5. DATE-RAPE DRUGGED - December 14, 2016 I was working on my laptop at the bar at Gator’s SoDo on May 4, 2017. And this guy sits down next to me, Randy "The Mini J im" Ferrara. As in "Big J im" Mulrenin. He sits down and starts talking to me completely out of the blue. He said he was a manager at Dollhouse, and Big Jim was his good friend and co-worker. He tells me the circumstances of Big Jim’s death. He even claimed he was the one who parked Big Jim’s car on the night he died. When Mulrenin went over the balcony, it was reported as a suicide. People said "Don’t jump, don't jump." But Detective Sprague found some duct tape in the apartment, and there was blood on the rug. So Detective Sprague decided it was a murder. And he saw Mandi on video with Mulrenin at his apartment before he died. So Sprague went to Dollhouse on December 14th to find out who the blonde girl is. And that is where Mini-Jim's version of events begins. The police came into Dollhouse and said "Your boss was murdered last night. He went over the balcony and died." If he was murdered and died from going over the balcony, that means he was thrown over the balcony. That is how the people at Dollhouse understood it. That's what they thought Sprague was saying. So they asked each other, how could this little 100-pound girl overpower Big Jim, and throw him off a balcony? Neisha met Mandi and said she was "petite." Mini-Jim said they all knew Jim was a big tough violent guy. Their first guess, according to Mini-Jim, is that Mulrenin "was slipping" in his old age. They never doubted Mulrenin forced Mandi to come home with him. But in his advanced age, he was getting sloppy in his takedowns of young girls. Too many drugs and drinking, and too old, and his standard plot finally went sour. That was the people at Dollhouse first guess. Mini-Jim had a man-crush on Big Jim. He tried to impress on me that Big Jim was known as "The Human Ken Doll" and could have any girl he wants. "Any girl he wants" was a recurring theme in police interviews, quoted by the sort of dorky boys Mulrenin hired to worked under him. Mulrenin was the rooster in his henhouse, he didn't hire other Mulrenins. The "any girl he wants" line was used by all three of 1) Ferrara the parking manager, 2) Gorewitz the valet parker, and 3) Carico the floor manager. Mulrenin's death was reported as a suicide. That’s what police called and told Barbara Mellinger, and that's what they kept saying. So the guys who worked at the Dollhouse started saying "Why would he want to kill himself, when he can have any girl he wants." Mini-Jim was smart and articulate. So why he is working at a strip club? Same as everyone, for the girls. And Big Jim was his hero, for taking advantage of, and taking down, so many broke young girls who came in looking for work. Big Jim was a living legend. Mini-Jim aspired to be Big Jim. I asked Mini-Jim how many girls did Big Jim really take home? He said in awe "It has to be hundreds." They pressed the "any girl he wants" and the "hundreds of girls" thing so hard, it is almost like they were anticipating he might be accused of rape again. And they wanted to say no, it is all consensual, he doesn't need to rape anyone. Mini-Jim looked faintly like a 10-pounds-lighter version of Mulrenin. And he probably stood by the door all night talking to people, like Mulrenin. But I remember him giving his own explanation of his nickname, as one of the first things he said, before I started making note of all of it. He said something basically "I take home a lot of girls myself, so much so that they actually call me The Mini J im." And something else, Mini-Jim kept making naughty jokes. Like he pointed at the tom-off paper on top of my straw when they served my drink. He said "Do you like how they give you your straw with a condom on it?" So I am thinking maybe pretty-boy has more than just a man-crush on Big Jim the date rapist, the king of one-night stands. Sitting at that bar in May 2017, Mini-Jim explained how in the main room at Dollhouse on the night of December 14 with Big Mike, they figured out who Mandi Jackson was, Mandi the balcony-thrower, Mandi the stone-cold killer. There were many people at Dollhouse who knew her. II-10