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8-18-03
- 11-21-03 News
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Two-nation
vacation to focus on El Camino Real
- 11-21-03
'Satan's
Den Exposed' available online
- 9-19-03
Police
chief & Sheriff knew nothing of 9/11 witch hunt -9-10-03
David Ray case still an open book -
8-18-03
Sierra County's first child porn possession case dropped - 8-18-03
 Initial investigation focused on this guy.
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Two-nation
vacation to focus on El Camino Real
No
travelers in the state's history were more in tune with that lure of
adventure - and, of course, wealth - than those who made the trip in the 16th
Century from Mexico City, north along El Camino Real (The Royal Highway).
Don Juan de Oñate
first traveled this route in 1598 on orders from King Philip of Spain to
discover a route to Nuevo España that earlier explorers, like Coronado, had
only glimpsed.
In less than 400
years, ruts from hooves, feet and simple wooden wheels have grown into
railroads, interstate highways, microwave towers, power lines and contrails
that fill our vistas today.
El Camino Real,
which remains an avenue for ideas as well as commodities and travelers, is
now the targeted jumping-off-point for the Two-Nation Vacation, a
cooperative effort between the states of New Mexico USA and Chihuahua,
Mexico.
Tourism officials
from both states, along with industry representatives, met in Las Cruces
Nov. 5, to discuss the joint effort designed to make the Two-Nation Vacation
a reality.
"El Camino
Real is the perfect link combining the two cultures," said Fred
Peralta, New Mexico Tourism Department secretary. "The Two-Nation
Vacation will give visitors to both countries the opportunity to see what we
have in common - state fairs and fiestas, eco-tourism, adventure travel and
scenic byways - as well as our differences."
Peralta said the
famous route would serve as a "jumping-off-point" for traveling
visitors who want to experience more of what each state has to offer.
"We don't want
to confine our promotional activities to what there is to see and do along
the road itself, although the opportunities there are endless," Peralta
said.
"Copper
Canyon, Parque Nacional Barranca del Cobre, Parque Nacional Cumbres de
Majalaca and Nuevo Casas Grandes in Chihuahua; and from Taos, Los Alamos,
Santa Fe and the Turquoise Trail in the north to the Lincoln National
Forest, Ruidoso, White Sands, Las Cruces and Gila Cliff Dwellings in the
south, to name just a few, can all be targeted day trips off El Camino
Real."
Konstantino
Panagiotou T., Chihuahua's director de turismo, said a proposed brochure,
along with a companion website, would "help us create a package
offering the ultimate travel experience. We have so many things to share.
Not only will it help introduce our market to New Mexico and vice versa, it
will help open up both markets to the world."
Peralta said the
cooperative advertising effort must also include meeting potential visitors
face-to-face.
"This is a big
step, a positive step. Not only
will it give us the opportunity to increase the number of trade shows and
other events we visit to get the word out; it will also help us develop a
truly natural promotional product," Peralta said.
In a similar move,
Governor Bill Richardson initiated discussions with Mexican President
Vicente Fox in January to begin negotiations to establish air service
between Albuquerque and Chihuahua and Mexico City.
Chihuahua City is
very similar in size to Albuquerque, with a population of 700,000.
They have shared a sisterhood since 1970.
"Each state
has so many grand attractions that are one of a kind that we will not only
promote this flight for commerce, but for leisure travel," said Mark
Trujillo, North American tour trade director for the New Mexico Tourism
Department.
"Ensuring air
service will make us a stronger competitor, promoting both states as tourism
destinations," Trujillo said.
A follow up meeting
is planned for late January in Chihuahua.
For more information, call Mark Trujillo, 505-827-5832.
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11-21-03)
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…Planners
from both sides of the border
From
left, Lic. Leobardo Armenta Quijas (Jefe del Departamento de Turismo de la
Frontera, Chihuahua), Ingeniero Leopordo Mares Delgado (State Tourism
Secretary, Chihuahua), Fred Peralta (NMTD Secretary), Mark Trujillo (NMTD
North American Tour Trade Director), Konstantino Panagiotou T. (Director of
Tourism, Chihuahua), Cathy Gonzales (Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of
Commerce), Kathy Duffy (Expo New Mexico), Frank Chaves (NM Indian Gaming
Association) and Jamie Estremera-Fitzgerald (Conduit Communications).
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Desert
Journal wins website award
Also,
editor nabs first place for columns
and
DJ wins two second place awards
Desert Journal Online – www.desertjournalonline.com
- won first place its second consecutive year in the Better Website Contest
of the New Mexico Press Association’s 2003 Better Newspaper Contest.
The Desert Journal newspaper that
folded in May this year also won three awards in the same contest, judged
this year by the North Dakota Newspaper Association.
