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The David Parker Ray Story
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PHOTO
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David Parker Ray Investigative
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Executed and
dumped - In photo above, the body of Billy Ray Bowers of Phoenix, AZ, is
found floating on Elephant Butte Lake in September 1989. Police said Bowers
was executed - shot in the back of the head before his body was wrapped with
boat anchors in blue tarpaulin then dumped in Elephant Butte Lake about a
year before his body gassed up and emerged to the surface. Two fishermen
found the body floating on the lake on the east side in the Kettle Top area.
In photo, state police, sheriff's deputies and ambulance personnel greet the
boat that slowly dragged the body across the water a few miles. Bowers' body
was left unidentified as a "John Doe" for nearly 10 years or until after the
March 1999 arrest of David Parker Ray, a mechanic and maintenance worker for
Elephant Butte Lake State Park who lived on a state park lease lot at the
lake. However, before he came to New Mexico to live and work, David Ray was
connected to Billy Ray Bowers - Bowers was Ray's supervisor at Canal Motors
in Phoenix, AZ. The mystery remains as to who committed the execution and
dumped Bowers' body in New Mexico's biggest reservoir. But it wasn't the
first body dumped there since a middle-aged woman, Janis Pulliam of
Albuquerque, was found in the lake with a gas can roped around her ankle and
filled with sand, yet another unsolved murder mystery that occurred just
before Bowers' body was discovered. David Ray once told his daughter Jessy
Ray's friend Becky that if she ever wanted to get rid of her boyfriend, she
could dispose of his body by cutting open his chest, filling it with rocks,
then securing the body with chicken wire and dumping it in the lake...
These are the
photos of the criminals and many of the players involved in extensive cases
of kidnapping, rape and torture of three young women who lived to tell their
tales of days and nights of hell with one of the most evil criminals of the
era. Dr. Michael Stone, forensic psychiatrist, deems David Ray among the
most evil criminals on his "Most Evil" series aired recently on the
Discovery Times television channel.
The case came to
light when David Ray's last victim Cynthia Vigil broke free of bondage and
ran naked on the dirty and dusty roads in the Hot Springs Landing lease lot
area of the state park seeking safety after a few days of horror with Ray
and his girlfriend Cindy Hendy. Ray was buying a prostitute on Albuquerque
streets when he showed Cynthia a badge, handcuffed her and threw her in his
paddy wagon while Hendy held her at gunpoint. The case eventually
erupted in the discovery of yet two more kidnap, rape and torture victims,
the death of a third - the mother of two - and more suspects arrested.
The entire case
is well documented in Satan's Den Exposed - The David Parker Ray Story
by the Desert Journal's award winning investigative reporting team of Bill
Johnson, Fred Mramor and David Pierre. The book is available both
electronically and in print (see ad in left border area). This month of
March 2008 is the ninth anniversary of the case coming to light and to
memorialize this moment in history, we are showing our photos (many
contained in our newspaper and our book and some never published before).
