Harlow Cuadra or What's in a Name?
February 11, 2007
I've been writing a business plan the last few days and am a little bored. I'm excited about the venture, but writing a financial document is akin to doing a school report. And I just got done with school. For the second, no third, time.
Anyway. I'm still endlessly fascinated by this whole Bryan Kocis murder thing, not the least reason why being that an actor in my film, a friend, is somehow involved. I can't ask him anything about it. I can only sit back and read anything and everything everyone else writes about the case. Frustrating.
Everyone has a theory. Everyone has a view of what is "really" going on behind the scenes. Damn well near every one of which is crap. The theories advanced are based in preconceived ideas of the parties involved, with Brent/Sean/Bryan either the greatest person who ever lived or one step removed from Hanibal Lechter. Ugh. Far too simple. Far too easy. Far too wrong.
When I did Child Protection, investigating crimes against kids, it was tough to keep my emotional reactions and perceptions of people out of the picture and just stick to the facts involved. While we humans are some of the best pattern finders out there, our emotions warp our perception and we wind up seeing patterns, and drawing conclusions, that just aren't there.
I bring it up because I'm curious about Harlow Cuadra, the "person of interest " the PA police want to interview. What' known about him? Does what's known help to shed light on this case or just confuse matters more?
But I don't want to spin spin yet another vapid theory and add to the numbingly bland chatter bouncing around from website to website. What information is available with a lot of Googling and only a small amount of conclusion drawing?
Read on and find out.
Cuadra seems to own two different websites/business. One is NorfolkMaleEscorts (which is also linked at through boisrus.com) and another is "Boy Batter.Com." The first site an escort service, while the second is a video/streaming/porn site featuring twink models and films.
The Norfolk Male Escorts / Boisrus site is listed in at least one Yellow Pages under Escort Services. The telephone number for the service, 757-717-0233, links all over the place, showing it to be a cell number, featured in multiple adverts in multiple Virginia cities for his service.
Escort adverts for Cuadra -- at least it sure seems to be him -- are all over the web tas well. Here's an advert from Executive Male Escorts with the same pictures, and information revealed other articles (though in this one, he lists himself as being "bisexual.") He's also featured at Norfolk Male Escorts site, which isn't all that surprising because he apparently owns the firm. (see below.)
One of his competitors in the escort industry have expressed concerns about the regularity and consistency of reviews and reviewers of his services, wondering if it is all on the up and up.
I found two (of many) emails associated with Cuadra, "stareyes2351@yahoo.com" and "harlowrcuadra@excite.com."
The oldest link for Stareyes2351 is to an escort advert for a "Joe Cool," ad registered in May of 2001. Over the years it has been used by several other escorts, the Norfolk Male Escorts site itself, and at the same time Cuadra, himself. There aren't as many permutations for "harlowrcuadra@excite.com" though the Executive Male escort ad it's used in is also the same site this escort used. The personal webpages for both of those ads links back to... Norfolk Male.
Cuadra also goes by the handle "quickysrt," and it's under that handle that, in 2005, he signed onto Xbiz.Com, an information site for adult industry professionals, looking for information about how to create a video site that become BoyBatter.Com.
There are posts about legal requirements for 2257 laws, Photoshop help, image design help, and, from a digital video information site, how to use a DV camera.
As you read the "quickysrt" postings over the years on the Xbiz site, you can see Cuadra's skills in running an adult website grow and expand. Eventually he's able to conduct his business by Sprint Wireless Card and even consider acquiring other websites up for sale.
When he first introduced himself on Xbiz back on March 14th, 2005, he said he was the operator of a gay escort company in Norfolk, VA His userprofile on Xbiz
gives a few more details about him, listing his DOB as August 5, 1981, (making him what, 26?) and being in business since 2000.
Also in that first thread he mentioned that he'd be in Philadelphia for the weekend and would be unable to speak with someone about on-line credit card payment services until he returned (3-17-2005 entry.)
A lot of that was already out in the Net and wasn't really anything new. Was he really an escort? Does he mention either his company or his service anyplace else? What does the "quickysrt" screen name mean, anyway?
It turns out that "quickysrt" was a reference to a pretty fast sports car. Cuadra, under the "quickysrt" screen name, appears to have a penchant for fast cars, discussing them, modding them, and even posing next to them for an avatar for a profile.
His profile from Viper Club of America lists him as being a member of the VA/MD chapter. He mentions that he owns several fast cars, and on 7/16/2004, that he'd just paid off his yellow Viper.
I found that the "quickysrt" name goes back even further,to 2003 where, on a different site, he mentions that he was forced to take a lean against his existing house to initially purchase (presumably) that yellow Viper. In that same entry, he also discussed that had just purchased a condo in VA Beach and was looking to aquire a neighbor's home, though he was miffed that as he didn't have a set series of paychecks, he was having to use a lot of cash to make the payments.
On that SRT forum I finally found a lot of, if not new information, then details about what was already known, most all of it written by Cuadra himself. Here he reflects on what he does:
I am not proud of what i do.... the only reason i got into this was because i was discharged from the navy for my injured back(afghanistan we where chasing bad guys) and needed to make money,and then all of a sudden shit explodes and it becomes verry profitable. mar 2005 i will be slowly going to school again and slowly phasing this chapter of my life out......till then i am saving and investing here and their....... In this post he discusses the creation of his company
...me and my home boy(aka bizz partner) started an escort company. it is too new to have any verified income(tax reciepts,etc...) i already have someone working on it. its male4male type thing. didnt want to talk about it because i am not exactly boastfull about pimping college & military guys. i do the shit myself so i am not exactly a typical pimp...He discloses this information because several people on the thread couldn't beleive that a guy so young had so much money, so many houses and so many cars. As shown, he very openly discussed his escort company, pointing out that he pays taxes and provides a service.
