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The story of Doc McQuaids family and their struggle to keep him safe part 1 of a four-part series
Doc McQuaid wasnt fooling his family: the housekeepers moving into his Parkton home were hookers and thieves. But when his daughters tried to fight for him, they found they were fighting alone.
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A competent adult
Say what you will about Doc McQuaid, the man could fight.
From the Pacific Campaign in Guam to the Old Courthouse in Towson, where he spent two decades fending off everything from mini-marts to mega-churches, McQuaid knew the importance of holding his ground. Its hopeless, but you got to object, McQuaid once said of slowing down development in northern Baltimore County. If you dont, theyll run all over you. But if McQuaid wouldnt abide a foe in his backyard, he was far less vigilant with the women who moved into his home a few years back, after his wife died. And when his youngest daughter tried to save him from them from himself it seemed the only one Doc wanted to fight was her.
Richard McQuaid served in the Marines during World War II, then got his Ph.D. at Johns Hop kins.
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Once, Mary Jewell knew her dad as a man of science and of principle, a former Marine who raised his family, saved his money and meticulously assembled an orderly, albeit not perfect, life in a northern Baltimore County farming community. Richard W. Doc McQuaid and Gloria McQuaid moved to Parkton after Doc, a research chemist, retired in 1983. They wanted to keep their new corner of the county pristine. But when Gloria died in 2003, things quickly went downhill for Doc. Over the next six years, a rotating cast of characters with long rap sheets would move in and out of the saltbox colonial at 1501 Harris Mill Road.
Sometimes they would bring their children or their boyfriends. Cars would be wrecked. The house would be trashed. Police would be called 53 times. Enormous sums of money would disappear, some stolen and some given away by McQuaid. By the end, Jewell estimates, her father had lost more than $1.5 million. Once, she felt overwhelmed with hopelessness, powerless to stop any of it. She called the police. She called prosecutors. She called social services. She called lawyers, doctors, and anyone else who might have contact with her father. Now, all she has left is her anger. Any time that there was any opportunity for someone to do something, Jewell said, they dropped the ball.
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McQuaid was 60 when he moved to the north county, a place he said reminded him of his boyhood home. Born in 1923, he grew up in Woodland, Calif., a small town in rural Yolo County. He met Gloria Kojan, a city girl from the Bronx, at the University of California Berkeley, and they married in 1944. After serving in World War II, McQuaid earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins. The couple settled in the Baltimore
FAMILY PHOTOGRAP McQuaid with his two H older daughters, Jea nne (center) and Jud (right). The family set ith tled in the Baltimore area.
area. Doc worked on fuel and lubricants for submarines; he once served on a presidential commission on unconventional warfare. After he retired from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, the couple made the move to Harris Mill Road. Their house, built in the 1960s, sat on 20 acres. It was a quiet area, not too many neighbors around, and thats what they wanted. They soon founded the Maryland Line Area Association and set out to stop what they saw as irresponsible development.
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Cindy Parker photo.
They made an impressive team, with Glorias warmth and charisma balancing Docs tenacity and bullheadedness. But the McQuaids life was not without its troubles. Their marriage was stormy, Mary Jewell said. Gloria suffered from depression and tried to commit suicide several times by taking too many migraine or pain pills. When Doc told Jewell in September 2003 that hed found her mother on the floor, Jewell at first assumed it was another suicide attempt. In fact, Gloria had suffered a neck injury. Then we met While in the hospital, she was sedated and her, and it was went into cardiac horrible. We had arrest. never come in Looking back at all contact with she knows now, Jewell wonders whether her people who were mothers death wasnt from these walks so innocent. She wonof life. ders why her father didnt call his daughters to Judith DeMott tell them their mother Richard Doc McQuaids daughter was in the hospital until three days after she was admitted. Jewell wishes she had pushed her father harder for an autopsy, but he didnt want one, so she backed off.
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The McQuaids moved to Harris Mill Road after Doc retired from the Naval Research Laboratory.
Whos who
Richard Doc McQuaid: Parkton community leader who led battles against irresponsible development. Mary Jewell: McQuaids youngest
daughter.
Judith DeMott: McQuaids middle

daughter.
The housekeeper
The first signs that Doc McQuaids life was changing came just weeks after Glorias death. He started telling his family about a woman named Cindy Parker, whom he said he was going to hire as a housekeeper. She soon moved in with him. According to his daughters, McQuaid told neighbors conflicting stories about where Parker had come from and what she was doing there. She was his granddaughter, or his niece, or a renter, or a woman he met through a dating service, or a housekeeper, or a hairstylist. The truth was that Cindy Parker was a hooker. After hiring a private investigator, Mary Jewell and her oldest sister, Jeanne Cox, discovered that Parker had a lengthy police record, mostly for prostitution. At her fathers house one day, Jewell found a business card advertising the services of a prostitute named shown in a police Dusty, which she believes was the name Parker used on the street. McQuaids middle daughter, Judith DeMott, said Parker once told
Jeanne Cox: McQuaids oldest

daughter.
Cindy Parker: Met McQuaid in 2003, right after his wife died, and moved in with him. Parker has a long police record, including for prostitution. McQuaid repeatedly complained to police about her taking his car or credit card.
her that she and McQuaid had met because he was looking for a prostitute. And then we met her, and it was horrible, DeMott said. We had never come in contact with people who were from these walks of life. McQuaid brought Parker to Thanksgiving dinner at DeMotts home in Columbia and took her along when he visited DeMott and her husband, Tom, after they moved to Florida. Parker yelled at McQuaid, used his money for every purchase and never thanked DeMott for anything she cooked. One Easter, the DeMotts accompanied McQuaid and Parker to church. Ten minutes into Mass, Parker walked out. When Mass ended, Judy DeMott saw her outside talking to a group of men. Parker asked the DeMotts to drop her off up the street so she could do some shopping, and they watched as she went into this holein-the-wall motel, DeMott recalled. When they returned to pick her up, they saw her coming out with one of the men from outside of the church. McQuaids daughters tried talking
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Jeanne, Judith and Mary McQuaid and a neighbor on the first day of school, year unknown.
to their father, one-and-one and all together, but he continued to lie about who Parker was and what they were doing together. The daughters gathered with their father at a psychiatrists office, hopeful that once he was in a safe environment, he would admit he needed help. He got furious, Jewell wrote in an e-mail. It was like talking to someone brainwashed by a cult or something. At one point he sneered at us saying we didnt even get the half of it. The 911 calls started in early 2004.
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September 15, 2003:
Gloria McQuaid, McQuaids wife of 58 years and his partner in fighting development in northern Baltimore County, dies at age 79. to suspect that something is wrong. McQuaid befriends a woman named Cindy Parker, who has a long record for prostitution. Parker eventually moves into the house at 1501 Harris Mill Rd.
Fall 2003: McQuaids family begins
March 24, 2004: McQuaid starts getting threatening phone calls at his house. The caller is looking for someone he calls Dusty and threatens to hurt McQuaid. March 2004: McQuaid tells his daughters that he hurt his shoulder because he fell. April-May 2004: McQuaids porch
door and the door between the garage and the house are broken. He tells his daughters the dog did it, but they dont believe him.
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Mary Jewell at her fathers house earlier this month.
June 10, 2004: McQuaids car is involved in an accident. He tells his family that he was driving but reports to GEICO that Parker was driving. Summer 2004: Child Protective Services investigates after Mary Jewell reports that Parker is living her son in McQuaids care for long periods of time. Ultimately, the boy is taken from Parker. September 22, 2004: Parker rolls
McQuaids car on I-83.
Three times, McQuaid told police he was getting threatening phone calls looking for Dusty. On March 24, McQuaid told police that the man said, The b owes me money and I will f you up good if I dont get my money. She gave me this number and said you are paying her bills. Jewell, acting on information from the private investigator, got a copy of the police reports and asked her father about the phone calls. He denied them. McQuaid started burning through money. He had always been so conservative about financial matters, even admonishing the Jewells when they bought a car on credit instead of waiting until they had saved up He got furious. It was enough to buy it like talking to someone with cash. brainwashed by a cult or But credit card something. At one point and bank records provided by he sneered at us saying Jewell show that we didnt even get the McQuaid started half of it. writing checks for thousands of Mary Jewell dollars a month, Richard Doc McQuaids daughter often to himself or to cash. He ran up his credit card balances and withdrew money from an ATM over and over, often three times a day. His daughters witnessed him getting phone calls from people who asked him for money, then using Western Union to wire them cash. He went through hundreds of dollars a month this way. He wrote checks to criminal defense lawyers, the court system and bail bondsmen for Parker and his later houseguests. Parker would take off with his
car, leaving him stranded in Parkton. She brought her 12-year-old son to live on Harris Mill Road and often left both McQuaid and the boy for days at a time. In the summer of 2004, Jewell called the Baltimore County Department of Social Services, Child Protective Services and the Board of Education to report that Parker was leaving the boy with McQuaid. McQuaid told Child Protective Services that he was fine with taking care of the child, according to court records. However, the boy told authorities that Parker hit and neglected him, and he was taken from her. Sometimes, McQuaid reported Parkers thefts to police, but he never wanted to press charges. Once, Parker wrecked his car. Another time, she plowed a rental car he paid for into a police car. (See
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September 27, 2004: Parker, who

