Ex-cop: Detroit mayor sex party happened

DETROIT, April 6 (UPI) -- A former Detroit police investigator says he has few doubts that an alleged sex party at the city's mayoral mansion in 2002 actually happened.

Retired Detroit homicide Detective Mike Carlisle was the lead investigator in an investigation of the 2003 shooting death of a stripper linked by some to a party allegedly thrown by Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Carlisle told Monday's Detroit News that while he said he strongly believes the party happened and that stripper dancing at it was beaten as many believe, it wasn't slain dancer Tamara "Strawberry" Greene.

Carlisle says he believes Greene, whose death remains unsolved, was killed in a drive-by shooting by a drug dealer she was involved with and not as a result of a City Hall conspiracy to keep Greene from embarrassing Kilpatrick, as Greene's family has alleged in a federal lawsuit, the newspaper said.

While the Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has concluded the party at Manoogian Mansion, the official residence of the mayor of Detroit, is an "urban legend," Carlisle disagrees, telling the News he responded to an "officer down" call at the mansion but was then told to turn around.

Carlisle says witnesses told him the officer from the Manoogian call was a Detroit policewoman who moonlighting as a stripper.