Hostage negotiators remained in contact with Murphy throughout the standoff, passing food and water through an upper window of the two-storey house, New Jersey State Police Colonel Rick Fuentes said on Sunday morning.
It takes weeks to read, weighs as much as a Sunday roast and might do real harm if thrown from a moving vehicle or hurled (as impatient readers may wish to do around the 700-page mark) willy-nilly from an upper-storey window.