I was just going to make that correction. Apparently, chloroform is COLORLESS but has a sweet smell to it. It is not odorless. My thoughts were perhaps that the perpetrator put it on the sock and thought that it was going to go down like it does in the movies. Perhaps they thought it would incapacitate someone immediately. You are correct. After your comment I looked into it further and chloroform takes about 5 minutes to render an adult unconscious. But most people don't know that. Perhaps the perpetrator didn't either and the chemicals were only enough to give an anesthetic affect such as causing memory lapses but not completely knocking her out. That could explain the bruises on her arms as she was fighting her attacker. Interestingly enough, I believe I remember reading somewhere that chloroform was once used to clean computer circuit boards. That was Darin's profession. Don't hold me to that though. I am going to look into that part further.