The New Client

On this day, two years ago, Harlow entertained a new client, Matthew Brannon. According to Brannon, "...CUADRA picked him up at his hotel (Hilton) on 01/19/2007 and took him to a home located at 1028 Stratem Court, Virginia Beach, VA, where he spent approx. 6 hours with him from 1400hrs to 2000hrs." He went on to say:

"He stated that he met with CUADRA at the residence of 1028 Stratem Ct, Virginia Beach, Va on January 19th, 2007 and January 20th, 2007. ... His appointments in January 2007 were pre-booked for a price of $2400 which he paid in November or December of 2006.

BRANNON related that he has some of the emails saved when he communicated with Harlow CUADRA. The email addresses that he can recall are harlowrcuadra@excite.com, stareyes23510@yahoo.com, and party757@yahoo.com. He emailed and faxed some email communications with CUADRA...

BRANNON stated that he also talked via internet and telephone with a person who identified himself as Mark. BRANNON had never seen Mark at the residence only Harlow and "Trent". He suspected that Mark may not exist but did not press the issue with Harlow. He suspected this because Harlow said that Mark owned everything, the business, house, and the cars. Then on 01/19/2007 Harlow picked him up at the Hilton and they were pulled over by the Virginia Beach PD for window tint and were given a citation. BRANNON observed several other citations in the vehicle and CUADRA said that Mark has a lawyer that will take care of them. BRANNON observed that the vehicle was registered in CUADRA's name. He said that Mark put the car in his name due to legal issues. BRANNON thinks the time of the traffic stop was at approx. 14:30 hrs on 01/19/2007.

While at the residence BRANNON recalled some of the conversations with CUADRA.

CUADRA talked about returning from a Las Vegas trip where he attended a convention. He had lost his plane tickets and boarding passes from Southwest Airlines and Mark had to buy new ones.

CUADRA talked about making a movie with a gay porn star named Brent Corrigan. It sounded like it would be happening soon but CUADRA did not say specifically.

CUADRA talked about Corrigan making a movie with Falcon Studio's called The Velvet Mafia, but they could not use his name and Corrigan was mad about that.

CUADRA said he was a Navy Corpsman, had been hurt and was getting out in a few months.

CUADRA also talked about Mark having him put a gym together to work out."

One thing that strikes me here is Harlow talking about filming with Brent. Keep in mind this is three days after the "Hang-Up Call" so, this tells me they had perhaps decided to go forward with the murder to win Brent back on this day, rather than the 20th (as I had posted on tomorrow's "The Background Check"). A minor point, but interesting.