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 authorties--of being beaten raped and tortured with electric shock--was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray Parker his 39-year-old financee 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 gynecologists examination table. But these horrors were only part of the shocking story that would unfold in a stunning trial...