10 Monstrous Details Surrounding Mitchell Quy, Who Killed His Wife And Then Let Police Watch Him “Look” For Her

6 /10 Disquiet Life

Lynsey’s family always reached out to protect her and make sure she and her children were safe.

With Jack’s birth, they were more involved than ever and demanded to keep Mitchell away, but Lynsey was once again having second thoughts.

She was trapped in a spiral of abuse, always excusing one set of behaviors while enduring far worse ones.

Late into 1998, Mitchell returned to see his son after being away for Jack’s first year. Lynsey didn’t tell her family that time that she was back with Mitchell.

5 /10 Empty Home

In December of 1998, Lynsey was taken back to her home by her mother. After that, she was not seen again.

Mitchell still wasn’t living with her, though, and the family didn’t know they were still together.

It wasn’t until the following February that she was reported missing by a social worker trying to touch her about her children.

Mitchell took the kids in, and after the missing person’s report went out to the world, he stepped up as the jilted husband whose cheating wife had abandoned him for a change.

4 /10 Spotlight

Mitchell Quy wanted nothing more than to be seen and heard as the pitiful victim of a manipulative woman.

He had her two children, one of which wasn’t his by blood, and took care of them as best he could alongside her family, but he claimed she left for another man.

Despite her not being seen in the many months, during an 18-month long investigation, Mitchell continued to assert that he was seeing her and she was avoiding him out of spite.

3 /10 Media Daredevil

Mitchell was the center of attention and turned the media circus around his wife’s disappearance into a documentary all about himself. He mocked the sympathies and criticisms sent his way.

He played the role of a jilted lover and even copied the investigators with Christmas gifts of hair dye to keep their greys under control.

Though he tried to reach out through the TV to call her home, he always did it like a joke. His only concern for his wife was shown through sarcasm.

2 /10 Breaking Up

Eventually, after almost two years of investigation, the police decided to question Mitchell, not about Lynsey’s missing, but her murder.

They concluded that she went missing after she returned home and went to see him. He denied it at first, but the call for attention was too great, and he confessed.

She wanted a divorce, so he strangled her, hid her body, and then with his brother’s help, they cut her into pieces and buried them all around Southport.

He led the police, and the media, to several burial plots, playing up the cameras all the while.

1 /10 Home For Bad Husbands

Mitchell was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. His attempts for parole have been denied due to his persistently smug, even proud demeanor.

He has joked about what he did to people. A former prison psychiatric nurse described him as one of the worst psychopaths he’d ever known.

When the media was reporting on Lynsey when she was still missing, Mitchell frequently pestered his brother if he saw him on TV or not.

Mitchell Quy was obsessed with playing up an image of a celebrity victim who killed his wife to plead to a camera.

He remains in jail, serving a life sentence, and when people write stories about him, it makes him feel happy that his story is still being spread.

The world would be better off forgetting his name and instead referring to him as “Lynsey Quy’s ex-husband.”