6. THE FOUR MOTIVES - December 14, 2016 There are many things about a person like Mandi, that jurors aren’t going to understand from their own life experience. They don't know how the girls Mulrenin exploits for sex, always have another guy waiting somewhere and he knows it. They also have no experience with how young girls make older guys wait outside. College guys who date girls their same age, married people, "norma " people who report for jury duty, do things as a couple. If you visit a friend, you visit together. The closest thing they might know to the world Mandi and Mulrenin lived in, is picking up a kid at school. It's not like when you go pick up your fiance at the airport, and you wish you could go out to the gate and meet her. When you pick up your kid at school, you wait outside. People with an ordinary life experience like an ordinary couple, people who have never had sex with a stripper or hooker or a girl less than half your age, can be too quick to assume Love and Jackson are colluding, even though Love and Jackson are never seen on video together. Jurors have no idea what they are looking at. They have never been there. The key to guessing what Love is doing there and his state of mind - his motive - depends on the timing. Just like if someone saw you on video outside your kid’s school. My first experience with a younger girl making me wait outside, was when I was 27. That 19-year-old girl Sparrow picked me up hitchhiking in her red Ford Explorer with her Brittany Spaniel named "Brit." She stayed at my house for a few days, we had sex a bunch of times. If you are a normal college hippie, you are going to feel sort of like a couple at that point. You sort of expect to do things together. She had been telling me about her best friend forever, Jen, who lived in Golden. So on our second day after she got her car, she brought me on a road trip to visit her bff Jen in Golden. It was two hours away. She called Jen from a pay phone up the street or something, and then we went to J en's house. But I don't really know, because Sparrow surprised me by telling me to wait in the car! They apparently talked about some very important life and boyfriend issues. Like Jen had a sugar daddy apparently, but Sparrow didn't know they broke up. And Sparrow was there to tell Jen she broke up with her fiance, and was living with her new older guy, me. So Jen knew something about older guys. The whole trip took at least nine hours. We left midday, and got back at night. At the end of it, I could not confirm that her friend Jen even existed. I never laid eyes on her, and she never saw me. I am not sure why Sparrow even brought me. Probably for fiin and companionship. But also for gas money, and to make sure my door wouldn’t be locked when she got home. I had normal girlfriends prior to that, long-term girlfriends, where 100% of our friends were friends in common. Normal girlfriends want to introduce you to their friends, and know if their friends approve. If not they will dump you. Girls who screw much older guys know people won't approve. They do things in private and march to the beat of their own drum. I went to Sparrow's parents house. Her dad dropped a giant nickel-plated revolver on the kitchen counter in front of me. I am not sure why. Her mom dropped a strange line completely out of the blue. It was something like "Sparrow's father never did anything inappropriate when she was a child, we gave her a good home! " I took it to mean he fiicked her. And she kept it secret. The next day, Sparrow and Brit and I went to visit an older girl in Fort Collins who was a model. I was looking forward to meet a model girl. Again, Sparrow was driving. Again, I was told to wait in the car, out in the street in some bland suburban development. Sparrow didn't want the older model girl seeing me. Maybe I am geeky, maybe I seemed too old. Maybe Sparrow was really meeting with a guy, but I don’t think so. I think she was smoking weed in there. They didn't want to share with me. She was smoking her friend’s weed, but bringing me in would be imposing too much. I guess it was probably around the 30-minute mark, that I started to get maybe a little irritated. I was tempted to go knock. But I didn't. IV-34