Editor Bill Johnson nabbed first place
for Columns and second place for News Writing and Reporter Fred Mramor took
second place for Investigative Reporting.
Desert
Journal Online, which still operates after about two and half years since it
was established in May 2001, also won the 2002 Best Website Award in
NMPA’s contest last year, judged by the Utah Press Association.
“We’re pleased with the progress of
our online news service, which has made numerous gains the last year with
redesign, the addition of several sections and more frequent updates, which
is sometimes daily during week days,” said Bill Johnson, editor, publisher
and web master of the Desert Journal. “And
we also have grown tremendously with visitors and now can boast of
accumulating more than one million hits from internet users so far this
year.”
“The North Dakota judges liked the
fact that we dated our material and also told our audience when to expect
the next update. We posted notice when we knew our next update
wouldn’t occur for several days while we had to be out of town or
otherwise be tied up on other projects,” Johnson said.
"Nonetheless, the North Dakota
judges were very critical of our website and offered some suggestions for
improvements," Johnson said. As
such, the Desert Journal scored 79 points out of a possible 100 points.
“A smart idea used by this site that
many other websites fail to do online: stating the date of the next update
to the website,” said Keith R. Darnay of the Bismarck (ND) Tribune Online
about the Desert Journal’s website entry.
“People have come to expect daily updates at newspaper websites,
making weekly sites look old, outdated six out of seven days.
Unless a weekly plans to update its site daily, adding a “next
update” is the best solution for publication and web visitor,” Darnay
commented.
Johnson said he looks forward to
implementing the improvements suggested by Darnay, such as for re-arranging
the home page to bring headlines closer to the top and for making pages
download quicker.
“For some reason we didn’t get
comments from the Utah judge on our winning entry last year.
These comments from the North Dakota judge this year will prove to be
very valuable to us in terms of making our product better in the near
future,” Johnson said.
“I thank our first web guru, Vic
Arvizu, for doing the initial design of our website and then teaching me how
to maintain the online news service, which I have been doing from the start.
I really enjoy the website work and hope to continue for as long as
possible under the Desert Journal Online banner,” Johnson said. “I hope
also more Class 2 weeklies jump into the World Wide Web so they too can
begin to develop their full potential in the global market place.”
Desert Journal Online has grown from an
average of 231 visitors daily in 2002 to an average of 356 visitors daily so
far in 2003, for a 154 percent increase in visitation this year.
“In fact, Desert Journal Online just
reached its record high week - Oct. 20-26 - with a total of 3,816 visitors,
or an average of 545 visitors daily,” Johnson said.
Also so far this year (today, Oct. 27),
the website has received a total of 218,231 page views, 1,190,562 hits and
14.29 GB of bytes transferred.
The average visitor to Desert Journal
Online makes more than two full page views and more than 11 hits. They also
have been staying longer with the average length of visit recorded at 4:45
during the record high week this last week.
All of the statistics on the website are reported by Urchin Dedicated
3.3.
“Our audience is looking at more of
the 3,000+ files (photos and text pages) on our website, as well as are
staying longer this year than they did last year,” Johnson said. “We
think it’s because of the many improvements we made during the year.”
For example, the Desert Journal used to
create just one new headliners of the week page each week and updated two
other pages – the Community and Congressional pages. But since May, the Desert Journal has added a few more
sections including the Breaking News Page, Editorial Page, Sports/Outdoors
Page, New Mexico Arts & Culture Page, and the Writers Workshop Page,
most or all of which are updated frequently during the week, sometimes as
many as five times Monday through F8ulriday.
…Newspaper
Honors Too
All of the entries that won honors for the
Desert Journal newspaper are also posted online.
Bill Johnson
received 100 points for his two articles that placed first in the Columns
category. His column is titled “The Shadow Advisory” and the two winning
articles were headlined “Baggy is beautiful” (Jan. 10, 2003) and “An
editor’s eulogy to Cliff Gardner” (April 18, 2003).
“Good name! Good columns!” were the
only comments made by the judge, Allan Tinker of the McClusky Gazette, on
Johnson’s winning columns.
To view the award winning columns
online, click on the following links:
http://www.desertjournalonline.com/1-10-03%20Headliners.htm#9
http://www.desertjournalonline.com/4-18-03%20Headliners.htm#9
Johnson also scored 98 points for his two
articles that placed second in the News Writing category.
“I am pleased that I finally won an award for news writing – 25
years of hard work finally paid off,” Johnson said.
“The news writing category is one of the toughest contests to
win.”
His articles were headlined “The
Grinch Stole Christmas in Arrey” (Dec. 20, 2002) and “The War at Home
– Retired nurse of T or C gets clubbed during anti-war rally in
Albuquerque” (March 28, 2003).
