This video shows how a closed cable tie came to be found on Mulrenin's floor between the recliner and the balcony. Next I will show you why. |
Mulrenin appears to have been shot through the back of his left thigh. |
He sat in the recliner and bled |
There was also a roll of duct tape which matched old tape in a mug in his cabinet, and a serrated cheese knork. |
In Scott Love's police interview, he said his three best friends died in the military. |
Scott Love's infamous "don't tread on me" sweatshirt has a logo of someone rapelling out of a blackhawk helicopter. |
Scott must be familiar with the scene in "Blackhawk Down" where the soldier bleeds to death from a gunshot wound through his thigh. Mandi also told me in a recorded phone call from the Orange County Jail, that a small dog will die from a cottonmouth bite because a small dog does not have enough blood like a person has. |
So Mandi bound Mulrenin's wound with duct tape, because she is a tomboy and it was handy. You can see or try yourself, the repeating loop found by Mulrenin's balcony door is the circumference of a large man's thigh, and much larger than wrists or ankles. |
This is a closeup of that tape with the blood from the entry and larger exit wound. |
A man's thigh gets much smaller when he stands up than when he is sitting. |
They also used a cable tie as a tourniquet or to compress the wound. But it fell off when Mulrenin stood up and took two steps toward the balcony, as in the video above. |
This is the whole scene. The bedroom door on the left was closed when police came in. I think Love pulled the rug out to try to find the bullet after Mandi left. I think the three loose blue gloves are rolled up inside that rug. |
This is a closeup of the duct tape which Smolarek did not find in the never-emptied bag she claimed she found it in. It looks like there is gauze on it, or cream, or something. The duct tape loop by the door also has it.
I don't know what that white stuff is. But I cannot brainstorm anything a person doing an armed robbery might get on there, while allegedly tying a person up while his neighbors listen. Mulrenin was wearing dark socks, pants, and jacket, and a dress shirt. Maybe they compressed his wound with toilet paper, to drive to the hospital without ruining the 300. On his tidy bathroom counter, there is a loose roll of toilet paper. |