shack restaurant turned so disastrous, a text message, apparently from quinn, was sent to her mom s cell phone around 2:00 p.m mom, please no cops. i am so sorry about all of this. but they are pissed and i want to see my girls. the fbi s hostage negotiator was tony kravith. do you think about the kids in a situation like this absolutely. you can not. reid made arrangements for them to stay elsewhere so they ll be shielded by this we re in the business of preserving life. that s what we do. do you think quinn, maybe she s not even alive anymore we don t know we don t know for sure investigators were becoming increasingly worried because they hadn t actually heard quinn s voice since the day before then at about 5:25 that evening, another text message came in to quinn s mom s phone. i do not get access to my phone.
years, reid told investigators his relationship with quinn was better than ever and that the couple was even thinking about having another child she s just an amazing friend. she s active in taking the girls to dance, taking the girls to all of the after-school programs she was a wonderful daughter, yes. quinn s name, gail sikes. that s very difficult for a mother to say that has four daughters. she was absolutely the sweetest of all the children. that night reid called his mother-in-law with the devastating news. i was just completely in shock. as a mother, that s your worst nightmare. imagining what s happening to your child. what do you think quinn is going through at that point? being tortured, tied up, fearing for her life, fearing that she would never see her children again. while quinn s mom waited for news at her georgia home, reid stayed at the sheriff s office until about 2:00 a.m he then returned to his house while his kids stayed with friends.
have reid check his e-mail, pic of me taken. did he get all of the money? and in reid s e-mail, there was this photo of quinn. what can you tell from this photo? well, it certainly looked to me as though quinn was very distraught, maybe had been crying she didn t look like quinn at all, not at all. the photo was taken using a cell phone and the background could be anywhere. but investigators got lucky, because there s a little known technology built into that photo, and it offered investigators a huge break. they didn t know that a photograph taken on an iphone and e-mailed to somebody else has gpscoordinance on there? yes. i didn t know that. yes we were very quickly able to check the photograph and find the gps coordinants in there we knew exactly where that photograph had been taken. investigators rushed to this location in jacksonville
and in reid s e-mail, there was this photo of quinn. what can you tell from this photo? well, it certainly looked to me as though quinn was very distraught, maybe had been crying. she didn t look like quinn at all, not at all. the photo was taken using a cell phone and the background could be anywhere. but investigators got lucky, because there s a little known technology built into that photo, and it offered investigators a huge break. they didn t know that a photograph taken on an iphone and e-mailed to somebody else has gpscoordinance on there? yes. i didn t know that. yes. we were very quickly able to check the photograph and find the gps coordinants in there. we knew exactly where that photograph had been taken. investigators rushed to this location in jacksonville. how long after you looked at that photograph did you have agents headed to the scene where
distraught, maybe had been crying. she didn t look like quinn at all, not at all. the photo was taken using a cell phone and the background could be anywhere. but investigators got lucky, because there s a little known technology built into that photo, and it offered investigators a huge break. they didn t know that a photograph taken on an iphone and e-mailed to somebody else has gpscoordinance on there? yes. i didn t know that. yes. we were very quickly able to check the photograph and find the gps coordinants in there. we knew exactly where that photograph had been taken. investigators rushed to this location in jacksonville. how long after you looked at that photograph did you have agents headed to the scene where it was taken? minutes. but there was no one there. later that night, the kidnappers called back and quinn s mother, again at the urging of the fbi, kept up a tough negotiating stance. i want quinn in my car, i m just warning you. i m not giving you the