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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 a triumph in the courtroom. so it was justice in that sense. >> was justice done? i don't think jus...

To a different level and each level it went up to it became more overwhelming. and then i began to wonder where's it going to end? >> i know that he 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 that his statement was accurate. his details were such that 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. >> and who told you that? >>...

>> 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 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. >> on july 13th, 2000, the jury announced they were unable to reach a verdict. two female jurors...

>> 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 c...

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...