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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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“near where she was last seen leaving a bar”
That might explain things.
Suicide. Just went to sleep.
That left me scratching my head, as well.
“Don’t drink and walk.”
She had to be hammered, left her purse, phone and jacket behind?
Drunk or drugged?....did no one think to stop her ?
Drinking does not warm you up
A sad event.
That left me scratching my head, as well.
“Don’t drink and walk.”
It’s interesting they refer to her profession as a teacher and not as a “bar goer” or similar which is far more relevent to her cause of death.
I grew up in Western PA and thought I knew what a cold winter was. My first duty station in the Army was Ft. Riley, KS and it quickly disabused me of the notion that I knew what cold was. The wind chills of a Kansas winter are utterly brutal.
Stop her from what?
Leaving?
That is considered kidnapping most places.
When she left the bar drunk on her azz.
Drunk enough and it becomes involuntary suicide ie. death by misadventure which is why you should never leave a bar in the middle of a blizzard without your coat or purse
“...leaving the Town Royal bar on foot without her purse, phone or a jacket.”
Either the bartender over-served her or she was drugged by someone.
People often do not realize how quickly and easily the weather will kill you.
Nearly every year someone steps outside their door to let Fido do his business, something happens and they die.
They slip, they sit down and fall asleep, they walk a bit far and get disoriented.
Either the bartender over-served her or she was drugged by someone.
Or she just went outside to smoke, etc., and instead did something stupid that resulted in her death. I really wouldn’t blame anybody here but her for her actions without evidence.
28 year old elementary teacher leaves bar on foot without her purse, phone or a jacket into a ferocious winter storm, 3 degrees, 11:37 p.m.
Now I was drunk a few times in my late teens and early 20s, but never THAT drunk. That’s just weird.
I feel so sorry for her mom, dad, other loved ones and her students.
When I was 14, a good buddy of my dad’s lost his 14 or 15 year old son in a blizzard. The kid left the house in the winter evening to walk to his nearby girlfriend’s house. They found him the next day, stuck on a barbed wire fence, frozen to death.
“did no one think to stop her ?”
She might have slipped out unnoticed. Or maybe they thought she was just stepping outside to greet friends. I’m not surprised no one noticed her. Of course, depending on the bar, the other patrons probably had their heads in their drinks at 11:30 pm.
This is a tragedy. A young woman dies of hypothermia and exposure and all you can do is make fun of her. She was in a diminished capacity and probably was not in full possession of her faculties. This is why Christians get a bad rap: because people on a conservative site that claims Judeo-Christian values insist on making juvenile comments so that they can be the first or best laugh getters. This is beside any potential political affiliation or views she might hold which are not in evidence but implied because she is a teacher. Not everyone has a negative comment but damn some of you should be ashamed.
Going to a bar with a massive snowstorm coming, what could possibly go wrong?
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