Meet David Parker Ray, a serial killer who spent $100,000 to build his own torture chamber: a trailer filled with sex toys and torture devices, including whips, chains, pulleys, straps, clamps, leg spreader bars, surgical blades, and even saws.
In addition to his extensive collection of torture devices, the “Toy-Box” killer maintained a collection of anatomically correct dolls, which he would restrain and pose in bondage positions.
The positions and implements were strikingly similar to the actual methods he used to torture his victims.
Inside the Toy-Box, investigators discovered hundreds of fantasy drawings.
Many of these drawings vividly depicted exactly what Ray had verbalized in his torture tapes.
The various objects appearing in the drawings were, in fact, recovered by the authorities during the search.
Needless to say, Ray’s fantasy drawings became an essential portion of the prosecution’s case, especially when defense experts tried to portray the drawings as harmless sexual fantasies.
Although no bodies were found, Ray was accused by his accomplices of killing several people and suspected by the police to have murdered as many as 60 women.
After kidnapping his victims, Ray would use wooden contraptions or the gynecologist’s table to immobilize them, and encouraged his dogs or accomplices to rape them.
Ray also installed a ceiling mirror above the table, forcing the victims to watch everything he was doing to them during the torture sessions.
In most cases, before proceeding with his intentions, Ray would play his victims a pre-recorded tape, containing threats and graphic descriptions of the violence and abuse they were about to endure.
Ray’s use of these tapes was part of his psychological manipulation, intended to instill fear and submission in his victims.
Ray would kidnap between five and six women a year, holding each of them captive for around three to four months.
Then Ray would drug them with barbiturates in an attempt to erase their memories of what had happened before abandoning them by the side of the road.
In 2001, David Parker Ray was convicted of kidnapping and torture and was sentenced to 224 years in prison.
The “Toy-Box” killer died of a heart attack less than a year after his convictions.
