There was a businesslike clipboard hanging next to the robe and Yontz noticed that Ray had what looked like a “roll call” list of victims he’d kidnapped between 19. Walking up the left side of the chamber, Yontz saw a coat hanger with a long black robe hanging from it. Hanging from the ceiling next to what looked like the gynecology table was an RCA Victor television set, positioned so the female victims could see what Ray was doing to them. Standing right next to the Satan’s Den sign was a tall tripod with a very expensive RCA Victor camcorder pointing toward a large black leather table/chair rigged up with metal stirrups, electrodes and dozens of red plastic straps. Down at the other end of the trailer was a hand-lettered sign that said I AM RATHER BUSY-WOULD YOU PISS OFF! Next to the big sign was a smaller white sign with black underlined letters that identified what Yontz was about to see: THE BONDAGE ROOM. On the left wall, Jim noticed a large white sign with big red block letters that identified David Ray’s name for his little private hideaway: SATAN’S DEN. Hanging on the wall was a roll of paper towels that said HOME-SWEET-HOME. Next to the coffee can was a box of Kellogg’s corn flakes and a small refrigerator. The Charles Manson Family had killed Abigail Folger in 1969 and Yontz wondered if David Ray was paying his respects in some sicko kind of way. He immediately spotted a can of Folgers coffee. Related: 5 Killer Couples That Make Us Want To Die Alone He walked up the four steps and opened what had previously been a double dead-bolted, steel-reinforced door. The trailer was jacked up on wooden blocks and Yontz noticed it didn’t have any windows. There was an Arizona Highway Patrol Association decal right next to it that said I SUPPORT THE BEST. When Yontz walked up to the rear end of the $100,000 handmade chamber of horrors, he first noticed the 7259-TRJ New Mexico license plate. He wondered why the FBI sent a woman into a torture chamber when everybody working the case suspected that other women had been literally “frightened to death” by the tall, skinny mechanic with a reputation for being “good with his hands.” The day after Rust killed herself, Jim Yontz took a stroll through the toy box. Others wore surgical gloves and concentrated on what evidence they could find inside the white cargo trailer and the brown-and-white mobile home Ray used as a house.Įleven days after he was arrested, Ray claimed another victim when Patty Rust killed herself after spending four days inside the toy box making detailed drawings for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Many of them were wearing white jumpsuits and masks and digging in the yard. Their stories confirmed that, despite the lack of human remains on Ray's property, he was a serial murderer.ĭavid Parker Ray (left) and his girlfriend-slash-accomplice, Cynthia Hendy Photo Credit: Holly Donovan/YouTubeīy early April 1999, over one hundred FBI and NMSP agents were swarming all over the David Ray property at 513 Bass Road. Meanwhile, additional perpetrators also came out of the woodwork: A State Park trooper, Ray's daughter, and a man named Dennis Yancy were found to be accomplices. Through a video tape recorded by Ray himself, the police were able to identify another survivor: Kelli Garrett, who Ray had kidnapped three years prior. When news of the arrests spread, Angelica Montano-another victim-came forward with her story. Not long after, David Parker Ray and Cynthia Hendy were caught. After a physical confrontation that left Hendy with non-fatal stab wounds in her neck, Vigil ran to the neighbors and got the police on her captors’ trail. With Ray at work and a distracted Hendy tasked with “babysitting,” she recognized an opportunity to escape the trailer. Related: The David Parker Ray Tape and 8 Other Totally Disturbing Audio Recordingsīut two days later, Cynthia Vigil made it out alive. His girlfriend, Cynthia Hendy, was his sidekick-often aiding in his assaults and helping him force victims to take amnesia-inducing drugs. Posing as an undercover cop, David Parker Ray claimed to be arresting Cynthia Vigil for solicitation-but instead of taking her to the police station, he brought her back to his special “toy box.” An eight-by-twenty-five-foot white trailer, this “toy box” was equipped with everything Ray might need to torture the women he hid there: whips, chains, blades, saws, and more. On March 20, 1999, he picked up the victim who would put an end to his spree. Though his official body count is still unknown, police suspect Ray may have taken more than 60 lives. By night, he was something else entirely-the leader of a satanic group, a sexual sadist, and a prolific torturer of women. By day, David Parker Ray was a car mechanic.
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