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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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About this listen

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 Murder True Crime

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Couldn’t finish this because the narrator is awful. Incredibly bad dictation, why on earth was he selected?

The reader is dreadful

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A horror story of a depraved individual and his family!
His arrogance and grand delusions of sexual self gratification! Cruel and evil!
The fact that his daughter, sister, and niece spoke in defense of him just explains the twisted mindset of these female family enablers! Shame on them!!
He was already a sick pervert from childhood. Yet his sister defended it as normalcy. His daughter was herself another self-aggrandizing weirdo, who angrily defended his actions.
So these women think it’s still okay after listening to that disgusting video made by their family creep?

A family of twisted enablers!!

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I am buying in paperback to read myself as the narrator is very difficult to listen to. The same musical tone throughout.

Narration difficult to listen to

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What I couldn't understand is how the first jury had douts about this man. The narrator was excellent

What an evil sick human being

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Well what an evil swine of a man. Good to see him get his comeuppance in the end. Literally. Without spoiling for anyone wanting to listen. Would recommend.

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