“Grinch story very good – but
noticed the rape story [which was in the same issue as the Grinch story but
was not part of the entry] – VERY good,” the North Dakota judge said of
Johnson’s news writing entry.
To view the award winning articles
online, click on the following links:
http://www.desertjournalonline.com/12-20-02%20Headliners.htm#1
http://www.desertjournalonline.com/12-20-02%20Headliners.htm#2
http://www.desertjournalonline.com/3-28-03%20Headliners.htm#1
Lastly, but not least, Fred Mramor won second
place with a score of 91 points in the Investigative Reporting category for
his “Spanking” series involving parents in Hillsboro who find themselves
behind bars for disciplining their teenage daughter with an old-fashioned
spanking.
The articles in the series were titled
“Dad jailed after trying to spank teen” (Oct. 4, 2002), “The State can
raise our child” (Nov. 15, 2002), “No easy answers to parenting” (Nov.
29, 2002), and “Spanking case on hold a year” (Jan. 17, 2003).
“Generally well written with good
information on all of the implications of the case no matter which way it
goes,” said contest judges Lyle & Leza Van Camp of the Valley News
& Views of Mramor’s investigative reporting entry.
“Mramor has proven to be a solid
journalist who has taken several honors for both investigative reporting and
in-depth reporting over the years,” Johnson said.
To view Mramor’s winning series this
go around for 2003, click on the following links:
http://www.desertjournalonline.com/10-4-02%20Headliners.htm#1
http://www.desertjournalonline.com/11-15-02%20Headliners.htm#2
http://www.desertjournalonline.com/11-29-02%20Headliners.htm#2
http://www.desertjournalonline.com/1-17-03%20Headliners.htm#2
To date, the Desert Journal has won a total of
34 awards from the New Mexico Press Association’s Better Newspaper
Contests the last seven years. To view a listing of all of the Desert
Journal’s awards visit this page:
http://www.desertjournalonline.com/awards.htm
“We’re proud of our accomplishments although things
didn’t work out for our print newspaper for reasons of a poor economy and
health,” Johnson said.
“We hope to improve upon what we
have, and so far what we have is a double whammy of a winning website even
though victory was by default. That
fact should have no bearing on what we expect to accomplish in future years
and we hope our website continues to be a contender in future NMPA
contests,” he said.
“We encourage other small weekly
newspapers in our class to put forth their best efforts on a website that
reflects the best of their journalistic endeavors,” Johnson said.
“We know there are some good websites in our class already and we
just don’t understand why they chose to skip competing this year.”
The Taos News, which is a national
award winner and again won the general excellence category for Class 1
weeklies in the NMPA contest this year, also was the only paper in its class
to compete in the website contest this year. “The reason may be that the
contest is still young – this being the second annual contest – or that
other papers neither create nor maintain their own websites,” Johnson
said.
“The beauty of having an online news
service is that it can be maintained more frequently and more easily than a
weekly print newspaper, yet it begins to appear more and more like a daily.
And it attracts visitors from around the world,” Johnson said,
adding that the Desert Journal Online has seen visitors from more than 500
domain groups from more than 90 countries around the globe.
The only other award winner from Sierra
County was The Herald's Gerald Garner, who seized first place for sports
photo in the Class 1 weekly division (circulation over 3,000), beating
photographers from powerhouse Taos News. His action-packed rodeo shots have
earned him the top honors for sports photo two years in a row.
The Desert Journal received its awards
during the NMPA's 2003 Convention Awards Banquet held Saturday night, Oct.
25, at the Santa Ana Star Casino near Bernalillo, NM.
To see these awards (bigger photos) and
more, visit our AWARDS PAGE!
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(posted
10-27-03)
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Police
chief & sheriff say they
knew nothing of 9/11 witch hunt
‘We
said tough love, and tough love it is!’
–
Publisher Bill Johnson
Both Truth or
Consequences Police Chief Russell Peterson and Sierra County Sheriff David
Martinez said they knew nothing of the Sept. 11 meeting at which they were
to speak and at which the Desert Journal and other reputable business and
individuals were to be driven out of town.
The Desert Journal received in the e-mail
Monday an announcement
of a planned Sept. 11 attack against the Desert Journal and other
outstanding Sierra County business people and individuals.
"My message to these terrorists is
this: “I told you more than five months ago that tough love is on the way.
Now I’m telling you, tough love is here to stay!" said Bill Johnson,
editor and publisher of the Desert Journal.
The message was sent anonymously
and used incredulously the name of the Sheriff and Police Chief who said
earlier this week they have nothing to do with the group planning the Sept. 11 attack against the
Desert Journal, BigFoot Corporation or Big Food Express, and well-known local author Alan
Hodgkinson and his wife, Akata, and against her store, Grass Shack.
