kravit decided to have quin s mom send text messages to her daughter s phone hoping the kidnappers would read them. every 20 minutes, every hour, we send a message. please call me. i love you. let me know that you re safe. i m very worried about you. you want the kidnappers to start thinking of her as a mom who needs to go home to her family and not just a cash register. i want the kidnappers to think of quin gray as a wife, as a daughter, as a mother. finally, a text came back about 9:30 a.m., this time to quin s mom s phone. have the money in a bag, no traceable devices, no reid whatsoever. if he is anywhere close, she s dead. no cops. be ready to leave at 11:00. the kidnappers had apparently decided they no longer wanted to deal with reid. why, because the kidnappers
have been on the move. sheriff s detective howard cole was sent in pursuit. it was believed quin gray s cell phone was being tracked to an area west of orlando. but something had gone wrong. before tracing the calls, investigators had to get a judge s approval. and in the rush to fill out the proper paperwork, someone made a small but critical error. when i actually went to get the order signed by a judge, what was typed into the actual affidavit and order, the numbers were transposed. so somebody put the wrong phone number in? human error. so the phone you were following wasn t quin s phone. correct. how long did you follow that other phone? all day saturday. suddenly what investigators thought were solid leads from quin s cell phone simply vanished. when you realized you guys were following the wrong cell phone, what? my hair was on fire. your hair my hair was on fire. i thought, how can something
it was very disconcerting to realize we had a housewife and mother of two small children and whatever she was going through, it wasn t good. and there was something else that wasn t good. this investigation was starting with no witnesses, no clues to the kidnappers identities. and more importantly, no answers to the question, where was quin gray? coming up, quin appears on the phone, calling her husband with frantic instructions. get in the car with the money. just go. take it, reid. would he be able to get the cash and find his wife in time? when ransom continues.
despite her nerves, gayle sykes was pressed into service. at around 10:30 a.m., the kidnappers instructed quin s mom to go to mikeler s landing, an area on the beach. and there she would find further instructions in a bathroom. gayle left her daughter s house. the money was in a blue bag, along with a tracking device, courtesy of the fbi. at the location, quin s mother found the designated bathroom. hidden inside the toilet paper holder was a note. it looked, again, to be in quin s handwriting. and gayle read it aloud to investigators. so far, so far i m fine. no harm has been done to me. after you pickup this letter, you are going to drive north to joe s crab shack. get the money out of the car and do not look back.
jacksonville office is james casey. he says the kidnappers appear to be dee activating quin s cell phone after each of the calls they made to reid. somebody in the scheme was smart enough to take the battery out of the cell phone, because we were able to, through some technical capabilities, determine that that phone was not only off, but had no power to it at certain times. meaning you can t trace it? meaning you can t trace t. while there was no pinpointing an exact address where quin s calls were originating, technicians were tracing pings when the phone was in use. those are the electronic connections made when a phone hits a particular cell tower. and that gave investigators a general idea where quin might have been held. fbi agent tony kravit was selected as the lead crisis negotiator for the bureau. we re tracking the phone and we re thinking that, you know, we ve got some leads. agents felt they were making progress, but then suddenly the phone was also pinging fa