Emporia teacher Rebecca Rauber died of hypothermia in January, police say

EMPORIA, Kan. (WIBW) – An Emporia schoolteacher’s dying in January has been dominated unintended and the end result of hypothermia, KVOE Radio reviews.

The teacher, Rebecca Rauber, 28, was discovered useless in a wooded space close to W. 4th Avenue and West Street on Sunday, Jan. 25.

Rauber had stopped briefly late the night time of Friday, Jan. 23, on the Town Royal bar, 405 Commercial St. in downtown Emporia, earlier than strolling west in frigid situations, in keeping with Emporia police.

Following her disappearance, family members stated in a Facebook post that Rauber had left his telephone, keys, jacket and purse on the bar.

Subzero wind chills had been reported that weekend.

Rauber’s physique was discovered two days later in the wooded space on the south aspect of Emporia, following heavy snow that fell in the realm on Saturday, Jan. 24.

When she was discovered, officers stated, Rauber’s physique was coated in snow in a wooded space close to the 700 block of W. 4th Avenue, about seven blocks west of the bar.

Wind chills had been under zero on the night time Rauber left the bar and there was snow throughout Emporia that weekend.

Rauber was a second-grade teacher at Riverside Elementary School in Emporia.

TO prayer service was held on Monday, Jan. 26, at an Emporia church to honor Rauber.

The Emporia Police Department introduced this week that it has closed its investigation into Rauber’s dying.

According to KVOE, a information launch from the Emporia Police Department stated Rauber died from hypothermia, with the dying listed as unintended.

The police division stated there have been no indications of foul play in Rauber’s dying.