to a different level and each level it went up to it became more overwhelming. and then i began to wonder where s it going to end? i know that he ended up giving me a rope and telling me to strangle her. and she wasn t dying fast enough. okay, but you say she wasn t dying fast enough. was she struggling or yeah, she was struggling. we have no doubt that his statement was accurate. his details were such that it s unquestionable roy yancey killed marie parker. i was told not to tell anybody anything or i was going to be killed and thrown in a ditch. and who told you that? david. if roy yancy could take the police to where marie parker s body had been dumped, they d have the evidence to link ray to murder and a much stronger case. coming up, the search for marie parker s body begins in the new mexico desert. we felt that if we were able to locate this body, it was going to be a domino effect. everyone have their new blackberry from at&t?
after a two-week trial the jury retired to consider whether kelly s testimony and the video were enough to find ray guilty. kelly s the one who the jury has to believe in order for them to return a guilty verdict. i didn t think there was going to be any way that a jury would come back with a not guilty verdict in this. when they finally made a decision and everybody got back to the courtroom, i knew it was going to be a guilty verdict. it had to have been a guilty verdict. they fooled me. on july 13th, 2000, the jury announced they were unable to reach a verdict. two female jurors did not buy kelly s testimony. the judge declared a mistrial. coming up, the state retries the ray case with a new judge, a new jury and new evidence.
spine. as far as i m concerned, you are a pretty piece of meat. be smart and be a survivor. have a nice day. the second trial judge had an entirely different view of that evidence and ruled differently than the first one. it was a very powerful piece of evidence. this was essentially a confession. while the audiotape was a crucial piece of evidence, the case still relied on the personal testimony of kelly van cleave. we tested her credibility in the fire of cross-examination and trial twice. her life must have been hell. i think it was harder the second time than it was the first time because i had already been there. i already had to tell my story to thousands of people i didn t know.
so smart in the sense these guys are creative, they do a lot of planning before the event, they re very manipulative, able often to do the kind of talking that gets a victim who might not otherwise go with him into his clutches. ray s toy box revealed detailed evidence of a long campaign of sadistic sexual violence. the consensus was pretty clear that there were going to be additional victims here. for example, the utility trailer was taken apart virtually, and we collected trinkets, rings, necklaces, jewelry. they came from somebody. despite police appeals for more victims to come forward, the escaped 21-year-old woman remained the only known victim. but with her checkered past, her credibility might be questioned in court. somebody as methodical as david parker ray in planning this kind of case has picked his victims well.
he wants to hide bodies or whatever. he had access to every nook and cranny of elephant butte state park. he had access to areas that are kept under lock and key, that keep the public away from, but to which he had access. despite compelling evidence the state s rape and kidnapping case against david parker ray had problems. the best witness had a patchy memory. and unless bodies could be found somehow somewhere, there was a chance that justice might be denied. coming up, an accomplice of david parker ray confesses to murder. how did you come up with the idea to kill marie? it was david ray parker s idea. the droid razr by motorola.