David Parker Ray Research Paper

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David Parker Ray, the Toy Box killer, was born on November 6th, 1939 in Belen, New Mexico. David committed many crimes, but he didn’t work alone. David met Cynthia Lea Hendy, who at the time was 37 years old and he was 58 years old, she would later start going by Cindy Hendy. An article published by All That’s Interesting states how Cindy had a rough childhood, a lot like David’s, where she was “Raised in an impoverished neighborhood on the outskirts of Everett, Washington, Hendy grew up with an alcoholic mother, a bartender who would routinely let her daughter go hungry” (Margaritoff, 2023). The article goes on to explain how Cindy was exposed to all kinds of physical abuse growing up, and at the age of 12 Cindy was forcibly kicked out of …show more content…

At the time David and Cindy met, Cindy had been running from a couple of convictions of her own, including grand theft and drug charges. In New Mexico, Cindy Hendy worked at a state park, where she met David Parker Ray. The two quickly bonded over their shared violent sexual fantasies” (Margaritoff, 2023). Soon after Cindy broke up with her boyfriend at the time, she moved to New Mexico to live with her now partner David. “When I moved in, he started to tell me all the women he had murdered. He said at least once a year for about forty years,” (Margaritoff, 2023). David would go into detail with Cindy, describing how he would treat his victims and then how he would kill them. This only made Cindy more interested in getting involved herself. She would soon start picking targets for David, starting with a friend of hers, Angela. “According to Hendy, while the two had a victim in their clutches, Ray would do most of the torturing while she stood by and watched.” (Margaritoff, …show more content…

To put this into perspective for our case, after getting to know Cindy, David realized that she had no one close to her that loved her and could protect her. He used that to his advantage by showing her “affection” by relating to her fantasies and giving her someone she could openly talk to, which in turn gained her trust. David Parker Ray groomed Cynthia Lea Hendy into being his accomplice, whether she would admit to that or not. The last component of routine activity theory is the exposure to motivated offenders. In a paper published by Sage Journals, “Sexual Revictimization: A Routine Activity Theory explanation” it states, “Here we argue that experiences of adolescent sexual victimization increase depressive symptoms and substance use, which increase target attractiveness and exposure to motivated offenders while reducing guardianship.” (Culatta et al., 2017). This shows that people who have been victims before are more at risk of becoming repeat victims because of the repercussive actions that they now display in their everyday lives. For example, Hendy was abused as a child and young

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