David Parker Ray became known as the Toy-Box Killer. He was an American kidnapper, torturer, rapist and suspected serial killer. Though no bodies were ever 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, approximately seven miles north of Truth or Consequences.
Ray soundproofed a semi-trailer, which he called his “toy box”, and equipped it with items used for sexual torture. He would kidnap between five and six girls a year, holding each of them captive for around three to four months. During this period he would sexually abuse his victims, sometimes involving his dog or his wife (who participated willingly in her husband’s crimes), and often torture them with surgical instruments.
Ray would then either kill his victims or drug them with barbiturates in an attempt to erase their memories of what had happened before abandoning them by the side of the road.
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- Born: November 6, 1939
- Death: May 28, 2002
- Characteristic: Kidnapper, Torturer, Serial Rapist and Suspected Serial Killer
- Crime Spree: 1950’s – 1999
- Number of Victims: 0 – 50
- Location: Elephant Butte, New Mexico
- Method of Murder: No Bodies Were Ever Found
