New Mexico –Through Vigil, David Parker, “Toy Box Killer” was captured to face the wrath of justice.
Cynthia Vigil, then 22 years old, was hooking in an Albuquerque, New Mexico, parking lot on March 19, 1999, when a man posing as an undercover police officer told her she was being arrested for soliciting sex work and put her in the back of his car.
Vigil claimed, “He told me I was under arrest and he put handcuffs on me.”
He introduced Vigil to his neighboring soundproof trailer, which he called his “Toy Box,” and identified himself as David Parker Ray.
Then, with the assistance of his girlfriend and accomplice Cindy Hendy, he shackled her to a gynecologist-style table in the middle of the trailer and, over the course of the following three days, raped and tortured Vigil.
Whips, medical equipment, electric shock, and sexual implements were just some of the torture tools the two of them used on Vigil.
Ray would play a cassette tape containing a recording that described her punishment in detail before to torturing her.
She was only to address him as “master” and the other woman accompanying him as “mistress,” and she was never to speak until she was spoken to first, according to Ray’s instructions on the cassette.
He continued by detailing in detail how he would torment and rape her.
In a subsequent interview, Vigil remarked, “I didn’t feel like this was his first time. He appeared to be skilled at what he was doing.
He informed me that I would never see my family again. He threatened to kill me just like the others”.
On the third day, Hendy unintentionally left Vigil’s restraints’ keys on a table close to where she was tied while she was out of the room and Ray was at work.
Vigil pounced on the chance and dove for the keys, freeing her hands in the process. Hendy made an effort to stop her, but when she did, Vigil stabbed her in the neck with an icepick.
She exited the trailer without any clothing on other than a slave collar and padlocked chains.
She frantically pounded on the door of an adjacent trailer.
The home’s owner pulled Vigil inside and dialed the police, who quickly detained Ray and Hendy.
Inside The Toy Bus
The police searched Ray’s home and trailer after apprehending him, and discovered things that are alarming inside the toy bus.
A gynecologist-style table with a mirror affixed to the ceiling was found in the center of “Toy Box.” Whips, chains, pulleys, straps, clamps, leg spreader bars, surgical blades, saws, and many sex toys littered the floor.
A wooden device was utilized to bend over and hold Ray’s victims still while he and his friends raped them.
There were intricate graphics on the walls illustrating many ways to cause agony.
The authorities also found a 1996 videotape of Ray and his girlfriend torturing and raping a terrified lady in the “Toy Box Killer” trailer.
In a like incident, an acquaintance of Ray’s named Angelica Montano had gone to his house to borrow cake mix, but instead ended up getting drugged, raped, and tormented by Ray before being abandoned by a highway in the middle of the desert.
Police has confirmed this to be true.In order to prevent his victims from fully remembering what had occurred to them, Ray frequently used medications like sodium pentothal and phenobarbitol to cause amnesia and memory loss in them.
The authorities were able to prod Hendy into divulging what she knew about the killings thanks to this better case, which included two victims who had testified about the atrocities.
The authorities were able to identify Ray through her testimony and learn that his daughter Glenda “Jesse” Ray and buddy Dennis Roy Yancy had assisted him in the kidnappings and murders.
Marie Parker was kidnapped, drugged, and tortured for days by Ray and his daughter before she was strangled to death in 1997.
Yancy confessed to being a part of the murder.
The “Toy Box Killer” was finally given a 224-year prison term for a number of acts related to the kidnapping and sexual abuse of these three ladies, despite winning two of the cases brought against him.
The numerous unidentified personal items and jewels discovered in his trailer suggest that the “Toy Box Killer” has killed more people.
