ray claimed that the woman had agreed to a session of rough bondage. okay. was she a willing participant or did she not want to do it? she was willing. okay. at ray s house the police began a search of seemingly innocuous white trailer in the backyard. there was medical equipment everywhere. drills, modified drills with sexual devices on them, and cages. i mean, it was just this unbelievable-looking den. this was a torture chamber. this torture chamber, dubbed the toy box by ray, showed a high level of ingenuity and how a human mind can go horribly astray. one of those called in on the case was fbi profiler mary ellen o toole. the police and any other
that the sex became kinkier as she stayed longer and that he cleaned her up and sent her home at the end of it. it is what is known as the blame the victim defense. blame the victim techniques have often worked well. again, if juries can criticize some aspect of the victim s conduct, and that goes from in the old days the way she was dressed, whether she voluntarily ingested drugs, whether she had sex for money, whether she wasn t a choir girl, that will often, especially in a case where there s a sexual element, and a view that you as the defense attorney can convince the jury that this young woman willingly went with the offender, that can be a big hurdle against conviction. just lies, i think that was the most difficult part, was all
with a smug look on his face. and it pissed me off. he acted like he was totally innocent and he had done nothing wrong. i didn t want to cry and let him know how much he hurt me. i didn t want to be his victim. that was difficult. kelly explained what she could remember of her ordeal in the toy box. but under cross-examination she was attacked rigorously. the defense point of view has to be in this case that she s not a credible witness and therefore should not be believed because she couldn t remember what happened. you sit up there on the stand and wonder, are these guys going to believe me? david s story was that she came over quite willingly, that they had some beers, and that she had consensual sex.
on march 22nd, 1999 the local police received a call that would open a case far more shocking than anything they had seen before or have seen since. 911. the call came from a panicked homeowner. a 21-year-old woman, hysterical with fear, burst into the caller s house totally nude, wearing only a metal dog collar and dragging a six-foot chain. i m calling for a young lady that ran into the house and said she s just been raped. she s got a chain on her and everything. please send someone right away. so the officers arrived on the scene. cynthia is telling them, don t let them get me. they kidnapped me. they tied me up, they raped me. the officers, of course, who and where and all these questions are coming up in their minds, and sometimes it s really difficult to get answers from a frantic person. the woman had a troubled past. she was a prostitute with a drug addiction.
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. and that first jury didn t believe me. on april 16th, 2001, after a week long trial, the second jury retired to deliberate.