has no drivers license, drives a car rented by McQuaid into a police car in Baltimore. Enterprise disallows McQuaid from renting further cars. GEICO adds a clause to McQuaids policy excluding Parker from his coverage.
September 29, 2004: After hearing from an anonymous tipster which Jewell admits was her and finding drug paraphernalia in McQuaids trash, Baltimore County Police execute a search warrant on the house. When lab tests show that the drugs are heroin, Parker is arrested. The charges are later dropped. February 13, 2005: McQuaid tells
his daughter Jeanne Cox that he broke his ribs falling in a restaurant.
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Pictures, including a framed photo of Richard Doc and Gloria McQuaid, are piled on a chair in the Parkton house in this photo from July.
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sidebar, page 13B.) In 2006, McQuaid bought a $10,000 life insurance policy and made Parker the beneficiary. No one answered phone calls to the number listed on Parkers last arrest report. Approached at Baltimore Citys Eastside District Court in September, where she was due to appear on a prostitution charge, Parker said she had met McQuaid through a maid service and that she had cleaned his house. I was with him for five years, she said. McQuaid was a wealthy man, she said, and the people who came to the house later took him for everything.
Poor judgment
a crusty old McQuaid, Scotsman, had never been particularly warm or close to his daughters, Mary Jewell said. But he was always law-abiding, and he was deadly serious about protecting his neighborhood. Inviting a prostitute to live with him was way out of character. Jewell called Baltimore County Adult Protective Services, which, she said, visited McQuaid and found him competent but using very poor judgment. Judy DeMott, the middle sister, said she talked to a man at the Department of Aging, who told her, There is no law against being stupid. Officials at APS said they could not talk about McQuaids case, but that some situations just dont call for APS involveA competent ment. adult can refuse A competent adult our intervention. can refuse our intersaid If they are competent, vention, Maureen Robinson, a they can make that spokeswoman for the decision because Baltimore County adults have rights. Department of Social Services. If Maureen Robinson they are competent, Spokeswoman they can make that Baltimore County Department decision, because of Social Services adults have rights. McQuaids daughters also tried talking to his doctors. He was acting so strangely that they wondered if there was something medically wrong with him. Once, Jeanne Cox went with him to a doctors appointment, but he refused to give the doctor permission to speak to her. Jewell contacted other doctors over the years, but few would talk to her, citing privacy laws. Jewell called police repeatedly, too. She told them that she suspected drug activity in the house and feared for her fathers safety. In 2004, acting on her tip, police searched the trash and found drug paraphernalia. They later raided the house though only McQuaid and
Scenes from the McQuaid house in July, taken while he was hospitalized after yet another fall.
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Maryland Adult Protective Services

Mission: According to the Maryland Adult Protective Services Web site, the agencys mission is to provide crisis intervention services to vulnerable adults who are unable to care for their own basic living needs, access necessary professional services, or protect their own interests. The purpose of the program is to prevent or to remedy abuse neglect, self-neglect or exploitation of all vulnerable adults who are at risk of immediate harm to their own person or to others. A Protective Services investigation is conducted in response to every reported incidence of suspected abuse, neglect, self-neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult residing in the state of Maryland. Contact: Any citizen may contact a local department of social services to
report concerns regarding vulnerable adults. To report suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation of at-risk adults, Please call the toll-free number 1-800-91-PREVENT (1-800-917-7383), the Web site says.
Who must report: Maryland law requires law enforcement agents, human service professionals, and health care practitioners to report all cases of suspected adult abuse, including neglect, self-neglect, and financial exploitation immediately. (Any other person who suspects or believes a vulnerable adult is being abused, neglected, self-neglected, or financially exploited, also may report.)
Parkers son were home at the time and found marijuana and heroin. Parker was arrested later, but the charges were dropped. DeMott was on the phone with her father when the cops showed up. He was furious and blamed the raid on Jewell, DeMott said. The more entwined McQuaids life became with Cindy Parkers, the more he pushed his daughters away.
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After the death of his wife, Gloria, Richard Doc McQuaid let a series of women with criminal histories move into his Parkton home.
Undue inf luences

How bad were things getting? McQuaid wouldnt tell
If it could happen to Doc McQuaid well-educated, with a caring family it could happen to anyone. And it does. Time after time. Older men, usually recently widowed, will be approached and somehow find women who are not of the best character, said Sharon Rose, director of Adult Protective Services in Baltimore County. If the man is incompetent, services like APS can step in. But what if hes not? Theres nothing you can do about it, Rose said. Competent people dont always make the best decisions.
In the summer of 2005, Doc McQuaid got a second houseguest this one with a long list of aliases and a record for drugs, forgery and theft. daughters McQuaids thought Crystal Overfield was somebody their fathers first housekeeper, Cindy Parker, had met in prison. But according to court records, Crystal may have known him first: She had used the McQuaid residence, 1501 Harris Mill Road in Parkton, as her address when she was arrested for drug possession in Howard County in 2001. That was long before September 2003, when Gloria
Baltimore developer Patrick Turner told a city jury Monday that yes, Mayor Sheila Dixon had asked him to contribute gift cards to city charity programs in 2005 and 2006. And yes, he had bought the cards, from Best Buy and Target. He said he didnt remember how the cards had gotten to City Hall, exactly, and into the hands of then-City Council President Dixon, and the
details of how the cards were packaged were fuzzy in his memory. But one thing that Turners testimony did put into focus is the close personal connections that exist between some developers and City Hall. Turner had, at one point, a very cozy relationship with Dixon one that wasnt common but didnt strike other developers as strange, either. Turner, who last year opened Silo Point, a $170 million condo project in
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McQuaid died and Doc hired Parker, a convicted prostitute, to keep house for him. The daughters say they would have known if Crystal were living there while their mother was alive, since they visited all the time.
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Mary Jewell, the youngest daughter, said she thinks she remembers her mother mentioning a housekeeper named Chris or Christine Overfield used Christine in several of her aliases who was in drug rehab, though shes not sure its the same person. Overfield had arrests in 12 states, mostly thefts and scams to finance a drug habit, a prosecutor in one of her cases wrote to the judge. She was arrested several times while she lived with McQuaid, but never for offenses against him or involving his house. In 2006, she was arrested for shown in a Cr ystal Overfield a pair of Howard police photo County burglaries and sent to long-term drug treatment. After that, she moved in with her mother in Pennsylvania and wrote to the judge that shed gotten a job cleaning cabins at a resort. The prosecutor recalled recently that when he saw her after her stint in rehab, she looked so much better he didnt
Our story so far (Recap of Part 1)

