She found the address for John and Mary Reid:
613 Montauk Avenue
New London, CT 06320
That made it easy. She had no idea of Belinda’s parents’ first names, but she remembered Conor mentioning her maiden name and typed:
Quinn
Montauk Avenue
New London, CT 06320
And then she hit the jackpot. Google gave her names and an address that she thought had to be Belinda’s parents—Clement and Rosalie Quinn, 611 Montauk Avenue, New London, CT 06320. The search also brought up a full page of mentions and articles about the family fromThe Day—the local newspaper.
Clement Quinn had been named Citizen of the Year in 1978. He had owned a printing company and was honored for all the work he did at discount prices for nonprofit organizations and young business owners. There was a photo of Clement—it was blurry, but Sam could see that he was wearing a blazer and tie and had a wide smile, a seventies mustache, and sideburns. The article mentioned his family: wife, Rosalie; three-year-old son, Clark; and infant daughter, Belinda.
Sam scrolled through the hits and found a less honorable mention. Ten years later, in 1988, Clement appeared in theDaypolice blotter for risk of injury to a minor, second-degree unlawful restraint, second-degree threatening, third-degree assault, and disorderly conduct. The article did not name the victim.
One year after that, in June 1989, there was an article about Whaling City Community College having paid the Quinn Company two thousand dollars for printing costs. They didn’t receive the materials, and when the registrar contacted Clement Quinn for a refund, she discovered that the company had gone out of business and left no forwarding phone number or address.
A follow-up article stated that the Quinns had withdrawn Clark and Belinda from school, left their house having defaulted on their mortgage, as well as an unpaid lease on their Cadillac. The car had been parked on Bank Street, behind the printing company, with the keys in the ignition.
Sam found no articles after that one. She searched all the names, not limiting the geographic area, but there was nothing until a July 2010 wedding announcement in theProvidence Journal:
Belinda Quinn weds Dr. J.W. TylerIii
Belinda Quinn and Jonathan Whitman TylerIiiwere married yesterday at their home in Narragansett, R.I., by the Rev. David M. Dorset, a Congregational minister.
The bride is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Clement P. Quinn of New London, Conn. Her husband is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan W. Tyler Jr. of Providence, R.I.
The bride is an artist. The groom is the medical director of the Maynard-King Center in Narragansett, Rhode Island. The bride’s daughter was flower girl.
Sam focused on that phrase: the bride’s daughter. Could the flower girl have been Conor’s daughter? Kate and Conor were the best couple she knew. They were her family, and they gave her hope that life was good, that people were who they seemed to be. She had grown up with a painful legacy: a family broken by violence and cheating.
Kate and Conor had done so much to make up for all that.
But if Conor had really had this secret life, that meant he had tricked Kate. And fooled Sam too—just like her father. In the back of her mind was that call that Conor had taken in June, when he hadbeen so secretive. She felt scared to find out what Conor had been up to, but no matter what, she wanted to know the truth—and that meant learning whatever she could about Belinda.
The wedding announcement said that Belinda’s husband was director of the Maynard-King Center. Sam googled the Center, and its website came up. The home page showed a bright picture of a stately white clapboard building in a parklike setting. The type said:It takes bravery to get better. Better from what? she wondered.
Above the photo of the bucolic scene, there was a row of headings with clickable links to explore elements of the site.
What We Do * Who We Help * What We Treat * Why Maynard-King * About Us
She clicked on What We Treat and read the list:
Co-Occurring Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
