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Cries in the Desert

The Shocking True Story of a Sadistic Torturer

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Cries in the Desert

By: John Glatt
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
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In the fall of 1999, a 22-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 authorities - 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 fiancee 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...

©2002 John Glatt (P)2020 Tantor Crime Murder True Crime
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Omg the horrendous indecent torture these poor women went through is heartbreaking.
Sadistic torture by the hands of a monster

Sicko

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the details was good, a little slow at times but kept me interested. a good ending and update .

not a bad listen

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While informative and through, this particular book could've been half as long due to the repetition of facts.
The narrator did a great job, but the author really stretched out acne repeated many of the details.

Very repetitive

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