Quinn Gray kidnapping hoax case hits the media blitz

Attorneys for 37-year-old Quinn Gray, who claims she was abducted and held for four days in captivity, are taking to the media trail to defend their client against allegations that her abductor, a 25-year-old Bosnian immigrant, was actually her lover, and that she invented the scheme to extort $50,000.00 from her husband, Reid.

Quinn Gray and Jasmin Osmanovic have both been charged with extortion. But two of her lawyers appeared on TODAY Tuesday to share with us all the facts:

1. • Gray has a history of mental illness
2. • She is a kidnap victim, not an extortionist
3. • She didn’t need to extort money from her husband because, as she put it, “I could have just written a check.”
4. • She has no evidenced prior connection to Osmanovic

These are the facts we already knew prior to the TODAY appearance:

1. • Quinn Gray went missing on Friday, Labor Day weekend.
2. • A ransom note, written in Quinn’s handwriting, was left at the Gray’s $4 million home, stating: “There are three men holding me right now, and they want $50,000 cash.”
3. • Police believe Gray was having an affair with Osmanovic, who she met in June at a local gas station where Osmanovic worked.

Authorities presented these facts:

1. • The hotel manager where Gray was allegedly being held stated “didn’t seem to be in distress at all,”
2. • Osmanovic told authorities that he and Gray had a six-week relationship with meetings at his gas station, a hotel, and even her home.
3. • Osmanovic says Gray made him a house key and gave him the home’s security code.
4. • Osmanovic presented a 90-minute audiotape police say captured the sounds of Gray and Osmanovic in the throes of passion, and then plotting the details of a fake kidnapping.

But Gray attorney Mark Miller told Matt Lauer live on TODAY, “Her reaction to the kidnapping, it may seem bizarre, but it’s all explained by her mental illness.”

He said that when the case goes to court, he will move to have the incriminating audiotape tossed out under rape shield laws. He claims the tape is actually “an audio recording of a woman who has been kidnapped, abducted and being raped.”

So we follow a story that seems familiar in this modern world we live in: A woman gets caught up in an alleged crime, and its explained away by her bi-polar disorder. And the case plays out in the media long before it hits a court room, thereby assuring the jury pool is as tainted and biased as can be.

Meanwhile, the attorneys, no doubt suffering from a thin budget barely covered by their retainage, make guest appearances on popular media outlets. Wonder if they get paid?