Posted on 01/26/2026 9:22:20 AM PST by BenLurkin
A missing Kansas elementary school teacher was discovered dead in the snow just 300 yards from where surveillance footage last captured her Friday as a massive winter storm swept the country.
The body of 28-year-old Rebecca Rauber was found covered in snow in a wooded area of Emporia on Sunday, near where she was last seen leaving a bar days earlier, police told KWCH.
Police said Rauber was located by K-9 Daisy of K-9 Search and Rescue Kansas.
Rauber, a second-grade teacher at Riverside Elementary School, is believed to have died from hypothermia just hours after she disappeared.
Police said the family of the young teacher has been notified and that an autopsy is pending to determine her cause of death.
Rauber was reported missing early Saturday after leaving the Town Royal bar on foot without her purse, phone or a jacket.
She was last seen on surveillance footage leaving the bar during the ferocious winter storm around 11:37 p.m.
Temperatures were around 3 degrees, with a wind chill of minus 13, when she is believed to have left the bar.
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Seriously. I don’t go anywhere without my phone
Like not having her purse, phone, or jacket.
I suspect she did have a good buzz on however.
“The body of 28-year-old Rebecca Rauber was found covered in snow in a wooded area of Emporia on Sunday, near where she was last seen leaving a bar days earlier.”
Drinking is NOT a good thing to do when it is super cold.
Drinking alcohol in very low temperatures is dangerous because it creates a false sense of warmth while actually accelerating heat loss, significantly increasing the risk of
hypothermia and frostbite.
From what I read people regard it as a sad if preventable event.
Or did you not read anything and just ASS-umed?
My grandpa who was a bad alcoholic did this very thing. Wandered off in the cold in North Dakota drunk as a skunk and froze to death. My grandma kept the secret and told it to me when I was an adult and asked me to tell my mom.
If Ms. Rauber left the bar without her purse, phone and jacket, she must have been hallucinating. Her drink was sp
iked. Amazing no one tried to stop her.
She was a 28 year old “professional” and not an inexperienced 18 year old on their first drinking binge.
That might explain things.
You think maybe alcohol was involved?
I know of at least two other deaths that are almost exactly the same fact pattern. And there probably are a lot more. While I’m speculating a little about what happened in this case, in the other two cases, an individual had too much to drink at the bar, left alone in a snowstorm and then passed out walking home. They ended up freezing to death and the snow covered the person so they were hard to find.
“Suicide. Just went to sleep.”
Same thing happened to my cousin’s kid. Left a bar, and died in a ditch in the snow. Possible suicide. His life was a hot mess and he had ruined lives of family and friends for years.
True.
What about simply:
Missing Kansas woman found dead in snow after vanishing during massive winter storm.
Why are they always mandating the use of career identity of people even when that part of their identity makes no difference at all in the matter being reported. It makes no sense at all.
Correct.
It must be comforting for local parents to know that their children’s teacher might have cut loose until the wee hours of Sunday morning and still be hungover in time for school on Monday..
I was in the North Atlantic in the Navy during the winter time. The only reason I knew I still had a nose was because my glasses were still on my face.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar?
Wouldn't have happened if she had found more constructive forms of recreation than going to a bar.
I wonder, did anyone at the bar say, “hey lady, you forgot your purse, phone and jacket?
Thank you for your comment - it’s always good to know who the superior people are.
“ Drunk or drugged?....did no one think to stop her ?”
Hey Joe, you better go catch that one. She escaped.
Ouzo or Goldschlager shots. She was blitzed….
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