FBI forensic account Mark Milton Lubin took the stand this week to lay out how Lawrence Ray's alleged victims funneled him exorbitant amounts of money over a decade.
"I was terrified. I was trembling. You can’t breathe. You want to breathe a lot. That just makes it much worse. It was terrifying,” Claudia Drury testified Thursday about an alleged seven-hour torture session at the hands of Lawrence Ray.
Claudia Drury testified that she turned over an estimated $2.5 million she earned as a sex worker to Lawrence Ray as payment for debts he allegedly claimed that she owed him.
Lawrence Ray's attorney initially told the court he'd able to proceed with the trial after suffering a seizure at a Brooklyn jail earlier that morning, but as the day progressed, Ray's symptoms apparently deteriorated.
“Under the Banner of Heaven" will star Andrew Garfield as Detective Pyre as he investigates the murder of Mormon woman Brenda Lafferty and her infant daughter Erica, uncovering hard truths all along the way.
Leonardo DiCaprio will star as cult leader Jim Jones who was responsible for a mass suicide and murders that led to more than 900 deaths at his commune in Guyana in 1978.
