This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. David Parker Ray, known as the Toy Box Killer, has been arrested for kidnapping and sexual torture. In my 30-year career, I've never experienced an investigation such as this. What he did to women, he was an evil man. I go out, find me some good-looking little bitch, hand-keeping my playroom for a sex toy. The Toy Box was a chamber of horrors. Everything you could imagine to have a person tortured and actually killed. You wonder how many victims were out there. He pulled out a badge and handcuffed Centomio's under arrest. He put a metal collar around my neck that was attached to a metal chain. It was something out of a horror movie. They're going to be whipped, abused and tortured. I knew if I didn't get away, I would die. I do not ask for action. No! Your wrists and ankles have changed, and a long, heavy chain is going to be kept locked around your neck. I've told you exactly what I plan to do, and it's going to be painful as hell. That's the way I want it to be. I'm vindictive as hell, so be real careful. Real people who faced death and lived to tell how. This is I Survived, a serial killer. My name is Cynthia V. Heal-Haramillo, and I survived a serial killer. Growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I didn't have much family. My mother was killed in 1992. I pretty much had nobody, and so I started working the streets and selling drugs to survive at 15. By the time March of 1999 came around, I had been working the streets in Albuquerque for six years. My friend told me that some guy was looking for a date. I approached the driver's side by getting in. We talk about a date, and we go to the back of the RV. As he's handing me money, he pulled out a badge and handcuffed and told me I was under arrest. I just felt something was off that he wasn't a cop. I was trying to get to the door, and some woman came out from behind a curtain. She has a gun, and she had this red and white long cattle prod, and she just jabbed it right on my neck and shocked me. And they duct taped my wrist and my ankles together. My clothes are being taken off. At that point, I was asking, why are you doing this? And her response was, oh, don't worry, we're just gonna rape you. She said it in a way like it was normal, like it was everyday life for them. I knew at that point I wasn't the only victim of theirs. David Elston is the under-sheriff of Sierra County, New Mexico. In 1989, there was a body that was recovering an elephant-beauty lake. It was wrapped up in a blue tarp that was floating in the lake. There was no leads to any type of investigation onto why he was placed in an elephant-beauty lake. Jim Yance is a deputy district attorney for the 7th Judicial District in New Mexico. Because of the time he spent in the water, we were unable to get DNA or identify the individual. It had already been over two hours since they took me from Albuquerque. I feel the RV going over a bumpy dirt road, and it stops. I have no clothes on, and they walk me from the RV into a trailer. It looked like a normal home. Pictures on the wall, a TV, couch, knick-knacks, a radio. They walked me down about five steps. It looked totally different than the living room did. There was a dress there that had several tools on it, like pliers, a nice pick, a small torch, and a series of chains hanging from the ceiling and a hospital bed in the center of the room. It was something out of like a horror movie. They sat me on a bed. They put a metal collar around my neck that was attached to a metal chain. They were padlocking me to the wall, and they handcuffed my hands to the top of the bed, and they shackled my feet to the bottom of the bed. So I pretty much couldn't move. I had no clothes on, and she makes him a sandwich. He tells me he's going to play a tape, and I need to pay attention to it. Okay, bitch. We both know what you've been brought here for. The tape was his voice telling me what's going to happen that I would be raped over and over. You're going to be tied or chained in different positions, whipped, abused, and tortured. He's just eating while this is playing. Like, it's no big deal. It seemed like he got tired of telling girls what was going to happen that he pre-recorded it, so he just played the recording for the women. I couldn't wrap my mind around what was going on. I was so in shock. I knew what was happening to me. I just didn't know what the outcome was going to be. I was really, really scared. Finding the one can feel impossible, and in today's world, it's even harder. False profiles, inaccurate pictures, incompatibilities, ghosting on dates. Is this sounding familiar? But if you're ready to make your move to a new place, it doesn't have to feel like dating. 