never mentioned a gunshot or anything like that the night it happened. You would think if someone with experience using weapons in the Navy ducked a gunshot in a dark park in a residential area at 6:22 AM, she might have mentioned it 30 minutes later when a policeman asked her what she saw. Denise Smith’s story the night Mulrenin died was no gunshot, and telling Mulrenin "don’t jump, don’t jump." Officer Uzzi, who shared what she said, was probably the most clear-thinking and clear-remembering witness in this case. By the time of Mandi's trial, Denise Smith said there was a gunshot, immediately combined with Mulrenin running and out jumping over the railing. Remember, it was initially called in to 911 as a suicide. That is why the 911 calls that started the whole case, from witnesses at the moment of the supposed murder, are not in evidence. Nobody mentioned a gunshot or a pop or anything like that to patrolman Uzzi or Lieutenant Van Cleave, when he first arrived on the scene. Police were still saying suicide on video the day Mandi got arrested, December 19, 2016, in Scott's video interview. Dollhouse witness Gary Carico said Sprague told him "what had happened," when Sprague went to Dollhouse with Lieutenant Murphy on December 14th. Carico's response to what Sprague told him was "there’s no way he jumped off there by himself." We got that first hint of the new shot-while-fleeing narrative that Sprague started telling witnesses, in his new wave of interviews on December 28th. They call them witnesses. But somehow in her video interview, Neisha Cintron knew Mulrenin was trying to climb down to the next balcony, even though she was asleep in another county when it happened. Somehow Neisha forgot on the stand under oath, that Mandi was wearing Neisha's pants that night. Witnesses are very good at reciting the gossip, but not so good at telling you what they know really happened. Eventually, even the incapacitated-with—GHB theory, born at Dollhouse on December 14th, would come from the mouth of a so-called witness, who was nowhere near the scene when it happened. There may be witnesses who say otherwise. But if they don't agree with Sprague’s narrative he will hide their statements and you might never know they exist. Mulrenin's sofa was a major problem for the shot-while-fleeing theory. It showed Mulrenin sat in the recliner bleeding, at the opposite end of the sofa from the balcony. Smolarek claimed to find a bullet hole in the sofa which I will get to later. The supposed bullet hole was in the middle of the sofa. So not only would Mulrenin have been shot on the sofa or toward the sofa, meaning not as he was running out the door, but he would have then moved away from the balcony to sit where he bled from the bullet wound. So the sofa was a big problem for Sprague’s determination to say Mulrenin's death was directly tied to being shot, not falling over by accident. And you may be surprised to learn that the sofa with the blood stains, with the supposed bullet hole from when Mulrenin was shot, with bodily fluids, DNA, and who knows what other valuable information, the sofa that could be used to recreate what happened in the apartment, was never logged into evidence. The sofa was photographed with a red stitched moving blanket on it. The moving blanket was nowhere else in more than 330 photos of every part of Mulrenin's apartment. On their second day there, when police turned over the recliner and supposedly moved the love seat away from the wall, the sofa was photographed with a red stitched moving blanket on it. But it was never logged into evidence. Police also supposedly made a 3D mapping of the apartment for the purpose of recreating the crime, which was never provided to the defense. You can presume they were initially curious to know how Mulrenin went over, and they made some effort to model the path of his fall. But no information they may have produced, such as measurements of the distance Mulrenin traveled away from the building, was ever provided to the defense. Mulrenin did not fall or drop straight down, as if he was trying to climb down and lost his grip. He moved away from the building several feet, which is significant given it is hard to do by accident. People who try to jump off balconies into motel pools and miss, find out you drop a lot faster and don’t travel as far as you would think. The distance Mulrenin moved away from the building, suggests he at least planted a foot or something outside the railing, and pushed or pivoted away from the balcony. III - 52