152 • The Toy-Box Killer
Dark Topic
Jack Luna
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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On Monday, March 22, 1999, a naked, bloodied woman wearing a padlocked collar with a six-foot chain attached came running out of a trailer park in Elephant Butte, New Mexico, screaming bloody murder. It was David Parker Ray’s first (and last) mistake as the now infamous Toy-Box Killer.
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| 0:00.0 | Can we talk something else? |
| 0:02.0 | Can we talk about something else? |
| 0:09.0 | Hello. |
| 0:16.0 | Out there. out there July 23rd |
| 0:26.7 | 1993 |
| 0:28.3 | Elephant Butte |
| 0:30.4 | New Mexico |
| 0:31.5 | Just outside of truth |
| 0:33.8 | Or consequences |
| 0:34.8 | Tall dark and loathsome |
| 0:37.3 | A wiry mustache man with a mechanic's grip on anything worth |
| 0:42.0 | taking. |
| 0:43.5 | Chain smoking within his heavily modified trailer, situated on a desolate desert plane, where |
| 0:49.6 | even death became indifferent and decided to take its time. |
| 0:54.1 | Two. David Parker Ray, aka the Toy Ball. death became indifferent and decided to take its time. 2. |
| 0:55.3 | David Parker Ray, aka the Toy Box Killer, recorded the forthcoming introduction to his future |
| 1:01.6 | captives. |
| 1:02.8 | His eventual arrest wouldn't come for six years afterwards in March of 99. |
| 1:08.0 | God only knows how many bound, gagged, and terrified women were forced to hear this |
| 1:13.7 | recording before experiencing everything promised within it. God only knows how many came before it. |
| 1:22.7 | It runs, the tape does, for nearly an hour, a torture in and of itself. It is hard to listen to |
| 1:32.6 | for a few reasons. So I'll spare us and play about five minutes of the 56 or so. Then I guess, |
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