Richard W. Doc McQuaid had long been a community activist in Parkton, joining his wife Gloria to fight irresponsible development in the farming community. But after Gloria McQuaid died in 2003, things went downhill for Doc McQuaid. Within weeks of his wifes death, McQuaid met a prostitute named Cindy Parker, whom he invited to live with him. She was the first in a series of new friends for McQuaid. Over the next six years, a rotating cast of characters with long rap sheets would move in and out of the house at 1501 Harris Mill Road. Sometimes they would bring their children or their boyfriends. Multiple cars would be wrecked. The house would be trashed. Police would be called 53 times. Enormous sums of money would disappear, some stolen and some given away by McQuaid himself. His family, particularly his youngest daughter, Mary Jewell, tried everything they could think of to stop it, but nothing worked.
recognize her. Overfield moved back in with McQuaid in late 2008 or early 2009, but its unclear why. Through an attorney, F. Spencer Gordon, she declined to be interviewed. After speaking with Crystal, I really am not in a position to permit you to speak with her, Gordon wrote in an e-mailed statement. However, he did share some of his conversation with her. Overfield told him she stole from McQuaid before she went to rehab. She denied that she stole from him or did anything inappropriate since her return to this area. Also, Overfield only returned to the Baltimore area at Dick
McQuaids request because he needed assistance that was not coming from anyone in his family, Gordon wrote.
Broken bond
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A family photo shows Doc McQuaid with his youngest child, Mary, now Mary Jewell. McQuaid stopped speaking to Jewell after she tipped police to drug use in his home and contacted the MVA about having his license revoked.
M c Q u a i d s relationship with his youngest daughter which deteriorated after a tip The MVA said he drove from her led to a drug bust at fine and gave him his McQuaids house license back, but frayed further when an elderly mans when Mary car is in all these Jewell took a new tack in her accidents, they should fight against her not have a license. They fathers lifestyle. should not be allowed to He had been have a car. And yet, there having trouble driving for years was nothing we could do. due to poor eyesight and arthriJudith DeMott tis, and there Richard Doc McQuaids daughter had been several accidents and drug arrests in his car, Jewell said, so she contacted the Motor Vehicle Administration about getting his license taken away. In May 2005, the MVA suspended it after he failed to respond to paperwork. Jewell said she contacted McQuaids neurologist about his strange behavior. The doctor was alarmed enough when he examined my father that something was wrong, that he contacted the MVA by phone and sent the report sealed along with my Dad, Jewell wrote in an e-mail. He later sent his report to the MVA. But McQuaid hired an attorney, Cindy Parker shown in a poli ce photo found new doctors, and successfully fought the suspension, Jewell said. Her sister, Judy DeMott, said she went with him to a neurologist who pronounced him perfectly
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Whos who
Richard Doc McQuaid: Parkton
community leader who led battles against irresponsible development. After his wife died, he fell in with a group of criminals who lived in his house and took his money.
Mary Jewell: McQuaids youngest

daughter. She led the battle to stop her fathers association with the criminals.
Judith DeMott: McQuaids middle

daughter. She was consistently in touch with her father, even after he cut off contact with her sisters.
Jeanne Cox: McQuaids oldest daughter.

Cox once had limited power of attorney for her father and was designated as executor of his will, but he transferred those powers to DeMott after concluding that Cox and Jewell were interfering in his life.
healthy. The MVA went up to his house and gave him a test to see if he could drive, and they said he drove fine and gave him his license back, but when an elderly mans car is in all these accidents, they should not have a license, DeMott said. They should not be allowed to have a car. And yet, there was nothing we could do.
Daughters divided
McQuaid got his RICH DENNISON license back. An old holiday card from the Ehrlichs sits on McQuaids kitchen table in this photo, After that, taken earlier this month. McQuaid didnt speak to Jewell anymore, and his relabrewing tensions between Jewell tionship with his oldest daughter, and Cox on one hand, and DeMott Jeanne Cox, whom he saw as allied on the other, about how to handle with Jewell, was strained. their fathers situation. Cox had been designated as the DeMott thought she would hold executor of his will and had limited more sway with her father by staying power of attorney she could use if he closer to him. She and her husband became incapacitated, but after the were the ones who had hosted MVA episode, he switched those McQuaid and his first housekeeper, powers to DeMott. Continued on 14B That contributed to already-
Cindy Parker: Met McQuaid in 2003,

right after his wife died, and moved in with him. Parker has a long police record, including for prostitution. McQuaid repeatedly complained to police about her taking his car or credit card.
Crystal Overfield: Lived with McQuaid

for a period in 2005 and 2006, then again in 2009. Overfield has a criminal record in 12 states, under a variety of aliases, for drugs, forgery and theft. Court records show she had some connection to McQuaid and his wife as early as 2001, when she gave their address to police when she was arrested.
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Memory vs. consequences
With limited staff and budgets, many social service departments rely on the Mini Mental State Exam to determine competency. The exam tests awareness of time and place, attention, ability to immediately recall words and follow directions, and reading and writing skills. In other words, its essentially a test of memory impairment. However, said geriatric and forensic psychiatrist Bennett Blum, many experts believe that just as many seniors may have deficits in the ability to evalBennett Blum uate consequences. The Mini Mental State Exam is useless in these situations, Blum said. It does not evaluate the ability to evaluate the long-term consequences of decisions, which is whats at issue in undueinfluence cases, he said. Its almost as if someone is trying to use a hammer when what they need is a surgeons scalpel, Blum said.
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Parker, on Thanksgiving and on a visit to the DeMotts new home in Florida. They were also the ones who took McQuaid and Parker to church one Easter a service Parker walked out of then chauffered Parker on a shopping run only to see her emerge from a holein-the-wall motel with a man theyd seen in the church parking lot. But even to DeMott, McQuaid would rarely admit how bad things were getting at home, she said. He admitted that things had been stolen but denied that his house-
guests had done it. It was almost like he was afraid of these women but he wouldnt admit it, she said. DeMott and Jewell always wondered whether their fathers houseguests were hurting him. They had no proof, but they noticed that the people in his life had an inexplicable level of control over his finances, and that he was always getting
injured. His Link to Life medical alarm went off all the time, but when authorities showed up, he would tell them it had gone off accidentally. To DeMott, he always denied that anyone was pushing or hitting him. His injuries were due to falls, he told her. DeMott wasnt sure whether she should believe him.
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When I saw how many times he kept falling when we were with him, and he had very little balance I really didnt know and he wouldnt admit to it, and I did ask him, she said.
A process, not an event