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He raped me repeatedly all day. I was totally freaking out, because I didn't know what the future held for me at that point. The next morning, I'd already been with them almost 24 hours. He took me to the back room. It had a massage table in it. They tied me to it. They clamped these clamps to me, and they would shock me. I realized the more I was in pain, the more excited he got. If I took the pain and not showed him any emotion, he got frustrated, and he gave up. The next day, I was so exhausted. I was in so much pain. He told me he was going to work, and that when he got back from work, I was going to go to the toy box. I didn't know what that meant. I just knew it was going to be more torture. I knew I had to find a way to escape. About a month before Cynthia Veehill was abducted, Angelica Montagna was taken captive. They gave her a combination of drugs that would fog her memory, and she was tortured. Ultimately, after a day or two, she was released near Interstate 25. She eventually caught a ride with a Luna County Sheriff's Deputy. She began to tell him what had happened to her from the snippets of memory. He wanted to immediately report the matter. She didn't, because she didn't have that good of a memory, and she was scared. She made him breakfast, gave him a kiss, and he went off to work. At some point, she got a phone call. She went down the hallway and she disappeared. I realized she had left the keys that they had always carried on the coffee table in the living room. I was able to reach the coffee table with my feet. I pulled the table towards me to get the keys. I was able to get the chain unlocked from the wall. She walked in and she ran down and was trying to fight me. She beat me with a glass lamp. Every time she hit me in my head, I'd see black. I knew if I didn't get away, I would die. I'm telling myself, you cannot give up. She stabbed me in my back with an ice pick. I was bleeding. I grabbed an ice pick and went at her head with it, and I hit her forehead. I grabbed the phone and I dialed 911 and I dropped the phone. The 911 call came in from Bass Road. The one was on the other line. I ran out the front door and I don't know if she's chasing me and bloody in no clothes whatsoever. She eventually saw an open door to a residence, went in there screaming for help, and 911 was called again. 911? Yes, I'm calling for a young lady that ran into the house. Okay, she's just been raped. She's got a chain on her and everything. She's been run away. When I arrived to the 911 hang-up call on Bass Road, I recognized the residence of being David Parker Ray and his girlfriend Cynthia Hendy. Elephant Butte is a small community. Everybody pretty much knows everybody. David Parker Ray was employed by the state parks as a mechanic, just a very well-liked guy. The things that I saw inside of there, it was obvious that there was a struggle, but there was nobody inside of the residence. Over the radio, I heard about Cynthia V. Hill. They were transporting her to Syriza Vista Hospital. They were using a pair of bolt cutters to cut a padlock off of her neck. I was also notified that David Ray had left the state parks, so I left the residence to try to intercept him. I did stop him, told him that he was being detained for investigative purposes. Cynthia Hendy was located by other officers and was also taken for further questioning in the investigation. Lisa Baumann is a retired agent from the FBI Evidence Response Team. The FBI was called down to Elephant Butte. We preserved the property and started processing the scene. When you go to the room where Cynthia was kept, it was just frightening. Off of the main trailer, there was a converted rider truck. When I entered the truck, I had a very eerie feeling because you could tell it was just a place of evil. It had all the instruments in it for doing whatever an individual wanted to do, from torture, to holding captive, to killing. It made me wonder how many victims were out there. In the middle, there's a gynecological table with weights and pulleys. And then next to that was a medical cabinet where David had various drugs where he could knock women out. Now, this was the toy box. It was a torture chamber. If they would have brought me to the toy box, I think I would have died. It was a chamber of horrors. Everything you could imagine to have a person restrained and tortured and actually killed. During interviews with the FBI, David said he had been involved in this since about the age of 15 or 16. I had a size. I let my fantasies get away with me. It was about 45 years developing what he did to people. I dreamed of kidnapping women and raping them. And of the various things I'd do with them while I had them. He told us a lot, but he always claimed this was fantasy. The FBI believed that he was not relating fantasies, but rather was relating incidents of true events. There were a number of individuals that came forward that people they knew had gone to David-raised residents and the individuals were never seen again. From that, the FBI Behavioral Science Unit believed David was responsible for somewhere between 45 and 60 murders. He was not admitting to any murders, so in order to charge him with murder, we needed to find a body. We called in some search dogs. They spent hours and hours going over every inch of that property, searching