Grandmother’s habit of playing Wordle may have saved her life during kidnapping: cops

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Her daughter Meredith Holt-Caldwell said she became uneasy that morning when she noticed her mother hadn’t read her texts and wasn’t messaging the Wordle to her. 

Lincolnwood Police arrested the suspect after an hours-long standoff.  

Lincolnwood Police arrested the suspect after an hours-long standoff.  
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“I didn’t send my older daughter a Wordle in the morning. And that was disconcerting to her,” Holt told the station.

Holt-Caldwell called Lincolnwood, us-regions, crimeon Feb. 6 and requested a welfare check. Following an hours-long standoff, a SWAT team took James H. Davis III, 32, into custody using a stun gun. 

He is charged with felony home invasion with a dangerous weapon, aggravated kidnapping while armed with a dangerous weapon, and aggravated assault against a peace officer, according to WBBM. Police believe he was having a mental health breakdown. 

Holt wasn’t physically harmed during the kidnapping, police determined, according to the station. 

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“I didn’t think I was going to live,” Holt said of her time in the bathroom. She said she spent her time trapped in the small, dark, windowless room doing marching exercises and stretching. 

“I never thought in a million years this is what was happening,” her daughter said, “but it was.”

“I’m very lucky,” Holt said. 

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