Its not unusual for someone being taken advantage of to deny the problem, according to geriatric and forensic psychiatrist Bennett Blum. Blum, based in Tucson, Ariz., studies undue influence, which he defines as excessive or inappropriate manipulation. Undue influence is not a single event but a process, he said, and is often used to separate the elderly from their money.
March 24, 2004: McQuaid starts getting threatening phone calls at his house. The caller is looking for someone he calls Dusty and threatens to hurt McQuaid. March 2004: McQuaid tells his daughters that he hurt his shoulder because he fell. April-May 2004: McQuaids porch
Undue influence does not require the victim recognizing the coercion, Blum said. The victim may even say he is a willing participant, like McQuaid did. But its undue influence if the victim goes along because the offender is misrepresenting the nature and depth of their feelings, Blum said. Blum gave an example of a companion saying, You know that theres no one else in the world that would care for you the way I do, and all Im asking from you is you give me access to your bank account if you get sick. The victim, believing the person loves him, feels he has no choice, Blum explained. Once someone gets entrenched in
an older persons life, the senior starts pushing family away, said Maureen Robinson, a spokeswoman for Baltimore County social services. Their world now revolves around the newcomers, Robinson said.
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Part 3: I begged him 100 times to get out of there.
To view a slide show of Doc McQuaids family photos or to see images taken at the home in July 2009,
June 10, 2004: McQuaids car is involved in an accident. He tells his family that he was driving but reports to GEICO that Parker was driving. Summer 2004: Child Protective Services investigates after Mary Jewell reports that Parker is leaving her son in McQuaids care for long periods of time. Ultimately, the boy is taken from Parker. September 22, 2004: Parker rolls
September 27, 2004: Parker, who has no drivers license, drives a car rented by McQuaid into a police car in Baltimore. Enterprise disallows McQuaid from renting further cars. GEICO adds a clause to McQuaids policy excluding Parker from his coverage. September 29, 2004: After hearing
from an anonymous tipster which Jewell admits was her and finding drug paraphernalia in McQuaids trash, Baltimore County Police execute a search warrant on the house. When lab tests show that the drugs are heroin, Parker is arrested. The charges are later dropped.
February 13, 2005: McQuaid tells his daughter Jeanne Cox that he broke his ribs falling in a restaurant. May 12, 2005: The Motor Vehicle Administration suspends McQuaids license after he fails to respond to paperwork. Jewell had contacted the MVA about getting her fathers license pulled because she was concerned about his driving abilities and a number of accidents and drug arrests that happened in his car. May 17, 2005:
McQuaid removes his oldest daughter, Jeanne Cox, as executor of his will and power of attorney and replaces her with his middle daughter, Judy DeMott. McQuaid and Crystal Overfield tell police that Cindy Parker has stolen $75 in poker chips and a leather jacket from the house.
November 1, 2005:
October-December 2005:
McQuaids Link to Life medical alarm and burglar alarm go off repeatedly, but when authorities come, he tells them each time that the alarm sounded by accident.
September-November 2006:
Crystal Overfield is arrested for two burglaries in Howard County. As a result, a judge sends her to drug treatment. After finishing rehab, she moves to Pennsylvania to live with her family.
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A former employee at Mercy Medical Center may have stolen patient information. 4A
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Strategy or a fumble?
Lawyers differ on Dixon prosecutors decision not to call Ronald Lipscomb
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Mary Jewell is angered by the notion that, by being more attentive, her family could have stopped the stream of criminals into her fathers life or the stream of money out.
Changing stories
Its hard to get help when the victim recants
First, there was Cindy Parker, the prostitute Doc McQuaid hired as a housekeeper after his wife died. Then came Crystal Overfield, with a rap sheet for theft and drugs stretching over 12 states. And then, there was Darla Mundy. They were all horrible, but Darla was really, really bad, and I mean, she just took him for everything he was worth, said McQuaids middle daughter, Judy DeMott.
Darla Mundy had a shorter police record than her predecessors, but she may have taken more from Doc McQuaid than anyone else. McQuaids daughters say they have no idea where Mundy came from. Another woman who lived with McQuaid briefly, Rose Deangelis, said she doesnt know, either, but that McQuaid fell in love with Mundy and wanted to marry her. (See story, p. 8A.) Mundy moved in after Crystal Overfield was sentenced to rehab for burglary in 2006. She arrived at the McQuaid house with a handful of theft, assault, battery and unauthorized-use charges, nearly all dismissed or put on the stet docket. She racked up more criminal charges while she was
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after State Minutes Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh abruptly rested his case against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon Tuesday morning, the judge granted a defense motion to dismiss two of the seven charges against her those related to developer Ronald H. Lipscomb, Dixons former boyfriend, who was not called to testify. The mayors lawyers argued the state had failed to prove that Dixon tricked Lipscomb into giving her hundreds of dollars worth of gift cards by telling him they
would go to needy families when in fact she used them for personal purposes. Visiting Judge Dennis M. Sweeney rejected Rohrbaughs contention that the state had presented enough circumstantial evidence to make its case. Its a bridge too far to allege that it shows that the cards Lipscomb and Doracon gave were intended for needy families during the holiday season, Sweeney said at the midday motions hearing in Baltimore City Circuit Court, while the jury was at lunch. There is certainly
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living with McQuaid. On Feb. 28, 2008, McQuaid wrote in a police report that Mundy had taken his car 10 days earlier and not returned it. She had also taken $600 in jewelry and his American Express card, on which she ran up $584 in charges, McQuaid reported. He said she had tried to
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cash a $175 forged check, and when she was denied, she called him and begged him to authorize payment of the check because she was being held prisoner by people who would kill her if she didnt pay $175. The defendant is a known drug addict and sounded as if she was under the influence of drugs, McQuaid wrote. Yet, when Mundy was arrested, it was McQuaid who posted bail, court records show. Mundy pleaded wn in a police sho not guilty to credit card impersonation but was convicted in August 2008. Two charges that she issued false documents were dropped. She was for-
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Richard W. Doc McQuaid was once known as the loudest anti-development voice in northern Baltimore County. But after his wife, Gloria, died in 2003, his life changed radically. He befriended criminals and took them in. He burned through hundreds of thousands of dollars, perhaps as much as $1.5 million. He placed dozens of phone calls to the police, complaining that his friends had stolen from him, but generally refused to press charges. He pushed his family away and came to rely more and more on his new friends, whom he often called housekeepers when talking to his daughters, police or neighbors. First came Cindy Parker, a prostitute who moved in, bringing her 12year-old son. Next was Crystal Overfield, an experienced thief with a page of aliases and a record in 12 states.
bidden from going to McQuaids house or having contact with him. But almost immediately, Mundy was back in Doc McQuaids life. In September 2008, police stopped a speeding car in Harford County and discovered it belonged to McQuaid. Mundy had lent it to a friend and wasnt responding to McQuaids calls asking her to bring it
back, McQuaid told police. Unauthorized-use charges were brought against Mundy, but dropped. Meanwhile, in July 2008, Mundys cousin had threatened to set McQuaids garage on fire with her and his girlfriend in it (See story, p. 10A). In December 2008, McQuaid told police that someone had withdrawn
Roses story: Everybody was just out to use Doc

