for placing her in the suitcase might be this:<P>The acclaimed play "ROPE" of 1929 detailed the story of Leopold and Loeb with one notable exception-the body was placed in a shipping trunk and left near the grieving family, unbeknownst to them. <P>In addition, the two boys were able to establish a false address in order to rent the get-away car by checking into a hotel with a suitcase full of books. The perp may have tried to place her in the suitcase to mimic this aspect of the L&L murder and failing that, threw her in the windowless room. The room worked pretty well in that two people, French and Fleet, both missed finding her there, and she wasn't discovered until 1:00 pm. Otherwise, when Fleet moved the suitcase, as he said he did early that morning, he would have noticed it weighing a lot more than normal-probably opened it, curious as he was.<P>The suitcase may have been a step up to the window to aid an emergency escape but I don't think it was ever expected to go out the window. It was too easy to go out the side door. <P>Now, I ask you, what would a kidnapper do with this suitcase at 2:00 am-dragged it down the alley and to his car parked two miles away? Burglars don't park at the house they are breaking into. Why would this perp be any different? It would not have been an easy carry; it would have attracted the attention of anyone still awake at that hour. Doesn't seem plausible to me. <P>Another reason, among many, that shows me he intended to kill her not kidnap her.