"The public notice is disguised
to have come from the ‘Christian Community of Sierra County, New Mexico’
but indeed I personally believe it has the blueprint of Satan’s deceptions
embalmed throughout its hate message against the good, honest, hard working
people of Sierra County who demand accountability from our public officials,
elected servants of We the People. Good honest people are being put in
harm’s way by cowardly people who can’t stand in the light and affix
their signature to this highly slanderous ‘Public Notice'," Johnson
said.
"These people must be confused
after the Desert Journal of Truth or Consequences recently released its
first published electronic book,
Satan’s Den Exposed – The David Parker Ray Story," Johnson
said.
“I’m in the business of
exposing lies, not creating them, and this public notice is so full of them.
It’s sad that some people will actually believe it and join in to do harm
to innocent people,” Johnson said.
"People who know Steve Gentry and
Tubulls of Big Food Express at Elephant Butte, Alan Hodgkinson, author of After
Incoming, his account of his life experiences as a Vietnam veteran, and
his wife Akata, owner of Grass Shack, a small shop on Main Street in Truth
or Consequences that features specialty gifts and grass wear from the South
Pacific, and me and my wife Teresa know we don’t do cowardly acts by
putting out anonymous notices," Johnson said.
Even Sheriff David Martinez and
Police Chief Peterson said they didn’t
know that they were going to be among the featured speakers at the Sept. 11
affair this Thursday at the Civic Center. “I’ve got a lot of other
things to worry about right now,” the Sheriff said Monday evening in
a phone interview.
T or C Police Chief Peterson said
Tuesday he too didn’t know about the Sept. 11 meeting until Monday when
the new Sierra County Sentinel reporter approached him about it. Peterson
said he told the reporter he knew nothing about the meeting and upon an
inquiry to city manager Richard Ramsey and Sierra County officials, none of
them knew about the meeting either because none of them received word or the
“public” notice.
Peterson said one of his employees in
the police department saw a flyer of the “Public Notice” on a desktop at
a local gas station, but when called Tuesday the store clerk said she
didn’t see any flyer as such (possibly because it had been removed).
Peterson said he didn’t appreciate
his name or title being used in the notice when no one even asked him to be
one of their featured speakers.
Chief Peterson said later Tuesday
afternoon Linda Butler approached him after his interview with the Desert
Journal. He said she asked him if he was going to be at the meeting.
Peterson said he told Butler he intends
to be at the meeting Thursday but only in the capacity of keeping the peace
and that he had no intentions of slandering anyone and therefore was not
going to be one of the guest speakers. He said he then asked why they would
publicize something like him being a guest speaker when it hadn’t been
brought to his attention firsthand.
The Public
Notice states (all statements in blue are the ‘Public Notice’ by
Anonymous; everything between in black is my response):
ANONYMOUS:
To the Christian Community of Sierra County, New Mexico
DESERT
JOURNAL (BILL JOHNSON, EDITOR & PUBLISHER): To the lovers of truth and
justice:
ANON: This
is an invitation to join together in prayer to stamp out the evil that is
plaguing this Community.
DJ: Amen!
Can’t disagree with such a noble cause!
The Elders
Oversight Committee is causing confusion and chaos by making suggestive
statements against Government, City and County Officials, private
organizations, Chamber of Commences (sic),
individuals and now the Christian Community. In their efforts to promote
hate via e-mails, flyers and US mail, they are reaching all the way to Santa
Fe and beyond.
Could this
be the beginnings of another Waco Cult? Tubulls and Steve Gentry of Big Foot
Express claim to have membership growing daily. Are these men preying on
young impressionable minds and on those who are not capable of making sound
decisions for themselves? Regardless, it’s nonsense and it must stop.
Hmm?
Let’s see now, driving out child pornography, exposing obstructions to the
public’s right to know concerning violations of the state’s Open
Meetings Act and alleged violations of the state’s Inspection of Public
Records Act… Uh, there’s the Satan’s Den Exposed book that exposes
Satanists in the community – how are these activities of a cult? These
sound like the concerns and works of concerned Americans wanting full
protection for their children, who are presently in danger of being exposed
to predators and child pornographers and the like – that is what these
good people of Sierra County have done for the rest of Sierra County
residents – exposed the evil which the anonymous evil doer would now
bestow upon us, We the Good People of Sierra County with Spotless Records!
