anything goes wrong, and i m dead. up to this point, they didn t want to hurt her. they had no intention of hurting her, but now it says, anything goes wrong, i m dead. they re escalating it. yes. under cover agents converged on joe s crab shack, a local restaurant popular with tourists. we ve got surveillance units out. we ve got an airplane out. you re watching. we re watching. quin s mom drove to the crab shack. i drove through, came around the corner, and there were bushes sitting on, like a sidewalk area. i stopped the car, rolled the window down, threw the money toward the bushes. did you tell investigators to watch the money carefully? absolutely. yeah. i don t want some stranger to come along and pickup that bag. the plan is to see who picks up the bag, and then what, follow them back to where presumably quin is? right.
dear reid, i need you to read this and be calm. reid, do not be a hero. this is professional, and there are three men holding me right now and they want $50,000 cash. i will be okay if you get them the money. what do you know about the victim? we knew she was a housewife raising children in one of the prettier parts of our county. reid and quin gray were new to saint john s county. having just moved into their beachfront holm in upon tra vee dra, it s an area known for its world famous golf course and luxe homes. i don t want to use the term perfect kidnapping victim, but it fit. and her husband made a lot of money. her husband made a lot of money. worst case scenario, we make one wrong move they kill her. on the day quin was kidnapped, the 37-year-old pta mom had made appointments for her daughters to have hair cuts and she was far along in the planning for an upcoming party for one of her daughters birthdays. now reid gray tried to shield the 8 and 6-year-olds from the
cover teams spotted at the chick-fil-a? is that what quin meant by fed cars? a few minutes later on reid s phone from quin, i know you want me dead. reid texted back, i don t know if that s quin. i have your $50,000. stop with me, just give me my wife. there was no reply. investigators brought reid back do his house and parked in the driveway. they set up a mini command center in the house using a recorder to tape all incoming calls, and that s when something happened that no one expected. we sent the detectives to that home and we didn t do it surreptitiously because we hadn t thought about t. they walked in the front door? they pulled in in an unmarked vehicle. the minute we pulled in, we received ape text from the victim. reid got another text from the cell phone. wait for instructions. you ve up twice already. you involved other people. whose ford is in the driveway?
knew more than he was saying. i also have thought that possibly you could be behind it. kill quinn and you got rid of all kinds of things. you got rid of a wife, you don t have to have an argument about custody, you don t have to give her any money. i don t know that, reid. i don t know that. you thought he was lying? yes, i think he was evasive with me to begin with. suspicions about reid lasted throughout the time investigators searched for quinn. on the same day she was released, they asked reid to take a lie detector test. and he agreed. he was being candid. he took a polygraph with a very experienced polygrapher who cleared him. from being a suspect. officials at the sheriff s office and the fbi came to the same conclusion, reid gray had absolutely nothing to do with quinn s kidnapping. i apologized to him in the
night, strange noises around the house, anything like that, right? no. married for almost nine years, reid told investigators his relationship with quin was better than ever, and that the couple was even thinking about having another child. she s been just an amazing friend. she s active in taking the girls to dance, taking the girls to all their after school programs. she was a wonderful daughter, yes. quin s mom, gayle sykes. and that s very difficult for a mother to say who has four daughters, but 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, it s your worst nightmare imagining what s happening to your child. what do you think quin is going through at that point? being tortured, tied up, fearing for her life, fearing that she would never see her children again. while quin s mom waited for news at her georgia home, reid