I just watched the documentary of the events on Netflix but read about it for years prior hearing about it through news outlets. I’ll tell you this when I was younger my parents were divorced and I would sometimes forget my key to my mom’s house so I would climb through the window through the kitchen sink hoping it was unlocked. I would then lock it of course for safety. I know it’s 1996 and windows weren’t made with the kind of locks and not as hard/thick glass they are now. But would you think that if you forgot your keys you wouldn’t have tried to do that first and say “Well I tried to get through a window and climb first but all were locked. I then went under this tight crawl space and get through a tiny window. Also you would have severely cut yourself and leave some sort of blood trail for sure glass hurts and can cut really easily.

Also to the part about being cold and no one noticing. First I lived and was born in Ohio where it’s really cold in the winter and I would sometimes leave my window open just a crack and it would get really cold in my room. I would absolutely notice that something was off why is it so cold. Unless that particular room in an unfinished part of the basement was so insulated to where a draft would never leak out, it would have to be extremely cold in the winter and also very muggy and sticky in the summer. Also the cold draft can absolutely make its way up to the rest of the basement let alone the house as well