As for
the Elders Oversight Committee, they’ll have to answer for themselves
since I am not a member - me, the author, Bill Johnson hasn’t even been
invited to be a member and that’s okay, I’m not Native American and I
think this committee’s positions should be reserved to those whom it
serves – The Good Native Americans of our State and Nation and The
Willing. Of course, I would be honored to serve in some ex-officio capacity
(no voting privileges) with the award winning skills and knowledge I’ve
accumulated over the years as my own publisher. But hate group? The guys who
wrote this piece are hateful and would harm innocent people who merely want
accountability from our government and our public servants. Also, those who
abuse their authority and commit crimes should be exposed. So what is our
crime, Mr. Coward who punches in the dark at his own evil shadow?
The
membership and consorts to the Native American Elders Oversight Committee
identified so far, are Tubulls and Steve Gentry of Big Foot Express, Allan (sic)
and Akada (sic)
Hodkinson of the Grass Shack and Bill and Theresa (sic)
Johnson of the Desert Journal.
I thought
I already said I wasn’t a member. Although my wife is not registered, she
could possibly qualify being at least 1/8th Cherokee, but she too
is not a member and she probably would decline membership. So you buttheads
better back off my wife now! She has nothing to do with any of the
questioning, which is desirable in a Free Democracy, as is I’m sure would
be Akata’s case too. Nonetheless, we the people reserve the right to
question any and all public servants who think they are OUR authorities.
Wrong, We the People, we’re their boss, we tell them what to do (lawfully,
that is, we wouldn’t have them disrespect their titles).
All of
these people seem to have a vendetta against Government, Christians, Native
New Mexicans and anyone trying to accomplish something positive for the
Community. Are they driven by Satan? Or do they hate for the simple pleasure
of it?
We carry
out no vendetta – we don’t leave silver bullets in dissenting
citizens’ mailboxes, like some community leaders do here when they’re
under scrutiny. We only want answers - answers they have failed to provide
that justify their reckless spending habits from the public trough, their
crimes against other citizens, and now an explanation for this slander! And
slander is of the devil. Satan is the father of all lies. You twist our
concern into hate and try to justify your cause lumping in Christians and
Native New Mexicans (most of which my family is, you idiot!) to your cause.
And hate must seem relatively easy for the author of this public notice,
cowardly SOB that he is! It’s obvious he’s some kind of coalition
builder. Nice try, buddy, but the many good citizens of Sierra County
won’t buy it.
Unfortunately,
this movement of hate is being done under the pretense of Native Americans
which is dishonorable and wrong.
I don’t
get it. I just don’t see it. Explain yourself, or are you a moron, too?
The
solution is unity prayer. We are calling on our Christian Leaders for
guidance and inspiration. We need to drive these evil doers from our
community. We will have many Church Leaders, Elected Officials, the Police
Chief, Sheriff and business leaders to speak on resolution to end this
hatred before it gets worse or even violent as they have suggested.
Place: The
Civic Center
Time: 6:30
P.M.
Day:
Thursday
Date:
September 11, 2003
Well, the
Sheriff and Police Chief said earlier this
week they
weren't even aware of this meeting until either being notified by the Desert
Journal or Sentinel. Nonetheless, I’m calling on all lovers of
truth and justice to show up in support of the people who are targets of
anonymous terrorists, who lurk in darkness slaying the reputations of good,
honest individuals of Sierra County, who call for preservation of truth and
justice. What is Truth or Consequences if it lacks the Truth? This notice is
nothing but a lie. We (the targets, the victims of this hateful cause) have
proven ourselves before the world community and the world community is
looking in on us now. We’ll be there with our friends and the cameras, I
hope, will be rolling while shining their bright lights to expose the truth.
I said before that tough love is coming and I’ll tell you now, tough love
is here to stay. We no longer will tolerate the evil, the transgressions
that have been allowed and sanctioned for so many years, the poisoning of
our children’s minds and bodies with the rampant methamphetamine trade and
the sexual abuse that have become this community’s trademarks. We want
change, we want positive change and we want to drive cowards like the author
of this unsigned Public Notice out of town.
Two years
ago, we Americans came together as a Nation and vowed to fight terrorism and
kept this Country free and safe for all Americans. When Evil shows it’s (sic)
ugly face at home or abroad it is our obligation as Americans to do
something positive about it. This is our opportunity to show the New Mexico
that the people of Sierra County are God fearing and will not tolerate this
kind of counter culture activity in our Community.
Please
come and show your support. Darkness can not thrive where there is light.
Is that
why you lurk in the darkness not signing your name to this slanderous
letter? We have shown light and have exposed darkness but your twisted mind
is deceptive like Satan’s and would cause injury and harm to innocent
people - the Johnsons, the Hodgkinsons, Steve Gentry and Tubulls. All of
these people are known to be industrious, hard working people who have
earned the respect of either their customers or their peers or their
community, who are among the most intelligent of the county’s and even the
country’s lot, and deserve answers to tough questions. God bless them and
God bless All of America! But not you slanderous, treacherous fool(s) who
wrote this evil, hateful notice. And I doubt you are there when you see all
of the people you slandered there ready to confront our invisible
detractors. But I have a very good feeling for who you are and the
motivation that drives you to write this very hateful letter because you
yourself have been exposed for what you are – a yellow belly coward not
worthy of my respect.
