David Parker Ray - Born November 6, 1939, in Belen, New Mexico; Died May 28, 2002, in prison in Hobbs, NM, more than three years after his captivity and subsequent conviction on multiple counts of rape, kidnapping and torture. Some believe it will be only a matter of time before actual evidence is discovered to prove Ray was a serial killer of perhaps up to 60 victims, many who may have spent many hours, days, even weeks of Ray's snares of whips, chains, pulley suspensions, electric shock and his infomous torture chamber known as the Toy Box.

The horrifying story of a young prostitute who escaped an Elephant Butte residence wearing only a padlocked collar and chain around her neck after being kidnapped from Albuquerque and sexually tortured three days in March 1999 opened perhaps one of New Mexico's largest criminal investigations in years. The case has since exploded, revealing three more victims and a total of four suspects... David Ray, his daughter Jessy Ray, his girlfriend Cindy Hendy, and Roy Yancy, the only one convicted for murdering Marie Parker, young mother of two small children.

Since the inception of the case with the first arrests of David Ray and Cindy Hendy, the Desert Journal has been hot on the trail after leads - information which otherwise has escaped competing local, statewide and national press. The DJ team of Bill Johnson, Fred Mramor and David Pierre won first place for investigative reporting on the initial stages of the trail of sex torture case that took place in David Ray's "toy box" - a soundproofed trailer equipped with sexual torture devices that deliver pain to Ray's victims.

Satan's Den Exposed is a culmination of those intensive award winning stories that spanned an 11-week period, and many more probing stories that followed in the four-year period ending in August 2003. The investigative efforts of the Desert Journal trio have revealed more possible suspects and victims - both alive and dead - and more leads to fuel the police probe in solving this enormous case, which spans a couple decades into several states, including in Ray's previous city of prey, Phoenix, Arizona.

"We were there from beginning to end, and the end still hasn't come," says author and editor Bill Johnson who is determined to inform the pubic about predators like criminal sexual sadist David Ray and his cohorts.

Desert Journal Online is honored to present Satan's Den Exposed - The David Parker Ray Story, available in both print and electronic versions with both containing more than 40 photos of the suspects and crime scenes.

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http://www.desertjournalonline.com/2001archive/9-21-0120Headliners.htm
- David Parker Ray sentenced to 224 years in prison

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