Federal Bureau of Investigation. Ray claimed "trophies" from his victims such as clothing and jewelry. This necklace is just one of more than items of jewelry and clothing the FBI posted photos of on its website. They hoped that by showing the public the items, someone might recognize them and come forward.
Ray and his female accomplices, at one time including his own daughter, Jesse Ray, preyed on prostitutes. They scuffled, but Vigil managed to stab Hendy in the neck and run away. She was wearing only an iron collar around her neck and padlocked chains. A nearby resident gave Vigil a robe and called Ray and Hendy were arrested.
In , Kelly Van Cleve testified that she had gone to Ray's home with his daughter in She said she was blindfolded, and a knife was held to her throat and duct tape placed over her eyes before she was taken to the Toy Box. During the struggle, Hendy broke a lamp on Vigil's head, but she still managed to unlock her chains and then proceeded to stab Hendy in the neck with an icepick she found on the floor and escaped.
Vigil ran away naked, wearing only an iron slave collar and padlocked chains. After Vigil's escape and rescue, Ray and Hendy were apprehended by the police. Parker was arrested the day his last victim escaped. Throughout the trial, the prosecution brought forward two victims along with the mother of a deceased victim. Cynthia Vigil and Kelly Garret testified against Ray, describing the horrible tortures they endured. Garret was one who said she did not want him to receive the death penalty because she thought that was too easy.
She wanted him to endure the pain she went through. She wanted him to stay in prison for his entire life. Ray was sentenced to years in prison after being convicted of numerous offenses involving the abduction and sexual torture of three young women at his Elephant Butte Lake home. His first trial ended in a hung jury in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico.
His trial was then relocated to a small town where he had been raised decades before. He died eight months after sentencing, having been held for two and a half years while awaiting trial and re-trial.
Hendy, who testified against Ray, received a sentence of 36 years for her role in the crimes. David Parker Ray was sentenced to years in prison at a hearing in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico - having been convicted of numerous offenses involving the abduction and sexual torture of three young women at his Elephant Butte Lake home. He later pled guilty to charges involving two other victims, the late Angie Montano of T or C and Cynthia Vigil of Albuquerque, in Kelly Van Cleave Garrett who earlier was crying and holding hands with Cynthia Vigil in the courtroom, said she wants Ray to live a for long time and suffer in prison.
Garrett said however she is not a victim but a survivor. Romero said she is here for Angie and her two little boys whose lives Ray had ruined. On March 22, , dispatchers received a series of calls reporting a woman who was frantically trying to stop cars on a street for help in Elephant Butte, New Mexico.
The woman, Cynthia Vigil, was naked barring a dog collar attached to her neck. Describing her harrowing ordeal to Oxygen's " Killer Couples ," Vigil, who had been a sex worker from Albuquerque, explained to "Killer Couples" producers that she had gone to Ray's RV for a date. Once the door was shut, he took out a badge and said he was an undercover police officer. Vigil was tasered, drugged, blindfolded and chained to a bed. She heard the click of a tape recorder, and then Ray's "instruction tape" played.
A voice started out by saying: "Okay, bitch. Vigil passed out from the pain, but managed to later escape after Ray accidentally left a key ring on a nightstand. Vigil was bashed on the head with a lamp by Ray's girlfriend Cindy as she was unlocking her chains and attempting to flee. In fact, Ray had constructed a bunker-like cargo trailer that he parked behind his home to satiate his obsession with kidnap and torture.
The trailer, which one officer described as a demented "toy box," was full of torture devices and sadomasochistic equipment, some of which had been handcrafted by Ray himself. One disturbing item: a custom-built gynecological chair with electrodes to administer electric shocks.
And investigators discovered more than equipment, they found evidence as well. Fisher also said a key piece of evidence recovered was David Parker Ray's journal, where he kept "meticulous records detailing the victims that he abducted and what he did to them.
The journal contained dozens of entries. There were no names, only dates, and the number of times he tortured each victim. In total, investigators collected more than 1, pieces of evidence, according to The New York Times. To understand how a couple committed such heinous crimes together, it's important to take a look at their backgrounds. David Parker Ray, 57, was a resident of the small desert town Truth or Consequences known as "T or C" by locals when he met Cindy Hendy, 20 years his junior.
A mechanic and park ranger for nearby Elephant Butte State Park, Ray had been married and divorced four times and had a year-old daughter, Jesse Ray, from his third marriage, with whom he had a close relationship. Abandoned by his mother and father at the age of 10, Ray was reportedly raised by overbearing grandparents and was described as a withdrawn and socially awkward child.
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