The body of a Kansas woman last seen late Friday and reported missing yesterday was found covered in snow near her last known location, with authorities saying she most likely died of hypothermia.<\/p>\n
Police in Emporia, a small city between Wichita and Topeka, said the body of Rebecca Rauber, 28, was discovered today in woods near a city street, about 300 yards from where she was last seen on video.<\/p>\n
“At this time, it appears, Rebecca may have succumbed to hypothermia early on in her disappearance as she was covered in snow due to the snowstorm that became heavy on Saturday,” police said.<\/p>\n
Temperatures dipped to 0 degrees yesterday morning, with a windchill of minus 18 and light snow reported, according to National Weather Service data.<\/p>\n
Rauber was reported missing shortly after 1 a.m. yesterday, Emporia police said previously. She had left a local bar without her jacket, purse or phone and was seen walking in the area shortly after 11:30 p.m. Friday, the police department said.<\/p>\n
The Kansas Highway Patrol, the Lyon County Sheriff\u2019s office, county dispatchers and community members were involved in the search, with police viewing private security video to estimate her whereabouts. An investigation into her death continues, police said.<\/p>\n
“Our hearts and prayers are truly with the Rauber family,” the department said.<\/p>\n
Rauber’s death is the fourth believed to be associated with the weekend’s snowstorm and related fronts that stretched across the eastern two-thirds of the contiguous United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a Kansas woman last seen late Friday and reported missing yesterday was found covered in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-430037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}