker to blow over. Jeffrey Dahmer picked up his victims at a specific gay bar in the twin cities, John Wayne Gacy picked up teens at the bus stop, and David Parker Ray picked up women at the Blue Waters Saloon, a dive bar that catered to drifters and the few locals that lived in Elephant Butte. At the end of the 3 days, Jesse and her father told Roy they were done with her and that it was time for her to go. They then brought Roy inside the toy box. Slowly, he started letting her in closer and closer, revealing more about himself, testing the waters of what she was capable of handling. An unidentified girl whose photo was released in 2011, found on a fake ID Ray had created with her image, Daughter Glenda Jean Jesse Ray, brought David Kelli Van Cleave, plead no contest to kidnapping. He was a boogey man walking the earth, who used women as his own personal sex toys - but he also had friends who knew exactly what he was doing in his toy box, a 15-by-25-foot room devoted specifically to sexual torture. As she entered the back of the camper, Ray produced a badge telling her that they were law enforcement. David Parker Ray, also known as the Toy Box Killer, kidnapped, raped, and tortured dozens of women from approximately the mid-'80s to 1999, when New Mexico law enforcement finally captured him after his final victim managed to escape and run down the highway in nothing but a dog collar. That's the opening of David Parker Ray's monologue to his new victims, where he would explain who he was, that he was playing a "torture game," and that the victims were about to be brutally raped and tortured for the foreseeable future. Cynthia begged and pleaded with them to keep her safe. After enhancing the video as best they could, they released an image of the tattoo. [28] She was released on July 15, 2019, after serving the two years of her parole in prison. [1]:13 The plea deal was to obtain leniency for his daughter. sprained wrist still hurts after a year; big mouth coach steve voice; ocie record explained; An unidentified woman presumably named Linda, whose named wrist band was found among David Parker Rays trophies that he kept from his victims. [20], While awaiting trial, Ray spoke to FBI profilers and said that he was fascinated by the kidnapping of Colleen Stan and other sexually motivated kidnappings. On April 26, Glenda Jean "Jesse" Ray was arrested and charged with kidnapping women for sexual torture. [29], On May 28, 2002, Ray was taken to the Lea County Correctional Facility, in Hobbs, New Mexico, to be questioned by state police. Youre gonna be kept drugged a couple of days, while I play with your mind. I hope Ive earned a subscription and a recommendation to your friends. She left prison immediately, victorious and defiant. 3 years later, she was living in Colorado and remarried, but still suffering from the ordeal. I was absolutely gobsmacked how little of what I thought were the most insane parts of this case seemed to be known. Yancy later pled guilty to Parkers murder. Inside Rays toy box trailer, investigators recovered audio tapes Ray had recorded, some of which he intended specifically for his victims. When they asked David where Sally was, he shrugged, saying that she was a free spirit and had decided to leave. She deserves it! After the police rescued her after she was hiding in the trailer previously mentioned, the officers received notice of a 911-hangup call only blocks away. According to FBI agent Doug Beldon, "She alleged that David Parker Ray was abducting and torturing women and selling them to buyers in Mexico." The preliminary hearing and eventual trials of David Parker Ray, Jesse Ray, Roy Yancy, and Cindy Hendy were every bit as intricate, complex, twisted, and dramatic as the case itself, and probably deserves its own video on its own. The videotape was never found and its been hypothesized that David sold the tape as a snuff film like he had done many other times. Receiving no answer, they allowed themselves in with probable cause of trouble. The first trial, for crimes against Kelli Garrett, resulted in a mistrial after two jurors said they found her story unbelievable. She rarely saw her father who was constantly traveling, working odd mechanical jobs. They could never locate a single body, despite having mountains of evidence that he had committed countless murders. Killer (s): David Parker Ray,Dennis Roy Yancy,Cindy Hendy,Glenda Jean "Jesse" Ray, Victim (s): Marie Parker,Cynthia Vigil (survived),Kelly Garrett (survived),Angelica Montano (survived),unknown amount of women murdered, Written by: Jewls Krueger About This Location: Lovely facts, Thank you. She had come back disheveled and unable to explain herself. She was given 5 years probation and is today a free woman. However, she only had fragmented memories of what had happened. Except one. He even alleged to his first wife that it was around this age when he kidnapped a woman, tied her to a tree, and tortured and murdered her. Although she was still chained and locked firmly in place, the keys to her restraints were carelessly left just out of reach. At Jesse Ray's arraignment, her lawyer, Billy Blackburn, entered a "not guilty" plea. Shy and reserved, and hardly opened up to anyone. Leaving him behind without someone to satisfy his deviant carnal desires was unacceptable to him. During that time, police organized a massive search and rescue operation in an effort to find Marie. She was then taken out and dropped off near her in-laws' home, disoriented. Other than the late David Parker Ray himself, all of them walk free among us today. Roy had since begun a relationship with a man named David Riviera, and Cindy did her best to become a dutiful housewife figure for David Ray, fixing him lavish meals, cleaning his house, and doing everything she could to get his affection towards her, trying to fight off the competition of another woman fighting for David Rays affection at the same time. Drawings and figurines of women in various methods of torture. You get up, you go to work, you see the same people, see the same places, day after day. And the zero visibility and algae in the water meant that no one would ever find what the catfish didnt take care of themselves. Glenda Jean Ray, the