His disclosure prompted several angry and homophobic responses -- and also a defender. "FocusPhag," an employee of his company, offers the following:
...Im 18 years old. The reason i am writing this on this thread is because i need to clear some things up. I work for QuickySrt. Every $1000 i make, he gets 500. I am one of 26 guys that work for him. You do the math. And by myself, i make enough to support me AND MY BOYFRIEND...I am simply saying, if you guys had the opportunity to get paid the money that i get paid, to do the same things to women that i do to men, you would. I was a server at a restaurant for a year and a half. I worked my ass off trying to save for school in that fuckin place yet in only 2 months working for quicky, i made more then then entire time i was working as a server. I am enrolled to start school at a local universityin the fall...Quickysrt and his partner, do NOT hire prissy little fag boys. You would never know we were gay, if we didnt tell you. And for every 100 people who are members of this site, AT LEAST 10 of them are gay. OH and to the military buffs, id say over half of my co-workers are in the armed forces. If you dont believe in the success of Quicky and his company. Look at a Virginia beach, (or Norfolk, or richmond, etc) phone book. The biggest escort ad in the book (gay or straight).... yeah. Thats his.The one thing that jumped out at me here is that based on those fees, I'm in the wrong line of work...
News articles also stated that Cuadra had used the names of with the "Mardson Queiroz" and "Mardson McQuay" over the years. Googling Mardson Queiroz you find an extensive list of entries for "Mardson Queiroz McQuay," who at one point in time was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bringham Young University's Advanced Combustion Engineering Research Center. According to the BYU web page, Dr. McQuay received his Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University, 1987. In the late 1990s, Dr. McQuay did extensive research for the Department of Energy, through their Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr. McQuay also received his JD from BYU in 2001. In 2003 he's listed as a lecturer at the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference in Las Vegas. , teaches patent law at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 2003,passes the Virginia Bar in 2004, and is currently now a Patent Attorneyin Northern Virginia.
So overall, what was I able to find out? Well, Harlow Cuadra seems to be -- and this is based purely on what seem to be his own posts to websites for the past six years -- a 26 year-old former Navy soldier discharged after injuring his back in Afghanistan. He has been escorting since at least 2001 (first under the name of Joe Kool, then later Harlow.) At some point, (2000? 2001? later?) he started his own escort company called Norfolk Male Escorts, a rather lucrative business.
In March of 2005, sometime around a trip to Philadelphia, he began actively expanding his business into adult films, setting up, filming, editing and releasing videos staring himself and others. Between 2005 and 2006 he also expressed interest in purchasing other adult video websites for sale.
His income, first from his personal escorting, then his escorting service, and now his adult videos, have earned him enough money to purchase several cars, homes, and condominiums.
On several occasions, he's used the name of a Carnegie Mellon Ph.D (presumably) turned Virginia Patent lawyer as his own.
In 2007, Cuadra's picture was linked with the murder of Bryan Kocis. Cuadra himself, and someone who identified themself as the owner of the Norfolk Male Escorts service, said Cuadra was with a client at the time of the murder. Cuadra also appears in two pictures with Brent Corrigan, taken in January of 2007 at an adult expo in Las Vegas, NV.
And that's where things stand.
Posted by Jody at February 11, 2007 09:19 AM
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post is very interesting first time I read it.
i heard of the services bbefore norfolk male
Posted by: nm
at February 15, 2007 06:52 AM
Wow Jody extensive research on Harlow, he seems to be very successful and knows what he wants. With all that he has acomplished, he would really have no reason to be involved with Bryan or Cobra. I think the first speculation will be born out, someone used his picture to get to Bryan. Harlow and Brent in Vegas? Brent met plenty of people there and Harlow had contacted them previously about Brents video work. Which Brent was not interested in. Harlow has been a HUGE distraction I am convinced the Killer of Bryan Kocis is a person unknown to most of us. All of our armchair sleuthing has just thrown up a huge smokescreen around the true killer. Maybe that was his plan! I am convinced he is an active poster at Jasons spreading all this rumor and innuendo. But I am starting to develop my own ideas about who HE might be,and his association with Bryan.I will say this IF my suspicions are correct He had Motive and most importantly easy access to Bryan!
Posted by: ddhsd
at February 15, 2007 01:32 PM
DeWayne, I really don't know what to think about Harlow. I did all of that research just to figure out what was on the net about the guy.
Everyone was accusing Brent, which I thought was silly, so I wanted to see what cropped up on Cuadra. It's all really interesting stuff, but ultimately it depends on how you want to look at the information as to what conclusion you want to draw.
It doesn't seem any more likely than it does unlikely that he did it. Outside of a few inconsistiences between his comments made on-line and those reported in the papers, there isn't anything "there."
When the person who comitted the crime is caught, everything about Cuadra will fit, one way or the other.
Posted by: Jody
at February 15, 2007 02:32 PM
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