Sometimes the Key to Life is a Key to the Front Door

At least this woman was on the ball enough to remember her cellphone even though she forgot her keys. Too bad she didn't use it to call a locksmith.

LEBANON – Just minutes before Esther Kline became wedged in a narrow basement window Tuesday and died, she sent her husband a text: “I wish the spare key was here.”

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A combination of unlikely circumstances led to the 44-year-old woman’s death.

A larger basement window Kline had climbed through when she was locked out a previous time had been covered over by the extension of a deck and the addition of a bathroom downstairs.

A spare key usually hidden in the garage was no longer in its place. A relative hadn’t returned it from a month ago.

Neighbors would not have heard Kline’s cries for help. A six-foot privacy fence surrounds the back yard.

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Kline’s husband, David, reported the discovery of her body about 6 p.m. Tuesday after he returned home from a two-day business trip for his job with the federal government.

He told police that he responded to his wife’s 8:20 a.m. text about a half hour later but never received a reply. That leads police to believe that she died soon after she sent her last text.

[Cincinnati.com]