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
you ve got a living witness. she s saying something happened and it happened without her consent. so it s an entire different process. there are many prosecutors who tell you right out they would try 50 murder cases to every sexual assault case. it s a different, different kind of case. but with no bodies, prosecutors had no choice but to try ray for the kidnapping and sexual torture of kelly van cleve. the trial began june 29th, 2000. ray s fate now lay in the hands and credibility of van cleve. i didn t want to go to court. i didn t want to face him. but i did it. he couldn t be out on the streets any longer. i had to do it. because i had to do what i could to save other women. as kelly took the stand, ray
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
non-threatening. 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 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