Rose Deangelis says Doc McQuaid was bilked out of a lot of money, but not by her. Deangelis, the only one of Doc McQuaids houseguests to sit for an extended interview with The Daily Record, said McQuaid was a man wrecked by his wifes death and blinded by love for a much younger, drug-addicted woman who stole from him constantly. More or less, Doc was just a lonely man and people took advantage of that, Deangelis said. Deangelis, who has a long criminal record, mainly on drug, theft and assault charges, pleaded guilty to stealing several of McQuaids checks, forging his signature and trying to cash them. But, she maintains, she never took anything else from him. boyfriend had reported that she was not getting prenatal care due to Mundys neglect), but Deangelis said she returned. And when the daughter had her baby, McQuaid paid for baby furniture and supplies and let them set up a crib in the house. He even bought a German shepherd for Mundys daughter. They were all supposed to live there and be one happy family: Darla, the daughter, and then [the daughters] baby, Deangelis said. That was Docs thought of having life again. There was no life. Everybody was just out to use Doc.
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McQuaid knew Mundy was stealing from him, but every time he would complain to police, Mundy would persuade him to drop the charges, she said. Shortly after Deangelis moved out she claims she left when McQuaid propositioned her she was arrested for passing the bad checks. She was also arrested for shoplifting to get the money to make bail for her boyfriend, who had been jailed for attempted murder. (See related story, p. 10A.) Deangelis said she got off heroin while she was in prison her clean date is Aug. 25, 2008 and stayed off with the help of a court-ordered drug treatment program at Baltimore Behavioral Health. She says most of her arrests were for stealing from stores to finance her addiction. But she has continued to get into trouble with the law. Most recently, she was picked up in Havre de Grace in August for biting and jumping on a boyfriend. She said she did it because she found out he was using drugs. She said McQuaid was a smart man with no common sense. After his wife died, he gave up on living an upright life, she said. Deangelis said McQuaid told her his daughters wanted to come in and take over and put him in a home. He always said, If Im going to die, Im going to die my way, Deangelis said. He would say, I was a good man all my life. I did a lot of help for people and it didnt get me anywhere. It got me a broken heart.
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Deangelis lived with McQuaid for a few weeks in the summer of 2008. She met him through her boyfriend at the time, who was Darla Mundys cousin. Deangelis said she isnt sure how McQuaid and Mundy met, but that he was so taken with Mundy that he wanted to marry her. Deangelis said she moved in with McQuaid because she wanted to get off heroin and get her life together. McQuaid promised to pay her and her boyfriend, Walter Smelser, for taking care of his house. She said she cleaned, cooked dinner for McQuaid and kept him company, while Smelser did odd jobs and repairs. She said Darla Mundy was responsible for most of the money McQuaid ran through, though Cindy Parker, the first housekeeper McQuaid hired after his wifes death, helped a lot. By the time Deangelis moved into the house on Harris Mill Road, Parker had long since moved out, but she was never fully out of the picture. Deangelis said Mundy forbade McQuaid from seeing Parker, but Parker still called to ask for money. Sometimes, McQuaid would ride his motorized wheelchair down to the end of his long driveway to meet Parker and give her cash. But the big money went to Mundy, Deangelis said. There was young girls that lived in there that Doc kept throwing out because [he thought] they were stealing from him, Deangelis said. Nobody was stealing from him but Darla. Thats where all the money went. You mentioned a lot of money?
Rose Deangelis shown in a police photo.
Yeah. That girl went through a lot of money. Deangelis said Mundy would steal McQuaids credit cards and run up the bills, then cancel the cards. She would forward calls from McQuaids house to her cell phone, and when the card companies called to ask about suspicious charges, Mundy would tell them they were authorized, Deangelis said. Deangelis said Mundy had the PIN to McQuaids debit card and used it to get cash. She said McQuaid told her once that Mundy had cost him $300,000. Doc was so nice, he didnt care anymore, Deangelis said. Once his wife died, money was immaterial to him. His accountant would come over and tell him, You know, youre getting ready to lose everything. Doc loved Mundy so much that he let her boyfriend, a man named Jimmy, move in with them, Deangelis said. She said McQuaid also let Mundy bring her teenage daughter and the daughters boyfriend to live with them. The girl was taken from Mundy for awhile by the Department of Social Services (her
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Richard Doc McQuaid: Parkton community leader who led battles against irresponsible development. After his wife died, he fell in with a group of criminals who lived in his house and took his money. Mary Jewell: McQuaids youngest daughter. She led the battle to stop her fathers association with the criminals. Judith DeMott: McQuaids middle daughter. She was consistently in touch with her father, even after he cut off contact with her sisters. Jeanne Cox: McQuaids oldest
daughter.
Cindy Parker: Met McQuaid in

2003, right after his wife died, and moved in with him. Parker has a long police record, including for prostitution. McQuaid repeatedly complained to police about her taking his car or credit card.
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The McQuaids retired to this house in Parkton in 1983. Two decades later, after his wife died, Doc McQuaid let several people with criminal pasts move in.
$2,470 from his bank account. He said it couldnt have been Mundy, but if it was, he wouldnt press charges.
Taking her seriously

Even a lawyer McQuaid hired to represent Mundy in several criminal cases said Mundy was up to no good. The lawyer said he represented Mundy for the first time when she was accused of punching her boyfriend and kicking him in the groin. He quickly saw that Mundys relationship with McQuaid was exploitive, he said. In this situation with I begged him Mr. McQuaid, you 100 times to get out of there, said the cant prove that hes lawyer, who spoke not of sound mind. on condition of Hes making these anonymity because decisions, and theres he was hesitant to talk publicly about not a whole lot that a former client. we can do. Mundys lawyer grew even more Cpl. Mike Hill concerned when he Baltimore County police spokesman heard from Mary Jewell, McQuaids youngest daughter. Jewell contacted all of the lawyers her father had hired for his houseguests to tell them about her fathers situation McQuaid hired a different lawyer for each woman but Mundys attorney was the only one who took her seriously, she said. When McQuaid started hiring the lawyer to represent Mundy on charges that she took things from McQuaid himself, the lawyer backed away. I stopped taking her cases, the lawyer said. I didnt want to do it anymore. He was a nice man and he
was being taken advantage of, not only by her but by other girls as well. He tried to set McQuaid up with a but legitimate housekeeper, McQuaid didnt want to pay, the lawyer said. The Daily Records attempts to contact Mundy were unsuccessful. A woman who answered the phone at Mundys last known address said she was at counseling and took a message. A different woman who answered the phone another day said Mundy had moved. The woman listened just long enough to learn that a reporter wanted to speak to Mundy about allegations regarding her actions at McQuaids house. Well, maybe you should be asking other people what theyve done in that house, she said. Bye. With that, she hung up the phone.
Crystal Overfield: Lived with McQuaid for a period in 2005 and 2006, then again in 2009. Overfield has a criminal record in 12 states, under a variety of aliases, for drugs, forgery and theft. Court records show she had some connection to McQuaid and his wife as early as 2001, when she gave their address to police when she was arrested. Darla Mundy: Lived with McQuaid. Mundy has an arrest record for theft, assault, battery and unauthorized use. McQuaid repeatedly complained to police about Mundy taking his car or other belongings, but he generally refused to press charges. Rose Deangelis: Lived with McQuaid for several weeks in the summer of 2008. Deangelis has a long police record for theft, drugs and assault. She was arrested in August 2008 for trying to pass checks belonging to McQuaid. Walter Smelser: Mundys cousin and Deangelis former boyfriend. Lived with McQuaid for several weeks in the summer of 2008. Smelser has a police record for drugs and assault. He was arrested for attempted murder for allegedly trying to set ablaze a car containing Mundy and Deangelis in McQuaids garage. Most of the charges were dropped when Mundy absconded and Deangelis recanted.
Prosecution problems
Baltimore County police spokesman Cpl. Mike Hill said situations like McQuaids, where a victim repeatedly makes allegations and then recants, almost like crying wolf, are frustrating and hard for law enforcement to stop. First of all, police may not even pick up on the situation. Aside from a log of 911 calls by address, there is no central database that would tell a responding officer that a resident could be the victim of financial exploitation, Hill said. It might take an officer who has been to the address before to recognize an ongoing problem. If there are obvious signs of trouble but the victim refuses to prosecute, police can refer a case to another agency, such as the Department of Social Services.
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But unlike domestic violence cases, where the victim also may deny the abuse, crimes like theft and unauthorized use of a car leave no physical marks, Hill said. Sometimes, no government agency can help, he said. In this situation with Mr. McQuaid, you cant prove that hes not of sound mind, Hill said. Hes making these decisions, and theres not a whole lot that we can do. Prosecuting financial exploitation of the elderly is difficult, too, Baltimore County States Attorney Scott Shellenberger said. The law forbids the misuse of the funds or property of an adult who lacks the mental or physical capacity to care for himself. But by arguing that a victim lacks mental capacity, a prosecutor undermines the persons testimony. You dont want to allege that theyre completely incompetent or else you dont have a witness, and on the other hand, there has to be some element of taking advantage of somebody to prove that it was a theft, Shellenberger said. Sometimes its easier to prove a good old, down-to-home theft.
About adult guardianship

