Grand jury indicts dancer, beau in Altamonte Springs homicide

A Seminole County grand jury indicted a strip club dancer and her boyfriend Thursday on murder charges following the death of a man who police originally thought had jumped to his death.

James Mulrenin, 52, plunged from the balcony of his fifth-floor apartment in an Altamonte Springs high-rise Dec. 14 and died.

Authorities later discovered a bullet wound to his leg.

Mandi Jackson, 21, and her boyfriend, Scott Michael Love, 30, were indicted on charges of murder, robbery and burglary.

Mulrenin managed Thee Dollhouse on South Orange Blossom Trail near Orlando, where Jackson worked.

Her first night on the job was the day before, said Jeff Dowdy, her defense attorney lawyer and chief of operations at the Public Defender’s Office in Seminole County.

Altamonte Springs police contend that about 6:30 a.m. Dec. 14, Jackson and Love burglarized Mulrenin’s apartment and robbed him. When he tried to escape, he fell from the balcony, they say.

He was taken to a hospital, where doctors determined that he had no brain function. He was then disconnected from life-support machines, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

The cause of death was bluntforce trauma to the head, according to the State Attorney’s Office.

Jackson and Love initially were taken to the Orange County Jail on Dec. 19. They were then transferred to the Seminole County Jail, where they were being held without bail.

Mulrenin lived at The Lofts at Uptown Altamonte near the Altamonte Mall on State Road 436.

Surveillance camera footage from that morning showed Jackson pulling into its parking garage in her black BMW about 5 a.m, the affidavit said. It also showed her running from the building a few minutes after Mulrenin fell from the balcony.

It also showed Love inside the tower and near Mulrenin’s apartment, the affidavit said.