Career
Quinn graduated in 1966 and soon moved to New York City, teaching for three years in Newark, New Jersey.
In September 1969, she began teaching at St. Joseph's School for the Deaf in the Bronx, where she taught a class of eight eight-year-olds. Many times, she voluntarily stayed after school to help them, other teachers recalled. "The students loved her," a spokesman for the school would later say.
By May 1972 she had moved to a studio apartment at 253 West 72nd Street. The building had formerly been known as the Hotel West Pierre before being converted to apartments four years earlier. According to her acquaintances and neighbors, Quinn would sit by herself and read at bars on the West Side. One witness would later comment, "Something about her made me want to cry. She could be the most alone-looking person in the world." Police Captain John M. McMahon, however, would later claim that "she was an affable, outgoing, friendly girl. Her friends were rather diverse. She knew teachers and artists and her circle of friends was a very large, interracial group ... She knew an awful lot of people." One friend who would later speak to the media said that she struck up a conversation with him by revealing that she had been reading his lips and following a conversation at the other end of the bar that she couldn't otherwise have heard.
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