Before granting adult guardianship, a court must determine that the person has severe disabilities which are preventing him from making decisions, that he is in need of protection and that there is no less restrictive alternative to guardianship. The judge has to find by clear and convincing evidence that the person is incompetent. Two doctors must verify that the person cannot make his own decisions. The alleged disabled person can contest the guardianship. The court may appoint a guardian of the person, his property or both.
Source: Maryland Department of Aging Web site
When there are allegations that the beneficiaries of an older persons largesse used undue influence, the cases are even harder to prosecute, Shellenberger said. In those cases, victims often report financial losses, then recant. They change their story, and then where are you in court? Shellenberger said.
Limited options
Shellenberger says families too often come to him about elder financial abuse after the fact. Staying involved in aged parents lives is crucial, he said. But Jewell is angered by the
notion that by being more attentive, she and her sisters could have stopped the stream of criminals into McQuaids life or the stream of money out. She believes the officials didnt take her seriously because they assumed she was after her fathers money. She said she was privy to some of his financial transactions and knew years ago that there would not be any money left in his estate. In 2005, Jewell wrote to one of the lawyers for Cindy Parker, McQuaids first housekeeper, and offered to sign papers giving up her share of McQuaids estate if
A fight among the houseguests turns volatile

The worst offense at Doc McQuaids house came on July 24, 2008. McQuaid had called police the day before to report that one of his houseguests, Walter Smelser, had taken his camera. While police were at the house, they found drugs on Smelser. The next day, Smelser and his girlfriend, Rose Deangelis, who was also living at the house, got into a fight there. Deangelis left, but later called Darla Mundy for a ride back to the house, both women told police later. Mundy, who was Smelsers cousin, also lived with McQuaid at 1501 Harris Mill Road. When they got back and pulled into McQuaids garage, Smelser was there. Mundy told police that Smelser was high on PCP and wouldnt let her or Deangelis out of the car. He sprayed something on the car, poured lighter fluid on it, banged on the windows, let the air out of one of the tires and cut the electric garage door cable, Mundy told police. The version of the story Deangelis tells is very different. Smelser was taking steps to keep Mundy out of the house because he knew she was stealing from McQuaid, Deangelis said. She said Smelser had changed the locks on the doors although McQuaid immediately gave Mundy the new keys and was working on getting locks for the windows, which Mundy sometimes used to enter the house. Mundy made up the story about
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Walter Smelser (center) was charged with attempted murder and attempted arson after allegedly trying to set the McQuaid garage on fire while his cousin, Darla Mundy (left) and girlfriend, Rose Deangelis (right) were trapped in it.
Smelser trying to kill her and Deangelis because she wanted to get him out of the picture, Deangelis claimed. She said Smelser never threatened her or kept her or Mundy from getting out of the car. Deangelis said she didnt want to get out. And Smelser did pour something from a gas can onto the car, but it was just water, Deangelis said. She said she, Smelser and Mundy all knew that. Deangelis said she was pretty inebriated that night and pretty mad at Walter, so she allowed Mundy to lie to police and the 911 operator. But a 23-minute 911 call Mundy placed from the car that night supports the official version of events.
During the call, a whimpering Mundy tells the 911 operator that Smelser is letting the air out of her tire, spraying something on the car, holding lighter fluid and matches, and cutting a cable at the top of the garage. I dont want to die, a shakyvoiced Mundy tells the operator. I want to be here for my grandchild, please. On the call, Mundy can be heard talking to someone else in the car, saying, Im scared, too, and later, I know, I know, so am I. Police could smell lighter fluid at the scene. They saw a milky film on the car and crumpled newspapers stuffed around it, according to their report. Smelser was arrested wearing
only flowered swim trunks and hunting boots, it appears from the police report and charged with attempted murder, attempted arson, assault and false imprisonment. Deangelis refused to testify against Smelser and police couldnt find Mundy to testify, so prosecutors dropped all charges except false imprisonment. Smelser pleaded guilty to that charge in February and got a 10-year suspended sentence and two months probation. Through Deangelis and the attorney who represented him in the attempted-murder case, Mark Van Bavel, Smelser declined to comment on his activities at McQuaids house.
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May 12, 2005: The Motor Vehicle Administration suspends McQuaids license after he fails to respond to paperwork. Jewell had contacted the MVA about getting her fathers license pulled because she was concerned about his driving abilities and a number of accidents and drug arrests that happened in his car. May 17, 2005:
McQuaid removes his oldest daughter, Jeanne Cox, as executor of his will and power of attorney and replaces her with his middle daughter, Judy DeMott. McQuaid and Crystal Overfield tell police that Cindy Parker has stolen $75 in poker chips and a leather jacket from the house.
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March 24, 2004: McQuaid starts getting threatening phone calls at his house. The caller is looking for someone he calls Dusty and threatens to hurt McQuaid. March 2004: McQuaid tells his
daughters that he hurt his shoulder because he fell.
for the A sticker in McQuaids kitchen proclaims his support Society. Humane
someone would just get him some help, she said. Before this happened, Jewell said, she would have assumed that the family members of an elderly person in such a situation were uninvolved or uncaring, or that they were not contacting the proper authorities. But shes not sure what else she could have done. Indeed, the civil justice system does not offer many options for those whose relatives are not obviously incompetent, said elder law attorney Angela B. Grau. In my opinion, In my opinion, theres theres a gap in the a gap in the law law between those between those who who really lack capacity in a legal really lack capacity sense and those in a legal sense and are vulnerathose who are vulnerable, who and the civil ble, and the civil law law doesnt really provide any assisdoesnt really provide any assistance tance for the elderly persons who are for the elderly persons vulnerable, said who are vulnerable. Grau, of Davis, Agnor, Rapaport Angela B. Grau & Skalny LLC in Elder law attorney Columbia. The Davis, Agnor Rapaport & Skalny LLC law does not really protect those individuals. The only thing Jewell did not do that elder law attorneys recommend was to file a guardianship petition, which would have required her to prove, to a judge, that McQuaid was unable to make his own medical and financial decisions. Jewell said she considered filing a petition, but she didnt have the $10,000 that lawyers told her it would cost and she couldnt find a lawyer to take the case pro bono. Lawyers also said it would be an uphill battle because McQuaid would likely fight hard. Maybe things would have been different had the family been uni-
April-May 2004: McQuaids porch

June 10, 2004: McQuaids car is involved in an accident. He tells his family that he was driving but reports to GEICO that Parker was driving. Summer 2004: Child Protective Services investigates after Mary Jewell reports that Parker is leaving her son in McQuaids care for long periods of time. Ultimately, the boy is taken from Parker. September 22, 2004: Parker rolls
May 12, 2007: McQuaid tells police

that when he woke up, his safe and wallet were missing from his bedroom. Police find that the basement door into the garage is open. McQuaid tells them that the only person with a key and garage door opener is Darla Mundy.
May 29, 2007: Police come to investigate Mary Jewells allegation that there are prostitutes at the house. McQuaid tells them that the women are not engaging in prostitution with him and that he is not being exploited or abused.
September 27, 2004: Parker, who

