Ty for this detailed overview of the area. It is very helpful.
I don’t have any facts to contribute, but I do keep coming back to the
trip to the DollHouse. Something about that final destination bothers me.
I happened to recall a very serious incident that occurred years ago at the Dollhouse. I went to the public library and looked at old Columbus newspaper articles which verified what I had remembered.
The Columbus Dispatch reported in their Sunday morning newspaper on February 9, 2003 that at around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday February 8, 2003, a shooting incident occurred in the parking lot at the Dollhouse.
A 17 year old male youth was killed and a 23 year old man was critically wounded in the shooting. Both shooting victims had multiple gun shot wounds to their upper bodies, and were also associated with a cross town gang leader from the south side of Columbus. And at the time of the double shooting, the 23 year old shooting victim was awaiting trial on a pending felony drug possession charge.
The person who shot both shooting victims was arrested, and charged with murder and felonious assault in connection with the double shooting at the Dollhouse.
And two days prior to the double shooting at the Dollhouse on February 8, 2003, the south side gang leader had just been sentenced to death by the Franklin County Common Pleas Court for the January 2002 fatal shooting of a 21 year old Ohio State University male college student who was an innocent bystander that got caught in the cross fire of a gang related gunfight in the parking lot of Dockside Dolls.
Dockside Dolls used to be a former strip club on Route 161 (Dublin Granville Road) and was half a mile away from the Dollhouse.
Dockside Dolls was permanently shut down ten years ago after being declared a public nuisance due to numerous police and paramedic runs that were dispatched to the former strip club.