00:00so here's the you know everyone's playing the wordle uh well an old lady says playing wordle
00:13probably saved her life she would send her family the daily wordle every day like clockwork like
00:20clockwork and one day she didn't and they knew something was up it turns out something horrible
00:26was up what let's get her story now uh this is from cbs chicago let's take a listen in to what
00:32happened to this old bride here if we can hold on one second i just got to get it all set here
00:37oh i gotta go down there wait a minute three four things you gotta do here let's go hold on
00:44across the country realized something was wrong 80 year old denise holt likens it to a beyond
00:55horrifying dream wait a second i i was in shock a bloody figure a naked man creeping in the shadows
01:02as she slept in bed scissors in hand just threatened me he got in next to her but she stayed calm i was
01:10trying to survive that's all he said i won't harm you or molest you she says he then ordered her to
01:16take a shower with him then he said no i'm not warm enough we have to take a bath they got in and out of
01:22the bath her nightgown soaked the man then dragging her around the house disconnecting phones leaving
01:27trails of blood he had gashes from the broken window he used to get into holt's lincolnwood home he took
01:33two knives from my kitchen and he told me he liked those he then led her to this basement bathroom barricading
01:41it with this chair i didn't think i was going to live with no windows in darkness holt did exercises in
01:48the 17 hours of captivity i was doing marching and stretching as much as i could all the while the
01:55man was making himself at home as family and friends noticed something was off i'm across the country and i
02:02noticed this holt's daughter in seattle saw texts weren't being read by her mom there were also no updates
02:08on a popular phone game i didn't send my older daughter a wordle in the morning and that was
02:15disconcerting to her friends and family called lincolnwood police leading to this hours long standoff
02:21with the man family says the swat team used a stun gun through this hole in the door to subdue him i can't say enough good
02:28things they were beyond wonderful she's so calm about it i don't understand that i would be
02:36very traumatized after all of that she just at least your life would never be the same i don't think i
02:41don't think she's gonna bounce right back go to sleep after that in your own house you had to shower
02:45with the dude you take a bath with the dude she's like sure whatever what you gonna do i'm gonna do
02:50exercise she's in her 80s she can't fight back again no i know i know she's in her 80s yeah yeah she's
02:56she's in good shape for her 80s oh big time well she was kidnapped and she did crunches and stretches
03:03and was working out in a closet you could ever do i'm like oh my god i'd be like plotting like what
03:09do i have to do to like escape this she's like one two and three and a four and a five
03:17six seven and eight what are you doing in there i'm working out shut up i like these knives i'll take
03:26them i don't give a crap you want to take shower with me yeah let me just get a sweat going
03:33what a jogging place you're still in your night dress working out yeah i wish i had my lulu lemons on
03:43but i don't why are you working out anyway stay in shape keep going
03:49snooze you lose you stop moving you're dead
03:51yeah she's a go-getter oh she is my goodness it'd be the last thing i would do if i'm trapped in a
04:00bathroom with a cycle on the other side i'm not working out i'm not doing exercises i know she's
04:05like hey you're in my bed what's up i just thought i'd lay here for a while i'm like a little cold
04:11that's okay yeah play here uh i gotta take a shower i don't know what you want to yeah let's
04:16do that together all right let's go uh it's cold huh one one and a two and a three and a four do you
04:25mind if i put on uh a workout tape no go for it go for it i got a richard simmons uh grooving to the
04:32oldies i'm gonna work out uh to it yeah that's crazy she just did that to keep herself calm i guess
04:41yeah no she must have yeah i guess just to take her mind off it's smart you know you're just
04:47keeping yourself busy as you're being trapped but it's not really what you'd ever sweat into the
04:52oldies okay yeah uh yes you're gonna do this or what it's actually kind of fun exactly do it with me
05:05oh come on come on do the locomotion with me but you gotta swing your hips now swing them swing
05:19them you gotta get a good swing she is well like you said lisa like the way she was just talking
05:23about it matter-of-factly yeah so calm yeah unbelievable none of us if any of us that happened
05:30it no our interviews would be totally different she's i love how she described the cops coming in
05:35she's like it's wonderful yeah wonderful how they shot him to the ground and beat him to a
05:41a second within his death end of his life i can't say enough good things i can't i mean i wish they blew
05:46him away but they put their knee right right off the center of his back and then just started pummeling
05:52him he cried and cried it was wonderful yeah real bitch bitched up compared to her yeah i mean she's
06:01one of the toughest women it's good she she got involved with that wordle though yeah yeah thank
06:08god world i mean it'll save the life you never know what wordle's gonna do i think some old ladies have
06:14that thing they do like every one every day yeah they send people something you know right so if you
06:19don't get it it's almost like they're a little beacon it's smart it's like the what lets you know
06:25wait a second still alive yeah it's kind of um like if you're a kid with an elderly parent
06:33try and get them into wordle and you would know like hey i can kind of tell
06:39that they're still up and at him yeah the new york times is loving this oh my god
06:44god they love this they love it help save your senior parents by signing them up for wordle wordle
06:50it's a game
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