has no drivers license, drives a car rented by McQuaid into a police car in Baltimore. Enterprise disallows McQuaid from renting further cars. GEICO adds a clause to McQuaids policy excluding Parker from his coverage.
September 29, 2004: After hearing from an anonymous tipster which Jewell admits was her and finding drug paraphernalia in McQuaids trash, Baltimore County Police execute a search warrant on the house. When lab tests show that the drugs are heroin, Parker is arrested. The charges are later dropped. February 13, 2005: McQuaid tells
his daughter Jeanne Cox that he broke his ribs falling in a restaurant.
November 3-4, 2007: The boyfriend of Darla Mundys pregnant teenage daughter calls police to complain that Mundy is not caring for the daughter properly. Social Services takes the daughter. July 24, 2008: Walter Smelser is arrested and charged with attempted murder, attempted arson and a host of other charges. Prosecutors allege that he trapped Rose Deangelis and Darla Mundy in McQuaids garage and tried to set fire to the car they were in, citing as evidence a 23minute 911 call placed by Mundy. Smelser pleads to lesser charges after Deangelis recants and Mundy fails to come to court.
fied, Jewell said. But Doc McQuaids situation ruined the relationship among his daughters, and they disagreed on what they should do. Mary Jewell and her oldest sister, Jeanne Cox, now speak to one another but not to Judy DeMott, whom they blame for enabling McQuaids activities and his dealings with the women. DeMott says she was trying to help her father by staying in close contact with him and constantly urging him to lose his housemates. Jewell says she thinks her sister missed many opportunities to report their fathers behavior and in the end, made things worse.
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In what is being billed as the largest condominium transactions in Baltimores history, novelist Tom Clancy has paid $12.6 million for a penthouse condominium in the Ritz-Carlton Residences.
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From the Pacific Campaign to land-preservation battles in Parkton, Doc McQuaid was a fighter. But his vigilance failed him when it came to the women who moved into his home after his wife died.
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For years after he lost his wife, Doc McQuaid maintained to his friends and family that nothing was wrong at home. The faade began to crack in 2009.
On Jan. 14, McQuaid broke his neck. He told his middle daughter, Judy DeMott, that he fell out of bed. To one of the doctors who treated him later, though, he added that his houseguests were stealing from him and that he was going to kick them out. As it turned out, the doctor was one of the few who would talk to McQuaids youngest daughter, Mary Jewell, about his care. The doctor also tried to counsel McQuaid about elder abuse; but even then, McQuaid didnt want to hear it, Jewell said. An old friend and neighbor, Harold Lloyd, said McQuaid called him after the accident for the first time in months. He said they the nebulous they he said they had stolen his ATM card, Lloyd
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What a difference a week makes. Seven days ago, State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh laid out his gift card theft case against Baltimore Mayor Sheila A. Dixon, and veteran litigator Arnold M. Weiner responded by telling the jury it was all a big misunderstanding and that the states key witness was not to be trusted. But the state rested without calling that witness, Dixons former boyfriend, Ronald H. Lipscomb, leading Visiting Judge Dennis M. Sweeney to throw out two of the seven counts against Dixon. And on Wednesday, the defense rested without calling its own star witness. Weve had numerous discussions with Ms. Dixon about the decision to testify, Dixon attorney Dale P. Kelberman told Sweeney. On our advice and at our concurrence, she made the decision
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One of Doc McQuaids houseguests said he gave up on being an upright man after losing his wife, Gloria, in 2003. I was a good man all my life, Rose Deangelis says McQuaid told her (see story, Part 3). I did a lot of help for people and it didnt get me anywhere. It got me a broken heart.
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was having financial problems and could pay some but not all of his bills. Lloyd, who is 83, said he stopped coming by McQuaids house years ago because he was scared of the people who lived there. But the last time he spoke to McQuaid, he told him to call if he needed help. I told him if he needed me, Id be over there in a minute, Lloyd said. A criminal defense lawyer who used to represent one of McQuaids houseguests, Darla Mundy, said McQuaid also called him around March or April. He said they the McQuaid told him that Mundy had nebulous they he taken his car again. said they had stolen The lawyer spoke his ATM card. Several on the condition that of his cars had been his name not be used because he was wrecked, but its that hesitant to talk pubnebulous they. Hes licly about a former always protecting client. Like all the attorthese awful people. neys McQuaid had hired to represent Harold Lloyd his houseguests in Doc McQuaids their criminal old friend and neighbor cases, the lawyer had been contacted by Mary Jewell in her quest to stop her father from being exploited. And in fact, the lawyer had refused to take cases in which Mundy was accused of taking things from McQuaid. After McQuaids call, he drove up to the house in Parkton. There, he found McQuaid, bedridden, with a caretaker who was not Mundy or
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In the years after his wife died, Richard W. Doc McQuaid, a community activist who once fought hard to limit development in northern Baltimore County, grew more and more distant from his family, neighbors and friends. McQuaid invited strangers with criminal records to move in with him. Through a combination of thefts and gifts to his new friends, the oncetightfisted man ran through his savings and was on the brink of financial ruin. His family, particularly his youngest daughter, Mary Jewell, tried to step in and stop whatever was going on at 1501 Harris Mill Rd., but the authorities couldnt or wouldnt do anything. McQuaid himself responded to his daughters overtures by pushing them away, telling them he wanted the life he was living.
anyone else the lawyer recognized. The lawyer said the house was in a shambles, strewn with clothes, trash and even what looked like bottles of urine. When I went upstairs and saw the mess the tenants had made, he said, I was nauseated. He told the caretaker to clean up the place and told McQuaid to call the police about Mundy and be prepared to prosecute, he said. Please call your daughter, he told McQuaid.
Well never know

McQuaid fell again July 9, 2009, and was treated and released from the hospital. Two days later, he spoke to Judy DeMott at her home in Florida. He told her he was in a lot of pain, and she warned him not to get up. Later that day, he fell for the last time. He had broken his neck again. DeMott said her father couldnt move his arms, so he wasnt able to hit his
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McQuaids daughters from left, Mary, Judith and Jeanne in a photo from an old family Christmas card. Dealing with their fathers lifestyle caused a rift that still hasnt healed.
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Whos who
Richard McQuaid: Parkton community leader who led battles against irresponsible development. After his wife died, he fell in with a group of criminals who lived in his house and took his money. Mary Jewell:
McQuaids youngest daughter. Jewell battled for years, unsuccessfully, to stop her fathers relationships with a group of criminals.
Judith DeMott:
McQuaids middle daughter. DeMott was the only daughter who was consistently in touch with her father during the last years of his life.
Jeanne Cox: McQuaids oldest daughter. Cox once had limited power of attorney for her father and was designated as executor of his will, but he transferred those powers to DeMott after concluding that Cox and Jewell were interfering in his life. Cindy Parker:
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McQuaids home, the pride of his retirement in 1983, stands empty now.
Met McQuaid in 2003, right after his wife died, and moved in with him. Parker has a long police record, including for prostitution. McQuaid repeatedly complained to police about her taking his car or credit card.
There were several drops of what looked like blood in the kitchen, where McQuaid told his daughters he fell. There was an overpowering smell of cat urine. The basement, Jewell and Cox said, was full of fleas. They got the locks changed on the house, prompting angry messages on Coxs phone from Crystal Overfield a houseguest with a criminal record in 12 states, according to one prosecutor. Although Overfield had left McQuaids house after a 2006 burglary conviction, she had returned by early 2009. McQuaids daughters also asked the hospital staff not to let Overfield call or visit McQuaid. Once, hospital workers caught her in the hallway and escorted her out, Cox said. The sisters also removed a loaded Winchester rifle from the house. McQuaid underwent surgery about 10 days after the fall, and it didnt go well. At first, the hospital planned to send him to rehabilitation and then to a nursing home, but after he deteriorated further, they decided to transfer him to a hospice. At 1 a.m. on Aug. 3, just eight hours after he arrived at the hospice, Doc McQuaid died. Jewell demanded an autopsy. After the surgery, though, there was no way to tell whether McQuaid had fallen or whether there was foul play, Jewell said, and the doctor who performed the autopsy told her he was ruling the death accidental. Jewell is still suspicious, and she cant help but wonder at the coincidence of both of her parents dying of complications from neck injuries. Cox said that the day before her mother died in September 2003, from her hospital bed she asked her oldest RICH DENNISON daughter, Do you know what your k to take the house father has done? ghters say they expect the ban McQuaids dau Gloria McQuaid had a tendency to soon. bring up decades-old slights. Cox
Link to Life medical alarm. He yelled for his houseguest, Crystal Overfield, for three hours, and when she finally came downstairs, she called 911, DeMott said McQuaid told her. At the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, McQuaid was talkative, Jewell said. McQuaid had stopped talking to her four years earlier, after she tipped police to drug activity in his house and contacted the MVA about revoking his license. At Shock Trauma, though, he admitted he was living way beyond his means and was broke, Jewell said. He told her he had no credit cards, had lost his nursing home insurance for nonpayment, and was taking out a reverse mortgage on his house. When Jewell and her oldest sister, Jeanne Cox, went to the house while McQuaid was hospitalized, they found a mess. A reporter invited by Jewell at the time saw clothing strewn on every surface and plates of crumbs and halfeaten food throughout the house.
Crystal Overfield:
Lived with McQuaid for a period in 2005 and 2006, then again in 2009. Overfield has a criminal record in 12 states, under a variety of aliases, for drugs, forgery and theft. Court records show she had some connection to McQuaid and his wife as early as 2001, when she gave their address to police when she was arrested.
Darla Mundy: Lived with McQuaid. Mundy has an arrest record for theft, assault, battery and unauthorized use. McQuaid repeatedly complained to police about Mundy taking his car or other belongings, but he generally refused to press charges. Rose Deangelis: Lived with McQuaid for several weeks in the summer of 2008. Deangelis has a long police record for theft, drugs and assault. She was arrested in August 2008 for trying to pass checks belonging to McQuaid. Walter Smelser: Mundys cousin and Deangelis former boyfriend. Lived with McQuaid for several weeks in the summer of 2008. Smelser has a police record for drugs and assault. He was arrested for attempted murder for allegedly trying to set ablaze a car containing Mundy and Deangelis in McQuaids garage. Most of the charges were dropped when Mundy absconded and Deangelis recanted.
assumed her mother wanted to complain about something Doc had done years ago, and I shushed her, she said. Now, she wonders if her mother had been about to tell her that her father was already involved with the same group of people who ultimately moved in and took over. Well never know, Cox said.
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Gloria McQuaid, McQuaids wife of 58 years and his partner in fighting development in northern Baltimore County, dies at age 79.
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in Baltimore. Enterprise disallows McQuaid from renting further cars. GEICO adds a clause to McQuaids policy excluding Parker from his coverage.
Fall 2003: McQuaids family begins to suspect that something is wrong. McQuaid befriends a woman named Cindy Parker, who has a long record for prostitution. Parker eventually moves into the house at 1501 Harris Mill Rd. March 24, 2004: McQuaid starts getting threatening phone calls at his house. The caller is looking for someone he calls Dusty and threatens to hurt McQuaid. March 2004: McQuaid tells his
daughters that he hurt his shoulder because he fell.
September 29, 2004: After hearing

