Imagine stepping into what looks like an ordinary trailer. But inside, you find shackles, chains, surgical tools, and walls covered with diagrams of women in bondage.

This was the reality of David Parker Ray’s so-called ‘Toy Box’, a $100,000 torture chamber hidden in the New Mexico desert.

Authorities believe he may have had as many as 60 victims, yet not a single body was ever found. David Parker Ray was born in 1939 in Belen, New Mexico. His childhood was troubled.

His father was abusive and largely absent, leaving him to be raised by strict grandparents. Bullied and isolated at school, Ray developed an early obsession with bondage and sadistic fantasies. By adulthood, he appeared unremarkable to outsiders, a mechanic, a neighbour, a man with hobbies. But behind closed doors, he was designing something horrific.

In 2 ...