According to CBS, An 80-year-old man in the United States, Denise Holt, was abducted at home by a naked man for 17 hours, and the old man's daughter noticed that her mother did not send her daily must-play scores and called the police, and finally the police successfully rescued the old man, and the 32-year-old suspect James H. Davis III was arrested.
On the night of Feb. 5, Denise, who lives in Lincolnwood, Illinois, was awakened from a deep sleep when a man broke a window and broke into the house, standing naked and bleeding by her bedside, holding a pair of scissors in his hand, assuring Denise that he would not hurt her or harass her.
Denise also told the man that she would not scream or try to resist. The man then told her that he was cold and needed all her blankets, and she immediately handed them to the naked, bloodied man.
But after lying on the bed wrapped in a blanket for some time, the man decided to take a shower and forced Denise, who was wearing pajamas, to soak in the bathtub with him.
According to Denise, after coming out of the bathtub, wearing soaking wet pajamas, the man grabbed her arm and began dragging her around the house, cutting off each of her landlines. Finally, the man trapped Denise in a small room in the basement with no heating, no windows, and no lights.
"I thought I couldn't live anymore." Denise told the media that there were no medications she needed to take, as well as food and any sources of calories, and that she was in a terrible situation.
For the next 17 hours, to keep her body warm and conscious, Denise did marching training and stretching in a dark room.
Denise said to herself, "I don't want to die like this, I don't want my children to hear about the murder of their mother." ”
If it weren't for her eldest daughter, who was far away in Seattle, Denise wouldn't know how long she would be held. Her eldest daughter, Meredith Holt-Caldwell, told police that Denise would play the popular word-guessing game "Wordle" every day, and the rules of the game were that players could guess a 5-letter English word based on the letters provided by "Wordle" every day, and players could guess up to six times.
Meredith noticed that her mother hadn't read her text the night before, and more worryingly, that her mother hadn't shared her Wordle score that day, and she realized something was wrong.
"I didn't send my eldest daughter a 'Wordle' score in the morning," Denise told the media, "which upset her." ”
Meredith then called the Lincolnwood police and asked them to make a routine visit to her mother's house, where they found Denise detained and confronted the man for 5 hours before the police were able to rescue him by incapacitating him with an electric shock gun.
The man was subsequently identified as 32-year-old James, who police told the media they believed the man might have suffered from mental problems. Currently, the suspect is accused of carrying dangerous weapons into the house, carrying dangerous weapons for serious kidnappings and serious attacks on police, and the man has not yet raised a defense.
For Denise, "I still feel lucky, I never thought I'd come out alive." ”
Jiupai News Intern Reporter Liang Xia