
Vigil admitted that she had been working as a prostitute in Albuquerque, which is where she met her eventual captors. She was offered $20 for sexual services, which she accepted before entering an RV. The ‘Toy Box’ was a sound-proofed trailer where Ray tortured and killed 50+ women. The victim’s head would be placed inside this box while being tortured in order to instill greater fear upon them.
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This is a torture box discovered in serial killer David Parker Ray’s ‘Toy Box’. The bruises and wounds on her body confirmed her story. She revealed that as well as being raped repeatedly, she was tortured with whips and medical instruments, as well as being electrocuted. Vigil explained that she had been kidnapped by a man and woman and held as a sex slave for a total of three days. Inside, she found help from the owner, with the police arriving and listening to the women - Cynthia Vigil's - story of kidnap, torture, and escape.

Desperate to find help before she was taken back to where would surely be her place of death, she stumbled across a mobile home with the door open. On March 22, 1999, a 22-year-old woman escaped from the 'Toy Box' covered in blood, completely nude, and with a metal choker collar padlocked around her neck. The survivor who escaped David Parker Ray's clutches He would later receive an honourable discharge from the ranks. Here, a fascination with sadomasochism was born.įollowing his education at high school, Ray went to work as an auto mechanic before joining the Army, also working as a mechanic in the forces. Often bullied by classmates, he would spend a lot of time alone, drinking alcohol and experimenting with drugs. Whilst at school, Ray would find it hard to slot in and find friends. Ray and his sister would be visited by their father, who was renowned for being a violent alcoholic, and who would supply his son with sadomasochistic pornography. The pair would be met with physical discipline if they did not follow his strict standards and set of rules in and outside of the home. ltNWrA6vSe- SERIOUSLY STRANGE ApA little history on David Parker Rayīorn in Belen, New Mexico on November 6, 1939, David Parker Ray would grow up in the house of his disciplinarian grandfather from the age of 10, following the split of his mother and father, alongside his younger sister Peggy. Serial Killer David Ray had a torture chamber he called his “toy box" and would record his victims in the chamber. He passed away at the Lea County Correctional Facility in Hobbs, New Mexico, on May 28, 2002, aged 62.


Ray would escape true justice, when he died of a heart attack around a year after his convictions in two cases. Whilst he was convicted of kidnapping and torture in 2001 and received a lengthy sentence, he was never convicted of murder due to a lack of evidence. Whilst living in New Mexico, Ray sound-proofed a truck trailer which he would call his "Toy Box", equipping it with items including whips, chains, pulleys, clamps, straps, surgical blades, leg spreader bars, and saws, all of which would be used as means of torture against his victims.ĭespite the suspicions, no bodies of Ray's victims were ever found.

The American suspected serial killer and known torturer of women was accused of killing several people by those who had served as his accomplice, whilst the police would come to suspect him of the murder of as many as 60 people from Arizona and New Mexico. David Parker Ray was a man who would eventually be known as The Toy Box Killer.
