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[Shoar] The Gray family was living the American Dream.

They were successful. They had a lovely family.

They lived in a lovely area.

How could it get any better?

[phone ringing]

[operator and Reid speaking]

[police siren echoes]

The letter said that they wanted $50,000.

If anything goes wrong, I'm dead.

[Quinn speaking]

Is this an elaborate scheme to cover up a murder?

[Dunlap] There are people crazy enough that would

torture her and then kill her.

[kidnapper speaking]

-[gunshot blasts] -[Gail speaking]

We didn't know if she was dead or alive.

I just wanted to keep our children close to us.

I'm retired special agent Toni Chrabot.

I am retired FBI Special Agent Alex Silverstein.

[narrator] When serious crimes strikes,

the special agents of the FBI

answer the call.

Fidelity. Bravery.

Integrity.

-[suspenseful beat plays] -This is "FEDS."

[Silverstein] Ponte Vedra is absolutely gorgeous.

Very close to Jacksonville Beach.

Full of multi-million dollar homes that are part of one of

the most beautiful stretches of beach in northeast Florida.

And the community there is very affluent.

In an area like Ponte Vedra, crime is exceptionally rare.

[Dunlap] Ponte Vedra, it's kind of old school.

It's somewhat of a southern town, but a great neighborhood,

very safe, very comfortable. We didn't lock our doors.

[Weed] We're close-knit.

It's a lot of people from different cities.

Some are lawyers, some are doctors, some are with Jaguars,

the NFL, a lot of PGA Tour golfers.

Back in 2009, slowly, young families were moving

into the neighborhood.

I lived directly across the street

from Reid and Quinn Gray on the boulevard.

From our dining room, you could see across

to their house.

Lovely, beautiful house on the ocean.

They had two little girls, and they seemed very nice,

very normal, lovely.

I would always see her with her children.

Every now and then, I'd see her husband out on the beach.

Her husband, Reid, was very nice looking, fit, very fit.

[Butler] Reid Gray was a successful businessman.

He owned some kind of medical services company.

He and his partner were making, you know,

over a million a year.

[Dunlap] Quinn and Reid looked like the perfect couple,

and they seemed to be the type that would

fit right in to Ponte Vedra.

[ominous chord strike]

[phone ringing]

[operator and Reid speaking]

We received a 911 call from Reid Gray, who at the time

was at his home,

and he conveyed to our 911 operators about

this kidnapping of his wife, and she had called him to

tell him that her life was at stake.

And Reid did what people do and call police,

because they don't know what to do.

He didn't sound traumatized, but, you know,

he sounded mystified.

Genuinely came across as somebody who had no idea

what was going on.

We went tactical rapidly.

We activated all of our SWAT team assets.

-[suspenseful chord strike] -[sirens wailing]

We always made our children,

when we had dinner parties, stay upstairs.

And I'll never forget our son coming down the stairs

and all of a sudden looking at us and saying, "There are

"SWAT guys, there are men in suits with big guns

out in the yard."

We couldn't quite put together what was going on,

but something terrible had happened.

The SWAT team secured the perimeter...

[rapid beats play]

and entered the home.

We can see exactly what they're seeing.

There was no signs of forced entry.

Interestingly, there was a wedding album

and some pictures that were open.

[ominous music plays]

And then we found a ransom note that was left on the countertop

in Quinn's handwriting.

In that note, she says she was abducted by three men,

and $50,000 in cash was demanded by the perpetrators.

[ominous chord strike]

Kidnapping is extremely rare and a very high risk of

an event as you can get.

It's beyond the pale for us,

so we reached out to our federal partners,

and the best one in this was the FBI

because that's kidnapping. That's what they do.

[Chrabot] My name is Toni Chrabot.

I was the Assistant Special Agent in charge

in Jacksonville.

In any kidnapping, every minute, every hour

is crucial.

The young mother had been kidnapped by three men,

and they wanted $50,000.

And this mother, we believed,

was in real danger.

My training consisted of 16 weeks at Quantico.

