Cries in the Desert: The Shocking True Story of a Sadistic Torturer

John Glatt

Apr 2007 · Sold by Macmillan

About this ebook

In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorties--of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock--was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray Parker, his 39-year-old financee Cindy Hendy--and the lakeside trailer they called their "toy box". What the FBI uncovered was unprecedented in the annals of serial crime: restraining devices, elaborate implements of torture, books on human anatomy, medical equipment, scalpels, and a gynecologist's examination table. But these horrors were only part of the shocking story that would unfold in a stunning trial...

Cries in the Desert is the true story of "The Toy Box Killer"--a shocking story of torture and murder in the New Mexico desert.

Ratings and reviews

"Loved it" is a weird description for the way I felt reading this book. A more accurate review would include the following... haunting, fascinatingly terrifying, couldn't put it down & lost sleep over how unsettlingly awful this story made me feel. I didn't think I'd like this book... All these true crime books have attention grabbing titles that are too murder porn-y for my taste, but this one was actually quite good. I despise horribly written dramatic accounts of true crime. Just the facts, please.

This happened in my home town Truth or Consequences New Mexico n yes i did live there wen it was goin on i was jus a baby n i no some of tha ppl that were in on it my sister went to school wit a few of um an i knew sum of tha ppl he killed sooo sad n scary it was in my home town must read

GO TO HELL. YOU TRICKED ME INTO SKIMMING THROUGH THIS BOOK. Then when I decided to read it word for word. I could not. You did not make yourselves clear. You guys and gals are a rip off

About the author

English-born JOHN GLATT is the author of more than twenty bestselling true crime novels, including Playing with Fire, Secrets in the Cellar, The Lost Girls. His first book, a biography of Bill Graham, was published in 1981, and he published For I Have Sinned, his first book of true crime, in 1998. He has appeared television and radio programs all over the world, including Dateline NBC, Fox News, Current Affair, BBC World, and A&E Biography.