Man Found Dead Inside Plowed In Car

A 44-year-old Brooklyn man was found dead in his car Monday afternoon, and authorities believe he died of carbon-monoxide poisoning after getting trapped inside by snow.

Police say that Angel Ginel was found inside his 2003 Lexus around the corner from his home at around 4:38 p.m. yesterday, and was pronounced dead at the scene. His wife told reporters that he disappeared after going out to shovel snow on Sunday. “He gave me a kiss goodbye and said he’ll see me later,” Ramonita Ginel told the Daily News. “Then I kept calling his phone. I kept calling his phone because he didn’t come home last night, I kept calling leaving him messages.”

His car was still running when Ramonita Ginel found him on Monday, and family members say he was trying to charge his phone when a plow came by and trapped him. "“I guess they plowed him back in and he couldn’t get out,” his wife told the Post. “The door was [slightly] open, but I couldn’t open it because of the snow that was there.”

Ginel died of carbon monoxide poisoning while warming up in an idling car outside their home. The woman's husband was shoveling snow away from the car at the time, and the snow may have blocked the vehicle's exhaust pipe, eventually killing them.

Via: http://gothamist.com/2016/01/26/brooklyn_snow_death.php

Woman leaves party in shorts, freezes to death

When 21-year-old Elizabeth Luebke traveled an hour and a half south from her home in Oshkosh, Wis., to Milwaukee for a concert, she wound up at an after-party wearing a tank top, shorts, and fish-net stockings — and at around 4:30 a.m. left angrily after arguing with a friend, reports Fox6now.com. It was -5.8 degrees Fahrenheit, and the wind chill was a frigid -27.5 degrees.

Security video footage from a nearby business shows her suddenly collapsing in front of a house and eventually stopping moving altogether, reports BuzzFeed. Her body was found by a passerby at 9 a.m., just around the corner from the party.

Luebke, who also went by the name Lana Kane, had frozen to death, but alcohol appears to have been a factor. A friend of Luebke's says she arrived at the party "really, really drunk," while her mother says her daughter had a history of binge drinking and had been hospitalized in October with a blood-alcohol level five times the legal driving limit, reports the New York Daily News.

Luebke wrote on her Facebook page in December that she'd quit drinking, and some of her friends said she'd been sober for the past several weeks.

Tributes online mention her as "one of the last people to deserve this," while police advise against ever walking alone in subzero temps. (This woman froze to death in Georgia trying to help her just-out-of-reach husband.)

This story originally appeared on Newser.

Via: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/01/20/woman-leaves-party-shorts-quickly-freezes-death/79053950/