Berry burst free from the house on Seymour Avenue on Monday, with a six-year-old daughter born in captivity, leading police to the grisly scene where they discovered ropes and chains.
Speaking later on Friday, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly did not completely rule out the possibility that the component had been lowered to the spot where it was discovered (some rope was entwined with it).
John Bartlett's New York show featured clothes ornamented with coiled rope, a reference, the designer later remarked, to his interest in the "sensuality of rope," discovered on a recent trip to Japan, and also in the ritual practice of sadomasochism.
I walked to the end of my rope, discovered I was tied, tethered.
Forced to find a material that would be more weather-resistant than wool, she discovered mountain-climbing rope.
Later that day a piece of rope was discovered tied into a slipping noose in a drawer in the garage.
Her stepfather, Victor Vasquez, 44, was discovered hanging from a rope in the hall closet, the police said.
Eventually some rope was discovered and the man was pulled to safety.
Information from the brothers allowed investigators to discover where the rope used for the noose had been purchased, according to the law enforcement source.
It was August of 1970 when Maxwell's first wife, Mary Lou Maxwell, was found beaten and perhaps even strangled; some newspapers reported that a rope had been discovered near her in the car.
