WEBVTT - S1: E8 – The Toy Box Killer, Part 3 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.200 I was David Parker Ray's second lawyer. I stepped in 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:10.240 after the first trial in two thousand. I spent dozens 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.640 or hundreds of hours with David Parker Ray. What I 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.840 expected was somebody that was visibly evil. What I got 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:19.440 was a guy that if you met him in a bar, 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.640 you'd have a beer with him and maybe go fishing 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:23.840 with him. I think the fact that he was so 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.560 amiable makes the whole thing scarier. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.280 My name is Slung Glass and this is the conclusion 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.000 of The Toy Box Killer on American Homicide And just 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.000 a quick note that this episode contained some graphic and 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:43.680 disturbing content. Please take care while listening. The case of 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.600 David Parker Ray caught the attention of the world after 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.519 one of his victims escaped from his torture chamber known 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:55.120 as the Toy Box. His toy box was a soundproof 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.640 trailer attached to his home in the middle of the 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.400 New Mexico Desert. It's the place where three women accused 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:06.960 David Parker Ray of kidnapping, torturing, and sexually assaulting them. 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:12.000 After his arrest, David Parker Ray faced three separate trials, 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.520 one for each victim, but prosecutors in the first trial 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.120 couldn't secure a conviction. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.240 There was a mistrial, they had a hung jury. 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.319 Lee McMillan was David Parker Ray's lawyer and represented him 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:26.120 in the retrial. 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.800 Was one of the best behaved criminal clients I'd ever had. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.000 He never criticized, He never complained, you never whined. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.200 We heard in earlier episodes how locals described David Parker 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:43.400 Ray as charming, polite, and even helpful. But the likable 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:47.360 mechanic from Elephant Bute, New Mexico had some dark secrets. 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.320 The FBI believed he could be responsible for the murders 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.080 of more than forty five people, that would make him 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.760 one of the most prolific killers in American history, but 0:01:58.800 --> 0:01:59.920 they never charged him. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:02.960 It was difficult to convict David Parker Ray of murder 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:04.400 because they didn't have any corpses. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.880 Without anybodies, prosecutors charged Parker Ray with what they could 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:13.680 get him on, kidnapping, torturing, and sexually assaulting three women. 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.880 David Parker Ray was a man who believed himself to 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:22.280 be Satan himself, or at least a demonic presence on earth. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:27.000 To advance the Satanic agenda, he makes that very clear 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.000 in the orientation tape that he played for his victims, 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.679 and in the sketches that he made of the procedures 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:37.040 that he performed in his den, which he called Satan's Den. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.440 You may remember that he tied up his victims and 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:44.000 then played a recording of him methodically listing off all 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.519 the sick and disgusting things he intended to do to them. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.359 I have no idea how to defend somebody like that. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.639 Nevertheless, this was the job Lee McMillan had to do. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.720 Each case against David Parker Ray was tried separately. The 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.840 first trial was for crimes against Kelly Garrett, who was 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.480 kidnapped by David's daughter, Jesse Ray in nineteen ninety six. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:17.600 Kelly Garrett, who was uncovered by one of the pictures 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.560 that the FBI took and the toy box showed a 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.600 victim with a tattoo on her lower leg, and they 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.080 identified her through that tattoo. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.079 Kelly's exit in laws saw a picture of her tattoo 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.720 on the news and immediately phoned the FBI to identify 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.440 their ex daughter in law. They remembered how three years 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.680 earlier Kelly turned up disoriented but having no memory of 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.760 where she had been over the course of a weekend. 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.440 At the time, they all assumed Kelly was out partying 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.200 and messing around with another man. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:52.760 I thank you for Kelly Garrett. 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.600 She has gone through some stuff and went to the bars, 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.920 and I believe that's how she came into contact with 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.880 Jesse Ray and David Ray. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.080 But the reality is that Kelly was kidnapped and drugged, 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.800 which destroyed her memory from that weekend. So Kelly never 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.640 told the police about what happened. It was the FBI 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.600 who approached her. A fact David Parker Ray's defense team 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:16.240 jumped on. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.320 Well, normally you would go after that witness and ask 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:24.120 him why they never came forward and ask him why 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.839 they didn't participate in the prosecution until they were found. 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.440 Considering that the case was all over the news, why 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.200 didn't you pick up the phone and call somebody? 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.760 Questioning Kelly Garrett's credibility was one part of the defense. 