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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Good habits save lives, as I tell teen drivers and shooting sports students.
This reminds me of a couple I knew who lost a young son to hypothermia. He came late one night after drinking heavily and for whatever reason, sat down in the yard and fell asleep in a lawn chair. They found him the next morning. It’s sad enough to lose a child, but these are two of the nicest people you’d ever meet, and undeserving of such heartbreak.
That’s extremely sad, too.
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