So
that’s it, folks, the notice and my response, all in one neat corner of
our internet world, now growing daily by leaps and bounds with visitors from
around the country and world. And
I encourage everyone who can to be there for the dog and pony show that they
(the anonymous cowards) will dare to sponsor in our great presence Thursday.
–
Not afraid to sign anything I write,
–
Bill Johnson,
Editor and Publisher
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9-10-03)
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Desert
Journal's e-book
available for purchase online
Sales
also offered at seven area outlets
Satan's
Den Exposed - The David Parker Ray Story, released last month by the
Desert Journal, is finally available for purchase online this website. To
celebrate this event, the Desert Journal is offering the true crime book to
the public with the Desert Journal to cover shipping costs.
The e-book
is now available either by paying online or by mail order for the compact
disc (CD) version or by paying online only for the e-mail download
version (no CD included).
The CD e-book
also is available for sale at six Sierra County outlets
including: the Hillsboro Garage & Grocery
on the west end of Hillsboro, NM, on the main highway, and at five outlets in
Truth or Consequences, NM: Tattoos by Leroy, 111 N. Date St.; Grass Shack, 111 Main St.; Smith's Office Supply,
326 Broadway; Country Store
Outlet, 413 Main St.; and Black Cat Books & Coffee, 128 Broadway.
Released
Aug. 21 by its author and publisher, the Desert Journal of Truth or
Consequences, NM, the e-book contains 118 magazine size pages
with more than 45 color photographs.
“The Desert
Journal has produced what I believe is the greatest of its journalistic
works ever," said Bill Johnson, editor and publisher of the Desert
Journal. "It is our original works on the David Parker Ray Trail of Sexual Torture
case at New Mexico's largest state park, Elephant Butte Lake."
Best yet,
it contains a couple or few offbeat, yet very relevant and compelling themes
and story lines - some never told before and even current - that will shock
the readers out of their seats, according to Johnson.
"This book
is about deception, betrayal and survival, but no one will forget about the
rape victims' cries for help again after they've read this thriller, spanning
four and half years of intensive investigation," Johnson said.
Satan's
Den Exposed takes readers from the inception when
David Ray's case busted wide open in March 1999 all of the way to current
discoveries and findings about the case through the summer 2003.
The
infamous case involves kidnapping, rape, torture and murder in Southern
Mexico and beyond, becoming known
throughout the nation and worldwide.
“We take the
reader through a maze of the most bizarre crime stories,” Johnson said.
This book
reveals the truths and facts behind the David Parker Ray
story covering not only the kingpin of sexual sadists but also his
accomplices in crime including his daughter Jessy Ray, his girlfriend Cindy Hendy
and his friend “Toy Boy” Roy Yancy, who was convicted of murdering Marie Parker in
1997.
Satan's
Den Exposed - The David Parker Ray Story is edited and illustrated by Johnson. It features the
works of the investigative reporting team of Bill Johnson, Fred Mramor and
David Pierre.
More than
half of the works in this e-book is already a prize
winner. The Desert
Journal’s team of Johnson, Mramor and Pierre nabbed first place in the
Investigative Reporting category of the New Mexico Press Association’s 1999
Better Newspaper Contest, judged that year by the Oklahoma Press
Association.
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David Ray case
still
an open book
Many loose ends to tie up
David Parker Ray
By Bill Johnson of the Desert Journal
August 18, 2003
Cindy Hendy again tried to
challenge the sentencing passed onto her for her role in the kidnapping,
rape and torture of two women in February and March 1999 but the judge
recently ordered her to continue serving her 36-year prison term.
Former
Assistant District Attorney Jim Yontz intervened on behalf of Hendy during
the hearing on the motion to reduce sentencing before District Judge Kevin
Sweazea based on the fact she cooperated with police and prosecutors from
the start after her arrest in late March 1999. The hearing was held about
two weeks ago in the state district court in Truth or Consequences.
Specifically,
Yontz told the court that Hendy gave the prosecution two homicides and that
she had given more information on major crimes than anyone he ever dealt
with - both as a police officer and as a prosecuting attorney.
Sgt. Rich
Libicer, supervisor in charge of the New Mexico State Police Criminal
Investigation Section in Las Cruces who was in charge of the David Ray
investigation at Elephant Butte in 1999, said today that as part of Hendy’s
plea agreement, she was to provide information to investigators regarding
the case. “But she hasn’t done that,” Libicer said during a phone interview
Monday.
