LEBANON, Tenn. - An elderly couple briefly escaped from a secure memory unit at an assisted living facility in Tennessee thanks to past military training with Morse code.The husband and wife, who have dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, broke out of the Elmcroft assisted living facility in the city of Lebanon in March, according to the Tennessean.
The husband used his military training with Morse code to decipher and memorize the code to an electronic door lock.The man was able to learn the door code by listening as staff punched numbers into the keypad, the newspaper reported, citing documents from the state’s health department.The unnamed couple went missing on March 2 for about 30 minutes before a stranger found them walking down a road.