I chose to specialize in crisis negotiation,

hostage negotiation,

and my mission was to bring Quinn Gray home alive.

[suspenseful music plays]

Every field office has a kidnapping plan,

but very, very few FBI field offices actually execute it

because that crime here in the United States is just

so exceptionally rare.

It's very difficult to hold somebody hostage.

You have to feed them. You have to shelter them.

You have to keep them away from the rest of the world.

This is very hard to do.

So my thoughts were that this was something...

highly unusual.

-[suspenseful chord strike] -[suspenseful beat plays]

A couple of hours later, Quinn Gray's car was found

abandoned near the Ponte Vedra Club Spa.

It was a mystery who had kidnapped Quinn Gray.

The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office

had their SWAT team in the home

in case the kidnappers came back to get a hold of Reid

or the children.

I just wanted to keep our children close to us.

-We were very, very concerned. -We were frightened for her.

[Dunlap] An abduction like that, you really don't know

what the motive is, and you never know what's gonna happen,

but you can only assume that it's not gonna be good.

[police sirens echo]

With any investigation of a crime, the first people that

you have to rule out as a suspect are the people

that are closest to the victim.

[suspenseful beat plays]

So we were looking at Reid

as for any type of possible involvement.

It was important for us to look at Reid and do a deep dive

into his background, his lifestyle,

his financial situation.

[Reid] OK.

We learned that his income was substantial.

In the ransom note, it said they wanted $50,000

that represented money that they had loaned to Reid.

[Reid speaking]

[Silverstein] We then started talking to him more about

what the marriage was like between him and Quinn.

[Reid speaking]

The situation at home was not good, even though they

had all these financial means and financial resources that

certainly there was unhappiness in the home.

Learning about his wife having an affair,

maybe he's tired of it. He's tired of her drinking.

Maybe does he want her out of his life?

We asked the question, is this an elaborate scheme

to cover up a murder?

Did Reid kill her?

We have a unified command center mobile,

and we set up at a school

very close to the scene of the incident.

[Chrabot] I am in the command post,

and they provided me with two agents,

and I wanted to get them into the house as quickly

as possible with Reid Gray,

and they would record any communications

incoming and outgoing.

We asked the question, "Could he be a part of this?"

The next morning, Reid Gray received a call.

[phone ringing]

[Quinn and Reid speaking]

It was a relief to hear Quinn's voice.

That is proof of life.

Now we knew that Quinn couldn't be in danger from Reid.

Quinn was actually on the phone, so we knew

that she was alive.

But the level of fear and desperation in her voice,

somebody who really believes that their life is in danger.

Quinn was very adamant that he take the $50,000

and go down Butler Boulevard.

[suspenseful music plays]

We didn't know exactly where this was going.

And shortly after, Quinn called Reid again and gave

the exact drop site at restaurant.

[phone ringing]

[Quinn and Reid speaking]

[ominous chord strike]

Now we had a specific location for a money drop.

Reid was willing to pay the ransom.

It's a huge opportunity.

We're gonna surveil that.

We're gonna want to see who picks up that bag.

We're gonna want to follow them with the hope that

they will lead us to wherever Quinn is.

Shortly after, she called again.

[phone ringing]

[Quinn speaking]

[Shoar] Suspects were upset because they observed

some cars that they thought were "fed cars."

[Chrabot] What it showed is that they are watching,

and that they're very surveillance conscious.

[police sirens echo]

At some point Saturday afternoon,

all the communication with Reid from the kidnappers,

from Quinn's phone, stopped.

Quinn's phone was off, so there was no way of tracking it.

After the failed drop, Quinn stopped communicating

with Reid...

but then there was a call placed from Quinn

to her mother, Gail Sikes.

Quinn's mom was frantic and wanted to do

whatever she could to try to bring Quinn home.

Quinn's mother agreed to be the intermediary,

to work with us.

On Sunday morning, a text came through from Quinn's phone

to her mom.

