When police in St. Louis searched the home of suspected serial killer Maury Travis last summer, they found a secret torture chamber in the basement, with bondage equipment, a stun gun and clippings about the slayings he was suspected of. 
 
 But, most chilling of all, they found a videotape containing footage of his crimes. 
 
 The tape, labeled "Your Wedding Day," showed Travis tying women up and torturing and raping them. One scene showed him apparently strangling one of his victims to death. 
 
 The scenes on the tape were so disturbing that Police Chief Joe Mokwa ordered psychological counseling for the officers who viewed them. "They'll give you nightmares," he told ABCNEWS' Primetime. 
 
 Travis, a 36-year-old hotel waiter, hanged himself in jail before admitting to any of the murders, but St. Louis police believe he killed between 12 and 20 women. They have identified 12 of his victims as drug-addicted prostitutes whose bodies were dumped along city streets and country roads in the St. Louis area between March 2001 and May 2002. 
 
 But in a letter Travis sent to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch — which helped lead police to him — he boasted of killing 17 women. 
 
 "He claims he killed 17 women. We're missing five of them," said Mokwa. 
 
 St. Louis police released excerpts from the videotape to ABCNEWS, which are being broadcast nationwide for the first time on Primetime Thursday. 
 
 Horrific Scenes on a ‘Wedding’ Tape 
 
 Police believe Travis picked up prostitutes along a strip of Broadway just north of St. Louis that is riddled with crack houses and prostitution, then took them to his ranch-style home in Ferguson, a nearby suburb. 
 
 They found numerous videotapes in Travis' home showing him giving the prostitutes crack cocaine to smoke, then having consensual sex with them. He apparently let some of the women leave at that point. 
 
 The "wedding" tape included similar scenes — including a shot of a woman sitting on Travis' bed after an introductory caption "ANOTHER CRACKHEAD HO." But it showed that in some cases — police are not sure how he chose his victims — Travis would start asking the women to engage in bizarre rituals, such as having them dance in white clothes or wear sunglasses with the lenses blackened so they could not see. 
 
 Then he would take them captive, binding them with ropes and handcuffs and covering their eyes with duct tape. He would then begin to torment them, either in the bedroom, or after dragging them downstairs to the basement and shackling them to a wooden post. 
 
 The excerpts the police released to Primetime show Travis tormenting the women verbally, taunting them about their fate and haranguing some of them over how they had abandoned their children for crack. One exchange, with an unidentified victim, went as follows: 
 
 Travis: You want to say something to your kids? Victim: I'm sorry. Travis: Who's raising your kids? Victim: Me, my mom and dad. Travis: You ain't raising s---, b----. You over here on your back smoking crack. You ain't going home tomorrow. I'm keeping you about a week. Is that all right? 
 
 He forced one victim to say to him, "You are the master. It pleases me to serve you." When he didn't like the way she said it, he yelled at her, "Say it clearer!" 
 
 When another victim tried to remove the duct tape covering her eyes and knocked his camera out of focus, he told her: "You don't need to see s---.... Lay down on your back. Shut your eyes." 

 Landlord didn't mention home's deadly past? That's legal in Missouri, Illinois 
 
 (KMOV.com) - A News 4 investigation revealed one North St. Louis County woman was renting a house that belonged to a serial killer and she claims the landlord never told her. 
 
 In Missouri, you don't have to say anything to a buyer or renter if the home was the scene of suicide, murder or violent crime. In fact, only 3 states force sellers to tell a buyer. 
 
 Catrina McGhaw was not aware of any issues with the home when she signed the lease to the North St. Louis County home. Her section 8 voucher covered $810 in rent. But after watching a cold case documentary, she discovered she was living in the same house that was used as a torture chamber by serial killer Maury Travis. 
 
 Photos inside the home: Computer| Mobile 
 
 After making the discovery she begged the landlord, Travis' mother, to let her out of the lease. She said no, but after News 4 stepped in to help, the local Housing and Urban Development office negotiated McGhaw out of the lease. 
 
 In Missouri, the state statute is clear: it is not mandatory for a seller to disclose psychologically impacted property. That includes homes where there was a murder or suicide. The law in Illinois is similar to Missouri in that it protects sellers from having to disclose psychologically impacted property. 
 
 15 states require you to tell a buyer or renter, but that’s only if they ask. 
 
 There are sites where you can go to check out if a property has been the scene of a violent crime or suicide, one is here.
– When Catrina McGhaw signed a lease on a house in Ferguson, Mo., she didn't think to ask whether she'd be living in a former torture chamber. But when a family member told her to watch a documentary about serial killers on A&E, there was her house—including the basement where many killings took place, the beam women were tied to, and even the dining room table—given to her by the landlord—found in crime scene photos. That landlord, the mother of alleged serial killer Maury Travis, claims she told McGhaw about the home's dark history, but McGhaw tells KMOV she'd remember the bit about multiple murders in the basement. It turns out Missouri is one of 47 states that doesn't require the disclosure of a "psychologically impacted property" involving murder, suicide, or violent crimes when selling a house; in 15 states, a would-be buyer or renter must be told if they specifically ask. Ever since McGhaw found out she was living in Travis' home, though, she has been haunted, and the St. Louis Housing Authority has helped her break the lease early, reports ABC News. Travis, who boasted about 17 victims in a letter and made a map of where one of the bodies was buried, was never actually charged with murder; he killed himself in his cell a few weeks after being arrested for kidnapping. ABC News in 2003 reported that police found a nightmarish video in the home, labeled "Your Wedding Day," that showed some of the torture. (Meanwhile, it took 33 years to find this man and charge him with murder.)