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
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that were performed there without being able to locate any evidence that we could connect definitively to the parker ray investigation. david had the perfect job if he wants to hide bodies or whatever. he had access to every nook and cranny of elephant butte state park, access to areas kept under lock and key to keep the public away from, but to which he had access. despite compelling evidence, the state s rape and kidnap case against david parker ray had problems. the best witness had a patchy memory. 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. i m more of an absentee plant parent. [ cellphone rings ] tuscaloosa? schenectady. des moines. ok. ok. ok.
credibility might be questioned in court. somebody as methodical as david parker ray in planning this kind of case has picked his victims well. these are victims less likely to be believed if and when they get to a law enforcement person to tell their story and far less likely to be missed if they disappear and are gone. police had a hunch ray would want to document his crimes. it made sense to believe and was logical to deduce that there were videotapes somewhere, and many, many were found. there were probably 100, at least a hundred. maybe just maybe the tapes would lead police to a more credible witness. most of the tapes contained little, but one had just what the police were hoping for. you see a youngish blond haired woman with david, strapped down naked. he s standing over top of her or kneeling next to her at all times, he s constantly touching her.
it was david lee parker s idea. it s pretty remarkable. it just seemed like it went up to date of level and each level it went up to, it became more overwhelming and i began to wonder, where s it going to end. and then they 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 his statement was accurate. his details were such 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. who told you that? david. if roy yancey could take the police to where marie parker s body had been dumped, they d have evidence to link ray to murder and a much stronger case. coming up, the search for marie