It says, "Have the money in a bag, no traceable devices,

"no Reid whatsoever,

no cops. Be ready to leave at 11."

And it says, "Go to Mickler's Landing.

There you find further instructions in a restroom."

[ominous chord strike

Quinn's mom went to Mickler's Landing and she went

into the bathroom.

And there she found another note in Quinn's handwriting.

And it said, "Mom, so far I'm fine.

"No harm has been done to me.

"Please, after you pick up this letter, you are going to drive

"north towards Joe's Crab Shack.

"Drop the money out of the car and do not look back.

"Anything goes wrong,

I'm dead."

Joe's Crab Shack is a popular restaurant

in Jacksonville Beach at one of the busiest intersections.

There was a lot of angst about dropping $50,000 on the street

in a public area that is heavily trafficked.

This is a holiday Sunday and a holiday weekend,

and they're wanting Quinn's mom to drop $50,000 out the window

of a car in a public parking lot

with that kind of traffic. I mean, that's just,

that's a disaster waiting to happen.

[indistinct radio chatter]

I was getting real-time communication as far as

what was going on.

[Silverstein] We had technical assets that were monitoring.

We had air assets that were keeping an eye

on everything overhead.

Our technical team were able to outfit the bag

with the ransom money with a transmitter so that we would

be able to track it.

We've got agents, detectives in cars, covert, trying to

blend in, just watching.

Quinn's mom is driving to Joe's Crab Shack.

We had an agent hidden in the back seat of the car.

She's pulling in the parking lot.

She's put the bag down.

Quinn's mom drops off the money, and now we wait.

This is a tense moment.

We have $50,000 in a very public square,

and we're waiting for who's gonna pick it up.

We were ready.

Everybody was ready.

Quinn's mom comes over the live comms and says,

[Chrabot] Suddenly, we see four guys

coming out of Joe's Crab Shack.

We see a man pick up the bag, get into a vehicle,

and drive away. It's on.

Surveillance units started following them...

-[suspenseful music plays] -[indistinct radio chatter]

...and then they threw out the tracking device

that had been placed in the bag.

[indistinct radio chatter]

They drove to Gate Gas Station in Jacksonville Beach.

[indistinct radio chatter]

[phone ringing]

[operator and caller speaking]

People who picked up the bag of money saw what they had

and they called the police.

[caller speaking]

Jacksonville Beach Police respond to the scene.

These gentlemen who picked up the money turned out to be

German tennis players who were in town

for a tennis tournament.

They had nothing to do with this kidnapping.

They were terrified that they were being followed

by drug dealers.

Yeah.

And they were being followed by law enforcement.

How did this happen?

In a situation like this, where it is life and death,

I'm like, "I just really hope this doesn't go bad."

[Silverstein] And then the kidnapper called Quinn's mother.

-[phone ringing] -[kidnapper and Gail speaking]

There was no prep for this phone call.

Nobody expected this to happen.

[kidnapper speaking]

-[gunshot blasts] -[Gail speaking]

Suddenly in the background,

we hear a gunshot.

[ominous chord strike]

Quinn's mom is -- she is shaken because we didn't know

if she was dead or alive.

[Silverstein] If a kidnapper believes that he's not going to get

the ransom money, then there's no profit

in keeping the victim alive.

If I just make the victim disappear,

then I don't get caught.

When the kidnapper's voice is heard on the call,

that really changed everything.

It was like the bottom of my stomach completely fell out.

[Chrabot] The first time I heard the kidnapper's voice,

that was sobering.

It was the first time we heard anybody besides Quinn,

you know, over three days.

[Silverstein] His accent was Eastern European.

His tone was confident, arrogant.

We still didn't know if she was dead or alive.

I was worried.

[police sirens echo]

[Weed] I know that their family was caring for her children,

and we were just really concerned about her.

It was very unnerving for all of us.

[Chrabot] At this point, late in the day on Sunday,

communication was cut off.

As the hours passed through the night, not hearing

her voice, not having any communication whatsoever,

I was worried, as was the rest of the team,

of -- you know, what happened.