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.039 The other was to argue what the jury saw on 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.480 the tapes happening between David Parker Ray and Kelly Garrett 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:48.440 was consensual. When the trial kicked off in the spring 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.279 of two thousand and one, it featured a new judge 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:55.800 named Kevin Swayzee. He replaced the original judge after he 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.479 died of a heart attack just hours after warning some 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:03.000 jail guards to leave David Parker Ray alone. Judge Sweezey 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.599 was a rancher who spent his weekend steer roping, meaning 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.880 he'd ride a horse while trying to lasso a bull. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.720 But now he traded his jeans and flannel shirt furrow 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.000 rope as he presided over one of the biggest trials 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:20.159 in the country. In order to find an impartial jury, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.279 the case was moved to Estancia, New Mexico, known for 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:29.400 their annual pumpkin chunkin event where custombo machines launched pumpkins 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.159 into the air. The tiny farming and ranching community sits 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:37.520 just outside Albuquerque. As you can imagine, hearing a case 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:42.520 about bondage and S and M was something foreign to 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.880 the locals. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.880 And to that end, I actually hired an expert witness 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:51.479 who is a local dominatrix, to explain that concept to 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.400 what turned out to be a jury of farmers and ranchers. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.279 That dominatrix, by the way, was the only witness that 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.119 the defense would call. Instead, the defense would chip away 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:07.200 at the credibility of the prosecution's witnesses, and once again, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.640 one of the witnesses was the victim, Kelly Garrett. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.160 Well, the normal situation in a sexual assault trial for 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.600 a defense lawyer is to find fault with the victim 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:17.760 as much as possible. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.880 Unlike the first trial, when prosecutors called a string of 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:28.640 law enforcement and FBI investigators to testify, prosecutors immediately put 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.640 Kelly Garrett on the witness stand once again. Kelly shared 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.599 her painful memories of what happened in David Parker raised 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:40.560 toy box. She explained that David Parker raised daughter Jesse Ray, 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:45.279 a former friend, offered her a ride home, but instead 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.120 took Kelly to her father's torture chamber. That's where he 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.760 physically and sexually abused her over the course of that 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:57.840 July nineteen ninety six weekend. The jurors, comprised mostly of farmers, 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:02.560 sat frozen in their seats as Kelly recounted the chilling 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:07.080 details from the toy box. The shock on the jurors 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:11.320 faces continued as prosecutors played the video of Kelly's strapped 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.400 to a fitness bench in the toy box. This was 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.760 the same video from the first trial. After the six 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.960 minute clip finished, plane prosecutors asked Kelly if she recognized 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.440 the woman on the tape. After wiping away a steady 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:32.840 stream of tears, Kelly said, that's me. She recounted as 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:36.200 much as she could remember from that weekend, including how 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:40.360 David Parker Ray dressed in his Green Parks Department uniform, 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.120 dropped her off at her mother in law's house. Those 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.800 were the same in laws who later saw Kelly's tattoo 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.920 on the news three years later and called the FBI 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:50.720 on her behalf. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.320 It was pretty convincing, and I think everybody in the 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.640 room knew it. I knew it, the judge knew it. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.560 And then came a ruling by Judge Swayze that changed everything. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.160 In the first trial, prosecutors could not play David Parker 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:11.160 Ray's orientation tape. The judge had ruled the audio recording 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.560 in admissible since Kelly couldn't remember hearing it. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:20.360 Basically, it's an introduction for the victim of what is 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.440 going to happen to them over the next few days 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:26.760 or weeks in the trailer and graphically describes how they'll 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.400 be raped and tortured. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:29.800 And tormented. 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.520 In the retrial, Judge Swayzee allowed the jury to hear 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.360 an edited version of that tape. 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.040 Okay, we'll both know what you've been brought here far. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.560 I'm going to use you. You're not going to like the 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.800 way I do it, and in a week or two, 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.040 when I'm through with you, you can be turned loose. 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.760 Most importantly for the prosecution, the tape described all the 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.720 graphic details that Kelly Garrett could not remember. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.320 As soon as I turned this type off, you will 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.439 have an excellent opportunity to try to bag for me 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.839 to turn you loose. I loved to listen to a 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.640 bag and play. And this is the end of the tape. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:11.080 After listening to twenty five minutes of David Parker Ray 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:16.280 rattling off his twisted fantasies, only one word could describe 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.200 the look on each of the jurors faces. 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:19.040 Horrified. