At 5:04 a.m., a man searches through a littered house in Brick Church, Indiana, looking for money as he passes a bloodied corpse of an elderly man he obliquely refers to, cursing. When the looter hears a scratching noise nearby, he becomes puzzled and follows the sound to find it is coming from inside a locked cellar, where a voice pleads for assistance. Smashing through the door with an ax, the man steps inside the cellar. He is still confused as to who is inside the room until he switches on a light bulb and sees the thin figure of a frail, blond woman, who voices her gratitude as she sits, doubled over, on the ground.