[ominous chord strike]

[phone ringing]

[operator and Quinn speaking]

[sirens wailing]

[Loeffert] My name is Gary Loeffert.

I was the Supervisory Special Agent with responsibility

over the criminal squad.

Quinn Gray had called 911, and she was

over in Clay County at a mall,

and she had been released by the kidnappers.

[sirens wailing]

This had been four days with no end in sight.

It was a huge relief.

Quinn was eventually brought here to the FBI office

in Jacksonville.

Her impression was she looked well,

been through a lot, obviously, a lot of trauma.

[Silverstein] The moment she comes into the office,

she starts screaming that we were all trying to

get her killed, and we had no idea what we were doing,

just really raving.

And she started blaming her husband, Reid Gray.

[Quinn and agent speaking]

Did Reid Gray hire somebody to kidnap her?

Was he somehow...involved?

Those were questions that were still outstanding.

She alleged that three Albanian men

had kidnapped her from her home.

And she was bound at the wrist and driven to a warehouse,

and that's where she was over the entire time.

She had some marks on her wrist that were consistent

with being bound, so we documented that.

She didn't want Reid to be there.

She wanted to be far away from Reid.

And the interview didn't last very long.

She just -- she wanted to go home.

A couple days later, we started

doing more interviews.

She is calmer,

and she no longer blames Reid for any of this.

And she starts to tell a story, instead of three guys,

now she starts to tell more that it was one person.

[Quinn speaking]

She lays the blame for all this at her kidnapper's feet.

That her kidnapper had taken her to an auto body shop

that she was bound the entire time.

At a point in the interview, she begins to get very emotional

as she's recounting that she was taken to

this mechanic shop and placed in a room.

She thought that this kidnapper is going to

torture her and then kill her.

She said she was going along

with whatever the demands of her were

in order to stay alive.

And then there was just this -- this moment

where all of a sudden Quinn says something

that was staggering.

[ominous music plays]

There was just this moment of disbelief

of what everyone heard.

She talked about basically liking it and having orgasms

and...every which way, every position possible.

I mean, that was pretty much her words,

and even to the extent that he liked her [bleep].

There was a female detective who was in the room,

who kind of sat back and threw up her hands

and kind of made a disgusted noise.

Is this a victim that is just traumatized?

It's just a very odd...

statement for someone to make, if, in fact,

this is a real kidnapping.

[suspenseful music plays]

During the interview, one of the other inconsistencies was

that she said she was moved from the warehouse.

[Silverstein] That was a big lead.

We drive up to the hotel.

The area is just a sketchy part of town.

There is a lot of prostitution and drug use that goes on.

We made contact with the manager and the staff.

Showed them a picture of Quinn.

They recognized Quinn.

[suspenseful chord strike]

They remembered that she was with a male and that

the two seemed like a normal couple together.

They were very comfortable with one another, and Quinn did not

show any signs of distress or duress.

He told us also that Quinn had been in the room by herself

and that the man had come and gone and had

left her there periodically.

That's exceptionally odd.

If there's one kidnapper and he left,

why hadn't Quinn called for help?

Why hadn't Quinn gone to the lobby and asked for help?

Why was she still there?

[door creaks]

[Chrabot] During her interview, Quinn told investigators that

her kidnapper, at one point, went out and got chicken wings.

[Loeffert] The abductor had gone to the local supermarket,

and we knew that this supermarket chain

had surveillance systems that were very good.

So we grab all the surveillance video so that we can start

reviewing it around the time frame that Quinn said.

[suspenseful chord strike]

And we discover a white male buying fried chicken.

And we were able to get the image of the abductor,

and then put that image on the local news.

[reporter] Witnesses reported a man as appearing to be

in his mid-20s to early 30s and about 5'8 to 6' tall.

Then the 911 center for the city of Jacksonville

gets a phone call.

[phone ringing]

[operator and Jasmin speaking]

Jasmin Osmanovic was an immigrant from Bosnia.

