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personal effects. Rezzonico said she had personally obtained the signatures over the weekend at
'an unspecified location in Ireland'.
Quentin was cremated next day at Palm Crematory in Las Vegas. 'I knew he had homosexual
problems,' said Ed Walters, 'but he was a good kid. He was just a young, soft boy, not the ruthless,
hard-nosed type. He had wanted to get out of Scientology for some time, but you don't just leave
something like Scientology. You quit and then instantly become an enemy. He knew his father
violently attacked anyone who betrayed him and he knew that the Guardian's Office would be after
him as a traitor. He had grown up in Scientology and would have been tremendously afraid of the
world out there, full of wogs and evil people. I guess he just couldn't handle it.'
'He was just a miserable, miserable boy,' said Kima Douglas. 'He was a little kid out of his depth
who knew he could never compete with his father.'
A final macabre chapter was still to be enacted. Quentin had chosen to die at the end of an airport
runway, watching the aircraft he had longed to fly landing and taking off. It was thus resolved that
his ashes should be scattered from a light aircraft over the Pacific. Frank Gerbode, a Scientologist
in Palo Alto, had his own aeroplane.
'The Guardian's Office telephoned and asked me to help with a special project,' Gerbode said. 'I
was to fly my plane out over the Pacific with a couple of GO people who were going to scatter
Quentin's ashes. I wasn't supposed to tell anybody, of course. It turned out to be a gruesome
business. It's not easy to throw particulate matter out of a light aircraft and the ashes blew back into
the plane. I was taking little bits of Quentin Hubbard out of the upholstery for months afterwards.'[11]
1. Interview with Frankie Freedman, Sherman Oaks, CA, Aug 1986
2. Interview with Dincalci
3. Interview with Mayo
4. Clearwater Sun, 5 Dec 1975
5. GO Order 261175, 26 Nov 1975
6. St Petersburg Times, 9 Jan 1980
7. Interview with Douglas
8. Interview with Alan Vos, Maclean, VA, March 1986
9. Officer's Report, D.R. No 76-57596, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
10. Interview with Ed Walters, Las Vegas, Aug 1986
11. Interview with Dr. Frank Gerbode, Palo Alto, Aug 1986