I think it would be most interesting to see those photos other people took and if they got the balcony-were the doors opened or closed early in the day?
Working on trying to find those pictures, through private sources!!
I think it would be most interesting to see those photos other people took and if they got the balcony-were the doors opened or closed early in the day?
So add another 10' for drop and that leaves 10' of the tow-rope missing.
Valhall (Hinky Meter) calculated the depth of the balcony @ 24".
In the SDSO diagram,the bedroom measures 224" long x 109.6" wide.
The bed (which looks like a double-sized bed) moved ~7.5" from the wall.
http://www.sdsheriff.net/coronado/images/rz-nebr.jpg
Standard size for double beds is 75".
224" - 75" = 149".
So there would have been 149" from the foot of the bed (minus a couple more inches for the footboard) to the balcony threshold.
149" + 24" = 173" from the foot of the bed to the balcony railing, but you need to add a few more feet for the rope going @ an angle up over the 36" high railing.
I'm going to guestimate that roughly 17' to 19' of rope (give or take a few inches) was used going from the footboard of the bed to where it went over the top of the railing.
Wouldn't a new rope be more kinked up and harder to do all that self knotting?
For re-creation, I used brand-new, straight out of bag two-rider tow rope used for water-skiing, Jet-skis, etc, boating. It did not kink up and knotted fairly easily, but I found it extremely difficult to do tidy knots as appeared in LE demo. Also, difficult to deal with that length of rope when knotting, and wrist bindings were equal, suggesting they were done first.
How to measure rope:
You tie the rope to the bed, then approach balcony(but don't step out) and toss it over. Run downstairs to lawn (vs tossed to 2nd partner in crime on lawn), stand on table or chair to cut rope. Use pieces of cut rope to tie feet/hands. Pull rope back up and hang yourself.
The only thing - how do you know not to stand on balcony and make footprints that would give you away? Unless, the boot print is the criminals vs LE boot print masked underlying shoe print.
Also, when rope pulled out, it would fall over rail onto balcony floor and make mark. Finally, someone may be very good with estimating and rope.
Here are the plans, they were found by Arielilane early on, you will scroll down to page 337Is there a floor plan of the entire house/courtyard property anywhere? I've been wondering if the guest room boasted the ONLY Juliet balcony on the entire mansion complex. Is it possible someone used a different balcony to do their calculations of rope length?
Is there a floor plan of the entire house/courtyard property anywhere? I've been wondering if the guest room boasted the ONLY Juliet balcony on the entire mansion complex. Is it possible someone used a different balcony to do their calculations of rope length?
Here are the plans, they were found by Arielilane early on, you will scroll down to page 337
http://www.coronado.ca.us/egov/docs/1291417976_640991.pdf
Has it ever been stated if the rope had been seen by anyone else before this tragedy?? Who purchased it? Since the home was so close to the water I am assuming it would be very common in that area.
We were forbidden to discuss this particular topic since no msm articles suggested anything of the sort.
I think the only interest in this is that someone had knowledge of knots and probably bondage, whether they practiced it or not. I don't think this had anything to do with Rebecca or her intimate life. I hope this is not out of bounds in saying.