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Aside from the bartender, there was only one person actually braving the record-breaking 110-degree heat on the roof and watching UFC preliminaries on the wall-mounted TV: a gregarious, stocky, bespectacled older man named Mike.

"He was not a gregarious, charity-giving clown - he was a dangerous sexual predator."

Eva and Violeta may be grade-school age, still impressionable enough to look up to their gregarious, affectionate dad, but they can detect the faint cracks in his jovial surface.

But the women we have spoken to say his portrayal as pleasant and gregarious was far from the truth.

He said he was a gregarious guy who loved to cook for friends and strangers and often baked chocolate chip cookies on Saturday nights.