Lodged In Basement Window, Ohio Woman Suffocates

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Police: No Foul Play; Woman May Have Been Trying To Get In House

LEBANON, Ohio -- An Ohio man came home from an out-of-state trip to find the body of his wife stuck in a basement window, where she suffocated after apparently locking herself out of the house, authorities said Wednesday.

David Kline found the body of his 44-year-old wife, Esther, on Tuesday and called 911, police said. He told the dispatcher that his wife wasn't breathing.

"I just found my wife downstairs, and she's hanging partly in a window, and I think she's dead," Kline told the dispatcher.

Authorities believe she may have locked herself out; she had sent her husband a text saying: "I wish the spare key was here." The spare had apparently been borrowed, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

The window is about 3 feet wide and a foot high.

"It was a narrow opening, smaller than a person's body," police Sgt. Jeff Mitchell told the Middletown Journal. "Not a whole lot of maneuvering room, because it's below ground in a window well."

Kline became stuck when she tried to get through the window feet first, and scuff marks on the wall from her shoes indicate she struggled to push herself free, Mitchell told The Enquirer.

She may have been pinned in the window for about nine hours, coroner's investigator Doyle Burke said.

"Essentially she couldn't breathe," Mitchell said.

The Warren County coroner's office said the death was accidental.

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If she texted no key, why not text, "stuck in window, send help?"

Maybe it was a clever murder.
 
Bottesini said:
If she texted no key, why not text, "stuck in window, send help?"

Maybe it was a clever murder.
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She probably couldn't get to her phone. Maybe it was in a pocket while she tried to climb through the window.

You and I think alike :shock: in that I usually think of "I bet so-and-so is responsible". :wave:
 
Yea, Botti, that was my first thought. Who would stuff themselves in a window until she suffocates? Doesn't make sense.
 
LoveBlue said:
She probably couldn't get to her phone. Maybe it was in a pocket while she tried to climb through the window.

You and I think alike :shock: in that I usually think of "I bet so-and-so is responsible". :wave:
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Maybe it was in her pant pocket which was stuck on the other side of the window?
 
she must have died of panic... claustrophobia? panic attack? :dunno:
 
She could have been overweight? What are the odds of that? :dunno:
 
She could have been overweight, but what are the odds a heavy person would not realize they wouldn't fit and just break a window to unlock the door?

Asked the pleasantly plump smart woman. :)
 
The window was three feet wide a foot high. She went through feet first (possibly because the window was near the ceiling of the basement room (???).

I think she snapped her neck.
 
Bottesini said:
She could have been overweight, but what are the odds a heavy person would not realize they wouldn't fit and just break a window to unlock the door?

Asked the pleasantly plump smart woman. :)
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Desperate people do desperate things.

Said the guy who has been in a bad situation a time or two. :)
 
OMG, she hanged herself. That's was really bad judgment. How awful.
 
I had to crawl thru our doggy door once to get in, so what can I say?
 
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