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Though, with more interviews, we would have been able to get him to tell us more about the prior crimes. but unfortunately, he died of a heart attack going to state prison. >> before his sudden death, ray had served only eight months of his 224-year sentence. the american legal system had been severely tested by the ray case. in the end, was justice done? >> i think to get this torturer and murderer off the streets, certainly was justice being done, to have him found guilty by a jury finally was...

To a different level and each level it went up to it became more overwhelming. and then i began to wonder wheres it going to end? >> i know that he ended up giving me a rope and telling me to strangle her. and she wasnt dying fast enough. >> okay, but you say she wasnt 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 its unquestionable roy yancey killed marie parker. >> i was told not to tell ...

>> after a two-week trial the jury retired to consider whether kellys testimony and the video were enough to find ray guilty. >> kellys the one who the jury has to believe in order for them to return a guilty verdict. i didnt 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....

>> 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 rays 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" b...

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 victims 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 wasnt a choir girl, that will often, especially in a case where the...

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 didnt want to cry and let him know how much he hurt me. i didnt 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 shes not a credible witness and therefore should not be believed because she couldn...

>> 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 callers house totally nude, wearing only a metal dog collar and dragging a six-foot chain. >> im calling for a young lady that ran into the house and said shes just been raped. shes got a chain on her and everything. please send someone r...

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 al...

Woman who escaped the toy box. >> i knew that not everybody i would ever defend would be innocent. i knew that some of the people that i represented would be truly bad people. and i believe that on the spectrum of people who do not belong in society, david parker ray is right in there. >> with ray now convicted and in jail and agreeing to talk with profiler mary ellen otoole, the fbi hoped to get him to open up and tell him where the bodies were. >> we felt that over time though with, more inter...

Know how much he hurt me. i didnt 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 shes not a credible witness and therefore should not be believed, because she couldnt remember what happened. >> you sit up there on the stand and wonder, are these guys going to believe me? >> davids story was that she came over quite will...