Authorities: Exposure killed woman found dead along Minnetonka frontage road

Body of a Minnetonka resident was spotted by a motorist in March.

April 16, 2019 at 2:37AM
Lisa Dummer
Lisa Dummer (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Authorities have identified a body found on a median in Minnetonka last month as a woman who died of exposure.

Lisa K. Dummer, 59, of Minnetonka, died from hypothermia with "acute alcohol intoxication" as a contributing factor, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office.

Dummer's body was spotted by a passing motorist on March 7 about 6:50 a.m. on a frontage road to Excelsior Boulevard to the west of Shady Oak Road. She lived less than a mile from where her body was found.

Her death occurred the previous day, according to the Medical Examiner's Office.

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