Truth Or Consequences, N.M. - A judge ruled Tuesday that the daughter of the chief suspect in a sex-torture case should be tried on kidnapping and sex charges for her alleged role in procuring women for her father.
New Mexico Magistrate Thomas Pastak ordered that Glenda Jean ``Jesse'' Ray, 32, be held in jail on $1 million bond until trial later this year. She was arrested on April 26 and charged with 12 counts of kidnapping and sexual assault.
Pastak's ruling came after a day of sensational testimony in which prosecutors played a videotape that the main suspect, David Ray, 59, allegedly showed his victims before torturing them.
``You're going to be raped thoroughly and repeatedly,'' a voice said to be Ray's intoned.
``We snatch anything young, clean and well-built. Most of them is very easy to get ... I've been raping bitches ever since I was old enough to (masturbate),'' he went on.
``If we killed every bitch we kidnapped, there'd be bodies strewn across the country,'' he said.
The elder Ray, a state park employee, and his girlfriend Cynthia Hendy, 39, were charged in March with kidnapping and repeatedly raping two women after one victim was found walking along a road near their trailer home in the southern New Mexico town of Elephant Butte.
The woman, naked except for a metal collar, told police she had been held and tortured for several days by the pair, but managed to escape. A second woman went to police several days later and told them that she had suffered a similar attack.
In earlier hearings, investigators said Ray's trailer home was a high-tech torture chamber complete with elaborate pulley systems, electric probes, a cattle prod, dildos and a fully equipped gynecological examination table.
A third alleged victim, 25-year-old Kelly Van Cleave, testified Tuesday that in July 1996 Jesse Ray offered her a ride home on her motorcycle from the Blue Water Saloon in Elephant Butte. She said Ray instead took her to her father's trailer where she, too, was held and raped for three days.
``I remember him telling me he was part of some satanic group, that they'd been watching me and they wanted me as some kind of sex toy,'' Van Cleave said.
She said she had not gone to police because she had blocked the incident from her mind. She said that after news of the arrests, her former mother-in-law told her she might have been a victim because David Ray had dropped her off at home after her 1996 disappearance.
Van Cleave said she did not know she was a victim until police showed her a photograph, taken from Ray's home, of a woman whose face was covered with duct tape, but, like her, had a swan tattoo on her leg.
``I saw a photograph of a woman strapped on a table. It was me,'' she said.
Of Jesse Ray, prosecutor Jim Yontz said: ``She procured the victim for Daddy.''
Defense attorney Billy Blackburn told Pastak there was no question something had happened to the woman in the trailer.
``But my client was absolutely not involved,'' he said.
Another man, Dennis Roy Yancy, 27, has been charged with murder for allegedly strangling a woman in a July 1997 attack. He told police that David Ray forced him to kill the woman while he took photographs.
So far, neither the body of the woman, nor any bodies, have been found, although police have dug around Ray's home and out in the nearby desert. Their search has extended into other states, they said.
May 11, 1999
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