Coroner: Exposure, meth factors in woman’s death

Published August 2, 2014 2:01pm ET



SOUTH ROXANA, Ill. (AP) — A coroner says a southwestern Illinois woman whose body was found slumped in a rental van in February died of exposure to the cold.

Madison County Coroner Steve Nonn says that while methamphetamine and other drugs contributed to 42-year-old Frances Ragan’s death, the East Alton woman succumbed to hypothermia.

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