Coronado Still Wonders: Who Killed Mrs. Quinn? Patch.com
29.08.11
The deaths of Rebecca Zahau last month and Ruth Quinn 36 years ago have a few things in common. Both involved people of apparent means and both shocked the community.
Then, as now, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department was involved in the investigations. Wealth also has added a layer of allure to each mystery. For Zahau, the money is her boyfriend's, mansion owner Jonah Shacknai ; Quinn, though she was an heiress, lived modestly in a rented home.
One major difference: Zahau’s still unexplained death in the Spreckels mansion on July 13 made news around the nation , Quinn’s generated a few stories in local papers before fading from public view.
No one was ever convicted of Quinn's shooting. Zahau's death, along with that of Shacknai's son days later , remains under investigation.
Two shots
A 74-year-old retired librarian and war widow, Quinn was found late on March 16, 1975 in her Pomona Avenue home fully clothed, in bed, with gunshot wounds to her head and collarbone. The shots had been fired at close range.
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5 Ways to Help bHomeowners/b Who Don#39;t Deserve to Be Foreclosed On b.../b
The bankers know exactly whom to blame for the housing collapse and foreclosure fiascos. It’s you — the devious American homeowner who wickedly borrowed the easy money they had on offer.
No blame to the lenders who dreamed up high-risk mortgages and doled them out to anyone with a pulse. No blame to mortgage brokers and bankers who misled customers into signing up. No blame to Wall Street for whisking risky loans into securities falsely labeled as “Triple-A safe.”
No, you’re the problem, for deliberately borrowing more from the innocent, trusting bankers than you could afford. And now, in foreclosure, you’re whining about a few false robo-signatures on documents that the lenders use to evict. You’re simply plotting get out of paying what you owe. “People aren’t taking responsibility for their own actions,” the self-righteous bankers tell each other at their watering holes . Kick ‘em out of their homes and let’s move on.
Talk about not taking responsibility. The bankers see the specks in their borrowers’ eyes and deny the logs that are in their own. On the field of honor, the entire financial industry has melted away.
So what to do now — especially with Tea Party politics turning against troubled homeowners, too?
1. Continue to force the lenders to produce honest documents before they foreclose. Property rights are central to American law. If it’s okay to evict a property owner based on false paperwork, no one’s house is safe. Indeed, cases exist of owners who almost lost their homes even though they had purchased them for cash .
The Wall Street Journal hasn’t inveighed against corporate lawyers representing Wall Street investors who are demanding that the banks take back their faulty loans.)
Many borrowers with legitimate claims lose their homes because they can’t afford lawyers to sift through the paperwork. If you want to try defending yourself, you can get advice here .
