A short time later, Nicholson and Tyrelle picked up the girls and drove them to what he described as a "photo shoot" at an abandoned home in Calumet City that had no electricity. In the basement, Nicholson told the girls to "loosen up and be sexy," prosecutors said. He took provocative photos of them — which were later used in sex ads — and told the girls that "their skills had to be 'tested' by having sex with Tyrelle and Myrelle."