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| Elizabeth Luebke |
A young woman who went to Milwaukee for a concert froze to death after leaving her friends and walking out into the subzero cold.
Elizabeth Luebke, a 21-year-old from Oshkosh, was seen on surveillance cameras collapsing in the snow around 4:30 a.m. near the house she left after an argument Saturday night.
Dressed only in shorts, stockings and a tank top, Luebke succumbed to the night’s frigid temperature, which were still hovering around six degrees below zero when she was found by a passerby at 9 a.m.
Wind chills dropped down to nearly minus 30.
Friends at the small party thought she had been picked up, and didn’t suspect that Luebke was fighting for her life in the snow nearby.
The man whose home she left told Fox 6 that the concert-goer had been drunk before storming out when she got mad at a friend.
Luebke’s mother, who drove to Milwaukee to file a missing person’s report for her daughter, said that she was hospitalized with five times the blood alcohol limit to legally drive last October.
In December the young woman posted on social media that she had quit drinking and stayed sober for a month.
Police in Milwaukee urged residents to stick together in groups while venturing into possibly dangerous conditions.
"I know you kids feel invincible, but this weather is ruthless. Please, all of you, don't underestimate this cold,' Luebke's friend Julie Schmidt posted on Facebook.
Elizabeth Luebke, a 21-year-old from Oshkosh, was seen on surveillance cameras collapsing in the snow around 4:30 a.m. near the house she left after an argument Saturday night.
Dressed only in shorts, stockings and a tank top, Luebke succumbed to the night’s frigid temperature, which were still hovering around six degrees below zero when she was found by a passerby at 9 a.m.
Wind chills dropped down to nearly minus 30.
Friends at the small party thought she had been picked up, and didn’t suspect that Luebke was fighting for her life in the snow nearby.
The man whose home she left told Fox 6 that the concert-goer had been drunk before storming out when she got mad at a friend.
Luebke’s mother, who drove to Milwaukee to file a missing person’s report for her daughter, said that she was hospitalized with five times the blood alcohol limit to legally drive last October.
In December the young woman posted on social media that she had quit drinking and stayed sober for a month.
Police in Milwaukee urged residents to stick together in groups while venturing into possibly dangerous conditions.
"I know you kids feel invincible, but this weather is ruthless. Please, all of you, don't underestimate this cold,' Luebke's friend Julie Schmidt posted on Facebook.
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