Libania and FOPA had with Serafinia. While at the
Solacium, he met Redmund Jeffrey, an African-American spy for REACT
posing as a FOPA double agent. Jeffrey was there to aid in
destabilizing relations ever further with Serafinia. Ironically he
married a Serafinia native and had two daughters they raised in
Serafinia: Laura (b. 1956) and Ophelia (b. 1958). Clay met and fell
for Laura Jeffrey. With Redmund's permission they wed.Redmund despised Byron,
however, and plotted to eliminate him without provoking the
Marchessa.

Laura was soon pregnant,
and, in her eighth month, she was killed by an explosion set at the
Solacium by Redmund and meant to be blamed on the Serafinians.
Laura's child, to be named Jeffrey Byron, survived however, and
Redmund gave the baby to Ophelia and demanded she and her husband
Charles Mourning raise the child as their own backhome in the U.S. with Redmund's aging mother, the baby's great-grandmother, Cecilia
Jeffrey. The child was born in June 1976 and was named Michelito
Mourning. It would be many years before the truth of his parentage
was outed.

Redmund's own wife Unocita
Quonquonero tried to kill him for using her and playing with their
family's lives. Redmund beat her badly and she confided in Clay that
she contemplated suicide daily. She threatened to tell Clay the truth
about why the Mournings left South America so suddenly after Laura's
death. Redmund killed her, making it look like suicide. Unocita's
brother Rajael cried out for Redmund's blood. Alec Duarte knew it was
time for the monster Redmund Jeffrey to pay the price, and so he
challenged him to a duel of hand to hand combat. Redmund was no
slouch in this area, but