The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 438

THE PALM BEACH POST SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1989 sl Mystery man left trail of secrets after $1.3 million also vanished QUINNfrom 1A 4 A i dc, 1 yf W' 1 I and the FBI arrived, it turned out he was drug dealer," Cavanaugh said. "He got busted on account of Jack Quinn." The Quinn case appeared as a segment on NBC's Unsolved Mysteries Dec. 14. That led to about 170 calls. Some of them are yet to be checked.

A tangled web of money While the FBI looks for the man, a legion of lawyers is squabbling over the money. Federal Protection had a $1 million insurance policy that covered it against employee theft. But when Fulgenzi tried to collect on the policy from the underwriters for Lloyd's of London, he was notified that his company isn't covered for Quinn's theft. The reason: The company didn't practice "dual control" at the safe, a provision required by the policy. "They think dual control means there are two combination locks, and no one person has knowledge of both combinations," said Kenneth Duboff an attorney for the security company.

"We think it means something different." The bank and the thrift that owned the stolen money First American Bank and Trust Co. and First Federal Savings of the Palm Beaches have sued the security company. The company sued the underwriters. had never been linked to any crime. John Anthony Quinn III had a normal childhood.

He was a Boy Scout, a high school baseball player and the class treasurer at St. Thomas High School in Braddock, Pa. After graduating in 1957, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and married his first wife, Jacqueline, in McKeesport, Pa. The couple moved to Maryland, and Quinn got a police officer's job in Montgomery County.

18 months together Six years after getting married, the couple had their only child, John Anthony Quinn. Eighteen months later, Quinn separated from his wife. They got a divorce in June 1974. For years after their marriage ended, Jacqueline fought with Quinn over child support payments. Despite repeated assurances of payment, Quinn still owed $8,510 in support when he disappeared last year.

Within a year after his divorce, Quinn remarried and had a son with his new wife, Pauline. They moved to Florida in summer 1982. "We had, I thought, a wonderful life at that time," Pauline said. They rented a house in Wellington, and Quinn began working for a string of security companies in sales and then in the armored-car divisions. He met Lance, his girlfriend, while she worked for Ding A Ling Answering Service, which answered the phones for one of the security companies.

''I know for a fact, he had many opportunities to take more than $1.3 million," Lance said. "There's no way he would take a penny that didn't belong to him." The thrift then tried to garnish the income received by Fulgenzi's Jack Quinn fled last year at the same time $1.3 million vanished from an armored-car firm. da's Turnpike. Later in the day, Quinn and two other company employees were there to log the money in the safe. "After the safe is opened, it's opened for other bookkeeping-type work," Fulgenzi said.

"There's not necessarily two men there all the time." When Quinn locked the safe that day, he set a timer that would prevent anyone from opening it until 5:30 a.m. the next Monday. He drove away in a company car. It later was found in a parking lot at Palm Beach International Airport. A parking ticket in the car showed that it was driven into the lot at 5:36 p.m.

Saturday. Sometime that afternoon, Pauline Quinn found her husband's goodbye note in the family car. "Please forgive me for my actions," the note said. "I hope you'll understand later on." Left his wife $107,000 The next day, Pauline Quinn opened the trunk of her car and found two sealed bank bags stuffed with $107,000. company.

That caused Federal Protection to seek federal protec tion by filing for bankruptcy three months ago. Because the company couldn't get insurance for its armored cars it had to sell off that part of the business. Now Federal Protection specializes in guard service and patrol, with accounts such as Estee Lauder's estate, Good Samaritan Hospital and the Hobe Sound Golf Club. 'This can't be happening' Since the theft, business has been good, Fulgenzi said. Life for Quinn's wife, though, has been miserable.

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'He was a loner' Lance's belief apparently was shared by others. In 1986, Quinn beclame the general manager of Federal Protection Services, a Riviera Beach company that employed 150 workers and ran a guard service and a fleet of five armored Quinn, in charge of the armored cars, designed the security system for the company safe and was the only employee entrusted with knowing both parts of the combination that unlocked it. He kept his distance from coworkers and had few friends. "He was a loner," said Pauline. "When I said I was going to have company over to the house, he would say, 'I don't want to have people over when I come Quinn wasn't spending much time at home.

He took a variety of night jobs, such as working at a liquor store and hauling contaminated waste for hospitals. $15,256 in unpaid taxes but to believe someone you love is out there, somewhere on the run "I just want my husband to get in touch with me," she said. "My son is not taking this well. He says, 'Why did Dad do that to "I still love my husband," she said. "He can't be going through a pleasurable moment.

She blames the IRS. "You pres A Mark, R)ie Spring Clearance Sale Special, sure people so long, and who wouldn't break under the pressure? They re the ones who took my hus band from me." A second girlfriend? And then there's another the "Oh my God, I slammed the trunk down and began running around the car saying Hail Marys and Our Fathers," Pauline remembers. "I had people say I was a complete fool for turning in that money," she said. "I wonder about that to this day. "But with a 13-year-old boy to take care of, I couldn't look over my shoulder all my life." Early Monday, April 11, a solemn group gathered around the company safe.

When it finally was opened, their suspicions were confirmed. The money was gone. The search for Quinn has been a frustrating one. He left a confusing trail. His name turned up on three one-way airline tickets for flights leaving Palm Beach International Airport that Saturday.

AH dead ends: He wasn't on any of the flights, investigators later discovered. Clues led nowhere Quinn's picture and description went out worldwide. In the past year, the FBI got word of a few reported sightings of someone who fit Quinn's description. They won't say where the sightings were. A Connecticut man was held for hours by Colombian customs agents in Bogota before the FBI confirmed that he was not Quinn, said Jim Cavanaugh, the FBI agent in charge of the case.

In another case, a promising lead came from Mexico. The FBI had received reports that an American moved into a small village toting lots of cash and talking about Florida. "When the (Mexican) Federales ory, the one the FBI has begun to By 1986, the Internal Revenue Service; 'discovered that Quinn failed to report income in two tax years" for a total of $15,256 in unpaid taxes. "He always seemed like the man who could outtalk the IRS," Pauline said. He couldn't.

The IRS began garnishing his wages and his wife's bank account. About six months before he disappeared, Quinn, his wife and their 13-year-old son, Michael, moved from Wellington to Loxahatchee. Pauline loved horses and wanted to board them as a business. The farm they rented at 2944 A Road was big enough to handle 25 horses. Although Pauline describes their marriage as normal and those who knew them said it had become strained.

"If she was the ideal wife, why believe. A month before Quinn disappeared he began shedding pounds, leaving the house earlier in the morning and getting to work later. His wife thought he was going straight to work when he left at 5:30 a.m. But he wasn't showing up on the job until 10 a.m. more than four hours later.

Lance, the girlfriend, saw him during lunch hours. No one seems to know what Quinn was doing during the early morning. The man who was so good at secrets may have had one more: Another girlfriend. A morning one. Maybe even one who would run away with him.

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