Overview
- Ray turned a soundproof trailer he called the Toy Box into a torture chamber with a gynecological chair, mirrors, chains, and other devices used to hold and abuse women.
- Cynthia Vigil’s escape in 1999 after seizing keys to her restraints led police to the trailer and opened the investigation into his pattern of abduction and torture.
- FBI agents found audio tapes in the trailer that outlined the abuse to victims, and three women — Vigil, Angelica Montano, and Kelli Garrett — later testified against him.
- In 2001 Ray received a 224-year sentence for kidnapping and torture, and his accomplices were jailed, including daughter Glenda Jean “Jesse” (nine years), Dennis Yancy (30 years), and girlfriend Cindy (36 years).
- Investigators suspected he may have killed as many as 50 women without any bodies found, and the probe lost a key chance for answers when he died of a heart attack in May 2002 before state questioning.