Word: blindfolded
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...vital clue was the fact that the victim was bound and killed with items found in the apartment. This showed that the rapist was inexperienced -- someone, perhaps, in his early 20s. Most likely his initial intent was rape, not murder. He blindfolded his victim and may have chosen to kill her because the blindfold slipped. Still, despite his inexperience, there were no signs of panic, though he took great risks in attacking on a Sunday during the day. He remained coolly in control, deliberating and improvising as he went along. In short, the killer was young, highly intelligent, probably with...
...videotape showed a man the captors identified as Higgins dangling from a gallows with both his hands and feet tied by rope. Taken in two 15-second sequences, the victim wore a white blindfold in one and was shown without a blindfold in another, with his head tilted...
...first day: Terry Anderson lies on a cot in a dingy apartment in Beirut's sprawling, bomb-ravaged Shi'ite slums. A blindfold is tightly wrapped around his head, and chains shackle a wrist and ankle, biting into the flesh. He can hear the roar of jets; Beirut airport is near. The former U.S. Marine is % stunned and sobs constantly, frustrated, angry and afraid that the kidnapers intend to execute him. A guard bursts in and threatens him merely because he creaked the bedsprings. "I am a friend of the Lebanese," Anderson had told his family. "They won't kidnap...
...bowels of Beirut, but he is not alone. In the same 12-ft. by 15-ft. bedroom, also shackled hand and foot and crouching on the floor of a dirty clothes closet, Father Lawrence Martin Jenco of Catholic Relief Services (kidnaped Jan. 8, 1985) peers under his blindfold at the new arrival. A month later, they are led down to the dungeon, a basement partitioned into cramped cells with thin plasterboard, and held prisoner with others: William Buckley, Beirut station chief of the CIA (kidnaped March 16, 1984), the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary (kidnaped...
...limousine on the way over to the network, Bush protested that he could answer questions about Iran; he had been doing so all along. Ailes said, "You don't understand something. This is a hit squad . . . They've got you up against the wall. They're putting the blindfold on you. It's all over, pal." It was all a plot on the part of Dan Rather, Ailes argued, who was not a newsman but an ideological...