He was an auto mechanic, and he worked in a body shop

off of Southside Boulevard in Jacksonville.

Osmanovic came off as very arrogant, very cocky,

led detectives to believe that this was a waste of time.

Osmanovic was shown pictures of Quinn Gray.

He provided an alibi that he was at another bar

with another woman when this kidnapping happened.

[ominous chord strike]

[Silverstein] Once we started talking about the charges he was facing,

kidnapping and sexual battery, both of which carry with it

a life sentence,

and that's really at a point where the conversation changed.

He realized he had to tell us what really happened.

And that's when Osmanovic said that he had a secret recording

that he had made when he was with Quinn Gray

that would prove his innocence.

[suspenseful music plays]

He kept insisting that he had proof, that he could prove that

he had not kidnapped Quinn Gray and that he hadn't raped her.

And that at the right time, he was gonna show us.

And then we kept insisting, "Now, now is the right time."

[Silverstein] Osmanovic realized that no one would believe his story

without some kind of proof.

So he went to a Walmart and he purchased a digital voice recorder

and carried it with him on Monday morning

back to the Emerson Inn.

He then goes into the room, and they are

having a conversation.

Then we hear them have sex. It's graphic.

[Loeffert] They're talking about Quinn's sex life with her husband,

and you can clearly tell that this is

a consensual relationship.

[Silverstein] And then Quinn starts talking about the $50,000 ransom.

[Silverstein] Quinn says, "Why don't you just blow his head off?"

And it's said in passing,

but that was really a telling moment.

Sunday night, where Jasmin leaves Quinn alone,

I think that's where she started to realize,

"This is coming apart.

I need to come up with another plan."

And I think that's where the idea was hatched that,

"If I can't get the cash,

then maybe I'll just have Reid killed."

The whole involvement with organized crime,

that's the stage that she set.

I believe, based on the recording, that this had

been a campaign on Quinn's part to actually kill Reid.

Either she would kill Reid or she would

have Jasmin kill Reid.

I think that that might have been her endgame,

because in a divorce, she'd get half.

If Reid was dead, she'd get everything.

Neither Quinn Gray nor Jasmin Osmanovic

were charged with conspiracy to murder.

Both were charged with extortion of $50,000

from Reid Gray.

When we told Quinn that she was being arrested,

she denied all the charges.

[reporter] Did you try to take money from your husband?

Of course not.

If I wanted $50,000, all I would do is take it

out of the bank account.

[reporter] Did you have a sexual relationship with Osmanovic?

No, I did not. I did not know him.

[reporter] Then why would he make this up?

Because he's a criminal, and he came in and tried to

extort $50,000 from me and tried to take me.

I think Jasmin Osmanovic was, in some ways, a willing pawn.

Here was a guy of very modest means, and he is presented

with this golden opportunity.

A woman of means, she's beautiful,

and she comes on to him, and they have this

wild sexual affair.

This was intoxicating to him, and that led him to do

whatever she wanted to do.

Quinn Gray pled nolo contendere.

She received seven years of probation,

and Osmanovic, six.

They also had to pay $86,000 of restitution

to the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office for the cost

of the investigation.

[Weed] I know she's moved on and has remarried, and he has

remarried, and I'm sure people absolutely do deserve

a second chance.

I kind of gave her the second chance by keeping coming

to yoga on the days I know she was teaching.

[Chrabot] Quinn Gray and Jasmin Osmanovic,

their elaborate hoax caused a lot of heartache

for their family members, a lot of worry, frustration,

anger, and wasted a lot of man hours.

Quinn Gray betrayed both her husband and her lover,

Jasmin Osmanovic.

And she lost everything.

She lost her family unit of four.

She lost her home in paradise. She lost the trust

of family and friends, and she tarnished

her own reputation. For what?

Next time on FEDS...

I met this baby that I thought was mine.

Something didn't sit right with me.

We had no idea of the steal Lee's scheme would rise to.

She was an evil monster.

Sorry.