Holdontoyourhat said:
$100 bills x 1000 @ ~.005" ea. = 5"
$20 bills x 900 @ ~.005 ea. = 4.5"
9.5" stack of bills, or maybe a 12" stack if older bills.
Make sure you bring an adequate size attache? What for?
I believe the whole 'get money and wait hours for my call' thing was a creative fabrication to buy time.
Holdontoyourhat,
Several years ago on this forum we figured out the bills asked for in the ransom note would indeed fit into the average attache case. The perp seems to have done adequate planning.
For instance, I think the perp didn't want John to draw attention to himself while obtaining the bills at the bank. An attache would appear business-like and not draw attention in a bank setting.
But then, when John gets back home with the money, the perp wants the money transferred into a brown paper bag. THis was probably so the money could be put into a trash can or similar place and not draw attention until the perp got around to retreiving it.
He had it reasonably figured out -- and why not? He learned it from "kidnap seminars" called movies. However, I don't think the perp was smart enough to have planned built-in delays to "buy time". Buy time to do what? He wasn't going anywhere -- IMO he lived there. Otherwise, the body would have been taken, dead or alive, when he exited the house. But it wasn't taken, so no one exited the house.
Therefore, the body, the ransom note, and the perp, were all still in the house when the cops got there at 6:00 AM.
BlueCrab