According to their family, James Ray Ward was found guilty of robbing a different woman of her belongings while she slept on December 18, 1989, in Gordon County. According to court records, James drove her to an abandoned warehouse, made her wear underwear he had brought along, and repeatedly raped her.
The woman did not resist and was permitted to make it home safely when she discovered that some of her undergarments had also vanished.
James had been taken into custody by the Gordon County police from his incomplete home, which had no electricity or a water source outside the bedroom.
There were hundreds of boxes full of stolen lingerie and pornographic magazines. These well-kept notebooks meticulously indexed and labeled the magazines, lingerie catalogs, and scraps of paper with tag numbers and physical descriptions of women.
