American kidnapper, serial rapist, torturer, and suspected serial killer
This article is about the suspected serial killer known as the Toy-Box Killer. For the Tool-Box Killers, see Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris.
David Parker Ray
Born
(1939-11-06)November 6, 1939
Belen, New Mexico, U.S.
Died
May 28, 2002(2002-05-28) (aged 62)
Lea County Correctional Facility, Hobbs, New Mexico, U.S.
Other names
The Toy-Box Killer
Children
2 daughters
Criminal penalty
224 years' imprisonment
Details
Victims
3 confirmed 3 survived Up to 60–100+ murders suspected
Span of crimes
1957–1999
Country
United States
State(s)
New Mexico Arizona
Date apprehended
March 22, 1999
David Parker Ray (November 6, 1939 – May 28, 2002), also known as the Toy-Box Killer,[1] was an American kidnapper, torturer, serial rapist and suspected serial killer. Though no bodies were found, Ray was accused by his accomplices of killing several women, and was suspected by the police to have murdered as many as sixty women from Arizona and New Mexico while living in Elephant Butte, New Mexico.[2] Ray was convicted of kidnapping and torture in 2001, for which he received a lengthy sentence, but he was never convicted of murder. He died of a heart attack about one year after his convictions in two cases, the second of which resulted in a plea deal.
Ray used soundproofing methods on a semi-trailer, which he called his "Toy Box", and equipped it with items used for sexual torture. He would kidnap about four or five women a year, holding each of them captive for around two to three months. During this period he would sexually abuse his victims and often torture them with surgical instruments, sometimes involving his friends, wife or even his dog. 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]
^Ramsland, Katherine. "David Parker Ray: The Toy Box Killer". TruTV. Archived from the original on June 4, 2008.
^Glatt, John (June 17, 2002). Cries in the Desert. St. Martin's True Crime Library. ISBN 0312977565.
^"Case 96: The Toy Box (Part 1) - Casefile: True Crime Podcast". Casefile: True Crime Podcast. September 22, 2018. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
^Geberth, Vernon J. (2010). "Chapter 12". Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation: Practical and Clinical Perspectives (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. pp. 557–598. ISBN 9781439826553.
^Stone, Michael H.; Brucato, Gary (2019). The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. pp. 203–211. ISBN 9781633885325.
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