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.520 During a cigarette break, David Parker Ray was overheard saying 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.400 the new judge was a blow to his case. When 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.680 the trial resumed, the jury also heard from Kelly Garrett's 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.240 ex's husband Patrick. He was married to Kelly in July 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:40.679 nineteen ninety six. When David Parker Ray kidnapped her. Patrick 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.720 testified while dressed in his navy uniform. He explained that 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.600 the day David Parker Ray dropped Kelly off, she wasn't herself. 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:54.959 She was disoriented and mumbling. Kelly was also dirty, which 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.600 was unusual because she usually showered a couple times a day. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.280 Patrick added that he found the whole situation with David 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.560 Parker Wray to be shady. It was a Sunday, and 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.360 David was dressed in his work uniform even though he 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:15.080 didn't have to work that day. The irony of his 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:21.680 testimony is that Patrick had originally questioned Kelly's credibility. Patrick 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.520 and his family thought her disappearance meant she was cheating 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.679 on him. He learned the truth three years later, and 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.600 at the trial, the guilt of not believing his now 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:38.920 ex wife finally overwhelmed him. Patrick wiped away tears as 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.040 he explained that he annulled their marriage a few days 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:48.720 after David Parker Wray dropped Kelly off. During closing arguments, 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.600 the prosecution told the jury that Kelly Garrett's long nightmare 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.760 was real and they could bring it to an end 0:10:55.840 --> 0:11:00.320 by finding David Parker Ray guilty. The defense try a 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.840 different approach and once again played the six minute long 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:09.160 videotape of Kelly Garrett in the toy box. This time, 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.400 attorney Lee McMillan gave a sort of play by play 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:16.600 description of what he believed was happening and explained that 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:21.400 the tapes showed nothing more than a harmless fantasy and 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:22.800 consensual sex. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.200 Being a doesn't mean you're a murderer. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.000 To underscore his point, McMillan took it one step further. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.120 He gramped every picture prosecutor showed from the toy box, 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.760 and one by one he held them up and threw 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.360 them on the floor. He again reminded the jury that 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.520 those pictures were taken in nineteen ninety nine, three years 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.440 after Kelly Garrett was allegedly held in the toy box. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.840 McMillan explained that there was no way to know if 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.640 any of the items were present when Kelly was there. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.520 Once again, David parker Ray's fate was in the hands 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:08.600 of the jury. After a hung jury in his first trial, 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.040 David Parker Ray was retried in the spring of two 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.680 thousand and one. Based on parker Rey's demeanor in the 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.760 court room, you'd never know he was facing more than 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.559 two hundred years in prison. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.559 He sat there and stared at people and looked at me, 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.680 and he would make notes and pass them to me, 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.840 and elbowed me a little bit when he wanted me 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:29.560 to say something. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.720 His attorney, Lee McMillan, now stood next to his client 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.480 as the jury returned with a verdict. The group had 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.240 deliberated for just over five hours. 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:45.199 The atmosphere was one of foreboding and darkness. 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:50.360 On the twelve counts of abducting and sexually torturing Kelly Garrett, 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:56.760 the jury found David Parker Ray guilty. In an interview 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:01.600 with the reporter afterwards, David Parker Ray claimed the sex 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:06.439 between he and Kelly Garrett was consensual. He vowed to 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:10.840 appeal and listened to what he told a local TV reporter. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.840 I feel right, David Parker Ray said, he feels like 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:16.960 the one that was raped. 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:24.040 I get my excitement from making a moment happy. My 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.760 trailer had numerous sex toys in it, of different types, 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:33.319 all different fetishes. I got pleasure out of the woman 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.679 getting pleasure. I did what they wanted me to do. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.600 You could credit that infamous cassette tape for helping jurors 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.560 in the second trial convict David parker Ray, but he 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.160 told reporters that it wasn't at all what it sounded like. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.800 Parker Ray explained that the tape was recorded for entertainment 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.679 purposes and that there was a disclaimer at the beginning 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:02.199 of the tape that said so. With one trial down 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.719 and two to go, Judge Swayzee held off on sentencing 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:10.360 until the conclusion of David Parker Ray's other trials. His 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.439 second trial was for the crimes inflicted on Cynthia V. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:13.760 Hill. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:15.120 Cynthia V. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.319 Hill was another victim that David snatched off the street 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.640 in Albuquerque and took to his trailer. She had been 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:27.240 in the house for three days to restrain and being mistreated, 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:31.920 and somehow got away from Sandy Handy and David ran 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.800 down Bass Road with the collar around her neck, trailing 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.960 a chain, going from house to half looking for help. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.480 But just after that trial began, Cynthia V. Hill received 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.360 some unexpected news. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:50.040 The DA contacted me and told me that David wanted 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.960 to plead out and plead guilty for what he did 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:53.200 to me. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.720 David Parker Ray wanted to strike a deal, but it 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.160 came with one giant cat. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:04.480 Which the only way he would plead guilty was if 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:05.680 his daughter got no time. 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.200 In exchange for pleading guilty, prosecutors would have to drop 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:13.720 their case against his daughter Jesse Ray. Remember, Jesse worked 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.360 as her father's accomplice and helped to lure victims into 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:18.080 the toy. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.880 Box, knowing that he wanted to plead out on my case. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.720 I was happy that I didn't have to testify. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.840 It's good that she didn't have to relive what happened 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.760 to her by testifying at the trial, But the fact 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.720 that Jesse Ray got off scot free seems like a 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.800 miscarriage of justice. In the summer of two thousand and one, 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.960 David Parker Ray and prosecutors struck a deal. In exchange 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:45.880 for Jesse Ray not serving any additional prison time, David 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:50.920 pleaded guilty to more than twenty charges, including kidnapping, raping, 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.640 and conspiracy to knap Cynthia V. Hill. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.760 I think his daughter should have gotten more time, but 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.760 then I had to realize taking it to trial, anything 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.040 could have wit and then he could have been let go. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.000 As part of the deal, Jesse Ray was sentenced to 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:12.200 time served and five years of probation, and there was more. 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.680 The deal also meant dropping the other pending case against 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.920 David Parker Ray. That trial was for the third victim, 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:24.080 Angela Montano, who sadly passed before her trial was set 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:28.160 to begin. Angela never got the justice she deserved. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.160 I think David was protective of his daughter because she 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:32.600 represented his legacy. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:38.800 All that was left was to formally sentence David parker Ray. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.440 Kelly Garrett arrived at the sentencing hearing to read her 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:47.040 victim impact statement. Kelly said that she hopes David Parker 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.440 Ray lives long enough to serve out his full sentence. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.160 David stared at the floor as Kelly said she hoped 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.680 he would burn in hell. When the judge asked David 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.600 Parker Ray if he had anything to say, he said 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.840 he did. He explained that this whole process has allowed 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:10.000 him to get closer to God, and then stoically said, 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.960 I can only be sorry for what I did. It 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.639 was something that caught his own lawyer off guard. 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.399 I do not think David Parker Ray ever expressed any remorse. 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.520 I don't think that he was capable of remorse. He 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.359 fully believed that he would never be in prison. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.960 And told me so, but Judge Swayzee was about to 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:30.600 change that. 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.919 David Parker Ray was sent us to two hundred and 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.560 twenty four years of confinement. 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.240 It was the maximum sentence. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.600 No human being would ever survive. That. 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:49.639 Cynthia V. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.600 Hill was thrilled knowing nobody would ever go through what 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.320 I went. Dude, I think that's what was satisfying about 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:58.199 him being locked up. 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.359 David Parker Ray was head to prison on a list 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:05.480 of charges, but murder wasn't one of them. Even though 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:09.480 he bragged about killing dozens of people in his journals, 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:15.200 investigators never located anybodies. But then in May of two 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.640 thousand and two, David Parker Ray told the FBI that 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.840 he was ready to talk. It was the first time 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:26.160 he ever agreed to cooperate, and authorities believed he had 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:30.040 information to finally share about those missing women. The two 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:34.480 sides set a meeting, but that meeting never happened. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.520 Well, I was at home with my children helping them 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.640 with their homework, and it came on the news in Albuquerque. 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:44.800 David parker Ray has died. 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.119 Just before David parker Ray's meeting with the FBI. He 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:53.720 suffered a fatal heart attack. He was sixty two years old. 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.280 This meant that David Parker Ray took his secrets with him. 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.080 His attorney couldn't believe it. 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.240 Well, I wanted to see his body dead, and I 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.159 made the determination that I would make every effort I 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.359 could to attend his autopsy. I wanted to be sure 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.560 that they made the wye In decision and removed his organs 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.639 because I did not trust that he would not start 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.439 his own heart and walk out. And the reason that 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.479 I felt that way was because one night when we 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:27.840 were sitting there at a table that was before sentencing, 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.480 and he and I were talking and basically I was 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.119 just giving it to him straight, you're probably going to 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.560 spend the rest of your life in state custody, and 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:43.160 so is your daughter. Now if you can possibly bring 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:47.360 yourself to cooperate with the Feds, and they were offering 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.840 some sort of deal for his daughter, but he didn't 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:51.440 want to do it. 