for victims. But we didn't find any bodies to link them to any murders. Eventually, the FBI came upon a tape, showed an individual in the toy box. She was totally nude, and David was touching her in various ways. And on her right calf, there was an incredibly ornate tribal swan tattoo. From there, we were able to get the name of Kelly Garrett. In 1997, Kelly became friends with David's daughter, Jesse. She found herself at the local bar. Kelly asked for a ride home. Jesse agreed to take her home, but said first she had to stop by her dad's house. Jesse and David went into a back room. When they emerged, they handcuffed Kelly, and she was taken out into the toy box. She was left out there for several days, being tortured at various times before David takes her back to her in-laws house. David actually used his State Park vehicle, was dressed in his State Park uniform, and told the in-laws that he had found her wandering along the beach. She had been drugged as a result. Her memory was somewhat lapsed, so it was not reported when the FBI found her. In 1999, memory started to come back as to where she had been, what had happened to her, and who was involved. Now, we know that David Parker Ray's daughter, Jesse, was involved with her dad and abducting women, and she was arrested. We also learned in a statement that Cindy Hending made to law enforcement that David had told her he had killed an individual back in the late 80s named Billy Ray Bowers. During the course of the investigation with David Parker Ray, we had learned that the body that was recovering from the dispute was connected to him. They identified the decedent to dental records, and it was discovered that he was associated with David Parker Ray at a car dealership in Douglas, Arizona. I believe David Parker Ray was a mechanic for that dealership there, and the individual that was in the lake was David Parker Ray's boss. The fact that Billy Ray Bowers disappeared, the fact that he turns up in a lake next to David Parker Ray's residence, we believe that he was responsible for the murder of Billy Ray Bowers. Unfortunately, without any DNA, we weren't able to charge him with that. 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We can only speculate that that's maybe where he disposed of bodies. As a maintenance foreman, he had access to every inch of that lake, every inch of the shoreline, and could easily hide or dispose of anything he wanted. The FBI spent weeks searching Elephant Butte Lake. We took boats everywhere and kept looking for bodies, but could never find one. Unfortunately, we could not link him to any murders. David Ray is accused of kidnapping and raping a woman. Wendy Handy, David's girlfriend, had already indicated she would not testify against David. So it was critical that Cynthia testify and relate what happened to her during her captivity. Without her getting up on that stand and pointing at David, the nightmare would have continued. When I was kidnapped and tortured, David Parker Ray had a lot of power and control over me, but I had already stopped being as a victim at the trial. I realized that I could take some control back. The case ultimately came to a conclusion in 2001 with David being sentenced to 224 years in the penitentiary of New Mexico. David was sentenced for the sexual assaults and the kidnappings and torture of Kelly Garrett and Cynthia Vijo. And Jalica unfortunately died before her case could be presented in full. David Parker Ray was serving his sentence in jail when he had a heart attack and passed away in, I believe, his 2002. Cindy Handy was sentenced to 54 years. She's recently been told. We do feel there are some unanswered questions. We're just not going to give up. If there is any leads, the case will be reopened and definitely pursued. I really want to stress that Cynthia Vijo is the hero of this story. It wasn't until years later that I thought maybe I escaped because I had another purpose in life and I wasn't done. I have a nonprofit called Street Safe New Mexico that I started in 2009. And it's been serving the women that have been raped, trafficked or attacked. I love helping others. Helping others helps me not be a victim of David Parker Ray. Finding the one can feel impossible. And in today's world, it's even harder. False profiles, inaccurate pictures, incompatibilities, ghosting on dates. Is this sounding familiar? But if you're ready to make your move to a new place, it doesn't have to feel like dating. All it takes is a simple search on apartments.com to find your perfect match. Whether you're looking for a three bedroom condo downtown, a two bedroom duplex in a quiet neighborhood, a cozy studio in a walkable city, or even a single family home in a cul-de-sac, you can find a place that checks all the right boxes. So whichever stage of life you're in, settle down in your perfect home by using apartments.com. No more swiping and awkward first dates. Make it easier to get a place that gets you. Visit apartments.com, the place to find a place. 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