37: The Dangers of Letting Extended Family Live With You & the Kidnapping of Quinn Gray

Published: Oct. 10, 2018, 5:01 a.m.

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Here\\u2019s a tip: When a member of your spouse\\u2019s family asks to stay with you, just say no. That\\u2019s the lesson Brandi took from the murder of millionaire Jacques Mossler. When his younger, \\u201ctoothpaste model\\u201d wife, Candy, suggested they let her nephew Melvin move into their sprawling Houston home, Jacques said sure. But over time, Candy and her nephew got close. Too close.

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Then Kristin tells us about the bizarre kidnapping of stay-at-home-mom Quinn Gray. Her kidnapping panicked and perplexed her husband, Reid Gray. Reid was wealthy. Super wealthy. But the ransom note indicated that the kidnappers only wanted $50,000. Why so little? And why did the kidnappers let Quinn make so many phone calls? As Quinn\\u2019s kidnapping dragged on, the case got more and more strange.

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And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

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In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
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\\u201cRansom\\u201d episode of Dateline
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\\u201cWithhold of adjudication: What everyone needs to know,\\u201d Florida Bar Association
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\\u201cBizarre saga of fake kidnapping of Quinn Hanna Gray reaches quiet end in court,\\u201d Jacksonville.com
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\\u201cPonte Vedra woman who faked kidnapping accused of violating probation,\\u201d Jacksonville.com
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\\u201cNancy Grace Investigates: The Quinn Gray Tapes Part 2,\\u201d CNN.com

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In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
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\\u201cA Million Dollar Murder\\u201d by David Krajicek, Crime Library
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\\u201cLust and Death on Key Biscayne\\u201d by Matt Schudel, Sun Sentinel
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\\u201cMelvin Powers is Dead at 68\\u201d by Douglas Martin, The New York Times

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