Libicer said
Hendy, who was David Ray’s accomplice and girlfriend, may have thought the
information she gave police was valid. “But it was not.”
Asked about
which homicides Yontz was referring to, Libicer said he didn’t know exactly
because he wasn’t at the hearing.
He said,
however, Hendy offered information on the Marie Parker murder case, to which
Roy Yancy plead guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. “However,
her information didn’t pan out that way,” Libicer said.
With Judge
Sweazea’s ruling, Hendy will serve more time in prison than any of the other
three defendants in the case, having pled guilty to kidnapping and rape
charges. Although David Ray was sentenced to 224 years in prison, he died
after serving only three years and his daughter, Jessy Ray, was allowed to
go free with time served and with five years of probation. And Hendy’s
prison term will continue 16 years after Yancy’s prison term expires for
murdering Parker, a mother of two young children.
Libicer also
clarified some of the more controversial points of the case, such as
statements that someone other than Yancy killed Parker. He said leads that
pointed at Pablo Nuanes, who has never been named a suspect in the Parker
murder case, went no where.
Libicer said
Yancy confessed to the crime of murdering Parker and that he (Libicer) was
there during the police interview with Yancy. Despite what two books and
other sources have said about the case, Libicer said that to his knowledge
there were no photographs taken of the murder incident at the time it
happened and that there were no guns involved in a threat.
Libicer said
Yancy stated to police investigators that both Jessy and David Ray were
present at the time he strangled Marie Parker to death in Ray’s toy box
after she had been held there for two days and two nights in captivity.
“There was no
gun but there were implied threats. “Yancy said he was afraid of David Ray.
His story is David Ray (not Jessy Ray as reported in Cries in the Desert
by John Glatt) ordered Yancy to kill Marie,” the state police agent said.
But Libicer
said he’s skeptical about Yancy’s statement. “I don’t think Yancy was afraid
of David Ray. What we believe is that Yancy killed Marie Parker.”
However,
Libicer said police so far haven’t been able to prove probable cause that
Yancy may have been involved in the homicide of Kenneth Lee Lane, whose body
was found Jan. 1, 1996, inside his rock house apartment on West Second
Street in Truth or Consequences after neighbors smelled his badly decomposed
remains through a wall heater in their adjoining apartment.
At the time T
or C City Police ruled Lane’s death as a suicide, although Detective
Priscilla Torrez at the time told the neighbors she at first thought it was
a murder.
Yancy was
connected to the case because he, along with Jessy Ray, were Lane’s only
known visitors and because Yancy had visited Lane four or five days before
Lane’s body was found in his apartment.
One neighbor
said Lane usually accompanied Yancy when Yancy would leave Lane’s apartment
but not this particular time and that Lane’s motorcycle sat still in one
spot for days – which was very unusual - until it was discovered he was
dead.
Lane’s death
was ruled to be from metallic poisoning in which nuts and bolts were found
in his stomach and a door knob in his rectum. There were also signs of a
struggle and injuries, with blood splattered on the walls, according to the
neighbors.
“Yancy was
questioned in length about Kenneth Lane,” Sgt. Libicer said today. “The case
has the earmark of homicide rather than suicide,” he said.
Evidence
during the initial investigation by city police, however, was destroyed and
it will be difficult to prove without a confession, which Yancy would not
provide, according to Libicer.
Also in
speaking about possible homicide connected to the case, Libicer said one of
Jessy Ray’s acquaintances or friends in Albuquerque, Jill Troia, was
reported missing in July 1996, about the time that Jessy Ray moved to
Elephant Butte and before she and her father abducted Kelly.
It would be
the same month that Jessy Ray provided a guest editorial to the Desert
Journal for publication (see at end of book). The article she wrote is about
her frustration in getting help for Ziggy the bird that got injured at
Elephant Butte Lake.
Libicer said
Troia is still missing to this day.
“The entire
case (involving both Rays, Yancy and Hendy) is still open,” Libicer said.
“We still follow up leads when they come in on that case.”
Regarding
bodies that may have been buried in Elephant Butte Lake in connection with
David Ray’s part in the case, Libicer said search and rescue divers have
made no attempts since their last intensive search in November 2002.
“I was on the
diving team for seven years. It’s hard to locate a person’s body in such a
massive body of water,” he said.
“A sweep
search (in which agents hold a line to sweep an area on the bottom of the
lake) is not practical for our team in Elephant Butte Lake. You need a
specific area to search,” he said.
Regarding the
burlap bag of human remains that were found floating on the lake in the wake
of the investigation, Libicer said the bag contained just flesh - no meat
and no bones.
