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DR. WILLIAM MORRONE, MEDICAL EXAMINER: When you`re under the covers, the covers are retaining your body heat. And you may expire, but it could take 20 or 30 minutes for you to drop five or 10 degrees, but you can`t feel that difference. It`s not until the body gets down to 60 or 70 degrees, and that`s room temperature.

This is true. The hospital called me at 7am to let me know my mom had passed. I didn't tell the kids, but after I dropped them off at school, went straight over there, arriving around 8:30 am. They already had her in a body bag(how lovely), and I unzipped it to hug and give her a kiss. Her body temp was still rather warm.

Just mentioning this, because if Anna was tucked in with blankets, it could account for her body being decently warm. My mom's lips weren't blue, though. Mom was 82, and suffered from advanced Alzheimers and dementia. Anna suffered from Stern.