Saturday, November 7, 2009

Nothing To Do? Fake A Kidnapping?

This post may be about the goofiest story for the month: the wife of a Florida health care executive faked being kidnapped by a mechanic and tried to extort ransom money from her wealthy husband. The Associated Press account can be found here.

I thought one of the strangest aspects of the story are the names of the principals. The wife's name is Quinn Gray, the husband's name is Reid Gray, and the mechanic's name is
Jasmin Osmanovic. It's too bad the husband and wife aren't lawyers, because they've got a built-in name for their firm: Quinn, Reid, and Gray. The names alone are enough to begin a script for the Lifetime Channel. The story line is also silly enough for an episode of Psych. It includes a note from the wife that she'd been kidnapped for ransom, phone calls in which she gave instructions for dropping off the ransom, and a bunch of college kids stumbling across the ransom delivery and panicking because they thought they'd gotten in the middle of some sort of drug transaction. Finally, the story includes Mr. Gray's decision not to divorce his apparently loony-tune wife, who was taken into custody and told FBI agents that "her kidnapper worked for a loan shark who wanted her husband to pay up."

Made for TV.

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