He said the
DNA lab got a DNA profile for the remains. “It was an adult human, probably
a female, but we have nothing to compare it to,” he said. He said the
comparison would be made with other DNA samples that came from, for example,
a missing person, but there are none so far.
Apparently
the remains don’t belong to Marie Parker, whose body has not yet been found
although Yancy attempted unsuccessfully to show investigators a burial place
in an arroyo or canyon north of T or C and east of the lake after his arrest
in April 1999.
Besides the
Parker murder, the only other possible homicide that Hendy could have helped
police with is that of the unsolved case involving victim Billy Ray Bowers,
who was David Ray’s boss at Canal Motors in Phoenix, AZ, at the time he
ended up missing in the late 1980s, according to Libicer.
A year later
the body of a John Doe rose to the surface of Elephant Butte Lake wrapped in
blue tarpaulin and with a boat anchor or two. Police found that Bowers had
been executed – shot in the back of the head with a bullet – before being
dumped in the lake. The body’s identity wasn’t known until 10 years later
and until a week after David Ray’s arrest in March 1999.
“The Bowers
case is still under investigation,” Libicer said. If Ray is found to have
been responsible there will be no way to prove it in court of law since he’s
dead.
Libicer said
searches for bodies of possible homicide victims have not been confined to
Elephant Butte Lake. “Teams also have checked caves and mine shafts,” he
said, “but found nothing.”
“Eventually,
something is going to surface, especially with a case of this magnitude.
It’s just a matter of time,” Agent Libicer said.
Libicer
acknowledged some involvement of the occult or occult related crimes
(ritualistic and self-styled) in the case, but he said he doesn’t believe
David Ray could be dubbed a Satanists.
”David Ray
used the occult as a measure of control over his victims. He was around weak
minded people and used fear to control them,” Libicer said.
But Yancy did
have a known history of being involved in the occult, despite his brother’s
denials, as a youth and possibly later as an adult through his associations.
“Yancy was
one of those people who David Ray associated with. I’m sure some people
around [David Ray] were involved (in the occult or occult related crimes),”
Libicer said.
Lastly,
Libicer said he has found no signs of dismemberment or snuff films (of rape
related murders) from among the thousand pieces of evidence that police
seized from Ray’s home and toy box – where the sign that read “Satan’s Den”
hung - more than four years ago.
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Sierra County’s first child
porn possession case dropped |
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James Bryant (far right
with glasses) sits among acquaintances in Truth or Consequences several
years before he reportedly committed suicide in the wake of a state police
investigation that uncovered his appetite for pornographic books and
videotapes that exploited children as well as snuff films that were found
inside his home. According to Agent Norman Rhoades in court documents he
filed, Bryant delved in sexual fantasies involving babies, playing the role
with his lover, Anthony Rodriguez of Las Cruces. Questions are yet
unanswered as to whether Bryant actually engaged in sexual relations with
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Solid case 'lacks evidence
to prove elements'
By Bill Johnson of the Desert Journal
The state has dismissed its first
case of child pornography possession in Sierra County because of a lack of
evidence, Deputy District Attorney Tim Garner said today.
As such, Anthony Rodriquez, 36, a resident of Las
Cruces who was living in Truth or Consequences, will avoid facing justice on
a fourth degree felony charge of sexual exploitation of children.
Garner said the dismissal was granted by the
Seventh Judicial District Court in T or C a couple of months ago after he
requested it.
“After a review of the case, I found that the
evidence didn’t prove the elements we’re required to prove. There were no
actual children we could prove were involved in this case,” said Garner,
whose predecessor, June Stein, originally approved of the charges to be
filed.
Garner said a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling
also requires that the state must have live victims that could be identified
in child porn possession cases. Writings and photographs must be things that
actually happened with a young child before a case is considered valid,
Garner said.
“You can’t be prosecuted for your own
imagination,” Garner said.
The case actually began as an offshoot of the
David Parker Ray trail of sexual torture case in Elephant Butte nearly four
and a half years ago and it focused not on Rodriquez, but on his homosexual
lover James Bryant, who reportedly committed suicide earlier this year at
his residence in Las Cruces at 1421 Wyoming St.
Supervising Agent Norman Rhoades of the New Mexico
State Police Criminal Investigation Section in Las Cruces filed the charge
against Rodriquez in March, although the case for the police detective dated
back to April 19, 1999, about a month after the infamous case involving
David Ray broke.
According to the court briefs Rhoades filed in
court, James Bryant had maintained books and videotapes containing child
pornography and snuff-films inside his residence. The agent also learned
Bryant delved in sexual fantasies involving babies, playing the role with
his lover Rodriquez.
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