A beautiful 37 year old mother and wife missing, a 2007 white Mercedes abandoned near her fashionable home in the upscale community of Ponte Vedra Florida, could only mean one thing or could it?
The fantastic beaches of Northeastern Florida and professionally manicured gardens and lawns of this exclusive community was hiding a secret more treacherous than a bad "dog leg" at the local golf course that hosted "The Players Cup" every year.
Her husband, family and friends breathed a collective sigh of relief when she was found a few days later, walking disorientated, a few miles away in a parking lot near Orange Park (another upscale city outside of Jacksonville). But the relief would turn to disgust for most when the sorted details of her days of excess and shameless passion was revealed for all to see.
It started even earlier the few days she went missing when Quinn Gray and a male lover and accomplice hatched a plan that would lead police from three jurisdictions on a zig zag journey across the first coast.
It began when she was spotted walking hurriedly on Wells Road in Orange Park. When police approached her, she said she had been kidnapped but started crying, fighting police and cutting an officer with an empty torn open soda can when he attempted to offer assistance.
The story sounded suspicious from the start said some at the St. Johns Sheriff's Office but little did they imagine, how strange the story would become. Here is what has been learned:
Quinn Gray was a rich (and apparently bored) house wife married to a wealthy businessman, although she did not have too much direct access to cash, there was plenty available to keep her in the style she was accustomed to.
She met a man, Jasmin Osmanovic, an immigrant and they became lovers. On the Friday before labor day weekend of 2009, the two embarked on a three day love fest that would see them checking into one of Jacksonville's seedier motels on the south side of the city. There they would have sex for hours and hatch a plan to extort 50,000 dollars from her husband Reid Gray. The manager at the motel, where they spent a lot of their time together, said he did not sense the woman needed assistance. I am familiar with the area and know that with the police presence in the area, she would have received that assistance immediately.
The plan was to call the husband and tell him that his wife had been abducted, then lead him through a string of drop off points until they felt comfortable to retrieve the cash. The note that was delivered to the Quinn home read:
"Dear Reid, I need you to read this and be calm please what ever you do.
Stay calm if you call the police it is over for me. Reid do not be a hero this is a professional and there are three men holding me right now and they want 50,000 dollars cash. They need it by tomorrow. You can not get more than 9,500 at one place 4 different banks, we only have seven thousand in the account right now so start with that, they are not going to hurt me if you give them the money. They do not care where it is from, but donot tell any one what is going on there is a GPS on your car and they know your every movement so don't do anything stupid. No cops, Stay at the house keep your cell phone on you, keep the kids with you do not look for my car I will be OK if you get them the money tomorrow bring the kids with you and wear a tight T-shirt tomorrow, please do this honey please. Her husband immediately called police, thank goodness.
At one point at a drop off sight near Jacksonville a group of students inadvertently interrupted a stake out by police and federal officers when they stumbled upon thousands of dollars left in a parking lot.
The youth turned the money in when they realized what it was but that was only one drop sight that led police on a not so merry adventure around the city.
This letter was supposedly authored by Miss. Quinn when her husband went to the police against her wishes in the above letter:
***** "Mom,
So far I'm fine - No harm has been done to me. Do as they tell you! They have complied to everything they said they would. My life is worth more than $50,000. So please do what they say. After you pick up this letter you are going to drive North towards Jax Beach, you'll see Joe's Crab Shack on the right hand side (beach & 3rd St) . A parking lot is going to be on the right hand side for Joe's Crab Shack. Park in there. Drop the money out of the car and do not look back. Anything goes wrong, I'm dead! There's 3 of them. One is going to pick up the money, one is following you, and the third is with me. Any of them run into any issues, it's over for me. Mom, I Love You. Now put your cell phone in the mailbox and drive without it. They won't hurt you or me as long as everything goes fine, Reid is the one they are looking for.
Quinn
Do Not Let Reid
Follow you
He almost got me
Killed twice already!!! .........
(to be continued) part II
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