kidnapping case against ray was on shaky ground. the good news for investigators, was that one of his victims, kelly van cleave, was recalling more and more of what happened to her. on july, 1996, she had been abducted from this once bustling bar on the outskirts of truth or consequences, new mexico. we rounded up a bunch of friends and went bar hopping. this where is we ended up. we always ended up here. no matter where we started, this is where we quit. and at the end of the evening, it was just me and jessi. jessi ray, david s daughter. jessi ray had told kelly she would give her a lift home. instead, she drove kelly to her father s house. the fact that it was his own daughter kidnapping just shows the depth of his resolve when it came to this behavior, and also showed his lack of emotional
she s a woman that disappeared about two years ago, and i just thought i d ask you, have the opportunity to ask to see if have you any information that you could provide me with that. you know, with marie parker, we knew he was involved but we didn t have enough evidence or information to pin anything on him. she s the one that disappeared from one of the bars? yes, sir. i know of the incident. that s all. you weren t a part of that, by chance, were you? certainly not. on the night marie disappeared, jessi ray had been at the bar with a friend of her father s, roy yancey, who also knew marie parker. the police decided to ask some roy some questions. the story that roy gave was that marie had in fact been a victim of david pay, that that she had been abducted. while she was in the toy box, she was systematically tortured over a period of a couple of days. how did you come up with the idea to kill marie?
abduction. it wasn t the only time a young woman had gone missing from that bar. in july, 1997, one year after kelly s abduction, another friend of jessi s, marie parker, also disappeared from the same bar. it was almost midnight. she said she was going to go home and check on her kids. she d be right back. by the time the bar closed at 2:00, she still wasn t there and her car was still there. so but somebody said jessi followed marie out. no one heard from marie parker again. she was 21. she had two little girls. there was no way she was going to leave her kids. i knew something had happened. for authorities, the similarities between kelly s abduction and marie s disappearance did not seem merely coincidental. ever heard of a woman named marie parker? not really, no.
involvement with just about anybody or anything. it s much more common for sexual sadists to work alone. they tend to isolate themselves. they ve got a separate space, whether it s an apartment, a trailer, a whole separate space where they do their bad things. so it s unusual for them, in the overwhelming number of cases to have co-defendants, partners. i find it very unusual a grown adult daughter was one of david parker ray s accomplices. i just remember being on her couch, her dad s couch. that s when they held the knife to my throat, put the dog collar on and duct tape and handcuffs. and i ended up tied to a table. jessi, do you have anything to say this morning? kelly s testimony led to another arrest, of jessi ray, for her role in kelly s
that tattoo i had is unique. nobody else has it. kelly van cleve was a 25-year-old child care worker who knew ray s daughter, jessi, but she had no recollection of ever going to ray s house and no idea why the fbi had a picture of her tattoo. they told me that it came off of a video they found in david s house. toy box as they called it. it was weird. and i was scared. initially, it was clear that she was having difficulty remembering everything that had happened to her in the utility trailer and in her experience with david. before the fbi contacted me, i used to have nightmares of being tied to a table, or handcuffs, or duct tape scared me. but i couldn t never put any of