enforcement personnel who were working this case. they waited for the next contact from the kidnappers. and then about 45 minutes after that last call, reid s phone rang again the cell reception was poor, but quinn gave reid a location for a money drop. just get in the car with the money and go down and take a left on i ve got to write it down. just go just do it now, please reid butler boulevard, hello the conversation abruptly ended and quinn sounded angry. it was easy to imagine the tremendous stress she must be under. reid was growing increasingly worried for his wife s safety. remain calm she s probably going to call back again. the first time she was screaming, crying, help.
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 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 with the fbi came to the same conclusion reid gray had absolutely nothing to do with quinn s kidnapping. i apologized to him in the fbi building and we hugged i said i m so sorry that i thought that but that still left a question, who had kidnapped quinn. i didn t know what was going on i was crying and i was like, please, just tell me that you re not going to kill me. back at the fbi office, quinn was less than completely cooperative with
it was around 5:00 p.m. september 4th, 2009. reid s wife, quinn, had called him at work and told him she had just been kidnapped right out of their $4 million home. reid couldn t believe what he d heard. he went to his office parking lot to try and think straight. did he tell you where she was at no. there is a note at the house. with a demand. the news was as shocking as it was terrifying. quinn, a mom of two young daughters, was a trained nurse who was now raising her children full time. her husband was a self-made man who finally hit it big in the health care business this frightened husband told the 911 operator he didn t know what to do next. he said if i call the police, they will shoot me dead. a gun s a gun, man. reid gray took a gamble and did just the opposite of what his wife had told him. soon, multiple law enforcement agencies would be on the case.
quinn gray had pleaded not guilty to charges she tried to extort $50,000 from her husband in an elaborate kidnapping hoax. but even though investigators considered reid gray as a victim, to the surprise of many, he decided to stand by his wife. two months after her arrest, reid even appeared on the today show and offered total
bag of money, the kidnappers called back. it was the same male voice from before, and he was angry about the lack of progress. listen, i m sick and tired of this [ bleep ], okay i m sick and tired of it you ve been giving me [ bleep ] left and right. reid has been giving you [ bleep ]? he s going to go to the bank, pick up $50,000 and we ll arrange somewhere else to meet. more bad news for everyone, it was sunday of that labor day weekend. monday was a holiday the banks would be closed, guaranteeing that this drama would last for at least another day and night. we re all thrown for a loop when we hear this. we didn t want to string this out two more days. not wanting to drag this out any longer, investigators decided to try a risky new strategy and told quinn s mom to now take an aggressive approach whenever she talked with the kidnappers. that s a big gamble. we tried to take a little more control