Cries in the Desert (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorities — of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock — was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Parker Ray, his 39-year-old fiancee Cindy Hendy — and the lakeside trailer they called their "toy box". What the FBI uncovered was unprecedented in the annals of serial crime: restraining devices, elaborate implements of torture, books on human anatomy, medical equipment, scalpels, and a gynecologist's examination table. But these horrors were only part of the shocking story that would unfold in a stunning trial...

• Author
• John Glatt

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 288

• Publisher
• St. Martin's True Crime

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-97756-6

• EAN
• 9780312977566

• Genres
• crime, horror, psychology, memoir

• Release date
• 2002