Mandi was at Mulrenin's for two hours the night he died. And whatever happened to Mulrenin didn't happen until right before he went over the balcony. Remember, nothing in Mulrenin's apartment is ransacked. When patrolman Uzzi came in, the bed was made. The boxes in the closet and the things in storage were undisturbed. No drawers or cabinets were open. It looked like Mulrenin was shot, bled for just a few minutes, and went over the balcony. Mandi knew where the drugs were because she was using them, but she ran out without taking them. So if Scott really arrived at the same time as Mandi, then this leaves 90 minutes of nobody knowing where he was or what he was doing. He could have been sleeping in her car. Maybe he was patient, resigned to the fact he needed rent money to not be embarrassed in front of Scott Jones, his tough-guy friend he owed rent to. And then people started coming into the garage and going to work. And Scott ran out of patience or got worried, or was attracting suspicion in the garage, so he went to Mulrenin's door and knocked. Maybe Scott needed to go to work with his bag. Scott told police he did maintenance work at The Lofts apartment building in the past. So he was familiar with the amenities. He could have been going around to the lounge or the computer room looking to steal some TV screens, or just chilling out napping in the lounge for an hour. The lounge is on the same side of the building as Mulrenin's apartment, I believe one floor up. Maybe there is even a sauna. I think Scott accepted at this point that he needed rent, and would have to wait for Mandi. Looking at very old social media posts and talking to people, I believe at least two of Scott's previous girlfriends were hookers. So Scott would have had some patience. Or Scott may have arrived on his own an hour later. He was wearing his light-colored work clothes, and a straw hat that someone who works outside in paving would wear. When he used the credit cards at Walmart, he ditched that crazy-looking hat and put on a baseball cap to look incognito. Scott had the look of a traveler, on the video when he arrived at Lofts. I assume Mandi left Scott waiting up the street because I know Mandi. But I don’t know Scott. And there are some small hints he may have arrived on his own. At his trial, Scott said he arrived by himself on a motorcycle. I know he had a motorcycle he built, which impressed Mandi. Mandi's lawyer was curious enough to ask their roommate if he ever loaned Scott one of his many motorcycles. The roommate said no, because they are too expensive to loan. But when Mandi was first in jail, she was rambling about driving a Hayabusa on Semoran, sometime after we last were last together. Based on the timeframe and the scarcity of Hayabusas, I just assumed this had to be her roommate's Hayabusa in his garage where she lived during that time. If so, it wasn’t too expensive to loan to a lOO-pound girl. You would think their roommate would remember Scott taking a motorcycle that particular night. But they were asleep. And witnesses tend to lie or forget, when they are somehow involved in an alleged murder. "I didn't loan him a motorcycle to commit murder." There were also a number of unregistered motorcycles in the shed and garage at Chris Dahl’s house. Those would not be too expensive to loan. And if Chris Dahl is like me and wanted to get rid of Scott, he might think it was funny to send Scott to a confrontation with Mulrenin and get arrested. The strongest hint Scott came on his own, came from Mandi. When I told her Kaylee claimed she confessed, she asked me what Kaylee claimed she said. I listed "She said Scott drove you to the Dollhouse that night." Mandi said "NO! " Mandi's emphatic and disgusted tone hinted Scott did the opposite of what Kaylee said, and the opposite of what Mandi wanted, and Mandi was not happy about it. The opposite of Scott driving her, is Mandi left Scott home and he came and found her anyway. NOTE: SEE NEWEST DALINDY THEORY IN “THE FOUR MOTIVES” The strongest hint Scott did not come on his own is the straw paving hat. I did not see a chin strap or string. If you rode a motorcycle with that hat on, I think it would blow off. I have seen people ride motorcycles with a hat like that, but I don’t know how. Maybe if it were really tight. Maybe he took it off and put it back on. If Scott came on his own, that might indicate he was jealous and looking for trouble. Whether Scott was acting as a jealous boyfriend, whether he was genuinely worried about Mandi and wanted to protect her from bad people like me, whether he was acting as a pimp and Mandi was in there too long, or whether he just knocked because he needed to get to work and he was angry she ditched him, he felt justified to assert himself. Lately I have visions of Chris Dahl himself driving Scott there. When I said to Mandi in jail that Dahl and Mulrenin set Scott up to get arrested, she seemed to accept that idea. More recently, Mandi was very unhappy that I wrote this book. I said if your best friend in the world stood up for you, and said that what his lawyer’s other client was saying IV-86