NM lake to be searched for sex-torture victims

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say they have new information that could lead to some of the 40 victims of a man convicted of sexual torture, including an Albuquerque woman missing for 16 years.

FBI agents, New Mexico State Police and Albuquerque police plan to search around Elephant Butte Lake on Tuesday. They believe that’s where David Parker Ray may have buried some of his victims.

Albuquerque police believe one of his victims may have been Jill Troia, who disappeared in 1995. She was last seen at a restaurant with Ray’s daughter.

Ray boasted of the killings in his writings, but no bodies have ever been located. He died in 2002 while serving life in prison for sexual torture.

Ray was from the Elephant Butte area.