This episode contains some graphic testimony and descriptions of violence.

Listener discretion is advised.

Claudia Drury's story shows just how to what extreme deaths Larry Ray's control could be.

Away at Sarah Lawrence College, sophomore Claudia Drury couldn't sleep.

She had insomnia, she missed her parents, she felt, ink-or-less.

She didn't feel like she was ready to be on her own.

Heck, she hadn't even done her own laundry before, she later admitted.

She also didn't feel good in her own skin.

She felt awkward around men, and later said she doubted anyone would ever find her pretty.

She was insecure about making friends.

She found herself embellishing stories to make people laugh and like her.

And then Claudia met someone who she said listened to her.

He was someone older, who helped her navigate all these anxieties and doubts she felt.

Larry Ray was unlike anyone Claudia had ever met before.

But little did she know she was getting drawn into something prosecutors said was occult.

She was under the belief that she was indebted to this man.

In today's episode, I'm going to take you through the Lawrence Larry Ray trial,

specifically zeroing in on the testimony from Claudia Drury, who was the prosecution's main witness.

Over the course of several days, Claudia took the stand in front of her alleged abuser and testified against him.

During his federal court trial that recently concluded, this is someone who had a very clear memory of what she went through and and seem to describe it in.

In a tremendous amount of heroin detail.

Claudia's testimony tells the story of how a vulnerable college student was manipulated and controlled by Larry,

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