"Three Chained Women Freed, Human Body Parts Found," screamed a March 25 headline of the Philadelphia Daily News. In their search, police discovered the three captives as Rivera had described them, chained up in the basement. Two, nearly naked and half-starved, were lying on the floor on mattresses, shackled to a steam pipe. A third was in a shallow pit dug into the concrete floor that had been covered with plywood.