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.840 So let's connect the dots here. His lawyer said that 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.280 David Parker Ray didn't want to take the original plea 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.399 deal because he didn't believe he'd serve time in prison. 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:05.240 So he goes to trial, is found guilty, gets sentenced, 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:10.040 and then dies weeks later. In other words, he gets 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:10.720 off easy. 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:15.879 This is my first and probably only contact me in 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.439 my life with pure evil, and it made me believe 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:21.720 in the incarnation of pure evil. 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.520 David Parker raised Bonnie was buried at the New Mexico 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:33.040 State Prison Cemetery in Santa Fe. Nearly a decade later, 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:37.120 local TV reporter Alex Tomlin did a story about Elephant 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:38.720 Butte Lake drying up. 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.639 We had kind of a severe drought and the levels 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.880 of the lake really started dropping and they were finding things. 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.359 And I got a call from a guy and he says, look, 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:53.320 I haven't said anything for years, but with lake training, 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:57.119 they keep finding these tires. And I used to be 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.480 a neighbor of David Parker raised, and I see him 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.959 out there filling these really large tires with cement and 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.160 dumping them in the lake. And I asked him, I said, well, 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.919 what do you think was in the tires? And his 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:12.880 response was, well, I think it's the missing women. And 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.959 so there was a lot of speculation about that, and 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.240 all I'm thinking is, if this is a chance to 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.520 find these women, we've got to cover it. Maybe this 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.560 was our next chance, I mean, maybe Mother Nature was 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:25.880 going to catch us a break. 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:33.639 But once again, no body's turned up. Then, in twenty eleven, 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:37.320 the FBI reopened the case of a missing Albuquerque woman 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.800 who was alleged to have been killed by David Parker Ray, 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:46.600 and doing so, investigators again searched in and around Elephant 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:50.240 Butte Lake. The FBI then turned to the public for 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.880 help and opened the toy box to the media. They 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:59.040 created a website and posted photos of women's shoes, underwear, 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:04.040 and clothing, along with dozens of necklaces, rings, and earrings 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:07.440 found inside the toy box. All of this was done 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.080 with the hopes for further leads in the story. 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:12.880 But this is one of those cases it's like until 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:15.400 you get that last piece of the puzzle, there's really 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:18.840 nothing else to do with it. I mean, the toy 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.639 box has been opened, people have seen it, his tape 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:24.960 is well known, but there's still women who are missing, 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:30.640 and until somebody says something, you know, if it's true 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:32.320 that he had these other people that he can fight 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:34.800 it in, somebody has to know something. 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:40.840 No bodies were ever found. Instead, the seemingly never ending 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:45.000 story has remained into the area like a scarlet letter. 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:47.280 I think it hurt the local bars. I think it 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:52.440 hurt the vocal restaurants, and I think the notoriety hurt 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:55.160 in a way that the UFO controversy hurt rosal. 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:56.560 In New Mexico, a. 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.159 Local newspaper printed a letter to the editor from an 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:02.040 eighteen year old earl who is upset at the media's 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:06.040 portrayal of the towns of Elephant Butte and truth consequences. 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:09.120 She wrote that one bad apple shouldn't spoil the rest 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:12.160 of the bunch, but the damage was done. 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:14.680 I think it hurt the tourism aspect of the lake. 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:17.840 I think that for a time there was an attitude 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:19.359 that people did not want to go in the lake 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:22.120 because there might be bodies in there. And I had 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:23.480 people around the state tell me. 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:27.080 That Elephant Butte will forever be linked to David Parker 0:23:27.160 --> 0:23:30.040 Ray and the unthinkable crimes that he committed. 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:34.560 Darren White, who works with New Mexico's Department of Public Safety, 0:23:35.119 --> 0:23:36.359 still lives in the area. 0:23:37.000 --> 0:23:41.240 It's hard to move on when you don't know what happened. 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:44.919 It's hard to move on when you know there are 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:51.920 victims out there that haven't been found. But nobody, including myself, 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:56.119 thanks for a second that David Parker Ray did not 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.240 abduct women, torture them and kill them. 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:01.119 He did. 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:05.919 But that is the really bizarre thing about this is 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:11.359 that David Parker Ray is the most notorious serial killer 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:21.560 in New Mexico's history, and we've never found a single body. 0:24:23.119 --> 0:24:27.280 Today, two key accomplices in the David Parker Ray story 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:32.479