SAC CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa truck driver who vanished last fall and whose body was found in a farm field this spring died of hypothermia related to acute methamphetamine intoxication, an autopsy found. State medical examiner Dr. Kelly Kruse ruled that 53-year-old David Schultz’s death was an accident, the Sioux City Journal reported. […]
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Lawmakers call for further inquiry into Virginia prison that had hypothermia hospitalizations
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A raft of hypothermia hospitalizations and other questionable conditions at a Virginia prison uncovered in a recent report deserve further scrutiny, leading Democratic state lawmakers said this week. Lawmakers pledged to press Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin‘s administration for answers and called for a newly created prisons watchdog to look into the […]
‘How do you get hypothermia in a prison?’ Records show hospitalizations among Virginia inmates
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia. “How do you get hypothermia in a prison?” the investigator asked. “You shouldn’t.” The exchange, captured on video […]
‘How do you get hypothermia in a prison?’ Records show hospitalizations among Virginia inmates
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia. “How do you get hypothermia in a prison?” the investigator asked. “You shouldn’t.” The exchange, captured on video […]
Alabama man jailed in ‘the freezer’ died of homicide due to hypothermia, records show
An Alabama inmate with “serious mental and psychiatric needs” was placed in a concrete drunk tank known as “the freezer” before he later died from hypothermia in a death now ruled a homicide, state records show. Anthony Don Mitchell died Jan. 26, 2023, while in the custody of the Walker County Sheriff’s Department after “spending […]
Indian American student died of hypothermia on University of Illinois campus, coroner says
The University of Illinois freshman who went missing last month after a party died of hypothermia, the county coroner said this week. The body of Akul Dhawan, 18, was found 500 feet from where he was last seen on Jan. 20, campus police at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said in a breakdown of their […]
3 Tarrant County women died from hypothermia during extreme cold temperatures
At least three Tarrant County residents died from hypothermia during the week of freezing weather in Fort Worth in mid-January, according to data from the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office. An Arctic blast brought frigid weather to North Texas for nine days in January, with temperatures dropping as low as 11 degrees on Jan. 15. […]
Medical experts talk dangers of frostbite, hypothermia in extreme cold weather
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A brutal weekend for Miami fans in Kansas City to watch Saturday’s Chiefs-Dolphins game at Arrowhead. When the Miami Dolphins left South Florida on Friday morning the temperature was around 86 degrees. When they landed in Kansas City, the wind chill was negative six degrees. This arctic air can take a […]
East Lansing caregiver ordered to stand trial in 2022 hypothermia death at facility
ST. JOHNS — An East Lansing woman has been ordered to stand trial on a felony charge resulting from the hypothermia death of an 82-year-old resident at a Bath Township assisted living center. Clinton County District Judge Michael Clarizio ruled there was enough evidence for Colleen Kelly O’Connor, 58, to stand trial on a charge […]