daughter of a New Mexico man charged with kidnapping women for sexual torture, was arrested for allegedly helping her father . Everywhere David went he was exposed to violence and bullying. A friend of Davids would later describe his terror of his friend Davids grandfather, saying, His grandfather was very very strict. She was given 5 years probation and is today a free woman. You will be raped thoroughly and repeatedly in every hole youve got. Hooked up to the head and mid-section were electrodes that he attached to a generator used to electrocute various parts of their bodies, along with cattle prods and tasers. She ran down the road seeking help, which she got from a nearby homeowner who took her in, comforted her, and called the police. Its unclear if satanism was strongly held beliefs, or simply theatrics to compliment the copious amount of bondage and sadomasochism that she and her father practiced. Released on parole in 2011, active on social media. David Parker Ray: The Toy Box Killer [PART 1] - My almost 2-month research into his crimes and the missing / unknown victims. With a rap sheet dating all the way back to 1979 with felonies such as larceny, forgery, drugs, and fraud, she wasnt about to go back to prison after trying to sell cocaine to an undercover cop. A year earlier, a woman named Jill Troia disappeared and hadnt been seen since after a bitter argument with Jesse Ray, David Rays daughter. I read Jesse Ray gave birth to a daughter by the name of Kayla. Glenda Jean "Jesse" Ray (daughter) - pled no contest; sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison, 5 years of probation Dennis Yancy - pled guilty; sentenced to 20 years in prison, paroled once, then violated parole and has to finish his sentence INMATE INFORMATION Last Name: HENDY First Name: CYNTHIA Middle Name: L NMCD#: 51679 Offender#: 27252 Ray's accomplices included his own daughter, Glenda "Jesse" Ray, and his friend, Dennis Roy Yancy. One of Ray's most horrific forms of torture proves that he was so far beyond having basic humanity, he may have never been a normal human being. Helicopters circling overhead all day. He received two 15 year sentences, and was released in 2010 after serving only . The police located her and she was identified as the woman in the videotape who was being tortured and assaulted, seemingly against her will. Albuquerque police have long believed Ray and his daughter were connected to Troia's. If his grandfather wanted David to do something, hed jump. The FBI had spoken to Ray as early as 1989 in connection with his business manufacturing and selling bondage-related sexual devices. It's believed that Jesse dosed Garrett's beer with a tranquilizer, according to All That's Interesting. His victim was abducted from the road, a bar, or by luring a prostitute into his shabby RV. I know this was a long one haha! He would kidnap between five and six women a year, holding each of them captive for around three to four months. Incredibly, hes even active on social media.Cindy Hendy served only half her sentence. Despite years of work covering the worst crimes imaginable, they were still unprepared for what they saw on the screen before them. Cindy Hendy, an accomplice who testified against Ray, received a sentence . Three months after his release in 2011, Yancy was charged with violating his parole. She eagerly absorbed every word, and he gave her an 18-point list he had produced through years of practice at his dark craft. Cynthia reached out and grabbed ahold of a nearby ice pick and ferociously stabbed Cindy in the skull leaving a giant gash. Investigators soon located Yancy, 27, and brought him in . She never admitted to the murders she herself committed or was an accessory to.David Parker Ray proclaimed his innocence vehemently, telling investigators that not only was Cynthia Vigil a willing participant in a bondage session, but so was every other woman who ever entered his toy box, despite mountains of incriminating footage they had where the women showed no signs of consent. She was later interviewed on Cold Case Files about her ordeal. The idea of anything out of the ordinary or newsworthy happening in this town is pretty much inconceivable. [FULL VIDEO] David Parker Ray: The Toy Box Killer (Documentary) [49:27], Cynthia begged and pleaded with them to keep her safe, she collapsed on their floor and fell unconscious, only a 2 hour drive south from his new lair in Elephant Butte, Glenda Jean Ray, who went by the nickname Jesse, was the spitting image of her father, X-Ray image of the Toy Box and its contents, an actual medical-grade gynecological chair, electrocute various parts of their bodies, along with cattle prods and tasers, one of the most important witnesses who helped convict David Ray. Rather than stay home, she went out, playing pool at a local bar with her friend Glenda Jean "Jesse" Ray. David had a reputation of being a kind and gentle person, who was kind to animals and routinely found injured animals to nurse back to health -- a stark contrast to the darkness he secretly hid all his life. She pled no contest and received a 30-month sentence. It's believed that Jesse dosed Garrett's beer with a tranquilizer, according to All That's Interesting. In September 2001, facing 12 counts of kidnapping, criminal penetration, and conspiracy to kidnap, Glenda Jean Jesse Ray walked out of prison with time served. Days later, after suffering unspeakable amounts of pain, terror, and abject humiliation at the hands of Ray and Hendy, Cynthia lay inside the house chained to the bed. he played for his victims, he continued to proclaim that it was created for entertainment purposes. one of them vomited on the ground as soon as they got outside. Then he would play the tape. cryptkeeper89 8 mo. Reportedly, she tried to warn the FBI about what he was up to back in 1986. After the police apprehended Hendy, she admitted that Ray committed the crimes with the help of two additional people - his daughter, Glenda Jean Jesse Ray, and Dennis Roy Yancy - in exchange for a plea deal. Crying and pleading in hysterics as she tried to explain what had just happened to her,she collapsed on their floor and fell unconscious. 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