The State - News from April 12, 1989

The father of a missing Fresno baby was found dead and his wife unconscious at a Visalia motel in what police said might have been a suicide pact. Fresno police said John Ray, 32, apparently killed himself with an overdose of prescription drugs on Saturday--the day he was to take a lie detector test in connection with the disappearance nearly two weeks ago of 4-month-old Cindy Ray. Janine Ray, 26, was revived and interviewed briefly by a detective who said she was not yet sufficiently recovered to tell him anything “substantive.� Fresno Police Sgt. Mike Guthrie said Visalia police found in the motel room “documentary evidence� that could lead to the missing child. Police said John Ray had a record of abusing his wife, leading to the suspicion that someone may have taken the child to protect her.