Crimes
David Parker Ray sexually tortured and presumably killed his victims in a $100,000 homemade torture chamber he called his "toy box" that he built out of an old mobile home, which was equipped with what he referred to as his "friends": whips, chains, pulleys, straps, clamps, leg spreader bars, and surgical blades and saws. It is thought that he terrorized many women while living in the town of Truth or Consequences with these tools for several years, with the added assistance of multiple accomplices, allegedly including several of the women he was dating.
Inside the torture room, along with numerous sex toys, torture implements, syringes, and detailed diagrams (made by Ray himself) showing different methods and techniques for inflicting pain, there was a homemade electricity generating device that was used in torture. Mounted above the gynecologist-type table he used to strap his victims to, was a mirror attached to the ceiling. He has been said to have wanted his victims to see everything he was doing to them during the torture sessions. Ray would often have a recorded audio tape of himself played for his victims whenever they regained consciousness.
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