from an anonymous tipster which Jewell admits was her and finding drug paraphernalia in McQuaids trash, Baltimore County Police execute a search warrant on the house. When lab tests show that the drugs are heroin, Parker is arrested. The charges are later dropped.
February 13, 2005: McQuaid tells his daughter Jeanne Cox that he broke his ribs falling in a restaurant.
The Motor Vehicle Administration suspends McQuaids license after he fails to respond to paperwork. Jewell had contacted the MVA about getting her fathers license pulled because she was concerned about his driving abilities and a number of accidents and drug arrests that happened in his car.
May 12, 2007: McQuaid tells police that when he woke up, his safe and wallet were missing from his bedroom. Police find that the basement door into the garage is open. McQuaid tells them that the only person with a key and garage door opener is Darla Mundy. May 29, 2007: Police come to investigate Mary Jewells allegation that there are prostitutes at the house. McQuaid tells them that the women are not engaging in prostitution with him and that he is not being exploited or abused.
May 12, 2005:
April-May 2004: McQuaids porch door and the door between the garage and the house are broken. He tells his daughters the dog did it, but they dont believe him. June 10, 2004: McQuaids car is
involved in an accident. He tells his family that he was driving but reports to GEICO that Parker was driving.
May 17, 2005:
McQuaid removes his oldest daughter, Jeanne Cox, as executor of his will and power of attorney and replaces her with his middle daughter, Judy DeMott.
November 3-4, 2007: The boyfriend of Darla Mundys pregnant teenage daughter calls police to complain that Mundy is not caring for the daughter properly. Social Services takes the daughter. July 24, 2008: Walter Smelser is arrested and charged with attempted murder, attempted arson and a host of other charges. Prosecutors allege that he trapped Rose DeAngelis and Darla Mundy in McQuaids garage and tried to set fire to the car they were in, citing as evidence a 23minute 911 call placed by Mundy. Smelser pleads to lesser charges after Deangelis recants and Mundy fails to come to court. January 2009: McQuaid falls and
breaks his neck.
Summer 2004: Child Protective

Services investigates after Mary Jewell reports that Parker is leaving her son in McQuaids care for long periods of time. Ultimately, the boy is taken from Parker.
November 1, 2005:
McQuaid and Crystal Overfield tell police that Cindy Parker has stolen $75 in poker chips and a leather jacket from the house.
September 22, 2004: Parker rolls

September 27, 2004: Parker, who has no drivers license, drives a car rented by McQuaid into a police car
nanced the Harris Mill property in 2006 and again in 2008, for $422,000, but was three months in default on that loan and the bank was starting to foreclose. The reverse mortgage he was talking about in the hospital would clear that debt, but as Jewell said, The house was gone either way. She worries that after all of Doc McQuaids efforts at rural preservation, someone will buy his 20 acres and develop it. McQuaid owed more than $13,000 to the IRS in penalties for his 2007 income taxes, and as far as Jewell can tell, he never filed a 2008 tax return. He had gone through all of the money in his investment accounts, which Jewell estimated totaled more than $1 million. He owed tens of thousands of dollars to M&T Bank, Allstate, Citibank, Chase Bank, AT&T and many smaller outfits, such as the lawn care service and the exterminator. His last cell phone bill was $910. In just under six years between his wifes death and his own, McQuaid had purchased six cars. As near as Jewell can tell by sale and registration documents, two were for him, two for Darla Mundy, one for Crystal Overfield and one for Mundys teenage son. Jewell found huge body shop bills for work on several of the cars, and one, a Toyota RAV4, was still at the shop needing $6,000 of work. There was also a rental car signed out to McQuaid that the rental company had reported as stolen.
July 11, 2009: McQuaid falls at home, shattering several vertebrae and sustaining a spinal cord injury. He is hospitalized and on July 19 undergoes surgery. His condition deteriorates. August 3, 2009: Just hours after he is moved to a hospice center, McQuaid dies. He is 86.
His own choices

For a long time, Mary Jewell thought that if she could just reach the right person at the right agency, someone would step in and stop the unfolding disaster. She kept a detailed, annotated list of her contacts. Every time she put in another call, e-mail or letter, she hoped that this
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time, someone could help. But in the end, no one could. Doc McQuaid was competent and not personally doing anything illegal, they told her. He was an adult who was free to make his own choices. Jewell wonders what would have happened had someone else who saw what was going on reported it. It might have helped if there was someone other than me that was going to step forward, Jewell said. Jewell blames the doctors who saw him show up for appointments with his caregivers and didnt report the situation, even after she had RICH DENNISON warned them by letter. after all of her that Mary Jewell worries She blames preservation, somefathers efforts at rural the criminal defense it. es and develop one will buy his 20 acr lawyers who took case after case for which McQuaid was footing the bill. She blames prosecutors in multiple jurisdictions, who she feels should have communicated better with one another and pieced together what was going on. Instead, she said, they
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Mary Jewell first contacted me in October 2005, after I wrote a story about her fathers role in fighting development in the north county. She told me that her fathers personality and way of life had changed drastically in the two years since his wife died. Over the next four years, we exchanged e-mails and met occasionally to discuss the goings-on at Doc McQuaids house, but Jewell was uncomfortable with me writing a story that would use her name or her fathers name. After he died in August, she agreed to let me write about him. Mary Jewell provided hundreds of pages of docuCaryn Tamber ments for this story. I also pulled more than four dozen court files, obtained police reports in 18 cases, and interviewed those who knew Doc, including some of the people who moved in after his wife died. repeatedly put McQuaids houseguests cases on the stet docket, dropped the charges or pleaded them down to offenses that didnt carry jail time. She blames Baltimore County Adult Protective Services, which found that no intervention was warranted even after an investigator saw the state of the house. She blames the mortgage company, which sent someone to the house multiple times to inspect. The inspector should have called police or APS about the house, she said. This, she said, is a total failure of society.
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