- ELEPHANT BUTTE, New Mexico (CNN) -- A couple accused of running a sexual torture
ring had set up a crude operating room in the trailer where investigators
believe they brought their victims, sources said Monday.
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- The
storage trailer next to the mobile
home of David
Ray and Cindy
Hendy was soundproof and contained
a gynecological table with stirrups, sources close to the investigation
told CNN. Above the table were lights reminiscent of a surgical operating
room.
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- The trailer contained scalpels, alligator
clips, a voltage regulator and books on anatomy and serial killers, sources
said. Also found inside the trailer were video cameras and a monitor,
numerous drawings of restrained women, and photographs of women during
what appeared to be torture, the sources said.
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- Ray, 59, and Hendy, 39, have been charged
with dozens of crimes, including the kidnapping, rape and torture of two
women. They face preliminary hearings next week, when their attorneys
are expected to enter not guilty pleas on their behalf. Bond has been
set at $1 million each.
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- Their arrests came after a bruised and
bleeding Albuquerque woman ran to neighbors, wearing only a padlocked
metal collar with a chain attached. She claimed she had escaped from
the trailer after being electrically shocked, whipped and raped with sexual
devices for three days.
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- A woman from a nearby town came forward
with a similar story after the March 22 arrests, leaving people in the
desert town of 2,000 shocked and nervous.
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- "I want out of here. It's all just
too bizarre," said Christian Storm, 46, an acquaintance of the second
woman.
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- "It's really opened people's eyes
to the fact that this can happen anywhere. People are being more cautious
now," he said.
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- Authorities said they are now trying
to determine whether there were more victims and whether any of them may
have been killed.
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