Mr. Neat

Stamford, Connecticut - The Condominium Building Of Dennis Mendocino - Serial Killer

Two teams assembled in Dennis Mendocino's building. The first section concerned itself with the blunt force required to tackle, cuff, and transport the serial killer. The second team entered Mendocino's home as the first elevator carried the perp down to "Joyride 1."

Wallace Hughes was on both teams. Wally identified, cuffed, and sent Mr. Mendocino on his way and was the first to enter the killer's home.

This experienced field agent first noticed the level of neatness they stepped into. The overpowering aroma of multiple cleansers was somehow etched into the place. Special Agent Alice Tichnor commented on her first impression when the whole group was inside the home: "Okay, this is weird. It feels like a showcase that nobody lives in." "He lives here, but he doesn't disturb anything?"

The doorway had an area for shoes with a mat and a small table with a mirror above it. 

On the table was a bowl that contained a set of keys and a nice ceramic lamp. 

Rather than looking tossed into the bowl, the keys were placed and then fussed until each key on the leather fob and ring was fanned out symmetrical.  

The space from key to key was identical.

Tichnor commented, "You could toss those keys in the bowl thousands of times, and they would never settle into a pattern like that." She photographed the table and took a separate shot of the bowl and its contents.

She then stared at the rectangular mat with three pairs of shoes on the floor.

The right side had the three right-side shoes lined up side by side.

The left side had the three corresponding left shoes in the same order.

The separation of each shoe on the mat was exact.

Most people walking into a doorway would kick off their shoes and toss their keys into the bowl.

Mendocino spent a lot of time entering his home, Tichenor thought.

Tichenor supposed the keys were first placed and fanned in the bowl, and each shoe was removed and placed correctly.

"Was the perp a classic obsessive-compulsive or a clutter-phobe?"

Tichenor photographed the mat with the three sets of shoes and made verbal notes into a digital voice recorder.

There is a set of athletic shoes, a pair of dress work shoes, and a pair of shoes that could be men's dancing shoes (non-tap). The dancing shoes are new and untested.

Tichenor reviewed this and asked the other team members, "Is there a spot where cleaning products are stored?"

Special Agent Randy Caterina called back a moment later and said to Alice, "Hey Tichenor, there is a closet full of cleaning products; you gotta see this."

In most homes, the walk-in space Tichenor observed would be a dedicated food pantry, but Mendocino had created what can only be described as a shrine to cleaning products and cleaning aids. 

The man kept Costco afloat. 

Tichenor stepped into a very organized closet with dedicated labeled spaces for Chlorine-cleaning powders and floor wash materials, including sponge mops with dozens of replacement inserts, bleach sprays, laundry detergents, bathroom cleaning tools, and assorted chemical-based cleaners. 

There were many varieties of scrub brushes, wiping materials, buckets, small, medium, and large brooms, dustpans, and cleaner caddies. Everything had a labeled spot. 

Inside the pantry door hung a clipboard. Each item in the closet had a date it was put in the closet followed by a "Discard Date."  A rotation was applied to every item. Tichenor noted that the three dustpans entered on the clipboard last week had a discard date of one month.

Tichenor called out for Wally to "take a look at this."

Wally came over and stepped into the large pantry, saying, "Holy Fuck" "This creep would think my house is offensive" Wally started laughing as he thought about his place that still had three-day-old pizza boxes in the living room and his cupboard under the sink that held a few "field of dreams" cleaning supplies that were never opened. 

Tichenor told Wally, "He has a one-month rotation date for every item." He discards and replaces everything after a month".

Wally added, "The only thing I rotate is my shirts at the cleaners."

The team had just begun. They had to review two living spaces, three bathrooms, and three bedrooms.

While Wally and Tichenor marveled at this shrine to cleanliness, then Agent Rivera screamed across the condominium, "Wally, you gotta see this!"

FBI Regional Headquarters - New York, New York

" Hello, Mr. Medocino, I am FBI Special Agent Weaver, and this is Special Agent Carnes-Veranazzo." Are you comfortable? Would you like another coffee or some more crackers?"  

Dennis looked up and gave the two agents a hard review. 

"Yes, to the coffee and crackers, please. And can I please have about twenty napkins to wipe down my feeding point?"

Mendocino sounded slightly anxious as if the agents did not understand something.

Carnes-Veranazzo's eyebrows arched when Mendocino referred to the table he was chained to as a "feeding point."

Agent Weaver asked the observers, "Can you please bring Mr. Mendocino another coffee, more crackers, twenty napkins, and a glass of water."

Dennis interrupted her and asked, "Can I please have a glass of distilled water? 

Ten minutes passed, and another special agent entered the room and said to the air. "Special Agent Lavasseuer entered the room and gave Mr. Mendocino a cup of coffee, two packages of peanut butter crackers, and a cup of New York's best tap water."

Dennis said, "Thank You." He dipped one of the napkins into the cup of water. He began to wash the part of the table he could reach with his hands chained, saying to nobody, "You have to keep your environment clean." He said it two more times as he scrubbed with the napkin.

Lavasseuer signed out of the room and laughed under his breath, thinking to himself that we don't have distilled water here.