Cries in the Desert

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A PLAYHOUSE OF TWISTED THRILLS AND TORTURE....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 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 fiance 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....AUTHORBIO: JOHN GLATT was born in England and now divides his time between New York and London. He has over twenty-five-years of journalistic experience and is the author of nine books. His first book Rage & Roll: Bill Graham and the Selling of Rock was published in January 1994 by Birch Lane Press and a year later his biography of the late River Phoenix, The Fast Times and Short Life of River Phoenix was published in the U.S. by Donald I. Fine, Inc., and Piatkus Books in England. In 1997 his official biography of the Irish Music group, The Chieftains was published by St. Martin's Press in the U.S. and Random House in England. The audio version of the book, narrated by Nanci Griffith, was released in December 1999 by the Publishing Mills and has been nominated for a 2000 Grammy in the spoken word category. In 1998, his acclaimed biography of the Grimaldis, The Royal House of Monaco: Dynasty of Glamour, Tragedy and Scandal was published by St. Martin's Press in the U.S. and Piatkus Books in the U.K. He has also written four books for the St. Martin's True Crime Library: For I Have Sinned (1998), Evil Twins (1999), The Cradle of Death (February 2000), Blind Passion (June 2000), and Internet Slavemaster (October 2001).