every fact they needed to, to help get Mandi convicted. And they did it to protect their business from further damage from Mulrenin’s irresponsible behavior. They weren’t going to get fucked like the Plaid Rabbit in St. Clair Shores got fucked, when Mulrenin got accused of raping the girl who worked there. So they just deleted the video and said Mandi was never there before, never at Dollhouse, never at Stars. And idiot Detective Sprague helped them do this, because he is clueless. And what was "the money" that Mandi was saying to her mother on the jailhouse phone the police were "wrong" about? Did Mulrenin simply not have any money so far as she knew? Were they simply wrong that he came come with $2500 when he didn't? Did he owe her $500 for sex, $300 for cocaine, $200 for her dancer dollars which she never got because he died? Mandi said the police were wrong about the money, and it was somehow tied to her having to borrow $200 from her father. My interpretation is she went to Mulrenin's house to get some small amount of money from him, most likely her dancer dollars, and she didn't. Mellinger said the big customers were in the back. I have bever been inside the Dollhouse private room. But I don’t think it is big enough for two customers and eight girls to spend a whole night. So I assume Mellinger means a VIP room back there. If so, that might be why they came across the street from the nicer club Stars the previous night. Stars does not have a private area. So maybe they came to Dollhouse in hopes to get some privacy after not getting lucky in Stars. The customers bought something other than dances and drinks with the missing $10k in dancer dollars. The only things I can think of, are time in the private room and cocaine. My guess is the customers spent something less than the $40k or the $20k stated, though lying and saying they spent that amount served someone's purpose. And what money they did spend, they blew in the private room, that is what they came over from Stars to do. But than rather than turn the private room money over to the club, Mulrenin did some funny bookkeeping to make it look like some strippers earned it and he cashed them out. And then he took the private-room money home himself to spend on cocaine. And that is the funny accounting Mellinger said Mulrenin was not there to explain. I knew that guy had an off-mark perception of himself and the world, the first time I saw him in that crazy suit in Cabaret Internationale day shift. And that is why everyone was angry, and inventing crazy stories about the amount of money he must have had that Mandi stole. Where real evidence is Mandi went to Walmart with Mulrenin's cards and zero cash. And she was arrested with $6 and a month of trash that had not been thrown out, and no signs of having spent any money on cocaine or meth or even sushi. Like Mandi said, she had to borrow $200 from her dad. And Mulrenin's money was still in his box that nobody knew about. As I said before, the private room is a carnival scam. It's a little room where they close the door or a curtain. It's the biggest scam going at strip clubs. Girls who are good at getting guys drunk and leading them on, trick guys into imagining they will get sex in there. They have some lines for letting the guys down once they pay and go in there. Unfortunately I am not rich enough to know them. I once heard something like "This is a strip club where girls take their clothes off. Guys keep their clothes on! " Touch and Go Policy. Who are the guys going to call and complain to, when they pay for sex in the private room and don’t get it? There are some easy strippers who will have sex with customers. And that helps the older smarter meaner strippers who won’t have sex with customers make money. Because the customers don’t know which is which. Some unfortunate girl who is addicted to heroin, or has no people skills and sits alone all night in the comer, will have sex for $200. But the bitchy girl with people skills and fake boobs and veneers, the one who teams up with the manager and charges you $1000 on your credit card, will not have sex with you in the private room. II-43