Desert Journal photos by David Pierre and Bill Johnson. |
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David Ray doing
the perpwalk with Lt. Earl Easterling and Sheriff Terry Byers on the way to
his first appearance in magistrate court in Truth or Consequences. |
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Mark Horner of
Channel 13 News was the only other journalist taking among the first
pictures in this case. Many others would follow. |
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Sierra County
Jail Administrator Russ Peterson leads Cindy Hendy to her first appearance
in magistrate court. Jailer Jeff Fields holds door open. |
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Field
investigation crime scene tape |
Back side of
Ray's trailer
Somewhere is his toy box - the place where he tortured his sex slaves. |
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FBI evidence
processor checking every square inch |
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Here comes the
press! |
Backyard search
adds to the pile of more than a thousand pieces of evidence collected from
the David Ray lease lot. |
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FBI agent in
charge Doug Beldon stages press conference outside Ray's fence line. |
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Town hall meeting
in Truth or Consequences City Council Chambers so state public safety
officials including DPS secretary Darren White and NMSP Captain Frank Taylor
could discuss how safe the community is after their capture of dangerous
criminals and to explain the huge police and media presence. |
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Dennis Roy Yancy
doing the perpwalk with Jail Administrator Russ Peterson (right) and Jailer
Jeff Fields (left) flanking him. |
District Attorney
Ron Lopez briefs the press about the status of the criminal cases
accumulated thus far. |
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Glenda Jean "Jessy"
Ray accused of delivering a victim - Kelly Van Cleave - to Jessy's dad David
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New Mexico State
Police Criminal Investigations Agent Norman Rhoades of Las Cruces handles
Jessy's case. |
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Dennis Roy Yancy
accused of killing Marie Parker, mother of two young children - the only
homicide in the entire case that resulted in conviction. |
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Cold-hearted orb
that rules the night... - Moody Blues |
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Jessy Ray and
friend Cindy Hicks in 1996 shop at Wild Bill's - a mule-pack wagon vendor
while on Austin Avenue in front of the Desert Journal's office. |
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Pablo Nuanes
(right) says he loved Marie Parker like a sister and after she disappeared
during the July 4th holiday 1997 after partying with friends at the lake
including him, he hung up her missing person poster everywhere in an attempt
to find her. |
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Josh Bond of
Cuchillo -
www.cynicarts.com -created this
parody art to mark the David Ray era. The artwork was photographed by David
Pierre of the Desert Journal and is the cover art for Satan's Den Exposed
- The David Parker Ray Story by the Desert Journal.
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Besides the lake,
bodies possibly could be found in dynamited mine shafts like this one in the
nearby Caballo Mountains. State Police divers on a couple or few occasions
have been unsuccessful in their attempts to find human bodies on the bottom
of Elephant Butte Lake. Photo courtesy of Joseph Cummins
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Most of these
photos were never before published on this website. To see more photos or
stories about the latter part of this case, see the following links:
NEWS STORIES
ON THIS WEBSITE THAT ARE INCLUDED IN BOOK, SATAN'S DEN EXPOSED...*
(Click on links to view pages):
7-6-01 Headliners#1 - David Ray enters plea
9-21-01 Headliners#7 - David Parker
Ray sentenced to 224 years
9-21-01 Headliners#2 - Jessy Ray
goes free
2-1-02
Headliners.htm#1
- Humor column - T or C as seen on the internet)
5-31-02 Headliners.htm#3
- David Ray dies after three years served
11-22-02 Headliners.htm#4
- Agents seek closure on David Ray case
2-14-03 Headliners.htm#9
- Column - Second David Ray book is more fiction than fact
2-28-03 Headliners.htm#9
- Column - Orgytown, USA: Do you know where your kids are tonight?
3-7-03 Headliners.htm#9
- Column - Sierra County has lots more to offer than stigma attached to
David Ray
3-21-03 Headliners.htm#1
- (Investigation reveals new activity) T or C's first child porn possession
case unfolds
8-18-03 - 11-21-03 News.htm#17
- Sierra County's first child porn possession case dropped
8-18-03 - 11-21-03 News.htm#16
- David Ray case still an open book
* The online stories
do not include the articles published from March 1999 through May 2001 in
the Desert Journal newspaper.
ARTICLES OR ITEMS THAT ARE NOT INCLUDED
IN BOOK, SATAN'S DEN EXPOSED...
Satan's Den Exposed - The David
Parker Ray Story Promo
http://www.desertjournalonline.com/awards.htm#2
- Publisher of Satan's Den Exposed disputes Jack Swickard's statement
http://www.desertjournalonline.com/breaking_news.htm#2
- The Maury Show features New Mexico's notorious sex torture convict, David
Parker Ray
8-18-03 - 11-21-03 News.htm#5
- Desert Journal's e-book available for purchase online
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3-29-08) |
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