Quee "Q.C." Chadwick - 46 yo - Newport Beach, CA

Newport Beach husband charged for wife's murder, search continues for body

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- A real estate executive has been charged with murdering his wife, as authorities continue to search for a body.

Peter Chadwick, 48, is set to appear in an Orange County court Monday afternoon. He is currently in a medical ward. He was charged with one felony count of special circumstances murder for financial gain.
According to the district attorney's office, Peter Chadwick killed his wife, 46-year-old Quee Chadwick, last Wednesday over a dispute over a possible divorce and related financial issues. He allegedly disposed of the victim's body, which has not yet been found.

Police began investigating when they got a call from a concerned neighbor who said two of the couple's children weren't picked up from their school bus stop. Investigators said when they searched the couple's multi-million-dollar home in Newport Beach, they found blood and signs of a struggle. Authorities then launched a search for the missing parents.

About 12 hours later, San Diego police say Peter Chadwick contacted them from his Lexus SUV not far from the U.S.-Mexico border. No details were released as to why he called police. He was arrested and held without bail.

Investigators are also not saying why they believe Quee Chadwick, known to friends as "Q.C.," is dead. Friends say the couple and their three children were relatively private, and they did not know of any problems within the family.

If convicted, Peter Chadwick faces a maximum sentence of life in state prison without the possibility of parole.

Anyone with any information regarding the ongoing investigation was urged to call Newport Beach Police Department at (800) 550-6273.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/orange_county&id=8847711

NEWPORT BEACH (CBSLA.com) — The San Diego County coroner’s office Friday identified a body found in a Lakeside dumpster as that of missing Newport Beach mother, Quee Chadwick.

The body was located in the rural area on Thursday after authorities received an anonymous tip, police said.

Quee “Q.C.” Chadwick, 46, has been missing since Oct. 10 when police believe she was murdered in her Newport Coast mansion by her husband, Peter.

Detectives believe a fight over financial issues and a possible divorce led Peter Chadwick, 48, to murder his wife, KNX 1070′s John Brooks reported.

Chadwick, a real estate investor, was arrested near the Mexican border last week after calling police for unspecified help.

He has been pleaded not guilty to one felony count of special circumstances murder for financial gain.

Chadwick is being held without bail.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/10/19/body-found-in-san-diego-dumpster-may-be-missing-oc-mother/[b]

well this topic can certainly be moved to Murdered Adults, or I guess Found Adults (murdered) if we have such a section.

I can't seem to find a more recent article than this one from Feb. 2013    maybe one of our more seasoned sleuthers can

America’s New Slave Labor Force: Crime Victims and Skilled Professionals Behind Bars

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In Orange County, CA, victims of violent crimes find there is nobody home in local law enforcement to investigate illegal acts committed against them. Beaten and threatened women cry out for help only to be ignored. Such was the case of Quee Chadwick, a woman whose mistake was being married to a rich man who was above the system of justice — until after her strangulation murder.

When Quee turned up missing after strong evidence (including blood, broken glass, children not picked up at school and accounts from neighbors) that she had met with foul play at the hands of her husband, the police did a cursory look and probably would have let it go at doing next to nothing but for the body being found in a dumpster in San Diego County and the husband being arrested while crossing the U.S. border into Mexico. Officials in San Diego wish that Orange County would keep the bodies of their domestic violence murder victims in their own county so they don’t have to deal with them. Fortunately for Quee, the San Diego Coroner examined the body as the Orange County coroner has an extremely bad reputation for overlooking indications of murder. There was evidence that the husband had carried Quee’s dead body in the truck of his car to the place Orange County law enforcement officials seems to believe the bodies of most of the county’s women belong — the trash heap. Of course, Quee also had the misfortune of having a rich husband. In Orange County, money talks and rich men who execute women have a permanent get out of jail free pass that police and prosecutors do their best to honor.

Orange County often refuses to investigate murders of domestic violence victims unless some outside force puts extreme pressure on them. San Diego didn’t like having to deal with a dead corpse and so Orange County was forced to put forth some kind of effort in the matter.

California Attorney Kamala Harris most certainly wouldn’t have encouraged any action in the matter as California’s domestic violence victims are waiting for her to do anything at all to help the state’s women since taking office in 2011. It’s only been three years. Kamala needs time to do her fingernails before taking a first step towards fulfilling her promise on that issue. Families of victims have to fight to get any autopsy. In the rare instances where the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner’s office looks at a dead domestic violence victim, it generally just spews out white-washing reports that contradict the medical reports of doctors who examined the domestic violence victim as she was dying.

Between the time the hospital staff and the Sheriff-coroner’s office look at a body, bones that were found by the doctor or hospital staff to have been broken are suddenly healed and were never broken, etc. There is a new sheriff in town but she has to deal with the old Mike Corona’s (the convicted former sheriff’s) influence that too often still rules behind the scenes in her agency.

Quee Chadwick was one of many recent executions of the county’s women via domestic violence in the last year. Her death got minimal media exposure as the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times try to keep a hush-hush on all domestic violence murders. With District Attorney Tony Rackauckas refusing to assist women, more and more are wondering if they should drive around the county or rush through it in the middle of the night before any men can fire off a shot or get a stranglehold. Even in cases where the district attorney is forced to prosecute men for killing their wives, Tony makes sure they have an easier road, choosing those cases as exempt from the death penalty, as in the Chadwick murder above. Yep! Peter Chadwick and his millions are exempt from the death penalty. (Note: This writer opposes the death penalty in all cases, but compare this murder by a rich white man of his wife and the mother of his children with the case of Troy Davis, an innocent man who was never known to harm a woman.) Tony Rackauckas lessened the charges to help a fellow misogynist. Any guesses on the chances of early parole or probation? How about a medal of honor for Peter Chadwick, delivered personally by Kamala and Tony? It’s a wait and see on the latter.

http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/americas-new-slave-labor-force-crime-victims-and-skilled-professionals-behind-bars/